Blame everything bad on immigrants
Femi Akomolafe reports from Amsterdam on a favourite Dutch pastime – blaming everything bad on immigrants. And a new kid on the block is one Geert Wilders, an MP, who is simply beyond irony.

Every now and then, an irascible politician appears on the Dutch political scene whose primary goal in life is to vent Dutch anger and racism against the minorities of the low country. A few years ago, we had Jan Blok who believed that black people were the cause of everything ill in the Dutch Kingdom. Then it was the turn, a few years later, of Aad Kosto, a theologist, actor, and later assistant secretary of justice (of all things!), who extended Blackophobia to new heights.

Another few years down the road, Pim Fortuyn, a tall, balding academic, arose to lead the Dutch pack of Islamophobes. Forgetting the contributions (mathematics, medicine, architecture, to mention but a few) made by Muslims to lead Europe out of the dark ages, Fortuyn was of the opinion that Muslims were backward people, and Islam a backward religion.

He also fervently believed that the anti-discrimination part of his country’s constitution should be excised. He made a very provocative movie portraying Islam in the worst hue possible. When he was knifed to death on the streets of Amsterdam, his hardcore adherents who love his gospel of “blame everything bad on the foreigner”, all but declared him a saint.


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a practical solution to some of these problems is for the government to work with existing institutions of the immigrant community to help them get accustomed to a new country.


over here on the east coast of USA...lot of central american immigrants are arriving and they are from the most remote rural parts of Mexico,salvador,etc.....and they aren't adapting well to big city life....

nobody is teaching them any better....they are living life as though they are back home.....

I've suggested that the state work with the catholic church here to reduce future problems.....