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Lifestyle => Train of Thought => Topic started by: Samoan Enforcer on November 22, 2006, 09:26:25 AM
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here's another country for you nerds to cry about if youre feeling at all bored by evil evil America
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Dutch government agreed on Friday a total ban on the wearing of burqas and other Muslim face veils in public, justifying the move on security grounds.
Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk will now draw up legislation which will result in the Netherlands, once one of Europe's most easy-going nations, imposing some of the continent's toughest laws against concealing the face.
"The cabinet finds it undesirable that garments covering the face -- including the burqa -- should be worn in public in view of public order, (and) the security and protection of fellow citizens," the Dutch Justice Ministry said in a statement.
The debate on face veils and whether they stymie Muslim integration has gathered momentum across Europe.
The Netherlands would be the first European state to impose a countrywide ban on Islamic face coverings, though other countries have already outlawed them in specific places.
The move by the center-right government comes just five days before a general election. The campaign has focused so far on issues like the economy rather than immigration because most mainstream parties have hardened their stances in recent years.
Last December Dutch lawmakers voted in favor of a proposal by far-right politician Geert Wilders to outlaw face-coverings and asked Verdonk to examine the feasibility of such a ban.
Because veils were worn for religious reasons, she had feared new legislation could come into conflict with religious freedom laws. But she said on Friday this was not the case.
MUSLIM HEADSCARF
Existing legislation already limits the wearing of burqas and other total coverings on public transport or in schools.
France has banned the Muslim headscarf and other religious garb from state schools while discussion in Britain centers on limiting the full facial veil, or niqab.
Italy has a decades-old law against covering the face in public as an anti-terrorism measure. Some politicians have called for this rule to be enforced against veiled Muslim women.
The Muslim community estimates that only about 50 women in the Netherlands wear the head-to-toe burqa or the niqab, a face veil that conceals everything but the eyes.
Dutch Muslim groups have complained a burqa ban would make the country's 1 million Muslims feel more victimized and alienated, regardless of whether they approve of burqas or not.
"This will just lead to more girls saying 'hey I'm also going to wear a burqa as a protest'," Naima Azough, a member of parliament from the opposition Green Left, told an election campaign meeting for fellow members of the Moroccan community.
Job Cohen, the Labour mayor of Amsterdam, said he opposed burqas in schools and public buildings, and said women wearing one who failed to get a job should not expect welfare benefits.
"From the perspective of integration and communication, it is obviously very bad because you can't see each other so the fewer the better," he told foreign journalists.
"But actually hardly anybody wears one ... The fuss is much bigger than the number of people concerned."
Since the murder of anti-immigration maverick Pim Fortuyn in 2002, the Dutch have lost a reputation for tolerance, pushing through some of Europe's toughest entry and integration laws.
Social and religious tensions have escalated in the last few years, exacerbated by the murder of film director and Islam critic Theo van Gogh by a Dutch-Moroccan militant in 2004.
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nah i like the dutch, i prefer haitin on u americans, sorry
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nah i like the dutch, i prefer haitin on u americans, sorry
you prefer hatian?
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nah they scare me....theyre like voodoo practicing aids infested somalians to me
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Where did you get this from? Havent heard anything about this. Probably fake.
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^^try reading the news
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well u can't blame them, there are a lot of security concerns with the burqas
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^^try reading the news
I read the newspaper everyday, but i havent seen anything....
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I'm gonna get drunk and go Muslim bashing tonight
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I'm gonna get drunk and go Muslim bashing tonight
no youre not. youre gonna get drunk, attempt to masturbate sloppily, and then pass out in a pool of spilled beer, sprayed jizz, and pizza crusts.
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Maybe they got jacked alot by unknown suspects
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I'm gonna get drunk and go Muslim bashing tonight
no youre not. youre gonna get drunk, attempt to masturbate sloppily, and then pass out in a pool of spilled beer, sprayed jizz, and pizza crusts.
is there any other way tech lol
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I'm gonna get drunk and go Muslim bashing tonight
no youre not. youre gonna get drunk, attempt to masturbate sloppily, and then pass out in a pool of spilled beer, sprayed jizz, and pizza crusts.
I just wrote racial slurs on cars instead
haha I had a friend once in 9th grade and we were roamin the streets at night after hitting some 40's
and he got all serious and was like "hey you wanna go spray paint nigger and kkk on cars?"
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i hope they ban arabs from selling weed in australia too... i got ripped off :'(
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i hope they ban arabs from selling weed in australia too... i got ripped off :'(
you know what i hate? when ethnicities like that sell weed and act black doing it. dont you camel jockeys know white people look corny as hell doing it? do you really think we're gonna believe your down? arab/asian/various middle eastern peoples, stop talking like negros!
