Posted on 01/30/2007 3:01:27 PM PST by kiriath_jearim
Muslim groups will be criticised by the Tories today for being too concerned with their own preservation rather than with promoting understanding.
David Cameron, the Conservative leader, will attend the launch of a mid-term report of a policy group on community cohesion headed by Dame Pauline Neville- Jones, a former head of the Joint Intelligence Committee.
The report, entitled Uniting the Country, also attacks multi-culturalism in Britain for "tending to foster difference for its own sake''.
Publication of the interim findings of the Conservative Group on National and International Security - one of several policy groups set up by Mr Cameron - follows a speech in which the Tory leader called some Muslim extremist groups the "mirror image'' of the British National Party.
The report says a "significant number'' of Muslim organisations are "keener to promote ideology than the totality of the communities they claim to represent''.
"As Muslim communities enter the third generation of settlement in this country, and in circumstances where a rapidly rising proportion have been educated here, it is anomalous and patronising to individuals to treat them indirectly as members of a group and not directly as citizens in their own individual right on a par with other voters.
"Political ghettoisation is the wrong route.
"We recommend that an incoming Conservative government moves in the opposite direction: to bring as many Muslims as possible as rapidly as possible into the mainstream of British life on an individual basis equal with that of their fellow non-Muslim citizens.''
The report says many Muslim women are held back by "limited education; or education, possibly to a high level including university followed however by a marriage which excludes either career development, or even any work at all.
"Sometimes it is simply a case of limited ambition on the part of the woman faced with family pressures to conform to traditional practice.''
A survey of more than 1,000 UK Muslims by the Policy Exchange think-tank yesterday suggested the younger generation is more likely to be attracted by political forms of Islam.
Some 17 per cent of over-55s compared with 37 per cent of 16 to 24-year-olds would prefer living under sharia law than British law, the report said.
Unless they reduce the amount of immigration they permit, then such calls are pointless. Ghettos are an inevitable result of large-scale immigration.
That, and the fact that they do NOT to assimilate. They just want everyone to live in squalor the way they do, actually when they take over each country, they will have what they really want - slaves that will do all the work so they can enjoy whatever it is that floats their boats.
The quickest way to get rid of the ghettos, IMHO, would be car bombs.
Oh wait we aren't allowed to turn the tables.
Never mind.
And these are the "conservatives." Meaningless PC gobbledygook.
But not strongly enough to buy a plane ticket.
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