Monday, February 28, 2005

More Dutch Want Out


You may have to log in to read this article: More Dutch Plan to Emigrate as Muslim Influx Tips Scales

Leave this stable and prosperous corner of Europe? Leave this land with its generous social benefits and ample salaries, a place of fine schools, museums, sports grounds and bicycle paths, all set in a lively democracy?

The answer, increasingly, is yes. This small nation is a magnet for immigrants, but statistics suggest there is a quickening flight of the white middle class. Dutch people pulling up roots said they felt a general pessimism about their small and crowded country and about the social tensions that had grown along with the waves of newcomers, most of them Muslims."The Dutch are living in a kind of pressure cooker atmosphere," Mr. Hiltemann said.


I don't know how long it will take but the pressure cooker atmosphere will eventually blow. And it won't be pretty, never is.

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