Cox and Forkum have this post that is worth a peek. Here is the ‘toon:
Here is an excerpt from the text of the post:
It has been sobering this past week watching some of my “woollier” colleagues (in Vicki Woods’s self-designation) gradually awake to the realisation that the real suicide bomb is “multiculturalism”. Its remorseless tick-tock, suddenly louder than the ethnic drumming at an anti-globalisation demo, drove poor old Boris Johnson into rampaging around this page last Thursday like some demented late-night karaoke one-man Fiddler on the Roof, stamping his feet and bellowing, “Tradition! Tradition!” Boris’s plea for more Britishness was heartfelt and valiant, but I’m not sure I’d bet on it. The London bombers were, to the naked eye, assimilated – they ate fish ‘n’ chips, played cricket, sported appalling leisurewear. They’d adopted so many trees we couldn’t see they lacked the big overarching forest – the essence of identity, of allegiance. As I’ve said before, you can’t assimilate with a nullity – which is what multiculturalism is. ….
I would say that while I think that the typical way multiculturalism is applied or advocated has its own pathology, simultaneously, there are things in all cultures to be honored. It may be their ideas, it may be their architecture, it may be their belief systems. It is not multiculturalism per se that is the real suicide bomb, but the advocating of multi-cult for multi-cult’s sake without really taking a look at results in the world of each culture that is. It is the pathologies of cultures that should be unflinchingly condemned while simultaneously embracing the beauty and health in them. it is, again, a both/and, not an either/or.
I could write all day about that, and hope I have the time to in the future.
July 22nd, 2005 | Global War On Terror, International Institutions, Jihad Watch, Politics