AT LAST A WESTERN LEADER OF SIGNIFICANCE has dared to tread on a few egg shells in order to say what millions of people throughout Europe have been waiting for one of their leaders to say.
Of course Angela Merkle was addressing the Christian Democrat (CDU) youth, when she spoke of the failure of Multiculturalism; and many of her colleagues throughout the continent hoped that she said what she did in order to rally her party, whose members have demanded a stronger line to be taken by the party on immigration: an issue that every government in the EU has avoided and allowed to fester until a more vigorous Right-wing politics is emerging as part of the centre ground.
If it is the case that Chancellor Merkle is playing politics with this issue by making all of the right noises in order to keep her party with her, then she will be found out and the disillusionment this causes will drive people to ever greater extremes on both the Left as well as the Right.
Chancellor Merkle has said, “This (multicultural) approach has failed, utterly failed”. At a time when, to criticise this ideology of multiculturalism, amounts to racism, then the German Chancellor has been very brave for saying the things she has on the subject.
Doubly so because, being a German, she faces, unfairly, the taunt of history. If she is genuine, such sneering will only come from the Left, and the Left do not represent the German people any more than they do in this country.
I hope in the coming days Chancellor Merkle will not seek in any way or form, to either bluntly or diplomatically renege upon her views on multiculturalism. She has said what every other conservative voice throughout the rest of Europe has feared saying including our Prime Minister, David Cameron.
Because of this pernicious ideology and its Witch-Finder General, “political correctness”, the ordinary people have effectively been gagged from protesting its creation and its spread.
THERE IS NOTHING ORGANIC OR NATURAL about Multiculturalism. It is a creation of a well-meaning, but innocent mind. It is a philosophy, creed; and now a dogma. In this country, or so I have read, its principle proponent was Roy Jenkins who, just before it was too late to do so, had second thoughts as to its wisdom.
Multiculturalism is the antitheses of integration - the very concept we are told, it set out to accomplish. By creating a tapestry of different cultures separated from each other but all of equal worth to each other, including the host culture, was bound to be a recipe for failure. Such a system could have only flowered from an idealistic and well meaning, but ultimately, disastrous, mind.
I believe that the creed of multiculturalism was erected as a by-product of Liberal guilt for our colonial past. My use of the word liberal is meant to encompass, in this respect, every aspect of the Left-wing diatribe, encompassing all of the main parties.
Liberalism has created a monster. Multiculturalism wherever it has been practiced has led only to conflict. It has done so because different people of different cultures want only their own country to defend and prosper. When India became independent, over 100,000 people died in the ensuing conflict which lead to the creation of Pakistan: and thousands more were killed when Bangladesh was given birth to.
Those conflicts mean as much to India and Pakistan nationalism as British history means to our own indigenous culture. We have, as a nation, ever since the invasion of the Anglo Saxons after the retreat of the Romans in the 5th century AD, and the eventual rise of the Anglo Saxon King, Alfred the Great 849-899, became master of our culture, and any other that sought conquest of these isles were at least challenged and fought against. Any intruders were and had always been defied since the arrival of the Romans and were at least fought with. If not in the end defeated, then at least contained; and this continued until 1066 and the arrival of William the Conqueror whose forces committed the nearest thing to genocide in the medieval world that has landed upon our shores. Yet even William, as we all know from the Battle of Hastings had a less than peaceful conquest.
On these Isles at least, we have all, in one way or another over the centuries fought for our culture. Much bloodshed has been split between the English and the Scots for instance, as well as the ancient British and Roman, and the Romo-British and Saxon. We also ventured our opposition to Viking and Norman over the centuries. Even today there is a love-hate relationship between England and Scotland, but it is also one of mutual respect.
MULTICULTURALISM will fail because it seeks to equalise all cultures including the host culture. Thus emerges separatism instead of uniformity. Uniformity would entail the acceptance of the host culture as the primary culture under which all others must live according to the laws and traditions of the culture. But if those traditions have been tampered with in order to create a Multicultural society then British culture will be put in the blender and be reduced to the contents of a mere slop pail.
It is my position not to prohibit other cultures, but only to demand from them that if they chose to live in a host culture , then their own cultural mores must be placed second to those of the host culture: and if this proves impossible then they must return to the country that better suits their own culture.
The only way that different cultures can live with each other is for the host culture to set the ground rules and if other cultures find themselves in disagreement with them, then they must return to the culture they came from and defend it with as much vigour as the culture they were dislodged from.
If Germany, like any other country in Europe, wishes to maintain their own cultural identity, they must insist that any minority that wishes to achieve citizenship among them has to put German culture (including the language) before their own; which also includes all lawmaking.
This is all Chancellor Merkle requires. She is not a racist but a protector of her culture, if, that is, she remains serious about her claims.
Multiculturalism always diminishes the host culture and its history and cultural traditions. History and tradition comprise that which carves out a nation, and glues its people together. It is only history that creates a nation; and a nation with as proud a history as should not have diminished by multiculturalism.
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