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Multiculturalism Has Failed

By R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. on 2.17.11 @ 6:09AM

How did it come to this point anyway?

WASHINGTON — Now the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, has joined the chorus. The other day he said, “My answer is clearly yes, it is a failure.” The “it” was multiculturalism, and he was on French national television. In pronouncing multiculturalism defunct, the French president joins German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Australia’s ex-prime minister John Howard, Spain’s ex-premier Jose Maria Aznar, and, most recently, British Prime Minister David Cameron in heaving a failed policy into history’s dustbin. The question is, what will replace it? Or actually another question: how did multiculturalism ever become a policy of these European countries anyway?

“If you come to France, you accept to melt into a single community, which is the national community, and if you do not want to accept that, you cannot be welcome in France,” explained Sarkozy. “Of course,” he explained, “we must all respect differences, but we do not want…a society where communities coexist side by side.” Actually they have not existed side by side in recent years. Certain cultures were deferred to by the Europeans, namely Islam. Others were not. If your culture entertained cannibalism, you could not sit down to a nice leg of neighbor. Yet if your culture was Muslim, and you wanted to arrange a marriage for your daughter, authorities looked the other way. If you were the village atheist, you could not say God is a monstrosity and Allah is an impossibility. That would be a “hate crime,” and you would be in hot water. On the other hand, you could say “Allah akbar,” and no one was offended other than the village atheist.

Now the European leaders are giving this sort of tolerance of intolerance a second look. Prime Minister Cameron has called for a “more active, more muscular liberalism,” one that requires the active promotion of democratic values, the rule of law, freedom of speech, and equal rights. In a recent speech in Munich he argued that, “under the doctrine of state multiculturalism, we have encouraged different cultures to live separate lives, apart from each other and the mainstream.” The result is alienation and occasionally jihadism.

So how did the Europeans end up with multiculturalism, a multiculturalism that seems to favor Islam over other cultures? The Germans have outlawed Nazi culture. The Italians are not particularly hospitable to fascism, and as I have already pointed out the French are appalled at cannibalism and do not even have a good word for McDonald’s or Kentucky Fried Chicken. I think it started with the way they teach their history. Militarism, colonialism, and racism are all prominent ingredients of European history books, particularly British history. For that matter, American history stresses these ingredients also. I have been reading American college history texts and they present an alarmingly ugly view of the Western past.

By presenting the West as repugnant and the other civilizations as our prey, particularly during colonial days but also in modern times, we encourage such social pathologies as jihadism. President Sarkozy says he is not going to tolerate the kind of fundamentalism in France that leads ultimately to jihadism. How is he going to achieve this without calling for a fundamental reform in how French history is taught?

Then there is another matter. All the aforementioned statesmen and women are democrats and espouse democratic values, but there are fashions of thought in the West that do not like democratic values. For want of a better term, they are fashions of thought that follow political correctness. The politically correct do not like free speech. For that matter, the adherents to political correctness do not like many of the values of the West. What are Mr. Sarkozy and Mr. Cameron going to do about them? They are going to be even trickier to deal with than the practitioners of jihad.

About the Author

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. is the founder and editor in chief of The American Spectator. He is the author of The Death of Liberalism, published by Thomas Nelson Inc. His previous books include the New York Times bestseller Boy Clinton: the Political Biography; The Impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton; The Liberal Crack-Up; The Conservative Crack-Up; Public Nuisances; The Future that Doesn’t Work: Social Democracy’s Failure in Britain; Madame Hillary: The Dark Road to the White House; The Clinton Crack-Up; and After the Hangover: The Conservatives’ Road to Recovery.

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gsr| 2.17.11 @ 6:23AM

I'm afraid it's already too late. I'm pessimistic. Mass immigration is the culprit but the Beltway elites are the ones who created this situation. Liberals (of both parties) believe allowing half the world to come to the USA is a good way to "prove" they are not RACIST. Consequently, we are importing people from cultures that are frankly, incompatible with Western, American, limited government (remember that?), individual liberty based society.

The American people are being replaced - by mass immigration. The New Americans are no longer named Smith and Jones, they are named Jose and Mohammed. It's too late.

John Daniel| 2.17.11 @ 7:21AM

You're correct. Add in the pabulum pushed by higher ed -America as hopelessly racist, sexist and just plain crass - and our philosophical foundation is gone. We are doomed.

R Martin| 2.17.11 @ 8:07AM

It's not just higher ed American education which is pushing multi culti propaganda, school children are being indoctrinated in leftist philosophy from day one. Not sure about the doomed part because we can instill proper values at home. However, we are doomed if we don't stop electing and re-electing the sort of politicians who got us into the fiscal and social mess we now face.

Roadrage| 2.17.11 @ 5:03PM

From a student newspaper at a major university, here's an example of the Western-guilt background noise that permeates higher education:

“(A student) was caught off guard when her patriotism came into question.

(The student) … said her class was having a discussion about if it’s acceptable to wear the confederate flag because of its negative connotation to some people. She said if someone told her not to wear the American flag, she still would do it because it has a positive connotation to her.

(The student's) teacher said she was surprised (that the student) was so patriotic because she’s Native American.

“I was just so taken back — I stopped talking for the rest of the class and said something to her at the end,” (the student) said. “I didn’t choose my race, and I have to live with the few disadvantages I have and it just wasn’t fair for her to bring it up.”

Although students of other ethnicities enroll at (this state university) at a much higher rate, Native Americans make up less than one percent of the student population. Currently, there are about 110 times more white students who enroll at (this state university) than Native Americans.

