Multiculturalism Hits The Wall

The American Thinker ^ | December 05, 2010 | J.R. Dunn

[Scanian]

As year ten of the long war looms, the "multicultural" paradigm for defense against terrorism has slammed into a brick wall.

Recent developments reveal a policy in terminal disarray. The public revolt against the TSA, the ridiculous and humiliating Ghailani verdict, the still-simmering Financial District victory mosque controversy, even the unmasking of the false Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour in Afghanistan, have highlighted the absurdity of attempting to meld the "multicultural" worldview with any serious effort against Jihadi terrorism. And yet, government officials directly responsible for the defense of the country, from Obama, Holder, and Napolitano on down, insist on maintaining the "multicultural" paradigm despite undeniable evidence of its failure.

Multiculturalism has effectively controlled American security policy as regards terrorism from the very beginning. Islam, we were assured by no less a figure than George W. Bush, was "a religion of peace." Critical resources were invested in curtailing any "backlash" against American Muslims by the evil-minded white, Christian majority. Organizations of dubious provenance, such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), and the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT) were appointed official representatives of American Muslims.

What did these attempts to bend over backward under the prompting of an abstract academic intellectual construct accomplish? Absolutely nothing. Bush was excoriated both here and overseas by the very people he was working to protect. The great anti-Muslim backlash never happened. (As Jonathan Tobin reminds us.) The advocacy groups have all been revealed as fronts for Hamas. Few policies, official or unofficial, have such a pristine record of failure. Few have hung on more tenaciously.

[Uncle Miltie]

"0bama's 9/11 Victory Mosque"

He defended it; he owns it.

[Alberta's Child]

You raise good points there. I’d suggest, though, that World War II was the last war “the West” (whatever that means) actually won because it was the last war we fought for the sole purpose of defeating an enemy. It seems that since then, all of our military campaigns (and by “our” I mean the U.S. in particular) have revolved around what might be called a quasi-colonial foreign policy — which means you can’t destroy an enemy if your ultimate purpose is to trade with them.

[Conservative Tsunami]

Islam, we were assured by no less a figure than George W. Bush, was "a religion of peace." Critical resources were invested in curtailing any "backlash" against American Muslims by the evil-minded white, Christian majority.

And thus was the genesis of how a subversive Cult went mainstream in America.

Nine years after 9/11, granny in her wheelchair gets "patted down" at airports, there's been a proliferation of Mosques built in Everytown, USA, and Muslims are conferred "Special Rights" and protections.

"Multiculturalism" has NOT hit hit any such wall yet, but is instead accelerating.