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February 22, 2006

Cut & paste: 'Clinton's sloppy multiculturalism that forbids satire'

Topics: Understanding Islam

The Australian has several pieces on Clinton's multiculturalistic response to Muslim's outrageous response to satire.

Here's Martin Peretz, publisher of the pro-Clinton New Republic, slaming the former president who's in Australia this week:

WHEN you compare the most offensive of these caricatures [of the Prophet Mohammed] to the vile and inciting images of Jews routinely shown on government-owned television all over the Muslim world (forget about the ugly role of caricature in the long history of Christian anti-Semitism) you wonder what all the fuss is about. OK, Bill Clinton doesn't wonder. He's referred to them as "these totally outrageous cartoons against Islam," although I myself doubt whether he's ever bothered to look at them. Is he for free expression or for that sloppy multiculturalism that forbids you from raising anyone's hackles?...

Europe and the countries of Europe will not take instructions on how to run a civil politics or how to preserve their culture from those whose habits have not yet caught up with the Magna Carta or the Declaration of the Rights of Man. This episode will deepen the alienation of Muslim and Arab immigrants and their families from those among whom they live, still as a minority. They will have no one but themselves to blame. They did not keep the social contract that was both implicit and explicit in their arrival - not that they had larger birthrates but that they increasingly do not seem to grasp the most elementary of democratic transactions: Give berth even to that which you dislike. The very essence of liberal society is the willingness - OK, the doleful willingness - of its members and constituent groups to be slighted.

Read all of the rest, you won't be disappointed ...

And you'll wish that Clinton read them before he opened his mouth again and hands more propaganda over to America's enemies - the rampaging jihadists and their radical imams.

Posted by Richard at February 22, 2006 11:13 PM

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