Opinion
Paul Scheffer: Resolving the immigration problem means to redefine what it is to be a citizen
During the ISTANBUL FORUM of A Soul for Europe on 12 and 13 October 2010, Paul Scheffer, one of the speakers during this conference, was interviewed byEU Inside (2 November 2010):
Paul Scheffer: Resolving the immigration problem means to redefine what it is to be a citizen
"While asking my first question to Paul Scheffer, the voice of the imam from the nearby minaret sounded. In several seconds other mosques all around Istanbul joined the choir. Could this be a little quieter and less annoying, the Dutchman asks rhetoricaly, visibly irritated by the loud sound. Although the professor of urban sociology at the University of Amsterdam is among the first to raise openly the problem with the immigrants in the light of public attention (in 2000 his essay "The multicultural drama" caused heated debates), he argues that the problem is not the Islamic religion. Rather the way it is practiced - intolerant towards the others, non-Muslims.
euinside: The Dutch are very tolerant when it comes to prostitution or soft drugs, but why don't they have this tolerance when it comes to immigrants?"
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