Posted on 09/23/2007 5:10:02 PM PDT by Pikamax
AMSTERDAM, 22/09/07 - The Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR) says the Dutch must adapt themselves more to Islam. It also advises the elimination of the word 'allochtoon', the most common term used to describe residents with a foreign background.
The WRR itself thought up the word allochtoon in 1989. In a report at the time it was suggested this neutral-sounding word was less stigmatising than, for example, immigrant or foreigner. The WRR advice was successful; today, media, schools and politicians all use allochtoon.
Now the WRR however advises using the word allochtoon as little as possible. The word "is no longer neutral" and is stigmatising, the Council says in a report to appear Monday under the title Identification with the Netherlands.
The WRR also considers the Dutch must be prepared to adapt their standards to that of newcomers, for example in the area of religion and sexuality. Tolerance for Islam is too low and question marks on the sexualisation of Dutch society are justified, in its view.
In the report, the WRR also says that the integration debate is not helped by the fixation on the concept of 'national identity'. The report says that there is nothing wrong with the dual nationality held by most immigrants in the Netherlands.
The WRR already produced a controversial report last year (Dynamics in Islamic activism) when it complained that many Dutch politicians are involved in "Islam-bashing" and urged dialogue with "moderate movements such as Hamas." Christian democratic (CDA) MP Maxime Verhagen, now Foreign Minister, at the time termed the report unscientific and "sloppy rubbish". But in a recent debate, the present CDA-led government called the report valuable.
According to newspaper Volkskrant, the WRR will also advise on Monday that primary schools should be encouraged to have ethnically mixed pupil populations. They should be given the statutory commission to create a 'link' between population groups, said WRR member and Labour (PvdA) Upper House member Pauline Meurs in the newspaper Friday.
Translation: We surrender.
Good bye Dutchland. 20 years you will be paying the tax.
Good bye Dutchland. 20 years you will be paying the tax.
“The Scientific Council for Government Policy”
Trouble on wheels. Scientific? Balderdash.
“As I’ve said many times here, at some point in this century, we are going to have to save Europe from itself. Again. Whether we want to or not.”
The problem lies in the demographics now. World Wars I and II did not have that component.
Pat Buchanan wrote about this stuff 5 or 6 years ago in “The death of the west.”
The pilgrims left there because they saw waaay back when, that the Dutch were weakening even then. They were right. Is it in the water?
Yeah!
Afer all, they did so well in WW2.
Exactly. A liberal by any other name would smell as putrid.
They’re dead already.
As I’ve said many times here, at some point in this century, we are going to have to save Europe from itself. Again. Whether we want to or not.
We dont have it...not going to happen.
The Dutch are going through the same problems we are having with immigration and our government. What the Dutch people as a whole want and what some people in the government want are two different things. The Dutch people are as fed up with their Muslim invasion as we are with our Mexican invasion. They have already got their immigration laws beefed up in an attempt to keep more Muslims out.
They have also strongly resisted allowing Turkey to enter the European Union because they don't want them to be a member state with equal say in EU policy. Even though they have the reputation of being very liberal, most Dutch realize that their culture was based on Christian values and that those values are far superior and allow more freedom than would a system based on Muslim values.
Yeah, I'm afraid so. It's interesting - and damned sad - to read about how Holland has changed since we chased the wolf away the last time around.
How about using "spitoon" instead? Or "buffoon"? Or "vermin" (the latter applied to muslimes only).
Well, there goes the neighborhood...no, wait, it's already long gone. (What insanity. Do they really think 'Islam" will be content with anything less than eventual takeover? It isn't as though the muzzies have kept their goal of restoring the Caliphate over all the world a secret.
The muzzies greatest weapon, both abroad and here - has been/is PC - and "hate crimes"
Over 400 years ago, those known as the Mayflower Pilgrims left England and moved to Holland which practiced religious freedom.
They got along well with the Hollanders and never expected the Dutch to conform to their ways. However, after 12 years, with their children growing up and starting to adopt some of the Dutch ways, they were afraid they would lose their English customs and their way of worship. But they didn't expect, as I mentioned, Holland to "adapt" to their ways. They made the decision to leave and find a place where they could raise their children in their custom - and have freedom of worship, which they could not have in England. Thus they sailed for a new life in a new land...in 1620.
Sorry, but I think Peter King was on to something...
Agreed!
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