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| 2006-10-18 |
| IN another sign of predictable cultural capitulation, a check-in employee with British Airways is banned from wearing a small Christian cross but Muslim and Sikh employees may wear turbans and the hijab. Little wonder, then, that Munira Mirza is so refreshing. This young woman, reared as a Muslim, says it's time to scrap multiculturalism and to stop defining people as members of a minority group. Specifically, it's time for our political leaders to stop engaging with Muslims as Muslims. They are citizens; no special rules apply. Mirza pulls few punches when exposing the West's cultural surrender. We all know the problem. Free speech in the polite West is a little clogged up these days. A Dutch film-maker, Theo van Gogh, is slain for making Submission, a movie critical of Islam. The scriptwriter, Dutch political activist Ayan Hirsi Ali, is forced to live under threat of death. Amateurish Danish cartoons of the prophet Mohammed unleash orchestrated madness across the globe. A nun is killed in Somalia because local Muslims don't like the Pope musing about Muslim attitudes to violence. A French teacher is hiding, under police protection, after describing Mohammed as a "merciless war leader". And so it goes on. When it's easier to stay quiet for fear of provoking violence from some Muslims or attracting accusations of racism from Western appeasers, then the West is already living under the shadow of Islamic fascism. We're stuck with silent feminists who prefer cultural rights and the burka over women's rights and the silly noise of some on the so-called progressive side of politics marching to the tune of "We're all Hezbollah now". |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 The problem is also that multicultis have elevated multiculturalism above all else including enlightenment values. So where there is a conflict between the two, enlightenment values lose. EG: freedom of speech vs 'right' to be offended by mohammad cartoons because it's Islamic and we're different to you. Muslims win. EG: right to equality between woman and men vs traditional muslim 'right' to force relatives into marriage/discriminate winner: muslims. Police Departments everywhere have been trained in 'community' policing including in Australia where police were told to respond to Islamic domestic violence complaints differently, involving the local imam and extended family in the process with 'dialogue'. Great for a battered women! No support for her absolute right to not be beaten there. Don't know if that one came in but it was certainly talked about. Similarly 'racism' slur immediately ends all public argument in the way 'witch' did hundreds of years ago. It trumps everything and it shouldnt. |
| Posted by: anon1 2006-10-18 11:01 |
| #1 Mirza told The Australian that multiculturalism "encourages groups to claim exclusion in order to get attention. In order to get resources, you have to prove your weakness." As per John Fonte's transnational progressism, the current dominant western ideology, at least among the Enlightened Elites. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2006-10-18 10:22 |