“In Britain's hospitable establishment
different beliefs were welcomed but only one was preeminent - Christianity. The
fact is that for too long the doctrine of multiculturalism has led to
immigrants establishing completely separate communities in our cities. This has
led to honour killings, female genital circumcision and the establishment of
sharia law in inner-city pockets throughout the UK.” Lord Carey
THE SENTIMENTS in the Lord Carey quote above are
welcome. The ideology of multiculturalism has proven a disaster; but I fear
Lord Carey should have said what he is now saying when he was Archbishop of
Canterbury. I remember reading of one of multiculturalisms founding disciples,
the late Roy Jenkins, having second thoughts about the wisdom of this ideology
on the social fabric of the country in his later years.
Like
communism, socialism, and fascism; multiculturalism emerged from the vault
of political idealism, as did European
federalism. In all of these cases the followers meant, and still mean well. They
all looked to a better kinder world - yes, even the Nazis, because by
eliminating their political enemies, like the socialist, communists and
democrats, they believed they had a utopian blueprint for a better world that
required it.
Multiculturalism
is such a blueprint. It believes in a society of the culturally diverse living
in harmony[1]
and each tolerating the other's cultures. Like all such utopian dream worlds
born from the purest of motives to do
the best for mankind, reality intrudes; human nature intrudes. Soon it is not
so simple as the simple minds thought it would be.
This
is where political correctness and the dreaded hate crime were included in multiculturalism's annotation, to dampen any opposition
to the intended perfect harmony. It is multiculturalism's way of disciplining
opponents of its ideology. Instead of trying to eliminate racism, they have not
only managed to breed a silent antipathy among the white indigenous working
class – but also among the other cultures for each other. Pakistanis for
Indians; Indians for Pakistanis; Afro Caribbean's for Africans; Indians for
Afro Caribbean's - some melting pot.
Political
idealism is a poison, and in the 20th century it managed to
eliminate hundreds of millions of humanity in its pursuance. Those who seek to
find ways of changing human nature, usually only end up, practising its worse
aspects in trying to change it; and without success.
TO BE FARE TO the former Archbishop of Canterbury,
if he said the things he is now saying when he oversaw the Anglican Church, he
would have no doubt been jumped upon as a racist and a disgrace to his office;
especially by New Labour under whose governance he partly served. But whatever
government; if the noble Lord had expressed himself in terms that I have quoted
above at the time of his residence, he would have fallen foul of political
correctness and be seen as either requiring instant dismissal - or an exorcism
under Roman rules.
It
is the architects of multiculturalism that have reduced this nation; it is also
the believers in such an endeavour that will have also added to this nation's
eventual fall. There can be harmony between nations, who can form alliances
between each other, as there always have been. This has been the pragmatic way
forward between nations and peoples for centuries. Pragmatism does not promise
eternal peace for the world which political idealism attempts to do, but makes
a studious attempt at keeping the peace between nations as the only possible
way forward, as it had been done for almost a thousand years.
In
Europe, it appears, this was never good enough. Peace in Europe demands that
the continent be divided into provinces to replace the nation states, and each province
sub-divided into regions - the European federal ideal.
MULTICULTURALISM is just the latest figment of an idealists
imagination. It is sad how we seem to try to create new political isms which
usually end in, materially speaking, the most horrendous of consequences for
the human beings whose lives they are meant to improve.
Lord
Carey is right. He may however be too late after his decision to speak out after his retirement. For the
multiculturalism bandwagon has now moved on, and it cannot be stopped. Indeed,
there is no enthusiasm among the political classes for it to be brought to a
halt. Multiculturalism still carries much weight within the liberal hegemony
and they are not prepared to see their child suffocated.
But,
suffocate it is a must. Henry Kissinger has been quoted as saying that he can
envisage a time when Paris is surrounded by Gaza strips. France has twice as
many Muslims living among them as we do in the UK, and we can see how this fact
made a major contribution to the waves of anti-Semitism that has erupted since
Israel's Operation Protective Edge in Gaza. But it was not the indigenous French people
who partook in these assaults on shops and synagogues, but France's Muslim
population.
It
would be none PC to highlight the Muslim contribution to these attacks, so the
media did not mention it (at least here in the UK). French Muslims are French, British Muslims are British. Their cultures are as important
and equal to that of the indigenous populations' within multiculturalism. But
the anti-Semitic stain will spread to the indigenous population when the
history of these events is written.
Lord
Carey has at least shown the courage his predecessor and his successor lacks
when it comes to multiculturalism. His message will be heard and cause, if only
in a meagre, some rethinking among the liberals.
[1]
Some of you may remember that old Coke advert from the 1970s. The one built
around the song , 'I'd like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony.'
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