Wednesday, March 05, 2008

Amsterdam: The Burka Coverup

Dutch youth channel 101TV recently published a movie in which an actress in a burka was sent out to the streets to test how Amsterdam residents reacted to her. Walking in the street she dropped a bag of oranges. In her normal, Dutch clothing she was helped by many people, but while wearing a burka nobody stopped to help.

In the film the actress said that nobody helped her, but AT5 filmed the takes, and shows that what 101TV filmed was something completely different. People who passed by the burka clad actress were told by the director on film to continue walking as there was filming going on. When people started helping her collect the oranges, they were told to stop.

Discrimination was hard to find, so 101TV just made it up.

The AT5 report can be seen here. The filming of the burka story starts at around 1 minute into the clip.

Source: AT5 (Dutch)