Dancing with Dogs: Multiculti fascism...

Multiculti fascism...

A long time ago, I wrote a post on muticulturalism (I will have to look to find the link) where I was making points very similar to the ones in this article by a Brit writer. I found these excerpts especially poignant and heart-breaking -

We have been acting as though there is one thing called “Muslim culture”, and elderly imams or enraged, misogynistic young men are its only voice. A few weeks ago, it was driven home to me how wrong this is. I wrote about how the best way to defeat jihadists was to empower Muslim women, and I was inundated with e-mails from Muslim women, many explaining how the logic of multiculturalism weakened their hand.
One, in particular, is worth quoting at length: “My younger sisters go to Denbigh High School [in Luton] which was famous in the headlines last year because a girl pupil went to the High Court for her right to wear the jilbab [a long body-length shroud]. Shabinah [the girl who took the case] saw it as a great victory for Muslim women … but what happened next shows this is not a victory for us.
“My sisters, and me when I was younger, could always tell our dad and uncles that we weren’t allowed to wear the jilbab. Once the rules were changed, that excuse was not possible any more so my sisters have now been terrified into wearing this cumbersome and dehumanising garment all day against their wishes. Now most girls in the school do the same. They don’t want to, but now they cannot resist community pressure … I am frightened somebody is going to fight for the right to wear a burqa next and then my sisters will not even be able to show their faces.”

How condescending must a group feel towards a culture to believe that they have to treat it just right, water it and grow it in petri dishes so they can look at the little displays and coo, :how adorable!” and pat themselves on the back for keeping the exotic species alive. How can they call themselves liberal or progressive when all they are doing is to strive to keep a culture backward, conservative and unchanged!

More on this a little later when I get some time - a truly heartbreaking story via the Asianweek…coming soon!

Posted by shanti at August 10, 2005 9:38 AM