Multiculturalism

It helps to understand the motive behind the multiculturalism policies in the US in the past several decades.The idea is not so much to celebrate other cultures but specifically to weaken the American culture. This is shown clearly by the groups which promote multiculturalism.

Your attempted satire does not address my comment.Please do try again.

Your comments do nothing to refute what I stated.

The American culture is what won WWII and put a man on the moon.It was made up of a lot of folks, the melting pot if you will.It was not perfect, but it was getting better all the time.The multicultural movement is designed to work against that culture.The old saying that it is hard to put on a parade when everyone is dancing to a different drummer applies in this case. And the term "Balkanization" also applies.The issue whether the multiculturalism we're seeing is bad or good is a separate issue--what I have pointed out is what it is and who is behind it.You have not refuted a bit of that.

That comment shows an ignorance of history.The Chinese workers who built the railroads went into many other jobs after the railroads were finished. In my area they helped drain swamps to put in grain fields. But before long they were moving out of the fields and into business, so Japanese laborers were brought in to replace them. They too began to move into other jobs and the exclusion laws were enacted to restrict their immigration. Filipinos took their place, as they were American nationals after the Spanish-American war of 1898 and could not be excluded.Eventually all of these groups became part of the American culture that I mentioned in a previous post. While retaining respect for their home cultures, they became full-fledged Americans, participating in the American culture.This is the melting pot, and it worked pretty well.We have yet so see whether full multiculturalism, where everyone dances to their own drummer, will work as well.

Your post does not tell the whole story.Those Chinese, particularly on the west coast, became valuable members of society over time--they were part of the melting pot. So did the Japanese and later Filipinos. I know a lot of them in my area. They'd be astounded if they were considered anything but Americans!A lot of groups faced discrimination to start with. The Irish were one of those. Virtually all of those groups overcame that and became full-fledged Americans.That does not seem to be the goal today.

No, nothing so specific.My comment has been that multiculturalism, as pushed by the usual suspects, is designed to diminish the American culture.Nobody has offered any comments or refutation of that point.

Sharia law is entirely foreign to Western civilization, and has no improvements to offer.For what reason would we adopt it? Other than some folks, recently arrived, grew up with it?Perhaps they need to adapt, not try to force their ways upon the dominant culture that has welcomed them? It's a thought.

