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2016-09-18 Britain
London's Muslim Mayor Tells American Audience Immigrants Shouldn't Assimilate
[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.
Posted by Besoeker 2016-09-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ]  Top

#1 persona non grata
Posted by Voldemort Grumble1044 2016-09-18 00:34||   2016-09-18 00:34|| Front Page Top

#2 You can have St Patricks day but you have to give up the sectarian catholic-protestant hatred

You can have your hijab but you MUST DISAVOW SHARIA

sharia is sedition and must be prosecuted as such. Deport or jail sharia promoters
Posted by anon1 2016-09-18 01:17||   2016-09-18 01:17|| Front Page Top

#3 One of the most economically successful immigration groups has been Asians. For which success they have been labeled by the Left as the "New Whites" cause they chose integration over power*. It's just not here, but back 'home' as the societies adopted 'western' behaviors, the Japanese, South Koreans, Taiwanese, Singapore, and now mainland China have become economically successful. Simply transplanting yourself but keeping to the same culture only insures the oppressions and failures that you left to escape you only bring with you.

* so successful they're actively discriminated against - see the University of California system.
Posted by Procopius2k 2016-09-18 07:33||   2016-09-18 07:33|| Front Page Top

#4 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.

I'm pretty sure some Islamic haven can be found for Khan and his ilk like Syria or northern Iraq to practice their non-assimilation. Be sure to get the GPS coordinates and lock them into a drone for wherever it is that they get dropped off.
Posted by JohnQC 2016-09-18 08:40||   2016-09-18 08:40|| Front Page Top

#5 JQC, I was thinking more southern Libya, Niger, Mali, etc.
Posted by AlanC 2016-09-18 08:57||   2016-09-18 08:57|| Front Page Top

#6 I was thinking the middle of the Atlantic.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2016-09-18 11:35||   2016-09-18 11:35|| Front Page Top

#7 Fuck them.
Posted by Crusader 2016-09-18 12:25||   2016-09-18 12:25|| Front Page Top

#8 ... or the middle of the Outback.
Posted by Raj 2016-09-18 12:27||   2016-09-18 12:27|| Front Page Top

#9 No Raj, the Aussies don't deserve that.

North Africa has plenty of outback for them all, just keep them away from the Nile.
Posted by AlanC 2016-09-18 13:22||   2016-09-18 13:22|| Front Page Top

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