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You might turn the neighbors into raving aroused madmen.



Saturday, May 17, 2008
Netherlands: Complaints about construction workers dress
The heads of a contractor firm working on a large renovation project
in Almere were asked last week if the construction workers could
change their short pants into something with longer legs. The Muslim
neighbors had complained about the workers wearing such bare clothing.



In order not to succumb in the tropical heat of the past weeks, the
men had exchanged their work overalls for short pants and a t-shirt.
Construction workers Robin Willemsen says that they all walk around
with short pants. Together with his colleagues he's renovating the
outside of 750 residences in Almere.


Willemsen says that the contractor came to tell them that Muslim
neighbors had complained that their clothing were too bare and too
short. The comment was duly noted, but Willemsen says that they don't
intend to dress in overalls in such sweltering heat.



The complaints were new for Richard Hekert of construction firm
Mateboer from Kampen, and he says there were agreements about correct
clothing, and that includes short pants and t-shirts too, but if
residents think it's a serious nuisance, they'll see how they can
solve it.



I think it's high time that it be made perfectly clear to Muslims who have
moved into western nations that they are required to adapt and adjust their
ways to fit in with the customs and culture of their newly adopted homes. It
is not up to the majorities in these countries to change their ways because
Muslims don't like the way things are done in their new countries. If
Muslims can't change they should go back to the countries where they came
from. The governments of these western nations need to make the Muslims
understand this reality and so far they have not done so and have instead
bent over backwards to accommodate them. This needs to stop. I would
particularly recommend this to the US as it would stop a lot of trouble
before it happens.

Hawke