[New York Times] Erich Wiedemann - For one Amsterdam mayor, the Netherlands' famous tolerance has gone too far. Moroccan-born Ahmed Marcouch is taking the tough cop approach in a rough Amsterdam neighborhood, pushing his fellow immigrants to integrate. Mohammed Bouyeri's murderer of filmmaker Theo van Gogh marked a turning point in Holland's warm and fuzzy take on democracy, and a tougher police approach is suddenly popular with the no-longer-quite-so-relaxed Dutch.
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