James Pinkerton, in Newsday, on how the Danish cartoon kerfuffle shows the folly of multi cultural ism
DIFFERENCES between the West and the Muslim world can be chalked up to just that: differences. That's the truth about world ethnicity, and no amount of politically correct wishful thinking will change that truth. Countries that ignore that basic lesson of history and political science put themselves at grave risk of internal discord, subversion and civil war. Either a country is united in its common culture or it becomes disunited in multiculturalism.
For proof, we need only look to Europe, where millions of Muslims have been allowed to immigrate without much thought given to their political and cultural integration into their host societies. In London, Muslims responding to the Danish cartoons chanted pro-jihad slogans and carried signs reading "7-7 is on its way" - a reference to the terror plantings last July 7 that end 52 innocent Britons. That's not free speech; that's incitement to violence. A nation allowing such hostile populations to flourish in its midst is not defending liberty. It is enabling its own national dissolution.
Short of worldwide war, followed by occupation, there's not much the West can do about Muslim culture in Muslim lands. That's international multiculturalism, alas. But on the issue of intra-national multiculturalism, there's plenty we can do. We can monitor, we can insist upon political and cultural buttimilation and we can impose strict controls on immigration and travel visas - down to zero if need be.
We might not be able to change them, but we can keep them from changing us.
Its time to end to Australian government policy on multi cultural ism
