Multiculturalism

"No go" zones are where the POLICE won't go. Coming Soon to America

You are being lied to Faith.If there is a "no go" zone in London tell me about it. I will go there and I can absolutely assure you that I am not some sort of badass who goes where the police fear to tread. Name these "no go" zones that you are so convinced must exist.

I read the article Faith - it effectively states that there are areas in cities in which a lot of Muslims have settled. It goes on to say that it doesn't matter what you call these areas, so let's call them "no-go areas".This is despite the article acknowledging that police do, in fact, go to them, to perform their role.Would you agree that choosing to call an area a "no-go area" is, itself, a choice which is intended to be divisive, pejorative and misleading ?

I consider myself "usually able bodied" rather than "old" but I always use the ramps at intersections instead of taking the six-inch leap of faith off the curb. The city is routinely putting them in as the old sidewalks are replaced; it can't be that much more expensive. (Another advantage is that they eliminate the need for armour plating to protect the curbs from heavy vehicles taking the corners to sharply.)

Funny that's not how I read it at all. It says there are areas in the US that are populated by Muslims who don't want to assimilate, that eventually will become no go zones which they already have in Europe.

Just like Chinatown and Little Italy

Still waiting for evidence on these no go zones you seem to be an expert on.

Wait long enough and you'll find yourself surrounded by them. I think I'll leave it at that.

I grew up in the only Christian family in a Jewish neighborhood. I guess I was in middle school before I found out that the lions didn't eat all the other Christians.A few blocks north of our row house was the "Deli".Now it was not like what passes throughout most of the country for a deli, this was a true Jewish Deli.There was the great oak barrel of pickles and you stuck your hand down in the brine squeezing them to pick out the biggest, firmest pickle you could find. On the counter was the aluminum tray of Coddies (cod fish cakes) and saltines and folk helped themselves and snacked on them while browsing the store. I always suspected they were delivered on Mondays and Wednesdays and on Tuesdays and Thursdays they simply turned the uneaten ones over.The rolls of fly paper hung from the ceiling as the big ceiling fans turned slowly giving the illusion of a breeze but mostly simply mixing the smells and the hot, humid air.At the far most rear corner of the Deli was an old wooden table littered with newspapers in Hebrew where older men gathered, some clean shaved, others bearded, all speaking at the same time in a mixture of English and Yiddish. Often in the mornings they would have a plate with a half eaten Bureka sitting in front of them and as their hands slapped the table the small white cups of coffee would dance in the saucers.The Deli roasted their own beans and you could tell when coffee was being roasted from a block away. The whole neighborhood took on the air of expectancy when the coffee was roasting and people walking on the street raised their heads and sniffed the air, their destination forgotten as their paths converged for that cup of just roasted coffee.As a kid, I was not allowed coffee, it would stunt my growth, but Mr. Blumberg would always give me a small glass filled with milk with just a touch of coffee added, and would tell me "don't let your parents see that" in a voice that everyone in the deli heard. But as a child, I knew it was "our secret" and I would take my glass to the back and sit at the end of the table trying to be as near invisible as a goy can be at a table filled with adults in a Talmudic Dispute.Eventually mom and dad would call me and everyone at the table would stop talking and look at me. As I'd gulp down the last of my "coffee" and run to catch up I'd always hear someone at the table say "Such a good boy."Little did they know.

I don't see any problem with that.

A mixed day for multiculturalism in the UK.The first FGM case to go to court in the UK returned a not guilty verdict after only 30 minutes and it seems like the right verdict. The prosecution service appears to have picked a really rediculous case in its haste to be seen to be 'on-message' with the new reality. (After years of being 'on-message' with misplaced cultural sensitivity.)The entire Rotherham council has resigned and two councillors have been referred to the police after an investigation into the child sex scandels involving Pakistani men and white children. It's a pretty horrendous story of child abuse and trafficking being totally ignore by those in charge because of cultural sensitivities and pure bonebreaking incompetence.Government in Rotherham Council takeover after abuse inquiry - BBC News

There seems to be a fair number of reasons for the scandal, but one of the ones referred to on the news reports is political correctness. I need to see the report itself, but if political correctness is a relevant reason, it goes to the issue we're debating here.Does an over-arching desire to defer to multiculturalism, sometimes (rarely, but in this case, really importantly) lead to harm being done to innocent people ?If so, how do we stop that, and still prevent the knee jerk reaction which condemns a whole faith or community ?

Does the U.S. have any hope of making it in the global competition of public education? If Multiculturalism wins the day, chances are it won't:

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"Proposals to Diversify NYC's Top High Schools Would Do Little to Help, Study Finds" from NPR:

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The NYU researchers said that guaranteeing entry to the top students from every high school would make the elite high schools more diverse, but warned that taking that approach would come "at the cost of reducing the average achievement of incoming students."

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Aren't there more effective means of providing minoritiesa category which, at the schools in question, includes white kidsan increased representation in top schools than lowering the standards for entrance into those schools?I would certainly think so; but when Multiculturalism is the rule, nothing else really mattersincluding reality.

We talk a lot about teachers dropping evolution from their courses to appease Christian conservatives, but teachers are also dropping the Holocaust form their history lessons to avoid offending their Muslim students:

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"Teachers Drop Holocaust to Avoid Offending Muslims" from Daily Mail:

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Schools are dropping the Holocaust from history lessons to avoid offending Muslim pupils, a Governmentbacked study has revealed.

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It found some teachers are reluctant to cover the atrocity for fear of upsetting students whose beliefs include Holocaust denial.
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But Chris McGovern, history education adviser to the former Tory government, said: "History is not a vehicle for promoting political correctness. Children must have access to knowledge of these controversial subjects, whether palatable or unpalatable."

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This will be a wonderful thing to cite next time a creationist complains about those innocent Christian children being indoctrinated with evolutionismistarianism.There's an old joke about the man who put a chameleon on a tartan rug just to watch it die ...