But if an American dares to speak up about Islam's many faults, we get pilloried for our "insensitivity".
If you ask me, multiculturalim should more aptly be called "cultural suicide".
It is all about the sense of guilt being wisely exploited by modern multiculturalists. IMHO, their case rests upon two major assumptions:
1) WASPs and such (the ex-oppressors) are made guilty of their past, which makes it easier to control them and thus to use them as an object of social engineering
2) the other side (the ex-victims) are empowered and positively discriminated which shall make them grateful to the social engineers and hence - better integrating into and coming to terms with the society they live in (and of course more prone to social engineering as well)
(By ex-victims here I mean ethnic and/or religious minorities only).
However the latter point, being so clear in mind of social engineers (some sort of unwritten public agreement), is a product of their western culture-based mind. If the empowered minority comes from the different cultural background, the point somehow transmogrifies into "you have to give up and I will not".
Or you can put it like this. "When you borrow, you always take someone's else money. When you return your debt, you give away yours." :)
One side assumes and acts on the wrong assumption. The other side uses the delusion to its benefit.