Here’s an example of the failed integration of Muslims into Dutch society, this time in Amsterdam:

The 2004 Diversity and Integration Monitor found that there are a rising number of areas where 70 to 80 percent of the population is made up of non-western immigrants.

City areas with large immigrant populations are the most unattractive places in terms of the housing market. Problems such as unemployment, social security dependence and school absentee rates are prevalent and contact with Dutch natives is infrequent. "In education, segregation is more or less complete," the researchers said.

It’s one of the issues Fortuyn warned about, only to de ridiculed by the political and media elites who were unwilling to look at the social and demographic numbers that proved the slain professor was right. Failed integration creates isolated neighborhoods, causes the middle classes to abandon these areas, often eroding a city’s tax base and thus contributing to the decay of a city.

There’s no easy answer, forced integration and social engineering are a thing of the past, but to let things go the way they go now would be unconscionable. It’s the reason that no political party in Holland (or Europe for that matter, in France the problem is huge) has been able to come up with a credible policy platform dealing with Muslim integration.