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All: This is a must read. Perhaps one of West's finest articles, she nails squarely the left's fatal fascination with Multiculturalism.
Burnt offerings on the altar of multiculturalism
Only one faith on Earth may be more messianic than Islam: multiculturalism. Without it — without its fanatics who believe all civilizations are the same — the engine that projects Islam into the unprotected heart of Western civilization would stall and fail. It’s as simple as that. To live among the believers — the multiculturalists — is to watch the assault, the jihad, take place un-repulsed by our suicidal societies. These societies are not doomed to submit; rather, they are eager to do so in the name of a masochistic brand of tolerance that, short of drastic measures, is surely terminal.I’m not talking about our soldiers, policemen, rescue workers and, now, even train conductors, who bravely and steadfastly risk their lives for civilization abroad and at home. Instead, I’m thinking about who we are as a society at this somewhat advanced stage of war. It is a strange, tentative civilization we have become, with leaders who strut their promises of “no surrender” even as they flinch at identifying the foe. Four years past 9/11, we continue to shadow-box “terror,” even as we go on about “an ideology of hate.” It’s a script that smacks of sci-fi fantasy more than realpolitik. But our grim reality is no summer blockbuster, and there’s no special-effects-enhanced plot twist that is going to thwart “terror” or “hate” in the London Underground anymore than it did on the roof of the World Trade Center. Or in the Bali nightclub. Or on the first day of school in Beslan. Or in any disco, city bus or shopping mall in Israel.
Body bags, burn masks and prosthetics are no better protections than make-believe. But these are our weapons, according to the powers that be. These, and an array of high-tech scopes and scanners designed to identify retinas and fingerprints, to detect explosives and metals — ultimately, I presume, as we whisk through the automatic supermarket door. How strange, though, that even as we devise new ways to see inside ourselves to our most elemental components, we also prevent ourselves from looking full-face at the danger to our way of life posed by Islam.
Notice I didn’t say “Islamists.” Or “Islamofascists.” Or “fundamentalist extremists.” I’ve tried out such terms in the past, but I’ve come to find them artificial and confusing, and maybe purposefully so, because in their imprecision I think they allow us all to give a wide berth to a great problem: the gross incompatibility of Islam — the religious force that shrinks freedom even as it “moderately” enables or “extremistly” advances jihad — with the West. Am I right? Who’s to say? The very topic of Islamization — for that is what is at hand, and very soon in Europe — is verboten.
A leaked British report prepared for Prime Minister Tony Blair last year warned even against “expressions of concern about Islamic fundamentalism” (another one of those amorphous terms) because “many perfectly moderate Muslims follow strict adherence to traditional Islamic teachings and are likely to perceive such expressions as a negative comment on their own approach to their faith.” Much better to watch subterranean tunnels fill with charred body parts in silence. As the London Times’ Simon Jenkins wrote, “The sane response to urban terrorism is to regard it as an avoidable accident.”
In not discussing the roots of terror in Islam itself, in not learning about them, the multicultural clergy that shepherds our elites prevents us from having to do anything about them. This is key, because any serious action — stopping immigration from jihad-sponsoring nations, shutting down mosques that preach violence and expelling their imams, just for starters — means to renounce the multicultural creed. In the West, that’s the greatest apostasy. And while the penalty is not death — as it is for leaving Islam under Islamic law — the existential crisis is to be avoided at all costs. Including extinction.
This is the lesson of the atrocities in London. It’s unlikely that the 21st century will remember that this new Western crossroads for global jihad was once the home of Churchill, Piccadilly and Sherlock Holmes. Then again, who will notice? The BBC has retroactively purged its online bombing coverage of the word “terrorist”; the spokesman for the London police commissioner has declared that “Islam and terrorism simply don’t go together”; and within sight of a forensics team sifting through rubble, an Anglican priest urged his flock, as The Guardian reported, to “rejoice in the capital’s rich diversity of cultures, traditions, ethnic groups and faiths.” Just don’t, he said, “name them as Muslims.” Their faith renewed, Londoners soldier on.
