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2006-01-18 Europe

Amsterdam being tested by 'problem yoots'

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Posted by Seafarious 2006-01-18 09:16|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#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|| 2006-01-18 11:25|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2006-01-18 11:33|| Front Page Top

#3 You'th - contraction meaning young thug...

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2006-01-18 12:41|| 2006-01-18 12:41|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2006-01-18 13:00|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2006-01-18 14:06|| Front Page Top

#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">Seafarious 2006-01-18 14:19|| 2006-01-18 14:19|| Front Page Top

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