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March 17, 2006
Netherlands: Gay-Muslim Soccer Tournament on the Works
I hope the balls are regulation size. (Sorry, I couldn't... nah, I chose not to resist.) Gays, Muslims to play in soccer tournament
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - A Dutch multicultural group is organizing a soccer tournament between gays and Muslims, hoping to counter what a study published on Thursday said was a rising tide of fear among gays.A nationwide survey by the Police Research Academy said that most gays questioned feel unsafe and reported experiencing verbal attacks in the last year.
Of the 776 homosexuals who responded to an internet questionnaire, 80 percent said they believed their safety was threatened at some time during the year, said academy director Frits Vlek, who commissioned the research.[...]
Youths from Moroccan and Turkish backgrounds [notice how they don't say "Muslim"--Ruy Diaz] often were blamed for the incidents, Vlek said, since homosexuality is not widely accepted in many Muslim cultures.
However bizarre this story might be, it is by no means the most bizarre soccer story covered here at Western Resistance.
Posted by Ruy Diaz at March 17, 2006 8:05 AM
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