Posted on 06/25/2011 10:04:30 AM PDT by Mount Athos
The Dutch government says it will abandon the long-standing model of multiculturalism that has encouraged Muslim immigrants to create a parallel society within the Netherlands.
A new integration bill which Dutch Interior Minister Piet Hein Donner presented to parliament on June 16, reads: "The government shares the social dissatisfaction over the multicultural society model and plans to shift priority to the values of the Dutch people. In the new integration system, the values of the Dutch society play a central role. With this change, the government steps away from the model of a multicultural society."
The letter continues: "A more obligatory integration is justified because the government also demands that from its own citizens. It is necessary because otherwise the society gradually grows apart and eventually no one feels at home anymore in the Netherlands. The integration will not be tailored to different groups."
The new integration policy will place more demands on immigrants. For example, immigrants will be required to learn the Dutch language, and the government will take a tougher approach to immigrants to ignore Dutch values or disobey Dutch law.
The government will also stop offering special subsidies for Muslim immigrants because, according to Donner, "it is not the government's job to integrate immigrants." The government will introduce new legislation that outlaws forced marriages and will also impose tougher measures against Muslim immigrants who lower their chances of employment by the way they dress. More specifically, the government will impose a ban on face-covering Islamic burqas as of January 1, 2013.
If necessary, the government will introduce extra measures to allow the removal of residence permits from immigrants who fail their integration course.
The measures are being imposed by the new center-right government of Conservatives (VVD) and Christian Democrats (CDA), with parliamentary support from the anti-Islam Freedom Party (PVV), whose leader, Geert Wilders, is currently on trial in Amsterdam for "inciting hatred" against Muslims.
As expected, Muslim organizations in Holland have been quick to criticize the proposals. The Moroccan-Dutch organization Samenwerkingsverband van Marokkaanse Nederlanders, which advises the government on integration matters, argues that Muslim immigrants need extra support to find a job. The umbrella Muslim group Contactorgaan Moslims en Overheid says that although it agrees that immigrants should be better integrated into Dutch society, it is opposed to a ban on burqas.
But polls show that a majority of Dutch voters support the government's skepticism about multiculturalism. According to a Maurice de Hond poll published by the center-right newspaper Trouw on June 19, 74 percent of Dutch voters say immigrants should conform to Dutch values. Moreover, 83 percent of those polled support a ban on burqas in public spaces.
The proper integration of the more than one million Muslims now living in Holland has been a major political issue ever since 2002, when Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn was assassinated for his views on Muslim immigration, and since 2004, when Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh was stabbed to death for producing a movie that criticized Islam.
Muslim immigration to the Netherlands can be traced back to the 1960s and 1970s, when a blue collar labor shortage prompted the Dutch government to conclude recruitment agreements with countries like Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia and Turkey. In the 1980s and 1990s, Muslims also arrived in the Netherlands as asylum seekers and refugees, mainly from Afghanistan, Bosnia, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan and Somalia.
There are now an estimated 1.2 million Muslims in the Netherlands, which is equivalent to about 6 percent of the country's overall population. Moroccans and Turks comprise nearly two-thirds of all Muslims in the Netherlands. Most Muslims live in the four major cities of the country: Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague and Utrecht.
As their numbers grow, Muslim immigrants have become increasingly more assertive in carving out a role for Islam within Dutch society. For example, a documentary aired by the television program Netwerk in June 2009 reported that Dutch law was being systematically undermined by the growth of Sharia justice in the Netherlands.
In December 2004, the Dutch Ministry of the Interior published a 60-page report titled From Dawa to Jihad. Prepared by the Dutch intelligence agency AIVD, the report says that the Netherlands is home to up to 50,000 radical Muslims whose key ideological aim is to target the Western way of life and to confront Western political, economic, and cultural domination.
The report concludes that Dutch society is poorly equipped to resist the threat of radical Islam because of "a culture of permissiveness" that has become synonymous with "closing one's eyes" to multiple transgressions of the law.
As for Interior Minister Donner, he has undergone a late-in-life conversion on the issue of Muslim immigration. In September 2006, while serving as justice minister, Donner provoked an outcry after saying that he welcomed the introduction of Islamic Sharia law in the Netherlands if the majority wants it. He also said Holland should give Muslims more freedoms to behave according to their traditions.
After applauding Queen Beatrix for respecting Islam by not insisting that a Muslim leader shake hands with her during a visit to the Mobarak Mosque in The Hague, Donner said: "A tone that I do not like has crept into the political debate on integration. A tone of: 'Thou shalt assimilate. Thou shalt adopt our values in public. Be reasonable, do it our way.' That is not my approach."
