There's no brushing incidents like this away. Here's another one from
The Nation (not exactly a haven for fire-breathing racists).
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050627/scroggins
The dutch are reknowned up until recently for their tolerant attitude toward immigration, but now 5.8% of residents are islamic, politicians opposed to immigration are being assasinated, and the dutch feel that they are losing their culture and way of life to unassimilated immigrants with a worldview and customs utterly alien to europeans (at least say after 600 A.D.)