Posted on 01/22/2005 10:32:19 AM PST by knighthawk
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A large majority of Dutch people are afraid of Muslims, according to a poll taken after the murder of a Dutch filmmaker critical of Islam.
The poll, conducted by TNS NIPO in The Netherlands, as well as in Spain and Italy, since the November murder of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh by a suspected radical Islamist, showed only 19 percent of Dutch people do not see the presence of Muslims in the country as a threat.
Home to almost 1 million Muslims or 6 percent of the population, The Netherlands' reputation for tolerance and social harmony has been shattered by the murder and a wave of attacks on mosques and churches and death threats against politicians.
Racial tensions surfaced again this week after a Dutch woman killed a youth with Moroccan roots after he stole her bag.
Highlights of the poll, to be launched formally on Monday, were published by De Volkskrant daily on Saturday.
The newspaper said the results were surprising given that Spain and Italy were much more frequently confronted with illegal immigration of Muslims from North Africa than the Dutch.
The survey showed 67 percent of Dutch people had no contact with Muslims and 65 percent hardly know anything about Islam in spite of broad coverage in the media.
Those who see Muslims as a threat say they are afraid they will eventually have to live under Islamic religious rules. Those living outside big cities, women and the well educated were more likely to have negative views, the newspaper said.
Half the Dutch polled said they would move house if their neighbourhood became more dominated by immigrants and the same proportion said they were afraid women would no longer be able to move about freely in public because of Muslims.
Why would they be afraid of adherents of The Religion of Murder?
Why have the Europeans let their gov'ts sell them out this way? I mean, why are there ANY muslims in Holland? In Scandanavia? In Ireland?
It is the Bizarro version of all those things..
The prime directive of Islam is for all Muslims to model their lives after the life of Muhammad. To emulate his life. This is why Islam is such a problem religion.
Could you please try this again. What are you saying?
This can't be right. Only conservative Americans are racist.
Yeah I know hehe
It would appear that the opium cloud that envelopes Tulip-Land cleared just long enough for the Durch to "get religion".....
A huge problem with the West is the relatively late religion of 'diversity/multiculturalism'. Every other culture is upgraded above the host white Western culture. If you haven't attended a few grad school classes in U.S. public school education, for instance, you don't know how to properly hate yourself as a white Westerner.
It is this suicidal Western drive to 'diversity' while allowing in millions of immigrants, legal and otherwise, that hate your culture but want all the benefits they don't have at home that will be so destructive in the long run.
BTTT
She drove a car into him. Ran him down!!
frannie
I got some people who want to be pinged on Dutch issues, I'll add you.
Ping
Knighthawk - please add me to your Dutch issues ping. Thanks -
bump and thanks!
Try this article for an example of muslim leadership
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1324233/posts
I did
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