"....Within the Muslim community, according to Ayhan Tonca, a spokesman for the Dutch Turkish community, few took the proclamation itself seriously, but are threatened by its tone. 'It becomes clear,' he says, 'that she is not the 'Immigration Minister' but the 'Assimilation Minister,' and we are not interested in assimilation. We have Dutch values, but we also have our own values, and we won't give up those values.'
He adds, 'This makes working with her almost impossible, because we know that whatever she says, she has another agenda.'"
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