Adapted from Dr. Peter Hammond’s book: Slavery, Terrorism and Islam: The Historical Roots and Contemporary Threat:Islam is not a religion, nor is it a cult. In its fullest form, it is a complete, total, 100% system of life. Islam has religious, legal, political, economic, social, and military components. The religious component is a beard for all of the other components.Islamization begins when there are sufficient Muslims in a country to agitate for their religious privileges. When politically correct, tolerant, and culturally diverse societies agree to Muslim demands for their religious privileges, some of the other components tend to creep in as well..Here’s how it works:As long as the Muslim population remains around or under 2% in any given country, they will be for the most part be regarded as a peace-loving minority, and not as a threat to other citizens. This is the case in:United States Muslim 0.6%
Australia Muslim 1.5%
Canada Muslim 1.9%
China Muslim 1.8%
Italy Muslim 1.5%
Norway Muslim 1.8%At 2% to 5%, they begin to proselytize from other ethnic minorities and disaffected groups, often with major recruiting from the jails and among street gangs. This is happening in:Denmark Muslim 2%
Germany Muslim 3.7%
United Kingdom Muslim 2.7%
Spain Muslim 4%
Thailand Muslim 4.6%From 5% on, they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their percentage of the population. For example, they will push for the introduction of halal (clean by Islamic standards) food, thereby securing food preparation jobs for Muslims. They will increase pressure on supermarket chains to feature halal on their shelves along with threats for failure to comply.This is occurring in:
France Muslim 8%
Philippines Muslims 5%
Sweden Muslim 5%
Switzerland Muslim 4.3%
The Netherlands Muslim 5.5%
Trinidad & Tobago Muslim 5.8%At this point, they will work to get the ruling government to allow them to rule themselves (within their ghettos) under Sharia, the Islamic Law.The ultimate goal of Islamists is to establish Sharia law over the entire world. When Muslims approach 10% of the population, they tend to increase lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions.In Paris, we are already seeing car-burnings. Any non Muslim action offends Islam, and results in uprisings and threats, such as in Amsterdam , with opposition to Mohammed cartoons and films about Islam. Such tensions are seen daily, particularly in Muslim sections, in:Guyana Muslim 10%
India Muslim 13.4%
Israel Muslim 16%
Kenya Muslim 10%
Russia Muslim 15%After reaching 20%, nations can expect hair-trigger rioting, jihad militia formations, sporadic killings, and the burnings of Christian churches and Jewish synagogues, such as in:
Ethiopia Muslim 32.8%At 40%, nations experience widespread massacres, chronic terror attacks, and ongoing militia warfare, such as in:
Bosnia Muslim 40%
Chad Muslim 53.1%
Lebanon Muslim 59.7%From 60%, nations experience unfettered persecution of non-believers of all other religions (including non-conforming Muslims), sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of Sharia Law as a weapon, and Jizya, the tax placed on infidels, such as in:Albania Muslim 70%
Malaysia Muslim 60.4%
Qatar Muslim 77.5%
Sudan Muslim 70%After 80%, expect daily intimidation and violent jihad, some State-run ethnic cleansing, and even some genocide, as these nations drive out the infidels, and move toward 100% Muslim, such as has been experienced and in some ways is on-going in:Bangladesh Muslim 83%
Egypt Muslim 90%
Gaza Muslim 98.7%
Indonesia Muslim 86.1%
Iran Muslim 98%
Iraq Muslim 97%
Jordan Muslim 92%
Morocco Muslim 98.7%
Pakistan Muslim 97%
Palestine Muslim 99%
Syria Muslim 90%
Tajikistan Muslim 90%
Turkey Muslim 99.8%
United Arab Emirates Muslim 96%100% will usher in the peace of ‘Dar-es-Salaam’ the Islamic House of Peace.. Here there’s supposed to be peace, because everybody is a Muslim, the Madrasses are the only schools, and the Koran is the only word, such as in:Afghanistan Muslim 100%
Saudi Arabia Muslim 100%
Somalia Muslim 100%
Yemen Muslim 100%Unfortunately, peace is never achieved, as in these 100% states the most radical Muslims intimidate and spew hatred, and satisfy their blood lust by killing less radical Muslims, for a variety of reasons.Before I was nine I had learned the basic canon of Arab life. It was me against my brother; me and my brother against our father; my family against my cousins and the clan; the clan against the tribe; the tribe against the world, and all of us against the infidel. Leon Uris, ‘The Haj’It is important to understand that in some countries, with well under 100% Muslim populations, such as France, the minority Muslim populations live in ghettos, within which they are 100% Muslim, and within which they live by Sharia Law. The national police do not even enter these ghettos.There are no national courts, nor schools, nor non-Muslim religious facilities. In such situations, Muslims do not integrate into the community at large. The children attend madrasses. They learn only the Koran. To even associate with an infidel is a crime punishable with death.Therefore, in some areas of certain nations, Muslim Imams and extremists exercise more power than the national average would indicate. Today’s 1.5 billion Muslims make up 22% of the world’s population. But their birth rates dwarf the birth rates of Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, Jews, and all other believers. Muslims will exceed 50% of the world’s population by the end of this century.Edited by Coyote, : speeling

It would be best if you read what I actually write and not try to make up things you wish I would write.That's totally dishonest.

If you want to consider various behaviors as "social norms" you must place them in the society to which they belong.What is a social norm in one place isn't always acceptable elsewhere.Our legal system is not obliged to ignore beheadings because someone's daughter dated the wrong fellow, not is blasphemy a crime punishable by death here just because it offends someone's sensibilities.

If people come from other places to "blend into our societies," perhaps it is best if they actually do so, not demand that their ways of doing things be dominant.If they wanted that, they could have saved themselves the trip.Take the reverse case: any of us who emigrate to another country and demand that our ways be not only accepted but dominate are in for a rude awakening.As an example: I believe you are from Canada. And I'm willing to bet that anyone moving to Canada from the US who brings a lot of guns and demands to be treated under US rather than Canadian laws would not get a warm reception.

