Death By Multi-Culturalism

Fire of Liberty
Have you ever heard the statement "death by a thousand cuts"? Well, Leo McKinstry has an excellent piece over at the Weekly Standard that demonstrates how the whole hearted embrace of multi-culturalism on the British Isles is slowly but surely destroying everything that's special and distinctive to ensure they're not insensitive to the feelings of various cultural, ethnic and religious groups. By being so devoted to the concept of multi-culturalism and turning away from the English language, history, laws and culture in general, the British government fails to properly assimilate its immigrants to society thus creating an powder keg in England that will eventually blow-up like it did in France. When you have hundreds of groups asking the government for a special accomodation when it comes to education, law, language, voting and Lord knows what else they can think about, you slowly add an extra cut to a pretty steady society/culture until you eventually kill it. To truly understand the detrimental effects of this religious conviction to multi-culturalism in Great Britain, you only have to read the following paragraphs from Leo McKinstry:

Another extreme episode that was much discussed in the media five years ago illustrates how multiculturalism can undermine the management of social services. At Haringey Council in north London in February 2000, an 8-year-old child from Ivory Coast, Victoria Climbie, died after suffering a catalogue of cruelty, beatings, and neglect by her great-aunt, Marie-Thérèse Kouao, who claimed that Victoria was possessed by the devil. Social workers and the police, alerted repeatedly to Victoria's plight, were reluctant to intervene because they did not want to appear culturally insensitive to Kouao's beliefs or methods of discipline. Indeed, the prevailing mood in the Haringey social work office was one of perverted antiracism, where the woefully incompetent casework manager, Carole Baptiste, held meetings in the dark to discuss African witchcraft and spent much of her time talking about oppression of black women. "It is hard to say how mad it was," recalled one black social worker. "There were some black staff members who would not speak to white people. Aggressive racial politics permeated the office."

The English patriot and maverick socialist George Orwell wrote in 1941, "England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their nationality. In left-wing circles, it is always felt that there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a duty to snigger at every English institution." More than 60 years later, multiculturalism has provided the ideal vehicle for the left, which now predominates in civic Britain, to exercise its destructive influence. The neurotic official obsession with the politics of racial identity has destroyed any shared sense of national belonging. As the Asian writer Kenan Malik has put it, "The problem is not that ethnic minorities are alienated from a concept of Britishness but that there is today no source of Britishness from which anyone--black or white--can draw inspiration."

Britain is fast replacing nationhood with a hierarchy of victimhood, with different ethnic groups living in conflict, each trumpeting its own sense of grievance. Age-old liberties, like freedom of speech, are disappearing; a play in Birmingham was recently closed down because a mob of Sikhs threatened to destroy the theater, claiming to be offended by the content of the production. Meanwhile, the endless British accommodation of Islamic extremism, in the name of racial tolerance, has allowed terrorism to flourish in our midst. According to one recent survey, 13 percent of British Muslims support home-grown terrorism, a terrifying thought given that there are 1.6 million Muslims in Britain.

I just hope someone gets a hold of this situation before the UK becomes a dying state like France, that has no direction or identity because the government wanted to assuage the feelings of various identity groups.