The following may be controversial. It may be politically
incorrect. But I think it is real. And a concern that needs to be articulated.
I don’t think there is any doubt about the broader forces at
work. They are the product of a multicultural approach in which traditional
values have been pushed aside in favor of progressive ones. Progressive values
that favor a one-world approach to the problems of the world. Progressive
values that opened France’s national borders to mass immigration from countries
whose cultural and religious values often conflict with the traditional values
that the French once took pride in.
The idea that the values of Islam, as understood and
practiced by many of the immigrants who entered through those open borders, are
entirely compatible with the democratic values that built France into a
prosperous nation is simply not credible. There are real tensions that cannot
be wished away.
But it isn’t only France. The UK is vulnerable to the same
mentality. I will not be the least bit surprised if massive, violent protests
break out there, too, in the not-too-distant future.
You cannot open your borders to a massive influx of
immigrants whose values may be fundamentally at odds with those of your country
and expect everything to remain calm. At some point, some Muslims will insist
that their values become part of the national ethos. The far left, whose goal
is to tear down existing democratic and capitalist institutions and replace
them with a socialist society, sees Muslims who share its opposition to the
existing order as natural allies. It will therefore embrace them and join them
in protesting whatever causes they share. All one has to see to understand this
is all the leftist protesters joining Palestinians screaming, ‘Palestine – from
the river to the sea’ being screamed on university campuses all over the
country!
Is there a single Muslim or far left progressive candidate
that doesn’t think Israel has committed genocide? Or believes that Israel has a
right to exist at all as a Jewish state?
And yet Europe seems oblivious to this flaw in its national
policy. It continues to insist that its borders remain open to newcomers and
that everyone be free to express their views. That principle is important, but
what happens when some of those views undermine the very fabric of the nation
and seek to destroy everything that made the country great, dismissing its
history and traditions as inherently evil?
This is happening to a certain extent in the United States,
too…
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