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Monday March 13, 2006
Muslim Migrants to Holland Shown Gay Film Footage As Entrance Evaluation
Acceptance of homosexuality to become Dutch immigration litmus test
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By Gudrun Schultz
AMSTERDAM, Holland, March 13, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Potential immigrants to The Netherlands will be faced with a film showing two men kissing in a park, and a woman in a topless swimsuit, after Wednesday of this week.
The DVD is part of a new entrance test designed to determine if applicants are open to the socially liberal views of the country. Their reaction to the footage will be recorded and used as part of the evaluation process.
Only applicants from predominantly Muslim countries such as the Middle East and Asia will have to view the film. People seeking entrance from other EU countries, the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Japan will be exempt.
Islamic groups within Holland have condemned the test, calling it a ploy to restrict Islamic immigration in a country with one of the highest Muslim populations in the EU.
“It really is a provocation aimed to limit immigration. It has nothing to do with the rights of homosexuals. Even Dutch people don’t want to see that,” Abdou Menebhi told the Sunday Times. Menebhi is the Moroccan-born director of Emcemo, an organisation that helps immigrants to settle.
“They are trying to find every pretext to show that people should not come to The Netherlands because they are fundamentalist or not emancipated,” he said. “They confront people with these things and then judge them afterwards.”
Holland’s crackdown on immigration, under Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk, has already resulted in compulsory integration classes, higher age limits for marriage for people from out of the country, and the loss of residency permits if immigrants commit petty crime.
These measures were undertaken in part due to outrage over the 2004 murder of the Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh, who was brutally murdered after making an anti-Islamic film.
Although the film test is the first of its kind in the world, Germany introduced a similar measure in January in the form of a written questionnaire. Applicants from Muslim countries are required to answer a series of questions about the legality of homosexuality, among other issues.
See related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
Muslims To Be Excluded from Germany Because of Views on Homosexuality
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