There’s a few interesting signs that the western world is awakening from its slumber. David Cameron, the UK’s prime minister, announces that multiculturalism has failed and that Muslims are not assimilating and it’s their fault as well as the fault of the idiotic multiculturalist philosophy.
Certain neoconservatives, typically perhaps but still in a welcome move, have noted that democracy and the Arab world do not mix. Their motive, of course, is not idealism but love of Israel. But it’s good to see that a generally good thing, self government, is being recognized as bad when it leads to bad things. The real question is why these fools were so foolish about the prospects of democracy in Iraq. My guess is that Bush’s idealism and pathological refusal to make generalizations about other cultures had a lot to do with it. And for many neoconservatives (and real conservatives too) the whole democracy thing was window dressing to take out a regime that was perceived as hostile to US interests and Israeli interests.
Finally, aSenate committee has noted that Nidal Hasan, the Army Major who shot up his infidel colleagues, could have been stopped if the Army and the other authorities were not so hidebound by political correctness. Seriously, if we mean to win this war on Islamic extremism, we must name the enemy. Instead, it’s as if the US was at war with “certain German extremists” in World War II rather than the entire German nation, which as a practical matter was the case then and now with respect to a goodly swath of the Muslim world.
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I read the text of Mr. Cameron’s speech at the recent Munich Security Conference. I think that people are getting their hopes up too much when Cameron stated that multiculturalism has failed. The text of the speech is here at the New Statesman:
http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2011/02/terrorism-islam-ideology
Mr. Cameron states that: “Under the doctrine of state multiculturalism, we have encouraged different cultures to live separate lives, apart from each other and the mainstream. We have failed to provide a vision of society to which they feel they want to belong. We have even tolerated these segregated communities behaving in ways that run counter to our values.”
His solution? “Back home, we are introducing National Citizen Service – a two-month programme for sixteen year-olds from different backgrounds to live and work together.
I also believe we should encourage meaningful and active participation in society, by shifting the balance of power, away from the state and to people.
That way common purpose can be formed, as people come together and work together in their neighbourhoods.
It will also help build stronger pride in local identity so people feel free to say yes, I am a Muslim, I am a Hindu, I am Christian but I am also a Londonder or a Berliner too.
It’s that identity – that feeling of belonging in our countries that is the key to achieving true cohesion.”
Rather than abandoning the disastrous immigration policies that brought about a failed multicultural state that is now the UK, Mr. Cameron proposes that his country push even harder to assimilate unassimilable immigrants. The third world people do not want to be Brits. They want to their ethnic selves. Mr. Cameron is just pushing another form of multiculturalism. The British govt. is simply ramping up their efforts to enforce this twisted view of multiculturalism.
I do not believe Mr. Cameron has had a drastic change of heart on multiculturalism at all.
I am afraid Charles above is right.
These liberal leaders have been making statements like this every now and then for several years, yet they show no signs of really changing anything.
It appears the ‘leaders’ just want to push people to intermingle more, for all the races and ethnicities to mix socially and in all ways. Sarkozy in France came right out a couple of years ago and said they needed more ‘metissage’, mixing.
-VA