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 of Muslim immigrants has shattered that dream.
In this arresting book, Paul Sniderman and Louk Hagendoorn
demonstrate that there are deep conflicts of values in the
Netherlands. In the eyes of the Dutch, for example, Muslims oppress
women, treating them as inferior to men. In the eyes of Muslim
immigrants, Western Europeans deny women the respect they deserve.
Western Europe has become a cultural conflict zone. Two ways of
life are colliding.
Sniderman and Hagendoorn show how identity politics contributed
to this crisis. The very policies meant to persuade majority and
minority that they are part of the same society strengthened their
view that they belong to different societies. At the deepest level,
the authors' findings suggest, the issue that government and
citizens need to be concerned about is not a conflict of values but
a clash of fundamental loyalties.
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