Published: 23 February 2011
Region: Worldwide & especially UK
Gary Herman for Media Diversity Institute
Recent statements from European leaders on the theme of multiculturalism leave the distinct and unpleasant odour of a concerted attack hanging in the air. It started with Angela Merkel last October and has since been followed up by Jose Maria Aznar, David Cameron, Nicolas Sarkozy and – most recently – the Dutch Deputy Prime Minister, Maxime Verhagen. In each case, the evidence cited for multiculturalism’s failure is the growth of native Islamist violence.
This is a view perpetuated by almost all the Western media, for whom the problem of Islamist terror is Islam and the problem of Islam – in the West – is multiculturalism. Multiculturalism, in short, has become a codeword. The politicians may claim that “we must all respect differences” and that “extremism … is a distortion of Islam”, but when headlines from San Diego to Sydney all shout “Multiculturalism Doesn’t Work” the implication is increasingly clear – Muslim culture is a viper in the bosom of Western democracy.
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