The Magic of Multiculturalism
Source: whileweslept.org
Imagine Paris without the Eiffel Tower. Imagine Paris without the Louvre, the Arc Du Triomph, without Notre Dame. Try to imagine France without baguettes, or even the French language. These are all things which have historical and cultural relevance for French people, they belong to French people, they are what we think of when we think of France. The ancient Gaulic influence is still to be seen despite Gaul having been conquered by the Franks in the 5th century (around the fall of the Western Roman Empire). It became a separate country in the 9th century. If a case can be made for any country’s sovereignty, France is a fine example. But what is France, really? What is a country? Can’t we all just get along? Can any country be said to belong to the people who inhabit it, who have shaped it and been shaped by it? Is a national border a real and valid thing?
There are now Muslim neighborhoods in France that are impassable to French people. Clearly, they like borders and and multiculturalism applies to their host country, but not to them. They have not accepted and understood French people. Violence is decidedly one-sided, while French media continues to be “fair”. There are 66 million people living in France, of which 5.1 million are considered immigrants. Immigration numbers have held steady since 1970, but increasingly since the 90’s, immigrants to France are coming from predominantly Muslim countries; 31% from North African countries and smaller numbers from other Muslim countries. But massive protests are taking place now. Why? A Pew Research poll from 2007 found that 16% of Muslims in France support suicide attacks and other violence against civilian targets at least sometimes, including 6% supporting such attacks “often.” That was eight years ago and nothing has changed except the number of Muslims in France — six million, in fact. It has been said many times that not all Muslims are extremists, but that 16% percent represents hundreds of thousands of people in France who see the French as infidels, as all non-Muslims are infidels who need to be punished.
In her book, When Democracy and Islam Meet: Muslims in Europe and in the U.S. Jocelyne Cesari takes French people to task for taking issue with the lack of integration among immigrants. In the ideology of multiculturalism, assimilation and integration are bad words, because displaced people come from rich cultural backgrounds; they don’t want to lose that culture. Cesari says — and multicultural doctrine iterates — that French people are complicit in the Charlie Hebdo attack (and indeed all attacks from immigrants) because of their racist, imperialist attitudes, that if French people could be more accommodating to Muslims, things like this wouldn’t happen. As French people have become increasingly concerned about the loss of their own cultural identity, the same rules don’t apply. They are in no way to consider themselves entitled to the receiving end of multicultural ideals.
Dictionary.com defines multiculturalism as: “the view that the various cultures in a society merit equal respect and scholarly interest. It became a significant force in American society in the 1970s and 1980s as African-Americans, Latinos, and other ethnic groups explored their own history.” Is that deliberately obtuse, or is Dictionary.com written by middle-school teachers? It’s true that the U.S. has a longer history of diversity than other predominantly white countries, but multiculturalism’s ideas are 30 to 40 years old in Europe, Sweden, Canada… Consider that Doug Collins’ “Immigration: The Destruction Of English Canada” was written in 1979. In it, Collins quotes Norman Cafik, the Minister for Multiculturalism who in a letter to the Toronto Sun in February 1979 wrote: “(Canada’s) multiculturalism policy rests firmly on the foundations that there are, in fact, no founding peoples.”
It wasn’t that ethnic minorities in Canada began to look at their own history. In fact, Canada’s immigration policies changed drastically in the 1970’s. Multiculturalist ideas and new immigrants arrived at the same time. Immigration Watch Canada, showing restraint, calls Canada’s immigration policies “a social engineering experiment that is conducted on Canada’s mainstream population in order to make it a minority.” Canada’s immigration intake is the highest per capita in the world.
In an article in the Globe and Mail titled “Why Canada Needs a Flood of Immigrants”, Joe Friesen criticizes Canada’s low immigration numbers and states: “The nation’s great challenge will be to locate and attract the people Canada needs, give them rich opportunities and integrate them into communities, but also to understand and embrace the ways they will reshape this country.”
1.5 million Canadians are, in fact, looking for work. Many Canadians must compete with the “Employment Equity for Visible Minorities” programme. Job fairs are held for “new Canadians” to keep them in the country, while many Canadian nationals are giving up on job searches. Job participation for Canadian people is at an all time low.
England is suffering an onslaught of immigration widely opposed by English people. Fifty percent of British people believe that foreigners are coming to the country to claim welfare benefits, and think that immigrants should wait two to three years for benefits. Immigration has risen sharply in the last 15 years, and is at an all time high. As in other countries, the media reports on immigrant heartache and seems mystified by the attitudes of citizens. Penny Young, the chief executive of NatCen Social Research, said: “In an increasingly diverse, multicultural country, we might expect people to be more relaxed about what it means to be British, yet the trend is going in the opposite direction.” (The Guardian; British attitudes harden towards immigrants. June 17, 2014)
Well, the best official argument to reality is denial, as in last year’s heartrending story of 1,400 children, some as young as 11, in the town of Rotherham sexually abused and trafficked out of the city as prostitutes by a gang of “asian” men over a period of 16 years. In reality, all of the perpetrators were Pakistani Islamists. Police ignored or openly derided victims over the years. During an investigation, many police and other staff said that they were wary of investigating or were told not to by superiors for fear of being labelled “racist”. The rise in non-European immigrants and fear of being labeled a racist closely coincide. If you just replace Dolores Umbridge’s Ministry of Magic with the Magic of Multiculturalism…
…Then you get these headlines from Sweden, where reported incidences of rape have gone up 300 (three hundred!) percent: “Man, 27, acquitted of raping 13 year old girl because she looked ‘well-developed’” (independent.co.uk, Mar 16, 2015). “Gang-rape acquittal verdict rocks Sweden” — in which 6 teenagers kept a 15 year old girl in a closet; it was decided that she had not fought hard enough (zeenews.india.com, Oct 2, 2013). Also, 8 men rape a woman on a ferry and the court decides that she wanted to have sex with eight men at once. Or the Swedish woman raped on broken glass. The only country in the world with more rapes is Lesotho in southern Africa.
What’s really magik about the headlines is that all of the rapists are described as either “men”, “teenagers”, or “Swedish men”. The ferry rapists were Swedish citizens, but they were also Muslims. As immigration has risen, crime has skyrocketed, but the official line is that there is no connection. 25% of crimes are committed by people born overseas, while almost 20 percent are committed by those born in Sweden to one or two parents born abroad, with North Africa and the Middle East overly represented. Official explanations for the shocking rise is that women have become more willing to report rapes, because there has been a change in the definition of rape, and that Swedish men have begun feeling emasculated in the progressive Swedish culture. Magical thinking at it’s finest. Here’s a better headline: “Multiculturalism is Raping Women in Sweden” (thenewantifederalist.com Mar 4, 2015). You can say it: Voldemort has returned.
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