Ominous face of multiculturalism revealed

Calgary Sun ^ | 2006-06-11 | Ian Robinson

[Clive]

Back when Yugoslavia fell into genocidal civil war, I worked with a young Croatian kid.

He was built like a full-sized pickup, but he was a sensitive soul, a painter in his spare time.

And what his lifelong friends had become was torturing him.

He told me these Canadian-born kids, barely into their 20s, mocked him because he refused to join their secular jihad to the fragmented Yugoslavia, to fight for the culture their parents or grandparents left behind.

They called his manhood into question.

They went. He stayed. When they returned, some were unalterably changed. They drank more.

Lots more. When the bottle got down to the bottom couple of inches, they talked of atrocity. Not the atrocities they witnessed.

The atrocities they committed.

Nice, decent, polite Canadian boys, raised on hockey rinks, maple syrup, Don Cherry, O Canada, the Tim Hortons double-double and the liberal culture of acceptance had placed the reticule of a telescopic rifle sight on civilian women and pulled the trigger. They had shot indiscriminately into occupied houses and burned villages. They hinted at darker secrets, such as mass rape.

Even after listening to these tales of soul-killing horror, my young friend felt guilty for remaining behind.

At the time, an eastern paper published a feature in which one "soldier" recounted how his Yugoslavia-born mother wept and begged him not to go, saying this was not his war.

His reply was if she didn't want him to feel such a strong connection to the old country, she should not have sent him to a cultural school several times a week, steeping him in the language, culture and, yes, resentments of the past.

Such is the ominous and hidden face of Canadian multiculturalism.

We confront it yet again today.

Only this time, 17 Canadian-born or Canadian-raised men and boys stand accused of plotting a terrorist attack on Canadian soil.

In the aftermath of the arrests, Canadian cops and politicians genuflected at the altar of political correctness and official multiculturalism in a ritual every bit as predictable as the old Roman Catholic Latin mass.

These attacks have nothing to do with Islam or its practitioners, they told us.

Well, to quote Sun columnist Peter Worthington: "Unlikely that many of those arrested were militant Quakers or radical Methodists."

There is room in this nation for people of all faiths and those of no faith at all.

But official multiculturalism sends two messages to newcomers.

One is: "Welcome! Don't change, we love you just the way you are!"

The other is: "You're coming to live in a country so confused and degenerate we've decided our culture isn't worth preserving, defending or extending. We've got nothing to offer you but jobs."

The latter is the nation that raises children who hate it.

We are, by and large, a secular culture, materialistic, spiritually shallow, sexually obsessed, and devoted to the pursuit of personal pleasure and satisfaction.

Frankly, that's pretty much the way I like it.

It's called freedom and it's the only thing we've come up with on the planet that actually works for human beings.

For all its faults, Western civilization creates economic prosperity without parallel, pushes the envelope of the human lifespan, and in which people on welfare live better than medieval kings.

We've cracked open secrets of the universe and linked the world via communications links that mere decades ago were the stuff of science fiction.

I suspect the very essence of our culture -- unbridled freedom and the right to be left alone -- is the thing that most offends the devout and, I believe, leads some on the fringes to plot against their adopted homeland.

My eldest kid -- who hails from a Romanian orphanage -- has met a couple of people from that part of the world. True products of Canadian multiculturalism, they professed shock she has no interest in learning about the culture that produced her.

Her answer: "If that culture was worth anything, it wouldn't have abandoned me and starved me for three years."

She first articulated that thought when she was 9, at a time when my wife and I were encouraging her to learn about the culture into which she was born.

Kid's smarter than her parents and the architects of national social policy.

[Lion in Winter]

PING... Croatia, jihad and Yugoslavia mentioned....

[Lion in Winter]

Hmmmmmmmm, Croatian/Canadian kid.... his fellow ethnic friends committed war crimes and lived to tell the tales.

How "refreshing" that ANYBODY would even admit or even elude to ANY war crimes done by Croatian wanna-bees. And, amazing as well.

