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| Amsterdam being tested by 'problem yoots' |
| 2006-01-18 |
| Mayor Job Cohen of Amsterdam spoke out on Tuesday about his worries of disorder in the city. "There is unrest in the city", he said after talks with the chairpersons of Amsterdam's 14 districts. The meeting was organised following several incidents involving young people in a few parts of the city since the start of the year. "There is an underlying feeling whereby it would only take minor incidents to cause an outburst," Cohen said. He said there was a revival of unrest, after a period of relative calm in Amsterdam, due to the activities of about 100 young people with behavioural problems. "We are now working with justice officials to find a solution," he stated. Cohen said officials in all the city districts are poised to nip any unrest in the bud. Moroccan-Dutch youth were involved in many of the incidents Cohen was referring to. A group of youths broke the windows of 39 cars in the southern part of the Pijp district around New Year. Locals in the area have also complained about an increase in threatening behaviour by groups of young people. A Jewish resident was threatened and a firework was thrown through the window pane of his home. A gay couple have reported being the regular victims of harassment. A group of youths threw stones at a police station and set a car on fire in the Slotervaart district last week after a 17-year-old scooter rider died in a crash while apparently fleeing from a police officer. But Cohen said there were many more incidents "that had not reached the media" whereby groups of native Dutch youth were involved. |
| Posted by:Seafarious |
| #7 Beheading is too good for Muslim pigs. This scum needs to suffer the fate of a Sikh who was boiled alive, at the hands of Muslim slime. http://www.sikh-history.com/sikhhist/martyrs/dyaldass.html Muslims are crap; flush them out of the West. |
| Posted by: CaziFarkus 2006-01-18 23:57 |
| #6 What he's trying to say is that the non-Muslim Dutch youth are "just as bad" as the islamothugs, but that the media are trying to portray this as a purely racial thing. In other words, he's saying "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. Amsterdam does not have a Muslim problem". Which of course it *does*, as Theo's corpse, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and the continuing problems with the Hofstad Group will attest. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2006-01-18 14:19 |
| #5 "But Cohen said there were many more incidents "that had not reached the media" whereby groups of native Dutch youth were involved." Native Dutch ? Is this code ? |
| Posted by: wxjames 2006-01-18 14:06 |
| #4 The Dutch have one up on the French because the Dutch actually do care, even about the bad boyz. Ironically, this means that while the French ignore problems and let them fester, the Dutch will continually, non-stop try to integrate the foreigners. These unblinking efforts do erode the hostility over time--it being increasingly difficult to de-humanize people who are always trying to be friends with you. Having stayed in Amsterdam for some length of time, it is a very international city, reflecting lots of cultures, but very little of you would think of as Dutch. Were you unfamiliar with the place, it would be hard to guess where you were. It is utterly and almost seamlessly integrated. How the Moroccans can maintain a feeling of alienation is almost mysterious. I doubt a third generation, "Dutch-Dutch-Moroccan", will be able to maintain this hate. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-01-18 13:00 |
| #3 You'th - contraction meaning young thug... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2006-01-18 12:41 |
| #2 Job? I'd say this guy is aptly named given the trials he's facing. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2006-01-18 11:33 |
| #1 Mayor Job Cohen of Amsterdam spoke out on Tuesday about his worries of disorder in the city. "There is unrest in the city", he said after talks with the chairpersons of Amsterdam's 14 districts. Hint, hint. |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2006-01-18 11:25 |