Muslims' obligations to their new homes in Europe
Why only Muslims, why only obligations (there are, say, opportunities too), and why only on the part of immigrants (as if integration would depend on the immigrants only)? And why take Islamophobe Bolkestein at face value when he talks about an "enormous challenge"?...
Ah, you forgot to mention the author: who else, John Vinocur...
Still, like Metatone, I wonder what you think about the actual Ploumen position paper, and how it played in the Dutch-language media. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
Or as I'd prefer to say it, the Dutch have become a nation of navelstaarders with no beliefs, no vision for the future. This too I already addressed in my piece on the Dutch government programme. Things have not improved since. At least in Germany there is a change going on, there is a viable community working on making the country sustainable. The Dutch have been busy letting the rest of the world catch up and pass them by while they focus on distractions for the past eight years, and they show no sign of improving.