This thread needs a new start; it has gone completely stale:

When Liberal Preferences Meet Islamic Principles
By Selwyn Duke

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There was a recent scandal that, as much as anything else, illustrates the intellectual emptiness and moral ennui of the modern liberal man. It occurred in Britain but reflects a wider phenomenon; what can be said about it can be said about happenings in Sweden, France, Holland, Canada or Belgium or the United States.

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It was discovered recently that Muslims in seven London schools were indoctrinating children with Islamic propaganda, ignoring Western culture and refusing to inculcate the British values of the moment. The situation was such that all of one school’s library books were in Arabic and many students couldn’t tell investigators whether they should follow British or Sharia law or which was more important. And one of these schools, mind you, was a state-run Church of England institution that happens to now be upwards of 80 percent Muslim.

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When hearing about the subordination of British law to Sharia and other such Islamic cultural inroads, one of my instincts is to say So what? Cry me a river of multiculturalist tears.

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Multiculturalism, we’ve been told, dictates that all cultures are morally equal and deserve the same respect and footing within Western civilization. Never mind that the ideology is self-defeating. After all, since different cultures espouse different values, not all cultures can be morally equal unless all values are so. This makes multiculturalism not only a corollary of, but also a Trojan horse for, moral relativism. And consider the implications. If all values are equal, how can showing cultures equal respect be superior to cultural chauvinism? And what if another culture does prescribe the latter? It then follows that the people within it cannot both have their own culture, unaltered, and accept multiculturalism.

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Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/...nciples.html#ixzz3LGGoCD7w

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Let's Laugh at Islam - Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish articles Two excerpts from a long blog:

The true war against Islam is not a military war, it is a cultural war. For Islam it is a religious conflict by an empire intent on transforming every aspect of life into one defined by Islam. For us it is about preserving our way of life. The cartoon controversy woke many Europeans to the fact that free speech and many of the other attributes of democracy that they take for granted are incompatible with Islam. Under the relentless pressure of multi-culturalism, they and we are increasingly deciding that our way of life has to bow to theirs.

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The way to defeat Islam is never to coddle it, to enable its rages or its conquest of our lands. It is to stand up to it over and over again. It's to laugh at it. Yes laugh it and ridicule it. America is a collection of immigrants with the humorous traditions of dozens of cultures, Irish, Jews, Italians, Scots, Russians, Asians. We're not just the reservoir of the world's talent but its humor too and humor is the ultimate weapon against the balloon that is Islam. Islam can only expand by force. It can't leverage any real military force against us. Instead it expands by intimidation, by conformity, by deception, by political correctness. It has no defense against laughter. Men who are so insecure they would kill over a stray word here or there, can't stand up to being laughed at, to being ridiculed, to have their cherished values transformed into a laughingstock.

Multicultural Suicide – PJ Media

Fueling the Western paralysis in dealing with radical Islam is the late 20th century doctrine of multiculturalism.

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Multiculturalism is one of those buzzwords that does not mean what it should. The ancient and generic Western study of many cultures is not multiculturalism. Rather, the trendy term promotes non-Western cultures to a status equal with or superior to Western culture largely to fulfill contemporary political agendas.

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On college campuses, multiculturalism not so much manifests itself in the worthy interest in Chinese literature, Persian history, or hieroglyphics, but rather has become more a therapeutic exercise of exaggerating Western sins while ignoring non-Western pathologies to attract those who see themselves in some way as not part of the dominant culture.

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It is a deductive ideology that starts with a premise of Western fault and then makes evidence fit the paradigm. It is ironic that only Western culture is self-critical and since antiquity far more interested than other civilizations in empirically investigating the culture of the other. It is no accident that Europeans and Americans take on their own racism, sexism, and tribalism in a way that is not true of China, Nigeria or Mexico. Parody, satire, and caricature are not Chinese, African, or Arab words.

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