Anti-Islam Dutch politician Geert Wilders. |
The Netherlands, where six per cent of the population is now
Muslim, is scrapping multiculturalism. The Dutch government says it will
abandon the long-standing model of multiculturalism that has encouraged Muslim
immigrants 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 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 who 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.
Holland has
done that whole liberal thing, and realized – maybe too late – that creating a
nation of tribes will kill the nation itself. The future of Australia , the
United States , UK and Canada may well be read here.
(NOTE: Muslim
immigrants leave their countries of birth because of civil and political unrest
“CREATED BY THE VERY NATURE OF THEIR CULTURE.” Countries such as Holland,
Canada , the UK, and Australia have an established way of life that actually
works, so why embrace the unworkable? If Muslims do not wish to accept another
culture, the answer is simple; “STAY WHERE YOU ARE!!” “Or go back to where you
were!”)
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NEW BILL IN
HOLLAND TO END MULTICULTURALISM
Dutch Politician Pim Fortuyn murdered by Muslims. |
Under the new
integration bill, which the Dutch Interior Minister Piet Hein Donner presented
to parliament on 16 June, immigrants would be required to learn the Dutch
language, and a tougher approach would be taken against those who ignore Dutch
values or break the law.
Extra
measures will also be introduced, if necessary, to remove residence permits
from immigrants who fail their integration course.
The bill
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.
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
government also plans to outlaw forced marriages and as of 1 January 2013 will
impose a ban on face-coverings. There are also plans to stop offering special
subsidies for Muslim immigrants, because, according to Donner, "it is not
the government's job to integrate immigrants."
The umbrella
Muslim group Contactorgaan Moslims en Overheid (Muslims and Government Contact)
says that although it agrees that immigrants should be better integrated into
Dutch society, it is opposed to a ban on burqas.
Polls show
that a majority of Dutch voters support the government's scepticism about
multiculturalism. According to a Maurice de Hond poll published by the
newspaper Trouw on 19 June, 74 per cent of Dutch voters say that immigrants
should conform to Dutch values. And 83 per cent of those polled support a ban
on burqas in public spaces.
Commentators
say that the proper integration of the more than one million Muslims now living
in Holland has been a major political issue ever since Dutch politician Pim
Fortuyn was assassinated in 2002 for his views on Muslim immigration and Dutch
filmmaker Theo van Gogh was stabbed to death in 2004 for producing a film that
criticised Islam.
There are now
an estimated 1.2 million Muslims in the Netherlands, which is equivalent to
about 6 per cent of the country's overall population. Muslim immigrants have
become increasingly assertive in carving out a role for Islam within Dutch
society. For example, a documentary aired by the television programme 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.
It 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.