--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "Keith Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've been hearing about problems in Amsterdam, correct? Concerning > Muslims on the council who've been trying to enact laws based on > conservative Islamic views, such as controlling what women can wear, > movies shown, etc. Any truth to that? > I've heard of one instance where a islamic school wouldn't hire a teacher because she wouldn't wear headcovering. Things exploded after a filmmaker was killed here because he made a film that many felt was blasphemous towards Islam, plus two other politians had to go into hiding for the same reason. Actually the man who killed the guy was very mentally disturbed. The thing with the other two is still not clear to me. IMO. that situation was and still is being used as fuel to work up the fence sitters of racism here. Offical News and TV coverage here isn't much different from the states, which is why I'm a steady user of the Net for news updates.
The minister of immigration wanted to have a law put in place that made it illegal to speak any language other than Dutch outside of your home. This was suggested as a way to become more acccepted by the native dutch people, otherwise they think you're talking about them. This follows a suggestion about a year ago from another politician that people should be made to speak only Dutch at home. This was so all those Muslim women 'made' to stay in the house could become more 'westernized'. Now I've lived here for twenty years and have run across only one family where this went on and I know that it had nothing to do with Islam and everything to do with how the male really needed mental health treatment. It seems as if every time they open their mouths some rediculous new laws are being proposed for the good of 'the people'of course. It was also 'suggested'that young unmarried Antillean women be made to have abortions, to prevent the child from growing up unloved. http://tinyurl.com/osn3z Stuff like this is going on all the time here. Meta Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
