Amsterdam Ain't What It Used To Be

[Annie]

thanks to the Muslims and Sharia' Law.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1611374,00.html

May 14, 2005

It may be Europe's most liberal city - but if you are gay, you had best beware
From Anthony Browne in Amsterdam

WHEN the editor of one of America’s leading gay magazines visited the world’s gay capital a fortnight ago, he assumed that he would be safe.
But as Chris Crain, editor of the Washington Blade, was walking hand in hand with his boyfriend near one of the gay districts in Amsterdam, two men standing on a street corner spat at his face. He stopped to ask why, was called a “fag” and suddenly the two youths turned into seven.

Surrounded, Mr Crain was kicked to the ground by the gang and ended up in hospital with a broken nose and badly bruised face.

His attackers were Moroccan youths, blamed by Dutch gay rights groups for a disturbing rise of gay-bashing, as conservative Islamic culture clashes with Dutch liberalism.

For the first time, the Amsterdam Tourist Board has issued a warning to gay visitors to be careful in the city. In the first country to legalise homosexual marriage, gays are increasingly fearful of holding hands in public. Some have been chased out of their houses and middle-class gays are moving to rural areas for safety.

“I was really surprised. I felt comfortable, because it is San Francisco times ten. But I didn’t appreciate the depth of hostility between different groups there, and we walked right into the middle of it,” Mr Crain said from his home in Washington.

In the city where six months ago Theo van Gogh, the Dutch film-maker, was killed by an Islamic extremist, the tourist authorities felt compelled to issue a warning.

Herman Terbalkt, of the Amsterdam Tourist Board, said: “Gay visitors should be careful and alert. Some people in Amsterdam are not tolerant of other people. It is a social problem.” [...]

 

[insein]

Imagine that. You are a non-believer of islam and therefore you get spat on and beaten up. I got no problem with gays as long as they mind their own business and dont bug me (like pretty much any group). Who though deserves to be spat on and beaten for minding their own business?

 

[NATO AIR]

The Dutch had better start deporting a lot of these jihadists or Holland will become Europe's first jihadist nation here in a few years.

 

[nosarcasm]

Camps ?