[Vautrin]

I can tell you about the Dutch Immigration service. The only person really elligble to apply would be Mr. George W. Bush. Almost all of the other applicants will be (eventually) rejected. Traumatized by war or not.

Incidentally, due to mistakes in the procedure it seems, someone may be initially accepted as a refugee by the Dutch government. Then begins a period you could practically describe as an open prison. You are not entitled to any form of social welfare. Health-care is surprisingly enough still allowed for these people. They are barely allowed to work (just enough so that they can't build up any legal rights, great!).

The real kicker is, that you are almost per definition not a refugee. You have to bring documentation with you, otherwise they won't believe you. But if you bring documentation with you, you could not have been in a really dangerous situation, now could you?

After you have survived all that, and not gone mentally sick, you are still often kicked out of the country for dubious reasons. Are you gay? We have no problem deporting you to Lybia, where gays will be prosecuted in the most terrible way for that. Human rights activist in Turkey? Send him / her back. Torture is not our problem. Opposition from Iran? Yes, we know occasionally Iranians disappear and later found dead. Iranians whom we promised safety in Iran. But lack of basic safety for the refugee is not a concern for our government. Sometimes we even send refugees back to a different country to "dispose" of the problem.

For the unlucky few, that receive a permanent status (it seems actually to depend on skill in sport most notably football (soccer for the Americans)), they are subsequently blamed for not integrating. For not completely forsaking their identity to become beer-gulping idiots.
Integration is something which the government had made practically illegal for the duration of the whole procedure, which lasts in general for years, if the result is acceptance.

Needless to say, I am disgusted by the whole "tolerance" bull**** the government is trying to sell to us. Probably we have the lowest number of refugee applications (per head of the population) in the world.

Even if you marry to someone of a foreign nationality it can literally take years for that person to be allowed entry to the Netherlands. Years! And it depends quite a bit on socio-economic status. If I were ever to marry a woman of foreign nationality (that may happen, as you know), you can imagine that I am not interested in these gruesome procedures it would take. I'd rather relocate to hers.

Also it is quite a common practice that people with Arab sounding names are rejected, but if they apply under Dutch names with the same voice and Curriculum vitae, they get accepted. Of course this illegal, but the government does not do one iota about it.

We are legally allowed to call Muslims "goatf*ckers" but beware if we say something similar about Christians. Then it is suddenly offensive. Christians are allowed to say that a homosexual is worse than a thief, but if a Muslim says the same thing, he has not integrated "enough", and of course should be punished for that same statement.

We must not forget there is a large (often legal!) difference between Western immigrants and non-Western immigrants. If someone from the US or the UK would immigrate to the Netherlands he would have more rights than if a Turk or an Egyptian would do the same. I am not familiar with the Law to its fullest, but the things I do know are quite shocking about nationalities.

You do have Christian fundamentalists. They bomb abortion clinics in the US, kill the doctors who do these procedures. And they are winning, as the doctors and clinics definitely feel the pressure. They were involved in the situation in Lebanon in 1982. They are active in Indonesia. To name but a few.
Just as there are Muslim fundamentalists, Buddhist and Hindu fundamentalists, what not. There are reasons, both psychological as societal, why some people cling desperately to their faith, and find justification in their faith to perpetrate whatever the wish to do. Slavery was once justified by the Bible, or so people thought.