Multiculturalism was always far more prevalent in Europe than in America, perhaps because Europeans have always been more ready to accept new political schemas. Indeed, until now, some have given Muslim immigrants -- Pakistani and Bangladeshi in England, North African in France and Turks in Germany -- preferences above their own citizens. But now, with the advent of the age of terrorism, these attitudes have changed. Politicians in France called the murderous attacks on Charlie Hebdo and the kosher supermarket game-changers, and they more than likely are. How could it be otherwise, when the average citizen sees the horrors of Syria and Iraq now being visited upon their own streets and people? But to even start to deal with it now is difficult indeed, when almost every European state has a sizable Islamic minority, and the hope of a non-warring Europe lies in the hands of the European Union, through which anyone can move without the slightest problem. The Muslim populations are now rooted in their new countries. Terrorists can go and come at will. The European and British governments seem unable to treat their Muslim populations with normal expectations, but continue to pamper them, fearing that awful term, worse than terrorist -- racist! But both Europeans and Americans need to learn that it is not racist to say that different peoples, societies, cultures, races and religions -- at ANY period of history -- are not the same. They have different memories, experiences and hopes. Nor is it racist to say that northern European tribes were dancing naked around fires when brown-skinned Egyptians built the greatest empire of the time. Nor that it was Muslims, when ancient Greece dissolved, who held the Grecian manuscripts safe in the great universities of Baghdad and Damascus. Nor that one of the greatest liberal societies in history thrived under Islamic rule in Al--Andalus in Spain between the eighth and 15th centuries. Today, common sense tells us to respect Islam, but to be practical about hunting down Islamic terrorists, for that is what they are, and also to be cautious about enlarging ethnic enclaves where assimilation becomes more and more difficult, if not impossible. Multiculturalism -- judging people by their group and not their individuality, and thus sealing them in that group -- was always to invite division and disunity into our proven societies. One feels that the Europeans have finally gotten the idea. Read more at jewishworldreview/0115/geyer012115.php3#whHg4zm03fkz2d2d.99
Posted on: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 18:24:35 +0000
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