Holland blame everything bad on immigrants: Femi Akomolafe reports from Amsterdam on a favourite Dutch pastime--blaming everything bad on immigrants. And a new kid on the block is one Geert Wilders, an MP, who is simply beyond irony.

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Immigration Diaspora

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Holland blame everything bad on immigrants: Femi Akomolafe reports from Amsterdam on a favourite Dutch pastime--blaming everything bad on immigrants. And a new kid on the block is one Geert Wilders, an MP, who is simply beyond irony.

Every now and then, an irascible politician appears on the Dutch political scene whose primary goal in life is to vent Dutch anger and racism against the minorities of the low country. A few years ago, we had Jan Blok who believed that black people were the cause of everything ill in the Dutch Kingdom. Then it was the turn, a few years later, of Aad Kosto, a theologist, actor, and later assistan...

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