What If Only Liberals Want to Be Multicultural?

The prefered assumption of liberals and the left is that all new Canadians want to embrace multiculturalism and only aging, racist white men are standing in the way of utopian harmony.  I've always been suspicious of this assumption, mostly because I've met racists all over the world, from Pakistan to Romania, from Japan to St. Petersberg, so I find it hard to believe that everyone who immigrates to Canada is ready to embrace everyone else's culture with tolerance and respect.

But this article in the Toronto Sun about Muslims protesting on Remebrance Day raised even my eyebrows.  I have no argument with them protesting the war in Afghanistan, although I'd like to remind them of who helped them during the decade the Soviets occupied the country, and while burning a poppy is culturally insensitive and shows they have no knowledge of Canadian history or where that symbol came from, that kind of drama is the stock and trade of protests, an art perfected by the left.

What struck me dumb was their chant: "Islam will dominate!" and "Our dead are in paradise.  Your dead are in hell."

Now I traveled briefy with the mujahideen in Afghanistan in 1988, just as the Soviets were getting ready to make their escape from that disasterous war, so it doesn't surprise me that they believe we're going to hell or that Islam (and by extension the protesters) will "dominate" in the end.  What amazed me was that they were utterly shameles and open about it.

White males who chant similar intolerant rubbish publicly usually belong to neo-Nazi skinhead clubs, and the thought-police of human rights tribunals would be all over them in seconds for such an outburst.  Stiffer hate crime legislation would be dusted off and enacted, and existing hate crime laws would be prosecuted with extreme prejudice.

With Muslims, of course, the human rights groups fear to tread.  These Islamists are serious, and if you try and charge one of them with a hate crime then you'd better have the RCMP open your mail with a bomb squad robot, let alone brace yourself for a barrage of bad press from the MSM.

The Irish, the Chinese, the Italians, all the Europeans after WWII, the Vietnamese, the Hindu Indians--all these ethic groups and many others came to Canada and for the most part lived and let lived.  They may have felt superior to established Canadians, and some may have even thought they had superior religions or morals, but they were relatively quiet about it.  In the long run, they became Canadians.

But there is a branch of radical Islam that wants to conquer and convert Canada. They shout "Islam wil dominiate!"  Dominate.  Rule.

Jack Layton thinks he can win these people over to the NDP cause by sending them Ramadan greetings, but he'd better be ready to toss away the NDP stand on equal rights for women, homosexuals and anyone whose religion isn't Islam.  There has already been a rise in anti-semetic attacks on everything from synagoges to grave yards, and no one is pointing the finger at skin heads anymore.  Sadly, no one is brave enough to point a finger at all.

If multiculturalism dies in Canada, it won't be white males who killed it.  Indeed, it was Pierre Trudeau and his cronies who pushed the idea in the first place.  It just didn't occur to them that some people would come here and not agree with them that we should all live shoulder to shoulder and respect one another's culture.

It was a nice idea.  So is banning war.  Try that and see how long you last as a country when things go bad.  These ideas fail because there are always some radical groups out there like fundamentalist Muslims who will see it as weakness and exploit it to the max.

Get ready Canada.  The wolves are in the sheep pen.

Mike Downtown

Comments

[WiseGuy]

"Get ready" is right. There is no stopping Islam without extreme measures, and there are precious few in this country who are prepared to use them.

There will be many tears shed and much blood drawn before our sleeping culture wakes up and decides to defend itself. Whether we will be able to recover at that point, is doubtful. My beard is growing already.

[real conservative]

In a multicult society somebody in time will take over, who is it going to be?

[George Smith]

Gradually ... gradually ... your point will make it's painful way into the consciousness of our Western nations. Until then, we will experience a repetition of the shameful treatment applied to Mark and Ezra.

I don't mind ethic or religious groups who advocate a counter culture. what I do mind is the stupidity that refuses to recognize the reality staring us in the face.

Regards.

[bmatkin]

Trudeau was a progressive, he and his ilk dreamed up North-South dialogue, multiculturalism, debt, public education, single payer health care and revision of our history.
There is no multiculturalism, it is the dilution of western values nothing more. All this in an attempt to destroy the Liberal western civilization and impose some form of socialist utopia.

[Pfabian]

Societies and cultures that feel guilt over their heritage and accomplishments are usually replaced by societies and cultures that do not. In the U.S. the 1960s saw the white community split into three groups, and we're living with those splits to this day: genuine racists who wanted things to stay the same, liberals who thought the system was rotten to the core and needed to be replaced, and conservatives who recognized the terrible aspects of slavery and racism but wanted to make amends while preserving the good aspects of society. Between then and the present day, liberals have continued to pursue their revolution, the racist group has been shrinking and dying out, and the genuine conservatives have continued to make a case for preserving the best of the past while making amends for arbitrary discrimination. I believe that, in a nutshell, describes the deep political fault lines in America today. Of course, a genuine, open conversation about all this is too frightening to most, so people from the various groups argue with one another using "proxy" issues indirectly related to their main points. This is where we've been in America for 40 plus years now. I say all this because I think this dysfunctional set-up is the reason we can't effectively unite to tackle the radical Islamic "wolf at the door". Though I'm not nearly as familiar with Canadian history, I suspect a similar cultural split has occurred there, and it would seem the Canadian equivalent of American liberals have made more headway in Canada than libs have in America. I could be wrong, and I welcome critiques from Canadian readers.