Let's be honest: Multiculturalism can kill a nation

Sierra Times ^ | February 7, 2006 | James P. Pinkerton

[FerdieMurphy]

The lesson of the Muhammad cartoon controversy is: Multiculturalism between nations is inevitable, but multiculturalism within nations is disastrous.

Protests, many of them violent, have erupted across the world - including Europe, Australia and New Zealand - after the appearance of cartoons depicting the Muslim prophet Muhammad in unflattering ways.

It's time for all of us to recognize that different cultures have different values. For the West, broadly speaking, the highest value is freedom, including freedom of religious expression. But for the Muslim world, the highest value seems to be Islamic piety. To draw such a distinction between West and East is not to endorse cultural relativism; it's simply to take note of cultural reality.

Not everyone thirsts for liberty. Plenty of people around the world, maybe most, thirst instead to restrict liberty. And so, if Muslim crowds can't kill the Muhammad-mocking Danish cartoonists for "blasphemy," they will settle for burning Western embassies, at least for now.

Even the government of Afghanistan - where Danish forces have contributed to Western "democracy-building" - joined in the protests. Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who would not be in power save for Western intervention, added his voice to the chorus: "Any insult to the Holy Prophet is an insult to more than 1 billion Muslims, and an act like this must never be allowed to be repeated."

It should be obvious that our effort to influence Muslim public opinion in a positive way has reached a dead end. That is, we advocate democratization but get Islamization. That process empowers the likes of Hamas in Palestine and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Iran.

Even Turkey, commonly regarded as the most democratic and pro-American Muslim country, is changing its stance. The hot movie for Turks is titled "Valley of Wolves: Iraq." It depicts American GIs as blood-crazed war criminals. And, as UPI reported, the actor Gary Busey plays a "Jewish-American doctor at Abu Ghraib prison who disembowels innocent Iraqis so their organs can be sold to rich people in New York, London and Tel Aviv." These Turks are our friends?

And, oh, by the way, another piece of news concerning Western-Muslim relations is worth noting: Jamal Badawi, a leader in the bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen, back in 2000, has "escaped" from his Yemeni prison. We shouldn't hold our breath waiting for his recapture.

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 its 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 bombings last July 7 that killed 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 suicide.

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 assimilation and we can impose strict controls on immigration and travel visas - down to zero if need be.

[FerdieMurphy]

It should be obvious that our effort to influence Muslim public opinion in a positive way has reached a dead end.

Attention prez and congress: stop beating a dead camel. We'll never peacefully co-exist with the islamofascist religion of muhammed, so stop trying already!

[Fithee]

It is high time that we begin to take steps to put reverse migration in lay for Muslims. They do not ant to become Americans so let's send them back.

[Fithee]

It is high time that we begin to take steps to put reverse migration in play for Muslims. They do not want to become Americans so let's send them back.

(Spelling corrected)

[R.W.Ratikal]

All of the great civilizations in the past that have declined and fell did so because of multiculturalism.

Massive demographic shifts, where barbarians invade ad civilized country always overwhelm that country. Those invaders on a lower level of knowledge, culture and advancement, can never assimilate into the higher culture into which they come.

The modern proof is that Third World immigrants are pouring into Europe and the United States. Instead of melding into the new culture, these immigrants want to bring their own failed culture with them.

The danger is that once started it is nearly impossible to stem the flood of newcomers when they see others who seem better off.

We must imitate nations who have it right. Japan, India, and others, for example, do not allow immigration. Some Koreans have lived in Japan for generations but they are not allowed to become Japanese citizens.

Strangely enough, Mexico, of all countries, have a strict immigration policy. Immigrants from Honduras, Guatemala and other Central American are stopped at Mexico's southern border and denied entrance.

(Now, that's what I call desperate when you want to immigrate to Mexico to improve your live.)

[tonycavanagh]

re : We can monitor, we can insist upon political and cultural assimilation and we can impose strict controls on immigration and travel visas - down to zero if need be.

Already in place in most european nations

[Noachian]

But on the issue of intra-national multiculturalism, there's plenty we can do. We can monitor, we can insist upon political and cultural assimilation and we can impose strict controls on immigration and travel visas - down to zero if need be.

Pinkerton leaves out one factor in the multicultural debate: liberals.

If the West was united in its stance for basic freedoms the situation we now see in Europe would never have taken place. Instead liberals, with a Utopian world view, have given Muslims, who refuse to assimilate, a foothold in Western societies from which they can demand changes from freedom to tyranny.

Getting rid of the unassimilated Muslims occupying western countries will also entail getting rid of the multicultural liberals as well.

[randog]

The hot movie for Turks is titled "Valley of Wolves: Iraq." It depicts American GIs as blood-crazed war criminals. And, as UPI reported, the actor Gary Busey plays a "Jewish-American doctor at Abu Ghraib prison who disembowels innocent Iraqis so their organs can be sold to rich people in New York, London and Tel Aviv.

I checked, and sure enough--Gary Busey is in the movie. Even the NYT calls the movie propaganda. That should tell you everything you need to know.

[Inwoodian]

Some years ago Pat Buchanan was pilloried as a racist for saying that a European immigrant to America would be more easily subsumed into our culture than a Muslim or an African. This made total sense to me but not to the politically correct.

[expatguy]

Much of the world is willing to sacrifice freedom for economic and political stability.

Therefore they don't deserve freedom.

An American Expat in Southeast Asia

[phillyfanatic]

Oh that we could close our borders to the lefty Quisling Dems in the Senate and House as well as the Muslims and other illegals. But, then we all know that is not going to happen. Too un-PC.

[FerdieMurphy]

For America's safety, muslims should be rounded up and held in a detention center until they can expeditiously exported!

Mosques should be burned to the ground.