How Britain Should Promote Assimilation

Ayn Rand Institute ^ | 10/23/06

[Wilhelm Tell]

Actually, the secret to integrating Britain is to eliminate the welfare state.

I think in a lot of countries the young Islamists are often unemployed or perpetual students and in either case on welfare. They are more radical than their parents or grandparents who often actually had to work. The young Islamists think they are entitled to everything while they sit around all day being taught jihad while collecting government checks.

[NurdlyPeon]

Do you think that the veil "is a demeaning, barbaric article of clothing that inculcates shame in women, depriving them of individuality and femininity"? It sounds to me as if he's more concerned that the women are oppressed than that they are not identifiable

Well, since you asked........objectively speaking, and considering what I believe I know about the psyche of your average Joe-Towelhead, I would say yes. The veils are designed to keep women down, to keep them as property, and to keep them from interacting with other males. This is exactly the kind of insecure behavior that one would expect from drunks, adolescents, trailer trash, and Muslim men. And yes, perhaps he was more concerned with oppression than with identification. Is there a problem with that? Maybe he is concerned with both aspects, and was just speaking/focusing on one.

However, my comment was in response to your statement of "I.E., is there a difference in modest and "different" dress if it's a minority Christian group", which I addressed, and which has nothing to do with "inculcates shame in women, depriving them of individuality and femininity". In modest, minority Christian groups, the men dress in the same modest, simple fashion as the women. The modesty and simplicity is applied equally, and is probably more a matter of demonstrating humility before God rather than keeping your neighbor from scoping out your "property".