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Half the population of Amsterdam was at the time non Western in origin including many Muslims. Cohen was one of the few major Dutch leaders who worked to make multiculturalism work. However, there were so many religious Muslim extremists already active in the Netherlands, that it was very difficult. The Dutch had elected a Muslim as a member of Parliament and whole many Muslims were very proud of this, the religious extremists were furious. She was a woman, and she did not believe or advocate that Holland adopt Sharia (Islamic) law. She was an Islamic reformer who was opposed to Sharia even in Muslim states. The most successful Islamic nation, Turkey, does not allow Sharia law, and Indonesia, the largest of the Muslim nations also does not follow it.


Peel himself was a large land owner. Many Conservatives thought Peel was a traitor to his party and socio economic class just as many Republicans thought Theodore Roosevelt such a “traitor to his class” for not maintaining the privileges of the rich. By 2012, Conservatives who did not support the rich were vilified as “not conservatives” and “socialists.”