Muslims and multiculturalism in the Netherlands – A Case of Cultural Masochism?
A fascinating article of John Vinocur in the New York times about the ‘failing integration of its increasinly large and alienated Muslim communities’. According to the writer Europe is in denial about its problems with Muslims. Only when something happens people wake up. He refers to the Netherlands as an exemplary case. Whether the Dutch model of integration policies was multiculturalist or not the situation is certainly more complicated than the author of the New York Times article suggests.