Now, I'm not usually one to quote internet news articles, but this is just too rich. So bear with me and read on.
That article wrote:
Bruce Mutsvairo, Associated Press
Thursday, March 16, 2006 / 11:28 AM
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands -- A Dutch multicultural group is organizing a soccer tournament between gays and Muslims, hoping to counter what a study published on Thursday said was a rising tide of fear among gays.
A nationwide survey by the Police Research Academy said that most gays questioned feel unsafe and reported experiencing verbal attacks in the last year.
Of the 776 homosexuals who responded to an Internet questionnaire, 80 percent said they believed their safety was threatened at some time during the year, said academy director Frits Vlek, who commissioned the research.
Only 3 percent said they were physically assaulted, Vlek said in an interview, but some 40 percent claimed they had been insulted or verbally abused.
Youths from Moroccan and Turkish backgrounds often were blamed for the incidents, Vlek said, since homosexuality is not widely accepted in many Muslim cultures.
"Parts of the Muslim community still resist homosexuality and receive little education about it," he said.
Muslim-gay tension is the theme of the soccer tournament organized by the Institute of Multicultural Development, to be held next week.
An organizer of the group, Suzanne Ijsselmuiden, said she hoped the competition will "help ease these tensions so that people can openly talk about homosexuality."
Gay Muslims can take their choice of teams, she said. "People can have many identities."
A Latin team along with a team of all-women players has also been assembled for the government-sponsored competition.
Thursday, March 16, 2006 / 11:28 AM
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands -- A Dutch multicultural group is organizing a soccer tournament between gays and Muslims, hoping to counter what a study published on Thursday said was a rising tide of fear among gays.
A nationwide survey by the Police Research Academy said that most gays questioned feel unsafe and reported experiencing verbal attacks in the last year.
Of the 776 homosexuals who responded to an Internet questionnaire, 80 percent said they believed their safety was threatened at some time during the year, said academy director Frits Vlek, who commissioned the research.
Only 3 percent said they were physically assaulted, Vlek said in an interview, but some 40 percent claimed they had been insulted or verbally abused.
Youths from Moroccan and Turkish backgrounds often were blamed for the incidents, Vlek said, since homosexuality is not widely accepted in many Muslim cultures.
"Parts of the Muslim community still resist homosexuality and receive little education about it," he said.
Muslim-gay tension is the theme of the soccer tournament organized by the Institute of Multicultural Development, to be held next week.
An organizer of the group, Suzanne Ijsselmuiden, said she hoped the competition will "help ease these tensions so that people can openly talk about homosexuality."
Gay Muslims can take their choice of teams, she said. "People can have many identities."
A Latin team along with a team of all-women players has also been assembled for the government-sponsored competition.
There are so many ways I could make fun of this that I quite seriously can't process them. But how great is it that you can pick your team if you're a gay Muslim? "Hmm... those Muslim lads certainly look strong, but the gay team is so much cuter, and I DO like their uniform colours better... choices, choices...."
God damn, being gay is so fun sometimes. I get to run across sh[cyan][/cyan]it like this. =D
EDIT: I figured out why this story struck me as so funny. I keep mentally picturing it as a Celebrity Death Match between Dutch **** and the Muslim Jihad Army. =D
Edited, Fri Mar 17 02:00:23 2006 by Saboruto
