AMSTERDAM, for decades regarded as the safest of cities for gay people, is still in shock after a serious daylight attack was carried out by a group of cowardly Muslim thugs on a man taking part in a fashion show.
According to PinkNews, model Mike Du Pree was taking part in a show to promote tolerance towards gay people when a gang of ten Muslim youths dragged him from the catwalk and beat him.
Mr Du Pree’s nose was broken in what was a clearly homophobic attack.
The fashion event was held last week on a public holiday marking the birth of Holland’s late Queen Julianna.
Fashion show organiser Jennifer Delano said that the atmosphere at the event was tense, and that the violence demonstrated that Amsterdam is no longer a tolerant city.
MPs have raised the incident in Parliament.
Said Party of Freedom MP Martin Bosma:
This shows how strong the Islamic gay bashers feel they are. Even in daylight, in the heart of Amsterdam, they strike. Only the hardest measures could turn this sick trend.
The Dutch nationality of the gay bashers of Rembrandt Square should immediately be taken from them and they should be expelled from the country today. The Netherlands can show no mercy for these people who damage our society in this way. Either they will win, or we will win.
In 2006, an American journalist, Chris Crain, was brutally beaten by a gang of Muslims during a visit to Amsterdam. He subsequently wrote an account of his attack in the Washington Blade. Subsequent press reports throughout Europe alerted gay men and lesbians that something rotten – Islamic homophobia – had taken root in Amsterdam.
More than half of Dutch gays now feel less safe than they did a year ago, a survey carried out last August by current affairs programme EenVandaag revealed.
Sixty-four per cent of anti-gay incidents were verbal but 12 per cent resulted in physical abuse.
Amsterdam’s image in the Netherlands as the ‘gay capital of the world’ is also under threat as the survey revealed gays there were more fearful than in other parts of country.
Had Du Pree been attacked in Northern Ireland, loopy MP Iris Robinson, wife of the First Minister of Northern Ireland, would, no doubt, have told him to get “cured” of his homosexuality, which she regards as an “abomination” that leaves her feeling “physically nauseous”.
Reacting to news that a local man, Stephen Smith, had been viciously attacked because he is gay, she suggested that he should consider “turn-around” therapy. Speaking on BBC Radio Ulster this Christian nutter condemned the attack on but added:
I have a very lovely psychiatrist who works with me in my offices and his Christian background is that he tries to help homosexuals trying to turn away from what they are engaged in. And I have met people who have turned around to become heterosexual.
Smith, 27, was attacked by a gang of youths in Newtownabbey last week and suffered head and leg injuries. The police are calling the assault homophobic in nature.
UPDATE: 09.00 June 7: Listeners to Radio 4’s Today programme this morning heard Eamonn McCann, a leading Irish atheist and writer, say that Iris Robinson’s remarks were unsurprising, given her affiliation to the Protestant Unionist party, the DUP – until recently led by N. Ireland’s most vociferous anti-gay campaigner, the Rev Ian Paisley.
He also pointed out that a welcome atmosphere of tolerance had overtaken N Ireland very quickly in the past few years, with strong anti-discriminatory laws put in place. This, undoubtedly, would have been a great source of annoyance to old-guard Jesus junkies like Iris Robinson, who still look to the Bible for moral and political guidance.
Her words, he said., amounted to a “scream” of frustration.
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June 7th, 2008 at 8:35 am
I’m going to have to stop reading The Freethunka, because it’s giving me high blood pressure and one day my field of vision will turn red and that will be it. Kaput. Goodnight Vienna. Or in this case Amsterdam. I keep telling myself I’m in favour of religious tolerance, free speech and all that. But I’m becoming one of those awful angry atheists you read about.
Richard Dawkins has a point about raising childen to be bigots – it is child abuse. It abuses the child’s mind and the persons of those the bigot – like Muslim yobs and Orange twits – attack when they grow up.
If there was a UK political party that had a strongly secular programme I’d vote for it, even if some of it’s other policies gave me grave moral qualms.
June 7th, 2008 at 11:53 pm
I feel the Same Valdemar
June 8th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
There was a party called the British Fascist Society* which was starting up. They seemed perfectly sound but when it came to gays they suddenly turned into evangelists and started prattling on about “perverts corrupting our children” and “ban public displays of this sick practice”. One would expect such a strongly atheist party following a doctrine that dared to call for absolute seperation of church and state back in 1919, to have a more scientific viewpoint. But there’s no accounting for taste.
*-if you read Fascism and think Nazism or (heh, they even beleive in free market capitalism!) BNP, don’t even bother.
June 9th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
If Iris the Virus’s dodgy trick cyclist can ‘turn round’ homosexuality, presumably he could also ‘turn round’ her homophobia.
But as by her account he’s trying to falsely ‘cure’ something that isn’t a psychiatric disorder shouldn’t some official body or other be looking at striking him off – and investigating her expenses if he is on her payroll as some sort of government advisor?
November 21st, 2008 at 12:58 am
When will native Europeans realize that Islam is a social disease? How many more gay bashings? How many more Theo Van Goghs? How many more London transit bombings?
Wake up to the reality of Islam – a death cult that slowly engulfs and smothers all societies it invades. Just look at Afghanistan – it use to be Buddhist. Even Iran was once a civilized country before Islam.
What European country will lose its historical identity first?