Bruce Bawer on Dutch (in)tolerance and gay bashing

In an email to Andrew Sullivan about the attack on Chris Crain:

As for the cops finding the guys who beat up Chris Crain: I wouldn't be surprised to learn that they haven’t lifted a finger. They probably thought he was nuts for confronting the guys. The authorities’ traditional policy is: keep your head down and don’t provoke anybody. In January, two schoolboys in IJsselstein were ordered to remove Dutch flag patches from their backpacks because Moroccan students might consider them provocative. It turned out this flag ban is officially in force at many schools. Meanwhile Muslim kids have pictures of van Gogh's murderer on their lunchboxes because they consider him a hero, and nobody dares tell them to remove those pictures. In a recent article, a teacher at a school in Amsterdam said that a decade ago, ten-year-old Muslim kids were saying, 'We Moroccans are going to take over the Netherlands'; now five-year-olds who can hardly write are scrawling 'Fuck you Netherlands' on scraps of paper.

Read it all here.

One thing Sullivan neglected to mention is that he and Bawer are wrong: it's our fault! According to Human Rights Watch at least:

It said gays are the victim because immigrants take revenge for the injustice they encounter themselves.

Riiiiiiight. Twinkle twinkle little bat, how I wonder what you're at...

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