Mini Clash of Civilizations

The Washington Times ^ | November 15, 2004 | Arnaud de Borchgrave

[Mel Gibson]

The Netherlands has long been Europe's most permissive society — everything from window-shopping in Amsterdam for scantily clad hookers (50 to 80 Euros for 15 to 30 minutes) to hashish aroma in marijuana smoke-filled cafes. The government and the sex workers union protect some 30,000 women. The pimps are landlords and the aging prostitutes are quickly replaced with a steady influx from the former Soviet republics and East European countries.

A Dutch brothel chain is suing the government for failing to green-light the "Yum Yum Caviar Club" at Schiphol Airport "to cater to stressed travelers in transit." The government responded that plans for an airport bordello were on hold pending new building and space in the departure areas.

[Mel Gibson]

Jihadi volunteers are known to have left for Iraq from a number of Muslim slums on the outskirts of major European cities.

[Spirochete]

Thus, Europe's Muslim population has doubled to 20 million in the last 10 years.

Five of those years were post- 9/11

[Dark Skies]

Could the Netherlands be a curtain-raiser for a wider clash of civilizations in the old Continent?

And, more to the point, has Arnaud de Borchgrave just returned from a sabbatical to the moon?

[Daralundy]

No he's reprinting an article from 2004.

[khnyny]

I like to call the Netherlands "Western Europe's gateway to hell". I coined the phrase last night after I read the following story. The story outlines a bust of drug and arms smugglers with a Hollywood production (Lamplight)company as their front company. Everyone knows the Netherlands epitomize sleaze.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1644051/posts?page=19#19

[Catholic Canadian]

I can't believe so many Canadians and Americans died to free this sh*thole.

[The Great RJ]

If the aging prostitutes are quickly replaced with a steady influx from the former Soviet republics and East European countries, the sex workers union must not be enforcing seniority rules.