Fast forward to 2011 and Donner now says his government "will distance itself from the relativism contained in the model of a multicultural society." Although society changes, he says, it must not be "interchangeable with any other form of society."
It worked in the late 1800’s when America was led by a competent population. Assimilation now is a joke.
Girt Wilders was right! He wins! Now it’s time for this country to ‘follow the leader.’
If a new aggressive species is introduced into another species` habitat and its rate of reproduction exceeds that of the host species, the former with decimate the latter:
Survival of the fittest.
Solution:
1. no introduction
2. removal of introduced aggressive species to original habitat
My daughter just completed studying in Utrecht. She was there from January this year until about a week ago. I visited her in Utrecht a couple weeks ago and we went to Amsterdam together and, I must say, I was shocked at the number of muslims in those two cities. There really are two separate worlds living together there.
To see all those people straight from the backwards 7th century living among the great Renaissance cities of Netherlands is a jarring juxtaposition.
This is really great news and perhaps there is hope for preserving Europe and Western Civilization yet. Now if only the hedonism and socialism would recede, and birth rates begin climbing toward replacement.
Too Late ! Europe is over. The infestation that is Islam will out breed any other race. Their numbers alone will destroy whats left of Europe.
FINALLY... The way it should be in any country.
Immigrants either adapt and change or get the hell out. And this goes for myself!.. an immigrant once, American Citizen now.
It is ridiculous the extend to which this country goes to "accommodate" its new population. Every immigrant should master English by the third year with special allowances for older (over 40) or very old people, of course.
But more than anything else, WE, the country must be able to CHOOSE whom we want here... NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND! We should be able - and we can - take control of our borders first.. etc etc etc etc.
Every Latin/Hispanic person knows, that if OUR countries/governments delivered what their populations need... THEN why would we want to come here or anywhere else?
We come here to reach/achieve/get/enjoy... what it's so difficult to get in our own countries... For ourselves and our families. We want to be part of this great nation and CONTRIBUTE to its greatness... but we definitively don't want a place LIKE THE ONES WE LEFT... That would not make sense, would it?
Welfare allows a high birth rate. It's another story if they have to support their own kids from their own earnings.
Muslim immigration is stressing the European "social safety net" to the breaking point. When it finally breaks, it will be very ugly. I can see the Europeans conducting mass expulsions of economically-unproductive immigrants in order to hold off their own economic collapse.
Damn, at least one government thinks it’s majority culture is worth saving. Wish ours did.
I'd like to point out - THAT's the problem!
Notice the part where those who did not learn to become Dutch can have their residence permits revoked. Thus, this new approach could lead to deportation and fewer Muslims. Given that most will not adapt, let’s hope this leads to significant deportations.
“...all the Germans had moved...”
Same way our wonderful US cities became ‘inner cities’ with white flight. God forbid people stand their ground and say “this is my house, you follow my rules.” Flight is easier than fighting, I guess.
One of my adult children is an emphatic bleeding heart, pro-immigrant type. I cannot wait, just cannot wait, to visit their new home next month. Their “house rules” are 1) remove shoes upon entering and 2) absolutely positively no smoking. Guess who will NOT take off her shoes and who will light up within five minutes of entering the abode ???
Agreed - expect the bombings/beheadings to begin.
It’s about time.
Progressive leftists opened the door and invited in the roaches with the firm belief that you can reason with roaches and the roaches will respect your home.
All you get is more roaches.
I remember in gradeschool, we were taught that America was a "melting pot" where people came from all over the world and became American. This was later changed, and we should consider America a mosaic - a single picture but with each individual retaining a unique identity.
Europe is discovering it needs a melting pot.
I was surprised to see that Netherlands runs a healthy trade surplus same as the Germans. This means they have high IQ and can manufacture high IQ products the world wants to buy. So why on earth would they allow millions of barbaric Muslims to enter their civilized country? Which I visited a while back
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http://web.archive.org/web/20060617191123/http://www.childrenofmillennium.org/heroes/downfall.htm
The Downfall of the Netherlands
Land of the Naive Fools
by Mohammed Rasoel
Bump!
Bingo. When the Dutch, who have probably been the foremost proponents of multiculturalism, have seen the results as the destruction of their own culture, the tide may be turning.
One can only hope that our MSM will report this.
Way before that (maybe the 60s?) there was a prominent British politician who warned about unrestricted immigration into Britain from her former/current colonies.
He was exciorated in the press and basically run out of politics. Now it appears that there are enclaves in London where the government has virtually ceded authority to the radical muslim street.
Paris has the same problem.
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