Diversity and Multiculturalism

There is a growing movement of people following the Tommy Robinson/ Britain First anti-extreme Muslim sentiments that are growing in the UK.

Several terror attacks, the rise of "extreme" Islam and the unwillingness of more devout Muslims to integrate into Western society points to a big error in the way the Muslim community have been accepted into the UK and the Western World.

First, you have to look at history and how this clash of cultures has come about. I've blogged before about back when I was a kid in the 60's I lived in a multicultural area. Hindus, Poles, Romanians, Ukrainians and yes a smattering of Muslims all lived in my area and went to my schools. We hardly had any racial tension because we all got along. Even the Muslims in those days understood the value of Western Society and were grateful for the opportunities that immigration to the UK afforded.

Obviously the second-generation Eastern Europeans had an easier time becoming fully integrated, although they paid for their own community centre so as to save their cultural identity.

The Hindus and the first wave of Muslims integrated fine.  I had Hindu and Muslim GPs back in the Eighties when the NHS wasn't as reliant on immigrants as it is now.

So, I'm talking from a position of tollerance and fair play: the essence of Britishness I guess.

Diversity in it's literal form I have no problem with. I know a racially diverse country is not a bad thing at all.

However, what I do have a problem with is the monster that has become multiculturalism.

The multicultral phenomenon started in the Eighties although it had it's roots in the late Seventies. It professes that once person's culture is just as valid as another, that no culture is superior to another, which then infers that cultures need not integrate with one another. I'd throw the phrase "Cultural Marxism" in here, but reeaaallly, is it?

It is the monster that has allowed Muslim enclaves to be created (because all cultures are equal and therefore Muslims have the right to a separate culture, identity and community). In effect rather than the intergrational policy that diversity and equality promoted, multiculturalism promote cultural racism (although racism isn't really accurate as it's a separation of cultures, but the term fits because it has the satisfactory overtones).

This cultural racist (cultural separatist for want of a better phrase) policy gained traction in the Nineties. In that decade you saw more and more Muslims and especially young Muslims being influenced by incoming immigrants and their strong cultural identity.

That in turn led to the more devout Islamists gathering a flock of followers. The more extremist organisations that are now two decades later mostly proscribed came to prominence.

Those organisations reached out to their brothers in other countries. At that time Iran wasn't the poster child of Muslimhood and to be honest, the tide of Muslimhood in the UK at the time was turing from a Shia majority, to a Pakistani Sunni majority.

As the Islamic power in the world was the Sunni side, backed in the main by Saudi Arabia, but reinforced by the other gulf states and as Muslims in the UK became a Sunni majority. The Sunni-led Gulf Staes was where the funding came from and that's why in the main the Imams that came to preach in UK Mosques were the more fundamentalist Wahabbi sect of Islam.

Hence why in 2001 the Muslims in the UK quietly (or not so quietly in some cases) celebrated the twin towers attacks

History may have been different had Iran not been ostracised after the Islamic revolution and the kidnapping of the US embassy hostages. The Islamic problem probably would not have happened as there would be a balancing affect in the Muslim world putting the brakes on the domination of Wahabbism.

Anyway, back to the point: the multi-culti/everyone and every culture is equal policy in the West has caused a great deal of problems.

The debate has not yet turned to where and how multiculturalism has failed and how to rectify the problems it has caused. But turn it has to, because the problems will not go away until they are recognised and brought into the daylight and debated.

To find an answer to a problem, first you have to recognise you have a problem.

The alternative is unthinkable, because it usually involves violence and violence is to be avoided at all costs.

But the clock is ticking.......