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October 11, 2006

What's the matter with Holland (Thursday at NYU)

This is tomorrow night, here in NYC. Tony Judt moderating, Ayaaan Hirsi Ali on the panel. Sparks should fly.

The Remarque Institute and the University of Amsterdam present
Religion and the Limits of Tolerance: Dutch multiculturalism in question

Thursday, October 12th from 6 to 8pm, doors at 5pm
NYU Law School, 40 Washington Square South, MacDougal Street entrance to Tischman Auditorium

What's the matter with Holland?

Europe's most tolerant country, a paragon of political liberty and social permissiveness, has suffered two political assassinations in the past four years. Behind both murders lay the issue of religion and minorities: or, to be blunt, the dilemmas of immigration/assimilation and the challenge of Islam. Other European countries – notably Denmark, France and Great Britain – face comparable difficulties;and the political implications of uncompromising religious fundamentalism are far from unfamiliar here in the United States. But only in the Netherlands have the politics of cultural incompatibility turned deadly. Why has this happened? Is the Dutch problem unique? Or is it a disturbing harbinger of ever-worsening political confrontations between secular, post-Christian Europe and its growing Muslim communities?

Three prominent public figures from the Netherlands will discuss these issues with each other and the audience.

· Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Dutch political activist and herself an object of considerable controversy (she wrote the script of the film Submission, directed by the murdered filmmaker Theo van Gogh)
· Frits Bolkestein, a former President of the Liberal Party in the Dutch Parliament and until recently European Commissioner
· Bas Heijne, a well-known Dutch journalist and author of Hollandse toestanden (The State of the Netherlands)

Moderated by Tony Judt, Director of the Remarque Institute at NYU.

Free and open to the public. NO ENTRY WITHOUT PHOTO I.D. In order to expedite entry, we ask that you not bring in any bags.

Judith | 10/11/06 at 06:59 PM | Categories: WWIV

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