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NEWS ANALYSIS Europe's Muslims: A Difficult Debate
John Vinocur International Herald Tribune
Monday, October 1, 2001
Dutch Frankness on Immigrants Treads Where Many Nations Fear to Go
THE HAGUE With a six-column banner headline on page one, a leading Dutch newspaper reported last week that as a result of the terrorist attacks on the United States more than 60 percent of the Dutch agreed with the idea that Muslim immigrants who supported the attack should be expelled from the Netherlands.
In a European nation that's a historic beacon of tolerance, it was a jarring finding. A poll in the left-of-center De Volkskrant advanced a second harsh insight. It said 62 percent of the Dutch thought the attacks in New York and Washington damaged Muslims' integration process into Dutch society.
A day later, still above the fold on page one, the newspaper looked at the evolving Dutch approach to its Muslim community - projections show this city having an Islamic population majority in two decades - and offered a conclusion under the headline, "Netherlands Shedding Political Correctness."
Specifically, this means an end to the avoidance of talking openly about elements of conflict in Dutch life that have accompanied the presence of Muslim immigrants.
If the newspaper's analysis is correct, the Dutch are treading these days in an area where most of Europe does not now want to go.
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