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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Multiculturalism and Its Discontents in the Netherlands
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781400829583
Publisert
2013
Utgiver
Princeton University Press
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
Antall sider
176
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