Amsterdam to Study Gay Bashers
With the number of homophobic attacks rising in the Dutch metropolis, Amsterdam officials are commissioning a study to determine why Moroccan men are targeting the city’s gays.
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This month, Mayor Job Cohen commissioned the University of Amsterdam to conduct a study on the motives behind the hate crimes. Half of the crimes were committed by men of Moroccan origin and researchers believe they felt stigmatized by society and responded by attacking people they felt were lower on the social ladder. Another working theory is that the attackers may be struggling with their own sexual identity.
So, because it’s white people’s fault for somehow “placing” Moroccans toward the bottom, they feel they have to lash out against those who they think are even lower. But this is circular logic, because it inevitably leads to this question — Why do Moroccans think of homosexuals as “lower” than themselves?
As far as the latter theory, I have heard from credible sources that homosexuality is more common in the Arab-Muslim world than the outward appearance of their religious fundamentalism would suggest.
