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CULTURAL COWARDICE.
A recent article reproduced by The Australian, and originaly written by Simon Nixon for The Spectator magazine drew attention to the problems now arising from the reluctance of British Governments of both Left and Right to face the problems that have resulted from the introduction of Multiculturalism into Britain over the years since 1945..
Nixon writes regularly for The Spectator Magazine. Similar views to his, were also expressed at an August 2006 C.D.Kemp Lecture organised by the Centre for Independent Studies (Broadcast on Radio National by the A.B.C.)at which Janet Albrechtsen, Owen Harries and Mark Steyne were the speakers. All three seemed to be in agreement that a reluctance by Governments of all the Western world to defend Western culture with their almost uncritical and pathetic support of Multiculturalism was why we all now were faced with militant fundamental Islamic fanatics intent on destroying that Western World.
Reviewed by David Hughes-Jones, Adelaide,Sept 2006
Mr Nixon wrote,
"Britain's loss of nerve is one of the main reasons it has become a global centre of Islamic extremism. For decades, successive British governments have regarded multiculturalism as an article of faith. The idea that Britain should become a joyous melting pot of different cultures and religions living side by side in mutual toleration and respect is a noble vision. But it's not working out that way. Instead, the benefits of immigration are being lost through a failure to control numbers and a reluctance to pursue policies that might promote integration. As a result, Britain has a huge Muslim population, much of which is increasingly alienated from mainstream society. "Londonistan" is no longer just a safe haven for foreign extremists. Today, it nurtures home-grown terrorists, many born in Britain, educated at British schools and attending British universities."
He went on to ask why young Muslims have been attracted to the Jihad when,
"The British political system offers a far more effective way to change government policy. You can vote the government out. So why do young Muslims embrace terrorism rather than democratic politics? How can people born and educated in Britain feel so alienated from its culture and values? The snag is that many never fully engage with British culture and values. Muslims make up the majority in many towns and in most big cities there are large Muslim enclaves. Even if the multiculturalists were to change their minds on the need for integration, it would be too late. Muslim leaders are demanding more separation from mainstream society, not less.
They want bank holidays for Muslim festivals and sharia law courts to rule on family matters. They may well get it. They are helped by the remarkable ambivalence of the liberal Left towards British culture and values: to Christianity, British history, free markets and free trade."
In his view,
"Above all, the Left is deeply suspicious of the institutions in which those values are embedded, starting with the family and extending via churches, schools, businesses, clubs, right through to parliament and the monarchy. To the Left, Britain's social institutions are bastions of privilege that must be remodelled or destroyed to make way for multiculturalism. The resulting cultural war has left British society brutalised and infantilised, and wide open to attack."
He makes the point that lack of respect for British Institutions, Traditions and Values by the ideological progressive liberals is at the root of nearly all the problems faced by Britain today.Similarly in all the Western world countries a lack of respect for their own Institutions,Traditions and Values produces the same results. It is significant that Multiculturalism has only been legislated in the Western World - nowhere else.
"Why should British Muslims respect a culture that has no respect for itself? They are quite rightly horrified by the degeneracy of much of what passes for British culture today - the soaring teenage pregnancies, the rampant drug use, the violent city centre no-go areas on a Friday and Saturday night - and they don't want any truck with it. They see that multiculturalism quickly becomes no culture, which makes them all the more determined to hang on to their own. And they see - a Left-liberal elite that is so craven in its desire to appease minorities that it has lost the resolve to confront the dangers it has unleashed."
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