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This country’s government forced a terrorist nicknamed “Little Thumb” to release 100 captive schoolchildren by sending them food laced with laxatives. Several terrorist acts, including that school seizure and a train hijacking, were perpetrated in this European country in the late 1970s by supporters of a proposed state called “RMS.” The “Bersiap” period drove immigration to this (-5[1])country, where the term (*) “pillarization” was coined to describe institutionalized social cleavages. The anti-immigrant “Fortuynist” (for-TINE-ist) ideology arose in this (10[1])country. Right-wing politicians in this country capitalized on the actions of Muhammad Bouyeri, who murdered the director of Submission. For 10 points, descendants of many Indonesian immigrants live in what European (10[1])country, where Theo van Gogh was killed? (10[1])■END■

ANSWER: the Netherlands [or Kingdom of the Netherlands; or Nederland; prompt on Holland] (The current Dutch law on immigration, which does not come up in this tossup, is known as the “Wet Inburgering.”)
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