Posted on 02/07/2006 8:43:16 AM PST by SirLinksalot
Let's be honest: Multiculturalism can kill a nation
James P. Pinkerton
The lesson of the Muhammad cartoon controversy is: Multiculturalism between nations is inevitable, but multiculturalism within nations is disastrous.
Protests, many of them violent, have erupted across the world - including Europe, Australia and New Zealand - after the appearance of cartoons depicting the Muslim prophet Muhammad in unflattering ways.
It's time for all of us to recognize that different cultures have different values. For the West, broadly speaking, the highest value is freedom, including freedom of religious expression. But for the Muslim world, the highest value seems to be Islamic piety. To draw such a distinction between West and East is not to endorse cultural relativism; it's simply to take note of cultural reality.
Not everyone thirsts for liberty. Plenty of people around the world, maybe most, thirst instead to restrict liberty. And so, if Muslim crowds can't kill the Muhammad-mocking Danish cartoonists for "blasphemy," they will settle for burning Western embassies, at least for now.
Even the government of Afghanistan - where Danish forces have contributed to Western "democracy-building" - joined in the protests. Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who would not be in power save for Western intervention, added his voice to the chorus: "Any insult to the Holy Prophet is an insult to more than 1 billion Muslims, and an act like this must never be allowed to be repeated."
It should be obvious that our effort to influence Muslim public opinion in a positive way has reached a dead end. That is, we advocate democratization but get Islamization. That process empowers the likes of Hamas in Palestine and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Iran.
Even Turkey, commonly regarded as the most democratic and pro-American Muslim country, is changing its stance.
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Do our courts operate using any other language than english?
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Yes.
It was better before the English speakers arrived. Fewer people ~ no crowds
I can appreciate Powell's point on integration. They (immigrants to Britain) don't integrate...they immigrate alright, but the majority don't even try to integrate.
As a child of forced "integration" in the south, for me,
the experience was more akin to the destruction of the middle class white culture in our community...having little to do with the intended purposes of integration...as
in Powell's concept, most of those folks then weren't interested in integrating either, most were more interested in running the whites out...and eventually they were successful.
Some may attempt to label me a racist for relating my childhood experience in forced multi culturalism. I was a child and held no prejudice...and was taught no prejudice.
All I remember is the hurt on my grandfather's face as we said goodbye to the homeplace he had dedicated his life's blood and sweat. He died longing for that place in his heart.
Is the US "multicultural" or multiethnic? In any case, I would say that the "African-American culture" as really an American subculture, since we are talking about a mixed race whose culture owes very much to The Anglo-Celtic culture of the South and some even to the Native American cultures of that region.
Actually dog slobber could possibly have some medicinal value in some cancer lab somewhere. Muslims on the other hand...any virologist worth his Ph.D wouldn't go near em.
Yeah I suppose Texas has a similar culture to Chicago. And Italian Catholics from New Jersey are the same culture as Baptists from Mississippi. I could go on, but I won't. America is the most multi-cultural country in the world. The people who don't want multiple cultures in America and the world are Islamists and communists. America would be pretty boring if it only represented one culture.
"If multiculturalism were inherently bad, and recognized as such by any rational person, why was it Europeans thought it useful to bring African slaves to America?"
Money. Money trumps all, even rationality.
Multiculturalism is tyranny imposed on monoculturalism by traitors.
Christians in monocultural Iran want to be able to live as they wish, according to their culture.
...and what languages are the opinions written in?
Actually, I think the American Indians were defeated by smallpox, alcohol, technology, intermarriage and military conquest. Perhaps not necessarily in that order. I am partly an American Indian myself, though it does not define me any more than the German/Irish/English/French/Scottish/ or Portuguese does.
Eid is an Islamic holiday and a stamp is not celebrating a holiday. I have 4000+ Ronald Reagan stamps but I didn't get Feb 6th off.
http://www.danielpipes.org/comments/4076
May not be a celebration, but still...
A brief look at history, a cursory read of the Quran/Koran, recent modern history, an understanding of human nature, a grain of wisdom and a ounce of common sense should have easily revealed that it could only have ended in a "dead end." Pun intended I suppose.
"Dont confuse denominations and nationalities with cultures. None of these differences are causing beheadings and suicide bombings between our citizens."
Denominations and nationalities are major components of what makes a culture. The fact that different groups of Americans don't kill each other does not mean that we are not multicultural. It just demonstrates that the American system respects all cultures, which is why Islam seems to be in such conflict with our system. Multiculturalism is a good thing in America and everwhere else. Politicians (especially liberals) just give multiculturalism a bad name because they attempt to use it to divide the nation for political gain. The only thing I expect from different groups in this country is for them to assimilate to the overall American philosophy.
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