Holland's Tolerance Is Tested. Tom Carter.
by Carter, Tom; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 14Environment. Publisher: World & I, 2005ISSN: 1522-3205;.Subject(s): Dutch -- Attitudes | Emigration and immigration -- Netherlands | Immigrants -- Attitudes toward | Immigrants -- Netherlands | Muslims -- Netherlands | Netherlands -- Politics and governmentDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Parliamentarian Geert Wilders sees himself as the legendary Dutch boy, finger in the dike, holding back a rising tide of immigrants that threatens to swamp the Netherlands and all of Europe. 'Immigration is the biggest problem that Dutch society is facing today,' said Wilders, in his office in The Hague. 'We have been so tolerant of others' culture and religion, we are losing our own....Europe is losing itself....One day we will wake up, and it will be too late. [Immigration] will have killed our country and our democracy." (WORLD & I) This article describes the Dutch struggles in the Netherlands "to absorb waves of immigrants, to protect itself from the growing hatred of Muslim militants in their midst and to live with the dark fear of a world spinning out of control."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Holland's Tolerance Is Tested, April 2005; pp. n.p..
"Parliamentarian Geert Wilders sees himself as the legendary Dutch boy, finger in the dike, holding back a rising tide of immigrants that threatens to swamp the Netherlands and all of Europe. 'Immigration is the biggest problem that Dutch society is facing today,' said Wilders, in his office in The Hague. 'We have been so tolerant of others' culture and religion, we are losing our own....Europe is losing itself....One day we will wake up, and it will be too late. [Immigration] will have killed our country and our democracy." (WORLD & I) This article describes the Dutch struggles in the Netherlands "to absorb waves of immigrants, to protect itself from the growing hatred of Muslim militants in their midst and to live with the dark fear of a world spinning out of control."
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