It's not about people who just happen to have this Krazy and Zany opinion about DVD's and other digitally recorded media. It's their consistent ideology on how to live every day of your life, treat the world, yourself and others.

However, I'm still surprised how people get outraged over a politician who opposes gays serving openly in the military, or even with Jerry Fallwell when he argues to "hate the sin but love the sinner," yet with fundamentalist Muslims who believe they have the right to kill you because you were born gay they deserve a modicum of respect for their religious beliefs.

It's not a few vocal critics either. If anyone is going to the Amsterdam adult conference later this month, why don't you take a brief tour several kilometers over to the populous Muslim immigrant neighborhoods. (you'll have to find a taxi as their isolated neighborhoods because they are not on the easily accessible subway lines) There you will find attitudes towards gay rights, pornography and other things which you admire about the Netherlands to be the complete opposite here. But they all do live off the country's generous welfare state and marry their families into Dutch citizenship as quickly as possible. Still, just try holding hands with another guy in public over there.

I think they have found an amazing way to play on the Western society's first desire for religious freedom to advance themselves. Now that's our virtue, not theirs. And their hostility to it is dangerous.

Steve