Saturday, September 17, 2005

[Netherlands] Fear of Foreigners / Radio Netherlands, 16 Sep 2005

http://www2.rnw.nl/rnw/en/features/dutchhorizons/curiousorange/050916co?view=Standard
Mindy Ran
"The Dutch Refugee Agency fears Minister Verdonk's policy paper, designed to 'tackle radicalism at its roots', 'could give a new impulse to a cataclysmic spiral of mistrust between Muslims and non-Muslims'. In its response to the government's plans, the VON expressed concern that they further the feeling of 'us' and 'them' and traded on the fear created by terrorists attacks abroad and by the murder of Theo van Gogh."