starts to see. the death toll rises further in the southern russian resort devastated by flash floods on friday pondered forty one people now reported to have lost their lives since five months worth of rain fell in just twenty four hours. tension overshadowing libya's first election for half a century with cheers in the capital contrasting sharply with boycotts and attacks across other parts of the country. the deadline set for julian assange his extradition to sweden expiring shortly the whistleblower remains in the relative safety of ecuador's embassy in london awaiting a decision on his asylum the. next is a multicultural society doomed to failure that's the question in our special report sharing the motherland.

because of a costume when you pull out of a law about to go and i'm assuming you can go through much of your mother was. a good deal more to them and i'm medium you d.m. me your. photos and all the good and of course you do not laugh about. it better you get it bang get them better yet. because all of them are gonna try to i'm out of the truck. i'll tell you to do in my local start up i don't know much a llama to. residents of amsterdam's balsa norma district have a history a similar as the blocks of flats in this neighborhood. even though they migrated here a long time ago there has been little contact with the native dutch the immigrants have carefully upheld the traditions and customs of that faraway homeland putting little effort into learning the local language. humidify good morning. welcome to

holland. i come from turkey over it and i am a target of modest but i live in holland and i feel very good here when i leave this place for a long time and i really miss it and i want to come back to amsterdam to boston loma. a completely different way of life can be found any a few trum stops away from. loma amsterdam could compete with new york for the title of modern babylon more than two hundred ethnic groups lived here. the whole

of post-war holland has been working hard to build the image of europe's most tolerant country to legalize soft drugs and prostitution as well as same sex marriages freedom of opinion and liberty are the call values of the modern netherlands. as it. helps. status will be. that i will be no. drugs consumption there will be no fear. on the streets so the youth will be protected so they won't be doing hopeful things. these young people are representatives of the islamic organization shari'a for holland there are groups of this kind all across western europe only recently to great britain ban a similar group of islamists the chief mission of these orthodox muslims is to establish shari'a law. that's the combination between democracy and sharia it's

either democracy or syria. the same is the twenty nine year old leader of shari'a for holland even though he is actually of moroccan descent christine was born in the netherlands schooled here and is fluent in dutch and english. but at the same time he rejects western values and meticulously observes all the rules of the qur'an. for instance he will pray in any place even in the city center. every place is good for praise if it's there you can pray the south thing is that the muslims think that you can't pray. that has to do with the kind of modality that the muslims have nowadays they are ashamed to be muslim they don't know what. that this is the reason is because they live for twenty thirty forty years on the islamic government. for the muslims that are already in our societies i have

a very clear message either you adopt to our values and our laws and our constitution and then you are equal as anybody else and we will even help you to integrate but if you don't if you cross the red line of violence or wanting to implement. a terrible thing then we have to either put you in jail or expel you out of our country. in the summer of two thousand and ten the freedom party by here too will this came third in the parliamentary elections in the netherlands having received twenty three mandates this is known for his right wing views and harsh criticism of israel his film fitna demonizes the qur'an comparing it to handle fifty mine come from the problem of holland is that we work too long to toll we should stop immigration of people from muslim countries we should stop the islamic symbolism i wouldn't want to have more mosques and i will and i want islamic schools to be closed let the people integrate with other children from

other religions or public schools or whatsoever and i want that we have tough penalties to people who think crimes. out of holland. clearly. my kids play computer games all day long they always speak. for us it can be a problem. they will also have to learn english children can manage it but sometimes it can be difficult they speak their native language at home and then at school they communicate and each. her journey to holland was not an easy one the afghan artist had first to escape from his war torn homeland to russia there he received an education in art and then he decided to move to europe. before he came to holland i had never

heard of a black school or a white school or what's a moroccan mosque or a turkish mosque or an afghan mosque was that for me a mosque is a place for all muslims can come to pray. them. or if decided from the very beginning that he would not live in immigrant ghettos he settled down with his family in the small town of began studying dutch and entered the local article to me now here living by teaching the basics of painting. there was a time when people started looking at us as if we were members of the taliban after the nine eleven attacks many muslims especially afghans had to go through some hard times. back then many were saying that all muslims were terrorists and that they were all linked to al qaeda many things of the sort came out in the open. for

example a couple of years ago the dutch filmmaker was killed by a muslim which gave rise to a major conflict between the muslims and the dutch. in two thousand and four filmmaker theo van gogh was murdered in amsterdam his killer was mohammed bouyeri age twenty six and moroccan member of the network terrorist organization. the reason behind the murder was the director's film submission which revealed the humiliations women in the islamic world have to go through. this verdict that has killed my faith in love is in your holy book. faith in you said the mission you. feel safe souls betrayed. on july the twenty sixth two thousand and five. was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. but.

