Multiculturalism equals opliteration of freedom

Multiculturalism can equal the downfall of a country, as we have seen in Europe recently. I'm not talking about the multiculturalism that "stresses mutual respect and tolerance for cultural differences within a country" that we here in America practice every day of our lives.

What I am talking about is "multiculturalism that seeks to obliterate the value of a free, industrialized civilization (which today exists in the West and elsewhere), by declaring that such a civilization is no better than primitive tribalism. More deeply, it seeks to incapacitate a mind’s ability to distinguish good from evil, to distinguish that which is life promoting from that which is life negating."

We are opposed to this destructive doctrine. We hold that moral judgment is essential to life. The ideas and values that animate a particular culture can and should be judged objectively. A culture that values freedom, progress, reason and science, for instance, is good; one that values oppression, stagnation, mysticism, and ignorance is not. Ayn Rand Corporation

One recent example of this is the documentary film "Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West". The movie was to premier in Canada, but Shahina Siddiqui, the president of the Islamic Social Services Associations told the press, "I want the police to identify this as hate propaganda." So much for free speech, just try to declare something 'hate propaganda' and stop anyone from being able to 'choose' to view it or not. It's not hate if it's true.

The Canadian terrorists are now giving some reasons for their planned attacks, "images of conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan, and anger at what they saw as the mistreatment of Muslims at home". (London Telegraph) The truth is there is no excuse. These are just evil men, taught evil by Imams in mosques that were opened under the guise of teaching peace.

Canadians will be asking "why". Why do they hate us, why do they want to harm us. Americans asked this same question after September 11. Leonard Peikoff offeres this answer, "Fifty years of increasing American appeasement in the Mideast have led to fifty years of increasing contempt in the Muslim world for the U.S. The climax was September 11, 2001."

I say again, there is no answer to 'why'. It doesn't matter what we do, what we don't do, what we say, there are those out there who hate us. There is nothing we can do to change THEM. What we must do is change US. Yes, change our way of thinking. Change our attitudes here in the good ol' USA.

What we can do is nip 'multiculturalism' in the bud. Stop this politically correct habit of not calling something what it is. If a terrorists is Muslim or Arab or Islamic or Christian or Jewish, or Hindu, or whatever, then call him/her that. It they are planning 'terror attacks', then call them terrorists. It doesn't matter where they were born, it doesn't matter if they are immigrants, it doesn't matter what race or color or age or sex they are. Use the proper terminology.

Ottawa mentions a "violent ideology," but refrains from citing its name, let alone its objectives.

What else can we do? Don't make excuses for someone's actions. The press called the Toronto terrorists 'disaffected' youths suffering from "economic discrimination". They were from well-to-do families; they had nice homes, they had working, professional parents; they had access to schools and universities.

Commentators are eager to offer a bevy of pseudo-explanations--poverty, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, etc.--while ignoring the motivation the terrorists themselves openly proclaim: Islam.

The near silence about the true role of Islam in motivating Islamic terrorists has two main causes: multiculturalism and religion. Multiculturalism asserts that all cultures are equal and therefore none may criticize another; intellectuals and politicians are therefore reluctant to declare the obvious superiority of Western culture to Islamic culture. source

Part of the blame goes directly to the media:

Yet because of the defiant, irrational and immoral refusal of Western political, cultural and media elites to acknowledge the threat that internal and external jihadist forces manifest to the very notion of human freedom, they make it impossible for their societies to take measures to protect themselves. Caroline B. Glick

Another part of the problem is the 'religious leaders':

The Canadian Islamic Congress (whose leader, Mohamed Elmasry has openly stated his view that all Israeli citizens are legitimate targets for terrorist murder), attacked Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper for what it referred to as his decision to "paint today's arrests as a battle between 'us' and 'them.'" The CIC alleged that "Such statements put all Canadian Muslims in great danger," and demanded that the Canadian government fund "legitimate academic research to diagnose this serious social problem [of Canadian Muslims waging war against their country] and provide scientific solutions to it." source

... non-Muslims in Canada should ask themselves a basic question: What makes so many of us afraid to ask about what's happening in the Muslim community? The easy answer is multiculturalism, according to which all cultures and religions are equal and off-limits to scrutiny. source

With the bust of a suspected terror plot in Toronto, amateur jihadists should expect more questions. For example, if they're so outraged by images of Muslim corpses in the dusty streets of Baghdad, where's their fury over black Muslims dying at the feet of Arab militias in Darfur? Or democracy activists being clubbed by Mubarak's riot police in Cairo?

In the past 50 years, more Muslims have been raped, imprisoned, tortured and murdered by other Muslims than by any foreign imperial power. Does that matter to the would-be jihadists? If not, aren't they doing exactly what they claim the West does -- demeaning Muslim victims of oppression?

The rest of us should expect questions, too. Ordinary Muslims have a duty to challenge any clerics and civic leaders who make excuses for Islamist terror. After last year's bombings in London, the Muslim Council of Britain insisted that the real culprit was economic discrimination. Irshad Manji

Walid Phares says the jihadis have divided their enemy countries into two groups, the "A list" and the "B ilist":

On the A list are "those who are engaged directly in confrontations with Jihadi networks on battlefields such as Afghanistan and Iraq, are "open targets." On the B list are all other 'enemies of the cause' but decisions to strike them fall into the hands of the "local emirs."

This week two countries from the A and B lists witnessed ponctual counter Terrorism operations leading to the arrests of dozens suspects and the foiling, according to authorities, of potential future bombings: Great Britain and Canada. source

What about our 'spreading democracy' campaign? It is a noble idea. It is a great thing to strive to share the freedom and democracy that we have here in the United States with the rest of the world. BUT, the rest of the world has to WANT that democracy. One expert says that Islamic countries are not capable of democracy as we know it.

Since the Sept. 11 terror attacks nearly five years ago, Americans have come increasingly to believe that political Islam is a mortal threat to the West, an aggressive and totalitarian ideology dedicated to random destruction and global subjugation.

1. The political Islamist movement is highly complex and diverse. It encompasses a broad spectrum of mainstream and militant forces.

2. Mainstream or traditional Islamists are not born-again democrats and never will be. They are deeply patriarchal, seeing themselves as the guardians of faith, tradition, and authenticity.source

Respect each other's beliefs? Yes. But making it wrong to 'question' the intentions of another, or call a terrorist what they are? No. Put the needs of the few, ahead of the needs and freedoms of the many? Definately NOT!

Stix Blog has an excellent letter from an ex-Muslim, with a "very disturbing prediction of the end of the world as we in the West know it." Go read it all here.

Update: Latest reports from Canada say the terrorists wanted to take over the CBC TV Network. (That would be scary if they would have forced the CRTC (Canadian FCC) to air beheadings.)
via Bud's Broadcast Network

Cross posted at Hyscience and Freedom's Zone

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