April 26, 2007
Netherlands: School Scraps Nature Course As Pigs Enrage Muslim Pupils

Alderman Lodewijk Asscher is right. And if nothing is done, assuredly the pressure won't stop with lessons about pigs. "School Scraps Nature Course As Pigs Enrage Muslim Pupils," from NIS News, with thanks to Fjordman:

AMSTERDAM

27/04/07 - A school in Amsterdam has halted lessons on rural life because the Islamic children refused to talk about pigs. Reporting this, Alderman Lodewijk Asscher said he wants to take "tough measures." Subsidies for all kinds of dubious groups must stop and parents of unruly children penalised financially.

Asscher told newspaper De Volkskrant: "A primary school in Amsterdam-Noord has decided no longer to teach about living on a farm. Various pupils began to demolish the classroom when the pig came up for discussion. Apparently it has gone that far. These children, 9, 10 years old, have not been given even the most elementary rules at home about why they must go to school."