‘Multiculturalism: dishonest and deadly’

“The news that the London terrorist attacks were carried out by second-generation Muslim immigrants should not surprise us. For years now we in the West have indulged a whole set of destructive ideas whose bitter fruit we will all continue to harvest, as more and more unassimilated and disaffected immigrant children turn against the countries that welcomed their parents and provided them with a prosperity and freedom unknown in their countries of origin. This baneful idea goes by the name of multiculturalism.”

Bruce Thornton on what has become a major theme among right-wing commentators post-7/7.

Private Papers, 14 July 2005