The struggle continues in the now-beleagured city that put Arthur (“Europe on Five Dollars a Day!”) Frommer on the map. Pieter Dorsman informs us that “nothing is sacred” as the jihadis are now attempting attacks on the “Red Light District.” (Advice to tourists: stay out of the hash cafés)
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Roger, would it be more accurate to say that “nothing is sacred”?
Unbelievable.
My ex’s family came over here from Amsterdam.
Nice conservative Protestants. Europe sure has changed.
The last time I was in Amsterdam, there was a porno for sale called “Yiddish Erotica”. I don’t know what was on it, but my husband and I speculated that it probably consisted of half and hour of begging followed by a few minutes of “oy vey, Marvin, don’t mess up my hair.” I sort of wish we had bought it, just for fun.
Roger:
The article was interesting but I noticed another attempt to equate conservitive Christians with radical Muslims. 99.9% of conservitive Christians would not applaud a bombing campaign of a red light district and if a member of a Christian Church suggested it his pastor would tell him it was a sin to kill people he thought were committing sins. The proof of this is the numerous red light districts that survive in towns with large Christian populations. On the artistic side the creator of ‘piss christ” and the artists who combined fecal material with religous icons, although critizised, were not butchered in the street.
Believe it or not Christians gave up using compulsion to enforce belief long ago. They know that even if you force someone into church you can not make him have faith and that God wants willing believers, not shotgun faithfull. Yes, Christians avail themselves of free speech and the ballot box to try to influence the society that they live in put that is no different then a secular person using those same tools to shape the society in the image that he or she prefers.
Before anyone brings up the abortion clinic terrorists they should have the qoute from a mainstream conservitive denomination that backs these thugs up. They are a tiny, tiny minority even within the more consevitive section of the Christian faith. To try to lump these nuts with the whole of the consevitive wing is like saying that anyone who believes in the clean waters bill also supports the radical eco bombers.
Oops, the Islamofascists may have gone a ìbridge too farî with this idea.
The red-light district? Now the gloves come off.
The Dutch seem to have had enough. This article http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/12/11/wneth11.xml&sSheet=/portal/2004/12/11/ixportal.html from the Daily Telegraph states that many middle-class Dutch are leaving their country. From the article:
Lawyers, accountants, computer specialist, nurses, and businessmen are lining up for visas to the English-speaking world, looking to Australia, New Zealand and Canada as orderly societies where people have the space to breathe.
The new wave of “middle-class flight” has quickened this year following rising ethnic violence and crime committed by and against immigrants, and in response to fears that social order is breaking down. In the first six months there was a net outflow of 13,313 people.
They are disengaging from a multicultural experiment once hailed as the model for the world but now stretched to breaking point. They are also escaping traffic jams and chronic over-crowding.
Requests for visa information have exploded since the murder of Theo van Gogh