Making [Girl]Friends in Eurabia

Der Spiegel reports:

It must have seemed like a good idea at the time. Europe's largest brothel, the Pascha in Cologne, which incidentally claims to be the world's only brothel with a money-back guarantee for dissatisfied customers, attached the flags of all 32 nations competing in the World Cup to its façade in a bid to demonstrate international flair and attract custom during the tournament this summer.

A giant poster covering the side of the seven-story, 126-apartment building showed a friendly-looking blonde woman lifting up her bra above the slogan "A Time to Make Girlfriends", in a play on the World Cup's official slogan "A Time to Make Friends." Right beneath her pink panties were posters of the flags, including those of strictly Islamic Saudi Arabia and Iran.

Pascha's manager Armin Lobscheid had also erected real flags of all the World Cup nations on another side of the building.

The campaign provoked excitement, but not the kind the management was hoping for. Men from the Muslim community came to the door complaining that showing the flags of Saudi Arabia and Iran was an insult to the Prophet Muhammad. Later, some returned in masks.

"On Friday evening we were threatened by 11 masked men who demand that we take down the Saudi Arabian flag," Lobscheid told the Kölner Express, a local newspaper. Not wanting any trouble, the brothel obliged and removed it and the Iranian one. But that still left the flags printed on the poster.

"On Saturday night there were 20 masked men armed with knives and sticks. They threatened to get violent and even bomb the place unless we black out the Iranian and Saudia Arabian flags on the poster as well," said Lobscheid.

The men had left before the police arrived. But to spare his establishment any more trouble, Lobscheid ordered a crane to black out the two flags as well.

Read it here.

Now explain to me just how are these Islamist thugs different from the Sturmabteilung [Nazi storm troopers -- the "brownshirts"]

Koln has always been one of my favorite cities, and when I was young I spent a lot of time there. But that was a long time ago and things sure have changed, in a lot of ways.

And in a related development:

WASHINGTON, May 1, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The woes of legalized prostitution in Germany are about to be felt by the world. With the World Cup soccer tournament to be held in Berlin beginning June 9, an estimated three million fans are expected to flood the city. The German government and local governments are preparing for an increase in sex-traffic and the resulting tax revenues by aiding the construction of huge brothels. A four-story brothel, the largest in Germany, opened late last year a short distance from one of the main venues of the World Cup.

As many as 40,000 additional women are expected to be added to the approximately 400,000 prostitutes in Germany's sex industry. German authorities are rushing to accommodate the trade in women by facilitating the construction of mega-brothels and "sex huts." Moreover, cities hosting the games will issue special permits for street prostitution, creating a virtual partnership with brothel owners, pimps and traffickers.

Read it here.

As I said before -- things really have changed in the Fatherland.