Just waiting for our prime minister (see post immediately below by Robert) or the US president:
‘State multiculturalism’ has failed – Cameron [with video]
Earlier opinion:
1) The days of doing deals with Muslim extremists are over
As minds are concentrated on matters abroad, the Prime Minister is about to deliver a few home truths, says Charles Moore...
This afternoon [Feb. 5], in Munich, David Cameron will tell some of these home truths. As I mentioned in this column a couple of weeks ago, the Prime Minister has become exasperated by the way much of the permanent bureaucracy, in its attempt to counter violent extremism, ends up appeasing it [how about this, Mr President?].
Coming at the subject from his Big Society, “we’re all in this together” perspective, Mr Cameron finds the opposite – a sectarian world in which Muslims are encouraged by extremist leaders to identify themselves in as aggressive and separate a way as possible. They are taught to aerate their grievances in order to get political power and public money. He does not deny that some grievances exist, but he rejects the idea that they cause, let alone justify, terrorism. He will point out that it is often Muslim professionals born here, and prospering in middle-class freedom, who are most radicalised. He is horrified that young men educated at some of our best universities pick up noxious ideas from some student Islamic societies. He is caustic about the double standard which defends such ideas in the name of academic freedom: this would never happen if they were the vapourings of white racists.
The true boldness of Mr Cameron’s message lies in his view that non-violent extremism is an entry-chamber for terrorism itself. He blames Islamist doctrine – the political ideology advocated by the Muslim Brotherhood under the cloak, or rather the veil, of religion – as the bad thought from which bad actions naturally spring. It fills the dangerous vacuum created by multi-culturalism…
2) David Cameron takes on the ideology of Islamist extremism
Today’s [Feb. 4] detailed revelations in the Telegraph from the Wikileaks hoard reveal the depth of concern on both sides of the Atlantic at the way Britain has become a forcing house for the ideology of Islamist extremism. MI6 told the Americans it was worried about the “unique” terrorist threat posed by our “home grown” extremists. The US in turn poured thousands of dollars into funding its own secret counter radicalisation campaign…
I wonder how much detailed coverage Mr Cameron or these WikiLeaks will get in the Canadian media.
Update: This however is what one of the Globe and Mail’s leading reporters/columnists/deep thinkers/whatevers thinks:
Who’s afraid of the Muslim Brotherhood?
Maybe Mr Cameron, that silly young man (text of his speech here)–Dauntless Doug Saunders of course knows better. He doubtless would have thought that Mao’s ChiComs were really just “agrarian reformers” (scroll down a bit)?
Sigh.
David Cameron is the first British PM since Thatcher who’s willing to call a spade a spade. Does no one here remember that Cameron, like Harper, is head of a minority government? As much as anyone would wish that Cameron could just wave his magic wand and the Muslims would disappear like the gun registry, the reality is he can’t, and they won’t.
As any navy man knows, you can’t turn a battleship in a football field. It takes a long time to just start turning. It will take even longer to completely come about. Cameron, like Harper, has to start the dialogue slowly and gently, lest he be accused of hidden agendas and the murder of kittens. Luckily, the English still remember the IRA (vaguely), so they understand what it means to have enemies amongst them who seek to kill. This makes Cameron’s task easier.
In Canada, we can say we’re lucky that the Toronto 16 and others have been apprehended before they can act, and I’m certainly glad no one in Canada has been killed by Islamists (well, except for their own daughters, of course). But there are times when I wonder what would have happened if the Islamists had committed some atrocity on Canadian soil – would the now docile and accepting “ordinary Canadian” suddenly have remembered the Canadian fighting spirit, and taken the matter into the streets? It’s a battle being fought in our courts, our schools, and our workplaces, and the more clever Islamists are realizing the way to boil the Canadian frog is slowly. If they make the water too hot (bombs and beheadings), we’ll jump out of the pot. If they just raise the temperature slowly, we’ll sit there stolidly until we’re truly in the soup.
Enoch Powell, 1968: “For reasons which they could not comprehend, and in pursuance of a decision by default, on which they were never consulted, they found themselves made strangers in their own country. They found their wives unable to obtain hospital beds in childbirth, their children unable to obtain school places, their homes and neighbourhoods changed beyond recognition, their plans and prospects for the future defeated; at work they found that employers hesitated to apply to the immigrant worker the standards of discipline and competence required of the native-born worker; they began to hear, as time went by, more and more voices which told them that they were now the unwanted. On top of this, they now learn that a one-way privilege is to be established by Act of Parliament; a law which cannot, and is not intended to, operate to protect them or redress their grievances, is to be enacted to give the stranger, the disgruntled and the agent provocateur the power to pillory them for their private actions.”
TJ said “And I bet every last one of them votes Liberal or NDP.”
And you would lose that bet tj.
Cameron’s response to the destruction of his country really is lukewarm.
And I shudder to think what is happening and what will happen in Canada.
James Delingpole shares his thoughts on the issue.
KevinB, I think you are misinterpreting some of the comments which are not optimistic concerning the situation. They are not anti-Cameron, for no matter what he tries to do to change course, it is almost impossible at this stage of the game, especially as a minority government. The UK is so far along on the road of national suicide that I fear it is too little and too late.
I don’t see anything wrong about his statements. The majority of the Muslim countries have much stricter rules and everyone has to obey them as a visitor so why should Britain be more benevolent as far as protecting its values is concerned?