I won't deny that more xenophobic sentiments with the minorities don't play a possible part, but bringing religion down into a twisted subverted race issue doesn't strike me a convincing argument.

Lastly, when you speak for the Netherlands you are plain wrong. I don't know how I can put that strong enough.

Firstly, the Dutch East Indies and Turkish immigrants are overall well respected and have a good rep. That's one.

It is the Moroccan, dominantly Berber origin, minority that has been cause of extensive scrutiny, in a truly Dutch nothing-held-back way. And drug-dealing, unemployed youth on the streets, a majority Moroccan, does cause trouble. In Rotterdam, the Aruban minority have a similar problem. Naming that is not racist; that's a consequence of the multicultural society where a number of groups drop out for various reasons. It would be if the Dutch began to point out the troubles in Morocco all the time. The Dutch have ignored the growing problem for a while, but after Fortuyn things changed. And Dutch are pretty blunt, especially in their criticism. They call the beast what it is.

Secondly, research that investigated whether the Dutch press was writing more negative about their minorities after the Van Gogh murder found an increase of positive reportings, not a reversal. The message has practically always been: we cannot tolerate militant islamist when they preach to destroy the western, non-islamitic world. That has been the focus. And as I muse below thread, there has been developing a cycle that the majority of Muslims get the feeling they get part of the blame. Which seems a consequence of it.