In 2004, Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh was brutally murdered on a busy Amsterdam street. His killer was Mohammed Bouyeri, a twenty-six-year-old Dutch Moroccan offended by van Gogh's controversial film about Muslim suppression of women. The Dutch government had funded separate schools, housing projects, broadcast media, and community organizations for Muslim immigrants, all under the umbrella of multiculturalism. But the reality of terrorism and radicalization...
The authors, two Dutch social scientists, write, "When we speak of ways of life colliding, we have in mind genuine differences about what is right and wrong embedded in a larger context of common ground." This is not the ‘clash of civilisations’, beloved of warmongers. They write, "Our concern is the collision between Western European values and Muslim values. Our focus is the Netherlands because it has undertaken the most...
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