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comment by Slats

This situation is so ugly and so infected. My 2 cents, anyway. I doubt any potential unrest will be caused because of muslims in these areas being opposed to the HBTQ movement, if it does it will be because the organiser is associated with publications who are openly against islam and immigration and a party who wants to limit immigration (this party also has a history of nazism and has many sympathisers who are openly racist, nationalist, etc.). I think the idea to hold a pride parade in an area where HBTQ-people may experience oppression is great and should of course be supported in itself, but this organiser comes with a lot of other baggage. He's in a party who are at best hesitantly supportive of some HBTQ rights, and this parade will have many of their sympathisers participating. Personally this is the biggest issue for me and makes me really upset. If you don't support /all/ of my rights and want to /limit/ part of them, then what actually is this "pride" parade? Because it's not one meant for me. The more I think about it the more emotional it makes me. Anyway, as I said. Infected.