this tsunamis wrap up the first to be called the stage of course the main theme of miscreation behind his work is his beloved district about. the p.c. it's. cold. again with. the people from the world like. apes there were a lot of shooting we had. this we actually were the mentality of the people cave mentality and i was like how dare you speak about people that way men. and all the big. all of the big. everybody spoke about that particular situation now this

area is marked on the maps of amsterdam as the southeast but the local still call it out of habit it was designed and built in the one nine hundred sixty s. the architects dreamt of building the city of the future huge apartment blocks plenty of space for parks and footpaths as an alternative to the crowded city center of amsterdam. however it was not native to settle down and bellmore immigrants from africa and former dutch colonies began moving into the southeast of the capital. in a thing the say in one thousand nine hundred eighty three part ment's in bellmore were overcrowded in eighty five but in one thousand nine hundred thirty five zero became independent which led to even greater overcrowding of residential houses cope with the troublesome groups often come to belmore because it is easier to find housing here than in the rest of amsterdam.

in bellmore it's possible to encounter over one hundred fifty different ethnicities the situation is the same in boston lama. many immigrants have lived here for ten years but they have still not learned the language the majority are not so interested in adopting the way of life. wherefrom through them so the way of living is through in them it's a whole different way of living in holland where familiar like when you come to my house for me. with a wife and a child when you come as a friend i still have one. because with we're big happy family in holland the dutch people when you come in to hold the only have three meatballs and when you come there's no meatball for you and they're greedy they really. even him is

a devout muslim from turkey nor was goes to the mosque on fridays. abraham is temporarily unemployed bessel he can devote the rest of his day to walking around the neighborhood he lives in. these few streets always he sees of not just times to down but the rest of europe his favorite cafe in turkish wedding dress shop owned by his sister a located here also from a shop our family like many other community members here comes from turkey i think yes and i attended a dutch school but i have always communicated with turkish people and we also speak turkish at home and i mean hate the same way other turks do. i go to turkish weddings turkish coffee houses and celebrate turkish holidays.

this friday abraham is lucky he's been offered a job singing into turkish weddings becoming a professional singer has been his dream for a long time. to bring him sings into question this is the only kind of music his family and friends list too. sigrid laboratory. was able to build a most sophisticated robot. doesn't sound anything. to teach creation why it should care about humans in the world this is why you

should care only. school here. i did everything that i was required to do but they simply did not let me continue studying. it was very difficult. it was hill i was the only dog skinned guy at school then and it was impossible to find another place. that was a terrible experience for me when the teacher student front of the class and white students was supposed to turn white schools while black students were to go to black schools. i asked the teacher what do you mean by a white school in the black school. how could you distribute people to different schools by the color of their skin. all. managed to get into

another school graduate and now even stages his own exhibitions one of his installations was a model of his native city of kabul made out of cardboard boxes. over the years he has lived in holland it never occurred to us to move closer to his countryman. if you live in your small world then you're not part of the society yes politicians say that we live in one country that europe is one and that nobody is discriminated but then you discover that it's often quite the opposite if you look at such neighborhoods you'll see that the turks and the moroccans huddle together. why do they want to live closer to each other all. day good day i. go on his. radio program as i was only a few of the three point eight and one hundred five point two f.m.

. hello to everyone listening to us and to the southeast of amsterdam. radio is the voice of the deals with the issues news of the neighborhood that. runs it was run by surinamese migrants they try to keep their finger not just on the pulse of their own people but on every small immigrant community. so this. is a multicultural radio station and it is out here for all ethnicities it is not only for the syrian amines but it is the tsunamis that we try to reach out to all the other communities as we also have african programs and indonesian programs we are very multicultural. and this market next to the

city council one can meet representatives of all the ethnic groups living in. dozens of languages and dialects are spoken here. it has been ten years since read just moved to europe from one of the northern states of india he sells. vegetables here in the past the jesters not even think of learning dutch english was quite sufficient but not anymore. if i love the language i don't. like i think everything is going to be a problem because that was the best model year marveling at the ready to build. and no register tens language courses immigrants from africa asia and latin america sit at the desks next to him the dutch name for the program is in buggering integration in other words this is not just a language course but also

a way to incorporate foreigners into dutch society as much as possible. that it helps i think that the compulsory language training helps we are now facing the following situation i sometimes have to deal with students who have lived in holland for ten years or longer and who have never considered it necessary to learn dutch because it was not compulsory and they have lived here for ten years and no matter what i tell them they do not understand a thing i'm sorry that this is so but when they are required to learn it i see that after six months they at least start to understand me of the. small city of them is code orange today much like the rest of the netherlands the national football team is playing the first match of the u.a.e. for european football championship. as usual neighbors gather together in the courtyard to watch the game everybody knows each other here as many are members of