While honest ethnic diversity and Multiculturalism once served America well, there is far too much political and Politically Correct baggage attached to the modern interpretation of Multiculturalism for it to remain totally unscathed. This once useful concept has become severely damaged goods. It is much like the current situation with Muslim immigration. Not all Muslims arriving are full blown terrorists. Yet, far too many of them pose a sufficient problem whereby their entry into America must cease. I believe quite firmly that America's original strength and final position atop this world's political food chain devolved from the huge diversity within our society. That said, diversity now has a rather different meaning to the Multiculturalists.
Too much of Multiculturalism has the now exclusive goal of undermining or displacing white Christian America at any price. At this one group’s almost singular expense — in both consumption of taxpayer dollars and demographically — the United States is being flooded with the underprivileged and economically disadvantaged of almost every nation on earth, including many of those which hate America most fiercely. In an insidious attempt to overthrow democracy and free market capitalism, Multiculturalists are attempting to counterbalance traditional American voting patterns by introducing far more malleable and easily manipulated constituents. This repackaged and rebranded Multiculturalism is nothing but sedition-lite. Those who hate America have not been able to curtail free speech and thought to a sufficient degree, even with their most powerful weapon, Political Correctness. Their hatred of democracy runs so deep that they are now attempting to subvert it and all free discussion of it by, as Diana West so capably observes, by projecting “Islam into the unprotected heart of Western civilization”. And it is not just Islam. As noted above, we are being inundated with marginally skilled semi-literate backward types from every two-bit backwater third world country on earth.
How are these newcomers supposed to help drive the technologically sophisticated industrial engine that powers AmericaÂ’s increasingly beleaguered economy? How are these people going to integrate into a society so advanced as to be almost an alien civilization by comparison to their own origins? What the Multiculturalists refuse to admit, at least not openly, is that theyÂ’re not supposed to at all.
Unable to adequately muffle free speech or thought with Political Correctness and its Orwellian Newspeak, instead they are flooding America with those most susceptible to the sort of socialist and communist doctrine espoused by Multiculturalists. Look around the world at where communist insurgencies currently make their biggest inroads. They are always made amongst the poor and barely literate who see no problem with redistributing wealth or land that they will never legitimately obtain in their lifetimes.
With the Soviet UnionÂ’s collapse, more educated populations are no longer so easily persuaded that centrally planned government is the universal panacea Multiculturalists say it is. Unable to sway AmericaÂ’s own existing citizenry with their tissue of lies, they now seek to import those who can be gulled into accepting this intensely flawed doctrine. They do not care one whit if those they let loose among us have little motivation to integrate or even participate. All the better, if it ensures that AmericaÂ’s core of traditional values are eroded and undermined. Multiculturalists have no compunctions over delivering us into the hands of even the most vicious and barbaric sort of Neanderthals, just so long as it assists their overthrow of our precious constitutional law.
The liberal left’s carefully masked elitism permits them to smugly think that, once democracy has been destroyed, only they will have the intelligence to assume real power. This is the well-hidden racism that taints so much of liberal doctrine. It is most often found in those who smarmily deplore the condition of our “little brown brothers”. What they do not realize is that by infiltrating America with this world’s thugs and human backwash, they are sowing the hydra’s teeth. They do this without consideration of how that which springs forth from America’s subverted soil will have almost limitless freedom to savage our population, them included. Especially so the liberals as they have voluntarily relinquished their right to bear arms and will be the most defenseless of all.
This is self-loathing and its inherent cognitive dissonance, writ large on an unbelievable scale. By subverting democracyÂ’s protective umbrella they stand unsheltered from the very deluge they seed. Unarmed, the left fecklessly breeds up anti-American demons of a sort never seen before. Their self-loathing has begun to assume suicidal proportions. Just as how the leftÂ’s depraved brand of tolerance seeks to expiate their perceived sins with our own blood. As Diana West points out:
To live among the believers -- the multiculturalists -- is to watch the assault, the jihad, take place un-repulsed by our suicidal societies. These societies are not doomed to submit; rather, they are eager to do so in the name of a masochistic brand of tolerance that, short of drastic measures, is surely terminal.The liberal left has gone terminal. In its rebellion against all things American, their moral compass is now demagnetized. Its needle drifts aimlessly, much as does their social agenda and political platform. In seeking to please the malcontents with which they have purposefully infected this country, their policy has become poison.