I phoned my partner back home in Oslo only to learn that moments earlier he had been confronted at a bus stop by two Muslim youths, one of whom had asked if he was gay, started to pull out a knife, then kicked him as he got on the bus, which had pulled up at just the right moment. If the bus hadn’t come when it did, the encounter could have been much worse. …Alas, it is now very clearly the opposite. The number of reported gay-bashings in Amsterdam now climbs steadily year by year.
And this is exactly why your partner should be reporting it. Even if nothing happens to the perpetrators facts are being compiled which can be used to circumvent the journalists and politicians and bring the facts to the people. Much like the FBI’s UCR demonstrates that the greater number of victims of religious bigotry are Jews and not Muslims. Dig around a bit in that link.