[eleni121]

The atrocities they committed.
Nice, decent, polite Canadian boys,...the liberal culture of acceptance ...had shot indiscriminately into occupied houses and burned villages. They hinted at darker secrets, such as mass rape.
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We used to investigate, charge, put on trial and then deport or imprison those who commited atrocities "over there"---I guess these days they get a free pass.

What a disgusting situation.

[Lion in Winter]

"Nice, decent, polite Canadian boys, raised on hockey rinks, maple syrup, Don Cherry, O Canada, the Tim Hortons double-double and the liberal culture of acceptance had placed the reticule of a telescopic rifle sight on civilian women and pulled the trigger. They had shot indiscriminately into occupied houses and burned villages. They hinted at darker secrets, such as mass rape.

Disgusting that the writer did not bother to mention who the victims MIGHT have been. Or did even CARE??

[StJacques]

In spite of the fact that everything the author discussed in the headline article of this thread was valid, he did not discuss what I consider to be the most pernicious means whereby multiculturalism works its way into the common consciousness -- in the teaching of history.

I could go on and on about this, and I have dealt with it on other threads over time, but I'll just give my summary conclusions here. Too many professors now teaching history at the college level have used their positions in an attempt to instill upon young college students the notion that there is something oppressive about the American experience in that it "marginalizes" people who do not fit into the mainstream and that this process of "marginalization" is tantamount to oppression and that we will never overcome it until we deliberately place those outside of the mainstream on an equal footing with the rest of us in our laws, government programs, common practices, and more.

Even though "multiculturalism" was originally intended to express the need for an appreciation of diversity at its outset, in practice it has come to mean the assignment of "race guilt" or "culture guilt" to the American mainstream with all the connotations of alienation and violence that usually follow from such attitudes among those who are told they have been "marginalized." And nowhere is this more evident than in the way history is taught at our universities.

[joan]

they talked of atrocity. Not the atrocities they witnessed.

The atrocities they committed.

…had placed the reticule of a telescopic rifle sight on civilian women and pulled the trigger. They had shot indiscriminately into occupied houses and burned villages. They hinted at darker secrets, such as mass rape.

The mainstream media was and is very quiet about this and prefers instead to hype claims against Serbs.

They said the Serbs were fighting due to old WWII fears, when instead it was an on the ground reality, absolute horror as Serbian village after village was obliterated and the men and women taken to prisons and camps to be tortured – survivors often crippled, disabled and bearing scars (unlike these big Muslim fish story tellers who don’t have a scratch on them).

The Croats (and Muslims) were the “junkyard dogs” of NATO countries, and therefore were aided and abetted in ethnically cleansing, torturing and killing Serbs. The mainstream media as a tool was controlled to keep people from learning the truth and instead used to keep demonizing Serbs relentlessly.

This is a picture of the Canadians cleaning up dead Serbs after the Medak Pocket massacre (1993) in Croatia:

[joan]

We used to investigate, charge, put on trial and then deport or imprison those who commited atrocities "over there"---I guess these days they get a free pass.

That's because they were doing dirty work that the U.S. and NATO wanted - they wanted to ethnically cleanse and kill Serbs (and do it with a lot of torture and terror for good measure) - so they are considered good soldiers of the NWO order if their crimes of genocide were against the Serb population.

There have been Bosnian Muslims who did the same, but they are brought to the U.S. and coddled. By the time they learn English, they know not to brag of their killings in order to project the innocent, unarmed, poor Muslim image that the media worked hard to impress on the world.

[coydog]

And I still have yet to figure out why NATO had such a mad-on against the Serbs that they figured it was worth radicalizing the Muslim population to carry out.

[krunkygirl]

"identity politics"
Thank you, kjo. Another new weapon in the arsenal I keep to use in refuting Liberals...

[Domestic Church]

This all goes back to the Institute for Social Research better known as the Frankfurt School. For a good background do a web search on this:

The New Dark Age: The Frankfurt School and "Political Correctness"

You might want to read a "cached" copy.

