Toronto Sun – October 10, 2010
Gay-bashers thrive in modern-day Netherlands
By Ezra Levant, QMI Agency
If you think Amsterdam is the gay capital of Europe, you’re half-right, but 10 years out of date. Today it’s the gay-bashing capital of Europe. Because Amsterdam isn’t just gay. Now it’s Muslim, too. A million Moroccans and Turks have immigrated to the Netherlands, and sharia law rules the streets.
If you doubt it, then you haven’t been paying attention. Actually, that’s not fair. Gay-bashing is front-page news only when it’s committed by a straight, white male. The media is terribly uncomfortable writing about gay-bashing by minorities. It’s the same reason why Canadian feminists are so eerily quiet about honour killings of Muslim girls.
According to an “offender study” by the University of Amsterdam, there were 201 reports of anti-gay violence in that city in 2007 — and researchers believe for every reported case there are as many as 25 unreported ones. Two thirds of the predators are Muslim youths. The violence couldn’t be more brazen. It’s not in the back alleys in the dark, it’s in the heart of the city, often in broad daylight. It’s a direct dare to the Dutch government to show who rules the streets.
In 2008, 10 Muslim youths broke into a fashion show, dragged gay model Michael du Pree off the stage and beat him bloody. Last month, several lesbians were hit by beer bottles thrown at their heads as they marched in a parade of thousands to protest violence against gays. There’s a gay community centre in Amsterdam — you’d think that would be safe. Wrong. It’s a target, with home-invasion style beatings. No one is immune. Last year Hugo Braakhuis, the founder of Amsterdam’s gay pride parade, was attacked.
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No we don’t, I despise Muslim fundamentalists entirely as much as I find you idiots loathsome.
I like how you take an article about how gays are being attacked by Muslims and headline it with “Leftists love to suppress reports about Muslims attacking homosexuals”.
Disconnect with reality much?
An attack on a gay person is an attack on a fellow human being and intolerable in my “world view”.
Jim. I don’t think you will find any disagreement regarding your world view and intolerable actions. It is intolerable or at least should be. The part you seem to have missed is the Leftists love Islam so much they will not report anything negative regarding them. So is it OK for Muslims to persecute gays but Christians should never say they think the lifestyle choice is harmful to them? I think your disconnect with reality is quite obvious, Jim.
Gee, Ian it almost sounds as if you are saying that because Islam tends to persecute gays that Christians should be allowed to as well.
I have been long aware of the terrible treatment gays suffer in the hands of an Islamic theocracy. Thing is that while I read all kinds of media sources I predominately read leftist (I hate that term) and atheist sources. So the premise of the headline is simply untrue. I don’t think of the Toronto Sun (where the article appeared) to be particularly conservative.
Do you really think that a Christian theocracy would look much different than a Muslim theocracy?
I’m atheist and as the recent Pew survey suggests it is very likely I know much more about Islam (and possibly Christianity) than you do. When you peel back the magic show both reveal themselves as deeply misogynistic, obsessed with virginity, power hungry cults.