[AmericanLookout] As we've seen in the UK, Europe and parts of Scandinavia, one of the problems with large Muslim immigrant populations is that precisely that they don't assimilate.
Some of these countries even have so-called no-go zones where police and firefighters won't go.
Breitbart reports:
London’s Islamist-Linked Mayor Tells U.S. Audience: 'Immigrants Shouldn't Assimilate'
London's Muslim mayor Sadiq Khan has continued his pro-Hillary Clinton tour of the United States by declaring that immigrants into the West should not be forced to assimilate.
His comments come hot on the heels of the Chicago press exposing his connections to radical Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.
Mr. Khan, who was elected to be London’s mayor in May 2016, has also used his trip to claim that Republican candidate Donald Trump is "playing into the hands" of the Islamic State.
His trip runs contrary to the U.S. visit from former UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage, who presented an upbeat message of defeating the political establishment on stage with Donald Trump.
Instead, Mr. Khan insisted: "One of the lessons from around the world is that a laissez-faire or hands-off approach to social integration doesn't work. We need rules, institutions, and support to enable people to integrate into cohesive communities and for the avoidance of doubt, I don't mean assimilation, I mean integration, and there's a difference".
He added: "People shouldn't have to drop their cultures and traditions when they arrive in our cities and countries".
For the record, no one has said that immigrants should drop their culture or forget where they're from. If however, you want to live in America, you need to embrace at least part of American culture.
Correct. We're all a little Irish on Saint Patrick's Day. We're all a little Mexican on Cinco de Mayo. But we also all, everyone of us, shiver a touch recalling the troops at Valley Forge, and we all love baseball, hot dogs and apple pie.
In the great immigration of the late 19th / early 20th century we took in tens of millions of people who assimilated just fine. One part of the story not often told was that each steam ship that brought the immigrants to Ellis Island, on the return trip always had a few people aboard who had tried America and couldn't assimilate. They went back to the old country. There's your real lesson: if you can't or won't become American, you can leave, and god bless. |
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