We need to do more, that's for sure. Thank you for reading.

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Great stuff. Thanks for this. Really makes me want to go see the film.

True. Thanks for your measured comments. And for reading.

It is wrong to attack members of the Jewish community anywhere and wrong to attack members of the Muslim community anywhere. Thanks for reading

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Interesting perspective. Thanks for reading

What the Netherlands thinks today…Britain may already have in mind. The day after the Netherlands handed anti-migrant, anti-Muslim politician Geert Wilders the chance to run the country, Britain came slap up against one of the main issues that seems to have been on the minds of Dutch voters. Migration. Not…

Ahead of the Dutch election (November 22), the media focus was on a compelling story that was both heartening and dispiriting. Would Dilan Yeşilgöz, head of the centre-right Liberal party (VVD) leading Netherlands’ governing coalition, become the country’s first female prime minister? Would she, a half-Kurdish half-Turkish refugee, be the…