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December 9, 2005

'Notion Of Multiculturalism' Falling Apart?

Topics: Understanding Islam

I missed this in the Dec. 4 Timesonline.UK, but it's still news - it seems that the "notion of multiculturalism" is begining to fall apart and even the Europeans are starting to recognize that fact.

... In Germany, with its three million -- mainly Turkish -- Muslims, and France, with its five million of mainly North African descent, television viewers were shocked when local young Muslims approved of Van Gogh's murder. "If you insult Islam, you have to pay," was a typical response.

...In Germany, pressure is growing for sermons to be preached in German rather than Turkish or Arabic. Hidden TV cameras recently broadcast an imam in a Berlin mosque telling worshippers that "Germans can only expect to rot in the fires of hell because they are nonbelievers".

From Norway to Sicily, governments, politicians and the media are laying aside their doctrines of diversity and insisting that "Islamism", as the French call the fundamentalist form that pervades the housing estates, is incompatible with Europe's liberal values.

Islamic fundamentalism is causing a 'clash of civilisations' between liberal democracies and Muslims..., and it appears that the Europeans are begining to have had enough of Islamic fundamentalism!

Now, if only "moderate" Muslims will actually emerge and begin to speak out against Islamic fundamentalism, terrorism, intolerance of other religions, violence, and hatred.

Posted by Richard at December 9, 2005 8:20 AM

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