Trees, Hookers And No Burqas - A Play By The Netherlands

I don't usually even post daily on my blog, so you are lucky today that something else caught my attention after my self-promotional posting earlier.

I've been to Amersterdam twice. I enjoyed myself much more the second time, when I stayed in a cleaner area -but Amsterdam is at the forefront of allowing degenerate shit to happen right under its nose. Amsterdam is basically filled with the type of dudes who own porno stores in the city (think perverted looking middle-eastern dudes) who will run up on you, with no regard for your personal space, screaming "cocaine, ecstacy."

It is also very true that for a nominal fee, you can have intercourse with a woman of the night -legally- in the red light distict. While I didn't engage in either "cocaine, ecstacy" or any postitutes, the line between legal and illict behaviour in Amesterdam is a fairly thin one.

I mention all of this because I recently came across this article on Yahoo! about how the Dutch government is trying to ban burkas -which is kinda like the "wardrobe as a cage/cage as a wardrobe" worn by some Muslim women. While I fell that is such a fairly reasonable idea (I'm no champion of womans rights -although I did once get a blowjob from Susan B. Anthony on the G train) mainly because I'm sick of Muslim dudes preventing me from oggling their women by keepin them wrapped up in (to borrow a term) bee-keeper suits and out of sight. It can also be said that middle-eastern and Indian girls are the new Asian girls. Sorry Asain girls, you had a nice run as "exotic du jour" but it's over.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061117/ap_on_re_eu/netherlands_burqa_ban

By the same token, it does seem pretty crazy that the Netherlands is the country at the forefront of this movement. The Netherlands, or at least Amesterdam, is a pretty "free" place -in the sense that you can pretty much do whatever you want and no one will stop you or even gawk at you. For other reasons, there has been some backlash by the Muslim organizations in the area, who cite religious freedom- and they do have a point.

By the same token, I think Muslims have kinda overstayed their welcome in the civilized world. Mind you, "normal" Muslims really haven't done anything wrong and I'm sure a great deal of them have assimilated into the larer civilized socities that they were allowed to immigrate to. Those are "muslims" in the sense that I am "catholic." By the same token, when the thing most associated with your religion is a cry of "allah" and then a large explosion, perhaps it is time to launch your own publicity campaign citing the positive aspects of said religion. For example, Halal meat. Tasty AND peaceful!!

I dunno. Religion is pretty gay - no disrespect to God or homosexuals.

^ Good writing.

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[James]

I've really got to stop using "by the same token" as a crutch.

By the same token, sometimes it fits.