[eleni121]

The sordid tale of Ceku

Agim Ceku, the Albanian Kosovar chief, began his military career as an officer in the former federal Yugoslavian Army (JNA). When the Yugoslav break-up occurred in 1991, Ceku quickly and conveniently switched his loyalty to the Croatian side. As a colonel in the Croatian army, Ceku commanded the notorious 1993 operation now known as the Medak Pocket (some pictures are posted).

It was here that Second Battalion Princess Patricia´s Canadian Light Infantry witnessed first hand the vulgar savagery of which Ceku and Croats were capable. Over 200 Serbian inhabitants of the Medak Pocket were slaughtered in a grotesque manner (female rape victims were found after being burned alive). Canadian troops were traumatized but buried the grisly remains.

In 1995, Ceku, now a general of artillery, was still at large. In fact, he was the officer responsible for shelling the Serbian refugee columns and for targeting the UN "safe" city of Knin during the Croatian offensive known as Operation Storm.

Just a few months after the Storm atrocities, Louise Arbour began making a name for herself as the chief prosecutor for The Hague tribunal. Despite the Canadian connection to these alleged crimes, Arbour and her lawyers chose instead to pursue more "politically prominent" individuals and seemingly little was done to bring Ceku to justice.

[Ronaldus Magnus]

At the time, an eastern paper published a feature in which one "soldier" recounted how his Yugoslavia-born mother wept and begged him not to go, saying this was not his war. His reply was if she didn't want him to feel such a strong connection to the old country, she should not have sent him to a cultural school several times a week, steeping him in the language, culture and, yes, resentments of the past.

Parents will reap what they sow.

[mdmathis6]

You write the charter...I'll sign it with you!

[mdmathis6]

A civilisation's "Tower of Babel" crisis always starts when the definition of "Is" is argued over....confusion begins with the distorions of previously consensually agreed upon concepts ( as described in the mother tongue first). The people scatter and languages change later over time.

The tower of Babel story was a description as to what happens in all civilisations when they begin to die!

Remeber what the story also stated....that God himself went down and confused the languages. To destroy the unity of a nation, you first factionalize its people and bring on disagreements as to the interpretations of that nation's unifying concepts and laws!

So God still raises up and tears down kingdoms, as the Bible says he does!

[MarshallDillon]

A lot of Albanians went over there from the USA too! Is there any prohibition against U.S. citizens fighting in foreign wars? I would not tolerate their atrocities in any case, but they have to be documented, witnesses have to be found, etc.
Time frame/ Before the U.S. bombing of Serbia; - I had a response letter from my Senator K.B. Hutchison at the time; and, she agreed before the fact that we should not bomb Serbia. The KLA were getting funds from Saudi and Iranian governments, so we thus "became" allies of terror-sponsoring nations. No wonder the Russians question our duplicity.

[Old_Mil]

I don't disagree, but at this late date, what is our commonality? Like most things, multiculturalism has an "opposite" - uniculturalism. In this alternative model, American culture would be promoted and held forward as something of superior value which should be embraced.

...but what is it? In an era where more of our own citizens would identify with:


...than with...



Have we have passed the point of no return and have gone from being a nation with a society to an economic collective of individuals? Do we have a culture left to celebrate?

[Blind Eye Jones]

"Isn't the U.S. in danger of becoming New Canada?"

It's less likely with the U.S. melting pot approach (E Plurius Unum) than Canada's vertical mosaic. Multiculturalism has been officially adopted in Canada.

[originalbuckeye]

I would say that we do have to go backward a bit. I lived in Britain on the early 80's and people used to ask me the greatest difference in the countries. I would say "here, when someone is successful,people will look at him and say 'why is he successful, he doesn't deserve that, I do'". I would then point out that in America, when someone is successful people will look at him and say "if he can be successful, then so can I". Sadly, now in America, people are just jealous of success and try to bring a successful person down instead of trying to be like him. Socialism is gaining ground on us here; we must stop it!