Dutch society and its values must take precedence and integration policy should go, home affairs minister Piet Hein Donner told parliament on Thursday evening during the presentation of his integration bill.
Donner spoke of a ‘change of direction’ in which the government ‘will distance itself from the relativism contained in the model of a multicultural society’. Society changes, he said, but must not be ‘interchangeable with any other form of society’, according to press reports.
It is not the government’s job to integrate immigrants, he said. General policy on schooling, jobs and housing gives them ample opportunity for integration. Donner wants an end to integration policy and a tougher approach to people who ignore Dutch values or disobey the law. He is planning to introduce a law making forced marriage illegal and he wants tougher measures for immigrants who lower their chance of employment by the way they dress. If necessary, the government will introduce extra measures to allow the removal of residence permits from immigrants who fail their integration course.
Donner used to be a fine minister, I do not know what got to him. Why call common sense laws Dutch and everything else foreign? Was forced marriage ever lawful in Holland? Then indeed they should change it to the Islamic rule, where the Holy Prophet (s) immediately allowed a girl to divorce the husband she was forced to marry. It is unfortunate to see the lawmakers fooling the public with irrelevant issues, when our poor people have just been robbed by the banks in the greatest scam in history.
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