When Lord Ahmed, the Muslim Labour peer, heard my comments — I said essentially that if Muslims wanted sharia they should go and live somewhere where they have it — he accused me of doing the BNP’s work. He is entitled to his opinion. However, a little honesty, like mine, in this whole debate might just restore trust in politicians and ease the population’s anxieties.
Shahid Malik, the times of london
If there was a little more of this sort of plain speaking the Muslims in England, much of Europe and in many ostensibly Muslim states would be a lot better off.
Written by jay on August 21st, 2006 with no comments.
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Britain’s loss of nerve is one of the main reasons it has become a global centre of Islamic extremism. For decades, successive British governments have regarded multiculturalism as an article of faith. The idea that Britain should become a joyous melting pot of different cultures and religions living side by side in mutual toleration and respect is a noble vision. But it’s not working out that way. Instead, the benefits of immigration are being lost through a failure to control numbers and a reluctance to pursue policies that might promote integration. As a result, Britain has a huge Muslim population, much of which is increasingly alienated from mainstream society. “Londonistan” is no longer just a safe haven for foreign extremists. Today, it nurtures home-grown terrorists, many born in Britain, educated at British schools and attending British universities.
the australian
Having a few beers wwith the ambler, kevin michael grace, yesterday afternoon we got onto the interesting question of whether or not the Blair administration has so subordinated Englishness, the British Constitution and the very idea of Great Britain to a bunch of multi-cul, pc lunacy that there was simply no way back.
Certainly Theodore Dalrymple’s article on the politically correct joke which passes for a justice system in England suggests the rot is very deep indeed. The mutiny of the passengers aboard Monarch Airlines flight 613 sparked by the presence of two heavily clad “Asians” in the sweltering heat of Malaga suggests that the Brits do not belieeve the assurances of their government that it is acting seriously to thwart terror.
With all of the efforts of the chattering classes made to pretend that the mass immigration experiment in England has been going swimmingly news of impending disaster is not reported gleefully or, often, at all. Worse, as Polly Toynbee of all people points out,
The unexpectedly high influx of eastern Europeans, mainly Poles (John Denham, the Labour MP for Southampton Itchen, estimates that the true number is closer to 1 million than the official 400,000), has brought benefits. They bring desperately needed skills, from dentistry to plumbing, compensating for Britain’s historic failure in vocational training. But their arrival also takes the urgency out of upskilling our own undertrained workforce.
the guardian
Immigration, per se, is not a huge problem; rather it is the nature of the immigrants and the culture of the nations they come from which can make a huge difference. The industrious Poles are somehow out competing some of the poster children of the multi-cult movement as Miss Toynbee points out:
Even if GDP grows, migration can make the rich richer and the poor poorer. London, where migration is greatest, also has the highest unemployment, especially among British-born ethnic minorities.
the guardian
Which of course leads to, with the help of chaps like the soon to be released Muslim cleric Sheikh Abdullah el-Faisal, thealienation which leads members of such ethnic minorities to blowing up themselves and others or taking advantage of the mockery which passes for criminal law in England.
Little wonder that England’s population is failing to replace itself very quickly as Mark Steyn points out in his CD Kemp lecture on the effects of Europes’ and England’s declining birth rates.
Written by jay on August 21st, 2006 with no comments.
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