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Not being of the left I have never believed in multiculturalism, I do however believe everyone should be free to live their lives within the acceptable norms of our society and to follow the religion of their own choosing. I also believe that our society itself will change naturally over a period of time, as new influences introduced by immigrants bring a different outlook to life. I do not believe that multiculturalism will help either the immigrant people or the host people join together in a harmonious relationship, I believe it is a divisive influence.

Of course to hold such beliefs is, or has been, tantamount to waving a red rag to followers of left wing convictions on what society should be, although both left and right want a society at ease with itself .

The EU with its socialist view of the world frowns on what they term as Islamophobia, anti-racism and xenophobia, and would like very much to make such sins against the law. As soon as one dares to approach this problem they are imidiatly accused of these major crimes, thus closing down any discussion of the problems Europe is facing, with the excesses of an alien culture in its midst.

With the EU Constitution this view will be set in stone, and will form the basis for the rules of our government, because the EU Constitution will be superior to ours. So before we get to enthused about all the good the EU has done for Britain, and get lost in the labyrinthine arguments about three million jobs being at stake if we leave and the loss of world power by not being at the heart of the EU, and all the other arguments the Europhile will bring to the debate on the Constitution, we should consider exactly what the consequences are going to be of allowing a self selecting unelected unaccountable group of Eurocrats make even more of our laws.

However now it seems that even the left is at last waking up to the fact that multiculturalism within our liberal democracies is a flawed belief, as it allows our liberal tolerance to be been used as “an agent for the penetration of Islamic intolerance”.

It is becoming apparent that Islam in its Fundamentalist form, is incompatible with Europe’s liberal values, and there is the beginning of a debate over the limits to free speech that questions the principle expressed by some young Muslims who approved of Van Gogh’s murder. “If you insult Islam, you have to pay.

This Article in the Times by Charles Bremner, discusses some of the problem Europe is facing. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1387077,00.html

“Islamic fundamentalism is causing a ‘clash of civilisations’ between liberal democracies and Muslims”

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

“The notion of multiculturalism has fallen apart,” said Angela Merkel, leader of Germany’s Christian Democrat opposition. “Anyone coming here must respect our constitution and tolerate our Western and Christian roots.” Italy’s traditional tolerance towards immigrants has been eroded by fear of Islamism. An Ipsos poll in September showed that 48 per cent of Italians believed that a “clash of civilisations” between Islam and the West was under way and that Islam was “a religion more fanatical than any other”.

“The left wing, which long shunned criticism of Islam as the stock-in-trade of Jean-Marie le Pen, the far-Right leader, now denounces the “totalitarian”, anti-feminist, antisemitic doctrines of the fundamentalists. Jacques Julliard, a leading left-wing commentator, said the Left’s longstanding tolerance had been used as “an agent for the penetration of Islamic intolerance”.

Reluctantly, some intellectuals have lately concluded that the model for Europe should be the US. On Tuesday a writer for Libération, the French left-wing daily, noted that immigrants in the US threw themselves into “the American dream” and prospered. “There is no French, Dutch or other European dream,” she noted. “You emigrate here to escape poverty and nothing more.”

EU Referendum:

“Taking Europe for a Ride”
Dr North says:

Not my title, but one borrowed from Arab News published in Saudi Arabia, written by journalist Amir Taheri.

As a comment on the situation in Iran, it is such a complete analysis of the situation, viz-a-viz the EU, that it defies precis, without losing the essence. Unusually, therefore, I have decided to publish the article in full, on this Blog:”

I could not even begin to put this better myself, and what gives the article its power is that it is written by an Arab, from an Arab perspective. Furthermore, as this is not a Eurosceptic “rant”, it gains even more power in illustrating the utter fatuity and the destructive negativity of the EU policy towards Iran. This article should be given the widest possible circulation.