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^^try reading the news
I read the newspaper everyday, but i havent seen anything....
It was in the news, but it got over shadowed by the election bs.
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^^try reading the news
I read the newspaper everyday, but i havent seen anything....
It was in the news, but it got over shadowed by the election bs.
From what ive heard its only in 1 town in Holland, apeldoorn if im correct.
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i hope they ban arabs from selling weed in australia too... i got ripped off :'(
you know what i hate? when ethnicities like that sell weed and act black doing it. dont you camel jockeys know white people look corny as hell doing it? do you really think we're gonna believe your down? arab/asian/various middle eastern peoples, stop talking like negros!
wroing comparison. see white people look ridicolous because they bump hip hop in their daddies dodge caravans as they pull up to picket fence houses in the burbs. at least us immigrants for the most part are fuckin shit poor and live in the projects, ya smell me? we get a pass.
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i hope they ban arabs from selling weed in australia too... i got ripped off :'(
you know what i hate? when ethnicities like that sell weed and act black doing it. dont you camel jockeys know white people look corny as hell doing it? do you really think we're gonna believe your down? arab/asian/various middle eastern peoples, stop talking like negros!
im korean n i dont talk black fo straight up come to LA n u'll kno sup bout the asians. lol y da fuck would any one wanna talk like a brotha ur a joke and u think too good of blacks. sellin bud dont mean ur down for shit n u'll kno if ur down the day u get jackd or the day u get lockd up. lol so many stupid white bois slang its free bud for me n the homies all the time
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us immigrants for the most part are fuckin shit poor and live in the projects, ya smell me? we get a pass.
it's called get a job and stop burdening society
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i hope they ban arabs from selling weed in australia too... i got ripped off :'(
you know what i hate? when ethnicities like that sell weed and act black doing it. dont you camel jockeys know white people look corny as hell doing it? do you really think we're gonna believe your down? arab/asian/various middle eastern peoples, stop talking like negros!
im korean n i dont talk black fo straight up come to LA n u'll kno sup bout the asians. lol y da fuck would any one wanna talk like a brotha ur a joke and u think too good of blacks. sellin bud dont mean ur down for shit n u'll kno if ur down the day u get jackd or the day u get lockd up. lol so many stupid white bois slang its free bud for me n the homies all the time
what an idiot
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us immigrants for the most part are fuckin shit poor and live in the projects, ya smell me? we get a pass.
it's called get a job and stop burdening society
sometimes that easy, sometimes it aint. wouldnt expect u to know anything about it tho
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i hope they ban arabs from selling weed in australia too... i got ripped off :'(
you know what i hate? when ethnicities like that sell weed and act black doing it. dont you camel jockeys know white people look corny as hell doing it? do you really think we're gonna believe your down? arab/asian/various middle eastern peoples, stop talking like negros!
wroing comparison. see white people look ridicolous because they bump hip hop in their daddies dodge caravans as they pull up to picket fence houses in the burbs. at least us immigrants for the most part are fuckin shit poor and live in the projects, ya smell me? we get a pass.
lol yeah right. you get a pass where?
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i hope they ban arabs from selling weed in australia too... i got ripped off :'(
you know what i hate? when ethnicities like that sell weed and act black doing it. dont you camel jockeys know white people look corny as hell doing it? do you really think we're gonna believe your down? arab/asian/various middle eastern peoples, stop talking like negros!
im korean n i dont talk black fo straight up come to LA n u'll kno sup bout the asians. lol y da fuck would any one wanna talk like a brotha ur a joke and u think too good of blacks. sellin bud dont mean ur down for shit n u'll kno if ur down the day u get jackd or the day u get lockd up. lol so many stupid white bois slang its free bud for me n the homies all the time
asians are the biggest clowns when they start dressin like thugs, arent u supposed to be in juvey?
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i hope they ban arabs from selling weed in australia too... i got ripped off :'(
you know what i hate? when ethnicities like that sell weed and act black doing it. dont you camel jockeys know white people look corny as hell doing it? do you really think we're gonna believe your down? arab/asian/various middle eastern peoples, stop talking like negros!
wroing comparison. see white people look ridicolous because they bump hip hop in their daddies dodge caravans as they pull up to picket fence houses in the burbs. at least us immigrants for the most part are fuckin shit poor and live in the projects, ya smell me? we get a pass.
lol yeah right. you get a pass where?
i get a pass in my city. west of the humber river ask about me biotch. scarlett block is in the building, dixon strip is in ya mouth. :o