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."
Hooray! Other countries will now follow the leader.
Let`s go Dutch.
I predict that things wil go real bad real quick over there.Muzzies never give up their gains easily.
We had one Turk that worked for our outdoor rec section and he and his family lived in a portion of the building over at the softball, baseball and high school football complex in Munich. He was suppose to keep up the place. He never did anything. We had to cut the grass ourselves, prepare the fields, even get the idiot to open the rest rooms on game days was a chore. Munich had thousands of them back then. Probably more Turks in Munich now than Germans.
Maybe they’d like to try a different flavor of immigrant. We could sent them a few million of our Mexicans. We’ll trade them for a few hundred thousand hot blonds.
Well at least THAT experiment is over and won’t have to be repeated.
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.
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yep. and it will only take another 10 years, for them to learn asking nicely for them to assimilate won’t work either.
and by then, it will be 2 million, not 1...
sadly, time is on THEIR side, not ours.
and as the demographics swing more their way,
it will become harder to do what is necessary.
how long ago did Oriana Fallaci start warning them ?
even Mark Steyn’s book “America Alone” is many years old now...
We still have Holder and "his people" to deal with, as well as racist socialist/democrats. Until they join American society, we will always be a House divided.
I wonder what happens when 1.2 million mozzies get a bad case SJS
Sudden jihad syndrome
Yet another social(istic) experiment fails!
“Multiculturalism” destroys national identity. Without national identity, you do not have a nation. You’ve got nothing but a mob of morons fighting over a bigger piece of the pie. Multiculturalism and diversity is the cancer that is killing America. We are no longer one united people. We are a bunch of greedy tribes constantly at one another’s throats.
Good! Waking up to a caveman mentality everyday does take it’s toll.
A forgotten word in America is “assimilation” and we are the worse for it.
If 1.2 Muslims living in the Netherlands get a bad case of SJs, I would guess the Dutch government would provide an antidote-the gun control policy of the Swiss.
That is the hidden goal of Soros and the socialists. Hence the open borders, the care and feeding of illegals, etc. They want to get rid of nations and let World Govt. (the UN on steroids)to take over our lives.
They are getting it. Finally.
Let’s just hope it’s not too late.
If the Dutch are serious, the Muslims traditional reaction is to get violent, because within their philosophy is the inherent conviction that Islam is superior and must be physically fought for. And it does not play well with others.
and we’re not much behind.
we’re using taxpayer money, to fund “Gulen” schools in Texas and Virgina, and to help build mosques.
the Muslim Brotherhood’s OWN official plan is in stage 3,
the chief aide of the U.S. Secretary of State has ties to be M.B., and yet Herman Cain gets attacked for being an “Islamophobe” ?!?
You might say the Germans facilitated the worst demographic trade-off of all time, six million Jews for 2.6 million Turks, as of Jan. 2008.
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