Bart, do you seriously believe that?! The PVV has nothing to do with racism and discrimination, they only want to stop the Islam from further sucking away our culture, and I agree with that.
Islam is a religion, not a culture. Thus Islam can not suck away your culture.
What you refer to is the culture of the (muslim) immigrants. Islam only has a secondary role here. Those immigrants often aren't the liberal intellectual elite, as these often don't have to leave their countries looking for a way to make a living, or they blend so well with our system that you won't even notice. No, the people who come to Western Europe are usually poor, undereducated, simple people from rural areas (sorry to sound elitist, but it's true) . And they bring with them a conservative culture influenced by tradition and more radical Islam. Don't make it too easy for yourself and simply blame it on Islam alone; I doubt the stereotypical conservative Christian family from the American Midwest would integrate better here.
Living a liberal, secular Islam is very well possible. Unfortunately in recent times the conservative, radical Wahhabi Islam has taken a big leap forward in the Muslim world because Saudi Arabia is buying nations and people and indoctrinating them. They buy politicians, finance campaigns and sponsor schools that teach this form of Islam. 30-40 years ago things were a lot different. For example, Islam in Turkey was secularized so much that the girls and young women were walking around freely, in western fashion, while they weren't allowed to do that in Sicily. Religion means nothing. The way you live it, your personal orientation, everything.
Also, what always bothers me is when people say "our culture". Please define what "our culture" means in your eyes, as I often find that when right-wingers here in Switzerland use it, I'd rather not support their version of "our culture" or "our country". Yes, I often feel closer to liberals from other cultures than conservatives from my own.
The last years have been downright frustrating - lots and lots of immigrants who have no chance whatsoever to build a future here were permitted to enter the country anyway, costing billions of euros which should've been spent on education or healthcare. The children of the immigrants are now terrorizing the streets. In the big cities, elder people are afraid to go out of their houses at night. Worst of all, if you even try to say something about these huge problems, you're labeled as a racist, like you're doing right now.
How about giving them a chance to build a future then, for a change? Also, how is all that money spent on immigrants then? It's not like they turn money into thin air, do they? Or do you believe social justice stops at nationality?
However, I agree that you should be allowed to speak freely about the problems that exist. It's just that this doesn't free you from having to remain objective and find
real solutions, not just "they make problems, deport them!".
The political correct elite sees some of these problems too, but they try to ignore it, thinking it's not that big of a deal. They try to understand the other cultures, try to adapt to them. Horribly wrong in my opinion - if an immigrant wants to live in this country, it's okay, but then he has to adapt to our rules and our culture, not the other way around! And the punishments for the crimes committed by the islam youth are also a joke - task punishments have become a sort of status symbol for them now.
Oh gee, here comes one of my favourite arguments of recent: The political correct elite. What does the elite know anyway, those stupid educated intelligent people running the whole state and economy. What astounds me though is that these anti-intellectual arguments have become popular even among smart people. Political correctness can be overdone, but I'll take it any day over the mindless discriminating bullshit coming from the right.
Also, thank God Switzerland has had a wave of French and mainly Italian immigration in the last century, at least now we have restaurants that cook delicious food.
- close the borders for all immigrants who have no chance to build a future here whatsoever
I disagree, but feel free to shut off your country and see how your economy takes the blow when suddenly nobody's around to do the dirty hard work anymore because European people feel too good for it.
- force immigrants to learn the Dutch language and adapt to our culture. If they don't do that, goodbye.
I partly agree. Language is very important for integration, so sometimes people need to be forced for their own good. Have them take mandatory free classes, that'll help.
- stop the political correct bullshit, and instead admit the problems of the multicultural society and work on real solutions
Correct. It's just that those real solutions hardly ever come from the right.
- raise the punishments. Right now you get to clean the park for a couple of hours for violently abusing someone.
I don't know the legal system in the Netherlands, so I won't comment on that. However, don't be too quick to say what's right and wrong, as criminal law is a very difficult topic. Go ask the people running prisons, they know.
- immigrants who go into major crime or violence, have to leave the country immediately.
Sigh, we're currently dealing with that issue here in Switzerland and I have the ugly feeling that we'll make another big mistake. Maybe I'll write a longer text about this another time, but in essence: Don't try to make this automatic, leave it to the judges and the authorities to make that decision. Otherwise you'll just enact collective punishment against a whole family.
- stop the islamisation of the country. Close Islamitic schools - they make the integration and adaptation of immigrant children to our culture very difficult. The islamitic youth needs to go to common, Dutch schools.
Yes, and then also close all Christian, Jewish and other religious schools and ban homeschooling. They too should go to common, state schools.