Category Archives: Multiculturalism

Letter from Londonistan

Posted on by Bob Pitt

“Providing haven for terrorists is apparently a small price for the London glitterati to pay for the advantage of feeling proud of their multiculturalism. Their children are sheltered from the massive influx of Muslims into some schools, and their own neighborhoods and social services are unaffected by the pressures created by an unassimilated immigrant population.

“And continued belief in multiculturalism by the elites suits many Muslims just fine. Unlike immigrants who come to America in pursuit of the American dream, many Muslims come to Britain and other European countries determined not to assimilate into cultures they despise. They insist that neither British food is served, nor traditional British tolerance practiced, in the schools their children attend, demands the authorities find reasonable….

“Britain, with the wreckage of 7/7 only recently cleared, even now is willing to allow Yusuf al-Qaradawi, a Muslim cleric who defends suicide bombings, to enter the country…. Al-Qaradawi’s reception on his last visit tells us a great deal about the differences between Britain and the United States. London mayor Ken Livingstone, a hard-left politician who blames the 7/7 bombings on U.S.-U.K. foreign policy, embraced al-Qaradawi, told him that he is ‘truly, truly welcome’, hailed him as a ‘leading progressive Muslim’, and denounced al-Qaradawi’s critics for fanning the flames of ‘Islamophobia’.”

Irwin Stelzer of the Sunday Times provides the US Right with a portrait of Britain as a society run by woolly liberals unwilling to wage a sufficiently vigorous “war on terror”.

Weekly Standard, 1 August 2005

Another article blaming multiculturalism for the London bombings

Posted on by Bob Pitt

“Since the London bombings several columnists – from Tariq Ali in The Guardian to Phillip Adams in The Australian – have argued that the British brought them on themselves because of Britain’s intervention in Iraq. Well, they’re half right. The British (more precisely, their ineffectual governments) did bring those bombings on themselves.

“The Blair Government’s intervention in Iraq is not to blame. Rather, successive British governments have persisted in the multiculturalist folly that a nation can be built on separate but equal cultures. Moreover, under Tony Blair in particular, Britain’s immigration policies and border controls against illegal immigrants have become international jokes, and now a national tragedy.”

The Australian, 22 July 2005

‘It’s time we accepted the difficult truth: many of the Muslims we invite to live in Australia want to destroy us’

Posted on by Bob Pitt

“Isn’t it becoming terribly clear that Islam – at least the Islam of Australia’s Arab sheiks and imams – is hostile to our society? … Isn’t the evidence that some cultures – Muslim Arab ones – pose more problems than their importation at this rate is worth? Isn’t multiculturalism making these problems worse? … the London bombings, perpetrated by home-grown Muslims, makes our silence on such issues not a sign of civility, but suicide.”

Andrew Bolt in the Herald Sun, 20 July 2005

‘The real suicide bomb is multiculturalism’ says Mark Steyn

Posted on by Bob Pitt

“It was the Prime Minister’s wife, you’ll recall, who last year won a famous court victory for Shabina Begum, as a result of which schools across the land must now permit students to wear the full ‘jilbab’ – ie, Muslim garb that covers the entire body except the eyes and hands. Ms Booth hailed this as ‘a victory for all Muslims who wish to preserve their identity and values despite prejudice and bigotry’. It seems almost too banal to observe that such an extreme preservation of Miss Begum’s Muslim identity must perforce be at the expense of any British identity…. Is it ‘bigoted’ to argue that the jilbab is a barrier to acquiring the common culture necessary to any functioning society?”

Mark Steyn takes up the apparently endless right-wing refrain that the London bombings were due to multiculturalism and the failure to impose a uniform “British” (read: white majority) culture on all citizens.

Daily Telegraph, 19 July 2005

Another right-wing call to ‘rethink our multicultural society’

Posted on by Bob Pitt

“Those close to Blair say it is now time to ask whether multiculturalism is to blame – and to accept that pockets of Muslim Britain have been allowed to become isolated and radicalised, thinking they live in an enemy state.

“It is a sign of the paucity of debate in Britain that multiculturalism is used interchangeably with ‘immigration’. It is, instead, a specific form of immigration where the foreigners are not encouraged to integrate. The alternative is the ‘melting pot’ method of integrationism used by the United States, whose newcomers must learn English, salute the flag and sign up to a set of values. They must buy into a basic idea that they have to belong. This would be seen as cultural imperialism in Britain, where a mosaic-style of immigration has been preferred. The natural consequence has been segregated ghettos – and pockets of radicalism, left alone to seethe.”

Fraser Nelson in Scotland on Sunday, 17 July 2005

‘Multi-culturalism takes on a new religious flavour’ – BNP

Posted on by Bob Pitt

“… the ultimate price we pay for our altruism is the loss of our country and the extinction of our kind. Already in some parliamentary constituencies in Britain an astonishing 40% of the population are Muslim. With the much higher birthrate amongst the Islamic community within the next few decades we have to face the reality that our country is on course to become an Islamic state.”

Nazis make their contribution to the struggle against multiculturalism.

BNP news release, 18 July 2005

Multiculturalism has fanned the flames of Islamic extremism

Posted on by Bob Pitt

“It has been only over the past decade that radical Islam has found a hearing in Britain. Why? Partly because, in this post-ideological age, the idea that we can change society through politics has taken a battering. And partly because the idea that we should aspire to a common identity and a set of values has been eroded in the name of multiculturalism.”

Former Revolutionary Communist Party supporter Kenan Malik joins with the racist Right in blaming multiculturalism for the London bombings.

Times, 16 July 2005

Enoch Powell was right says Simon Heffer

Posted on by Bob Pitt

“There is one particularly disturbing question about the London bombings: how could four young British subjects, who had spent their lives in our free and democratic country, murder their fellow Britons so callously? The answer lies in the British state’s policy of multiculturalism….

“In 1968, Enoch Powell was vilified for predicting what the Press misquoted as ‘rivers of blood’ if we did not protect and advance the culture and traditions of our country. He has been proved right. It is now up to our political leaders to make multiculturalism a dirty word, and overturn the victory of the ‘enemy within’.”

Simon Heffer in the Daily Mail, 16 July 2005