For the last five years, the story from liberal Holland has been that it had gone from being multicultural to being xenophobic. It had shut the door on immigrants, warehoused its refugees in camps and turned on its own 1 million Muslims.<\/i><\/p>\n
The latest news, yet to be noticed by the world, is that the Dutch have had enough of their own extremism and are inching back to the moderate middle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Haroon Siddiqui has written an interesting and informative article on the evolution of Dutch attitudes towards immigrants and Muslims.\u00a0 He also argues that the pendulum is swinging back. TheStar.com \u2013 How the tolerant Dutch became so intolerant For the last five years, the story from liberal Holland has been that it had gone from being […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":357,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-multiculturalism","category-muslims-in-the-melting-pot"],"yoast_head":"\n
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