the same far right party. i'll probably get them in the first week and we joined the national democratic party in germany in protest of the leftist policy who are fighting for a dutch society with out immigrants all criminal immigrant. must be sent back. on june the third two thousand and twelve the german city of hamburg saw massive clashes between right wing radicals and anti fascist activists. german and dutch nationalists planned to march through the streets to protest against the policy of multiculturalism in europe representatives of left wing organizations attacked a column of the right when activists following the massive clashes dozens of people were injured and seven hundred arrested. constant cousteau's the leader of the dutch people's union is also watching the football match together with his supporters. even the most tolerant dutch refer to

him as a neo nazi. cousteau's and his followers dream of a netherlands without fairness. will to go through a lesson in natal and the idea of multiculturalism in the netherlands as well as throughout europe and throughout the world in fact has been a flop and if you begin to notice that people are forced to live in certain areas of the city take moroccans for instance they cause us a lot of headache at some point we want to get back to the situation we had before when we were the leaders of our country border and. the dutch team lost their first match one nil. for here we. think. because we are what we believe to. be here. live for us which is just. seem the leader of the

shari'a for holland movement denounces football and all the other values of dutch society in the apartment he rents he is preparing for another protest in the center of amsterdam together with his friend. young muslims often. encounter in the capital but sometimes the outcome is unpleasant during one of his last summons cutscene was attacked by a possible i might be so shall not. the police are suspicious of the as mists and frequently check the documents. because we saw a society that is where. we. are for which is. much more. like there are people to move in with next to each other for equal work and so.

this is. after he began to dress in traditional muslim clothes in public relations with abu cassini neighbors soured. a little it would be a bit like. that. and they know me like. that people. are going. to be honest i would if i paid my rent but the problem is with most insistence that we have no shot of golf an eagles must exist a few feet of. walk anymore which. must be uploaded from one of the streets in january two thousand and twelve the dutch parliament signed a law banning the wearing of mosques in public the law concerned primarily kneecaps and burkas by terms of female muslim clothing the fine for violating the law is

four hundred euros. this move sparked sharp criticism from dutch muslims i don't kow what those women think about i also work for them i don't do it out of hate what are the thing else i really believe that if you wear a book and. that you will have a very tough time to integrate young muslim women should be in the battle in holland this is what i'm fighting for and if you were a book please believe me you will get no that's friends you will get no job will be very difficult to find any job. after all you don't know said to them when i go to amsterdam city center ahead i always feel that i have ended up in a completely different world there are a lot of dutch and a lot of tourists there there is a chance i'm between the rest of amsterdam and my boss a normal thing when you're in this district you feel like you're in turkey.

in the neighborhood of boston normal immigrants adjust to the european way of life through the help of art bulla until artists can rent out an apartment in this disadvantaged area but practically no cost but to give back to society they participate in public programs with the turkish and moroccan community artists kelly and joanne are the heads of one such project called bookstore. today they are playing with local kids and teaching them the importance of keeping streets clean. this doesn't work just say ok you have to say ok we have. what you think about where you think you can do. trash. and i mean it's for the kids the people they say well in. a way because you're not allowed to keep everything clean so this is the way we do it now we have to

understand that this is the way you think. coming into this is also not a good thing so how can we find solutions or. most immigrants are willing to attend general meetings and get involved in friendly discussion with the artists but in the evening some young moroccans from both. engage in a completely different form of creative work in this building where they've broken twenty seven times and people from the neighborhood they did this and well since i live. here they broke into my house twice. and once i also saw two people break in in the in the house on the other corner but then i called my neighbors like ok i saw these guys i know what they are we have to do something as a neighborhood but no one answered no one opens the door. the bride and groom are celebrating their wedding with two hundred guests in the

turkish style but they are all from folsom loma. it is practically impossible to tell the difference between this wedding announced a down the line in turkey. the language and traditions from that faraway homeland of those be meticulously observed. the bush. said. something. along. the spot fine turkish traditions to be cool why not i do not know why actually we are accustomed to them that i do not know any turks following dutch traditions there are very few of them it is almost never the case.

after the weddings the next morning begins as usual for the brain and he wakes up prays and then takes a ride on the tram for a few stops. to his mother this is my stall i live here and. people of both loma belmore live in the same city as the natives don't get in these two worlds exist parallel to each other like tram tracks the question for modern holland and the rest of europe is whether they will ever meet.

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