Is it necessarily the case that multiculturalists reject patriotism? Is it uniquely true of multiculturalists? Is it also possible that supporters of universal values subordinate patriotism to wider claims?
One can't and shouldn't reject the idea of universal values for multiculturalism, but what if the universal values that are promoted are at odds with those of one's own American culture? Krannawitter sees American national culture as the vehicle for universal truths. Europeans have a different view of what universal truths allow and may succeed in imposing that view on the rest of the world. Maybe multiculturalism is a temporary distraction in a battle of universalisms.
They reject patriotism of America because that would conflict with patriotism to their own cultures. The multiculturalists are against the US Constitution because it was not written by the "correct" people, they are against the melting pot which says everyone can drop their old ways and jump into the American melting pot culture, what multiculturalists want is for everyone to keep their own separate ways.
Is it necessarily the case that multiculturalists reject patriotism?
Not necessarily, but most probably. Is it uniquely true of multiculturalists?
American Islamists reject American patriotism. Multiculturalists use Muslims/Islam to undermine U.S. patriotism.
The Sword of Islam ... War Against Israel and the West! Before Americans start pitying the poor Brits (who truly deserve a good bashing from Islam), they should checked their own neighborhoods! Besides Louis Farrakan's Nation of Islam, the Black Panther and New Black Panther Parties with all their black wanna-be Muslims, there are also REAL Muslims and their communities are springing up everywhere. There are now approximately 7-8 million Muslims in the United States.
Faces of American Islam - Policy Review, No. 114 Unlike the Muslim immigrants in Europe who live in ghetto-like areas, Muslim immigrants to the United States are highly dispersed. The only town in the country with a substantial concentration of Muslim immigrants is Dearborn, Michigan, where they make up perhaps 30 percent of the population; one part of Dearborn, called Southend, is about 97 percent Muslim. In contrast, efforts at Muslim-only towns (such as Baladullah, a Muslim enclave in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California) consist mainly of African-American converts to Islam.
Islamists arrive in the United States despising the country and all it represents, intending to make converts, exploit the freedoms and rights granted them, and build a movement that will effect basic changes in the country’s way of life and its government. The superpower status of the United States makes it especially attractive to those who wish to change the world order; what better place to start? Islamists do not accept the United States as it is but want to change it into a majority Muslim country where the Koran replaces the Constitution. "Our plan is, we are going to conquer America," is how a missionary put it already in the 1920s.1 His latter-day successors are no less ambitious. They have two alternate strategies, nonviolent (i.e., conversion of the Christian majority) and violent (i.e., jihad), to accomplish this.
Piping The Wrong Tune "ISLAM IS EVIL." That's the message a U.S. Secret Service agent illicitly left on an Islamic prayer calendar on July 18 as he was raiding a suspected al Qaeda operative in Dearborn, Michigan.
The Secret Service agent had it right: Islam is evil. Islam divides the world into two parts, the Dar al Islam, the world of Islam, and the Dar al Harb, the world of war. All Mohammedans are commended to wage war against the unbelievers until they submit to Islam (the word "Islam" means "submission") and the entire world becomes Islamic. This is very similar to Soviet Communism, which declared that peace could exist only under socialism and that "struggle" must continue in the rest of the world until it, too, was Communist. Just as real peace was never possible with the Soviet Union, so it is also not possible with Islam. Is it also possible that supporters of universal values subordinate patriotism to wider claims?
Simon Wiesenthal Center Multimedia Learning Center Online In addition to active help, many clergymen also protested the mistreatment and deportations of Jews as violations of divine and human laws. The Catholic pastor of St. Hedwig's Cathedral in Berlin, Bernard Lichtenburg, prayed publicly for the Jews until his arrest and death on the way to Dachau. The rescue work of priests of all Christian denominations is well-documented in postwar literature.4
From the Protestant side, the basis for opposition to nazism was developed in the 1934 Barmen Theological Declaration approved at the first synod of the United Evangelical church (or Confessing Church) in Germany. Its aim was to counteract the errors of the so called "German Christians" (those Christians who positively identified themselves with the Nazi programs on religious grounds) and the Reich church government.
The Confessing Church in Germany also provided temporary asylum for Jews, becoming, in effect, stations on an underground railway leading to the safety of neutral Switzerland. One can't and shouldn't reject the idea of universal values for multiculturalism, but what if the universal values that are promoted are at odds with those of one's own American culture?
Administration Cites Recent Surveys Showing Lack Of Basic Knowledge Of U.S. History Krannawitter sees American national culture as the vehicle for universal truths.
Europeans have a different view of what universal truths allow and may succeed in imposing that view on the rest of the world.
Multiculturalism and the Fall of Western Civilization
Islam's Immigrant Invasion of Europe Maybe multiculturalism is a temporary distraction in a battle of universalisms.
SYMPOSIUM Q: Is Multiculturalism a Threat to the National Security of the United States?