(Contributor's note: The 2010 US Census puts American Indians and Alaska natives at 1% of the population.)

(The student) said the thought of Native Americans being less patriotic than another ethnicity is one that never crossed her mind, and she thought it was an ignorant opinion on the professor’s part. She said she takes her patriotism seriously and doesn’t think it makes her care about her country less because of her race.”

Timothy L. Pennell| 2.17.11 @ 9:44AM

France. England. Germany. What about right here?!
We have a Black African Muslim in the Oval office.
How's that working out?

jharp| 2.17.11 @ 2:02PM

You an an idiot and a racist.

Obama is working out far better than the last guy whose mess we're still trying to clean up.

George True| 2.17.11 @ 2:14PM

Obama's agenda has been so incredibly destructive to our nation that it makes GWB look almost like a benign genius by comparison.

jharp| 2.17.11 @ 5:35PM

"Obama's agenda has been so incredibly destructive to our nation"

Do you mean like TARP? Whoops. That was the last guy.

Or the $ 3 trillion we borrowed to get 4,800 Americans killed and another 33,000 maimed and wounded? Whoops. Sorry. Again that was the last guy.

Or the $800 billion, all borrowed, for the Medicare Part D handout to big pharma? Whoops again. My bad. That was the last guy.

Or saving the auto industry? And the tens of thousands of jobs they provide? Is that hwo Obama has destroyed the economy?

God you people are stupid.

David Romano| 2.17.11 @ 6:06PM

jharp, you sound just like a blind Obama lemming I know. Obama will be looking for an organizer job come January 2013.

jharp| 2.17.11 @ 6:11PM

Just as I thought.

Not one single point too refute my post.

God you people are stupid.

George True| 2.17.11 @ 6:32PM

God you are stupid, Jharp.

Bhan999| 2.18.11 @ 5:02PM

jharp | 2.17.11 @ 5:35PM
First, since liberals operate out of regard for "Their Man" and have no principles, if the things you listed above had been done by a Demoncrat you would support them. Probably even the war. Do you notice the absence of body bags on the evening news since a Demoncrat is now president?

Second, since conservatives operate out of regard for a set of principles and the Constitution as written, we don't have to defend "our man" when he violates those principles. And, in fact, W was roundly criticized in conservative circles for most of the things on your list.

All your post is saying is that the Republic hasn't had a real American president since sometime before Lincoln.

BTW - Obama didn't save the American automobile industry. He merely stole the bondholders' property rights in two companies and gave them to the UAW brass. He should be impeached, convicted by the Senate, and then tried in a criminal court at law for Grand Theft Auto.

James| 2.18.11 @ 8:14PM

Thanks! I wish I could have said it as well.

James| 2.18.11 @ 8:18PM

My comment was directed to Bhan999.

Ole Sarge| 2.21.11 @ 4:15PM

Looked in the mirror lately troll.

Dixie Pixie| 2.17.11 @ 3:16PM

JHarp....I liked the literary stutter.
To enhance the comedic effect may I suggest to add a few more "an"s like::::
"Your an an an an an Idiot...."

Just for the record, the historical intent of American strategic Middle Eastern policy was to promote regional stability by suppressing Muslim adventurism such as the Iraq invasion of Kuwait.
Bush 43 was quite successful in doing so to the point that Libya willing gave up its WMD program.

Obama and Sec-State Hillary Clinton's Middle East policy seems to be to burn the place to the ground.
The current Obama / Hillary foreign policy, by effect, is the opposite of traditional American policy of peace by military / political / economic strength.

In short the Obama Middle East policy is to set the all the Muslim nations aflame and call it "Change You Can Believe In".

MikeD| 2.17.11 @ 4:34PM

We really need to try a different tack with these people like 'harp'(ie). Since they have no idea of reality where history or economics are concerned, maybe an examination of their own lives might help, but I doubt it.

In the not too distant future, barry's policies will bring us $6.00 a gallon gas, food that costs 50% more than it does today, and about no way to pay for either winter heat or summer airconditioning. Why? You might ask? Here's why.

The democrats and barry have destroyed our own capacity to develop our own petroleum industry. that means much higher prices for gas AND EVERYTHING TRANSPORTED BY VEHICLES USING PETROLEUM. That means trucks, trains, and planes. Electric cars are a total fool's paradise because the laws of physics make it so. If the same amount of energy is used to drive a truck or a car, that amount of energy, when transformed into electricy, will result in roughly 30% LESS power because of loss and heat. I won't try to explain it too deeply because you won't get it. It requires more than a response blaming Bush for everything.

Same with unemployment. Under barry the muslim, our AVERAGE monthly unemployment has been 9.2%. In 8 years under Bush, it was 5.3%, and under 5% untill the dems grabbed congress in 2006. Actually, every problem barry is trying to blame on Bush began when the dems took the congress, with the exception of the housing disaster which began with jimmah cartah, was reinforced by bubba c., and finally pushed over the top by bawney fwank and his homosexual love of married Americans. (Whoops, I guess it's now a 'hate crime' to mention the truth about bawney.)

But, I won't go any further; I'll just see what happens. Because, while the lefties like you are pumping up your hatred of Bush and Republicans, the REAL supporters of the democratic party, the super rich wall street types are quietly stashing THEIR money in safe off-shore havens. So, when you're unable to feed your family, they'll be laughing at you for believing all the crap barry and his gang fed you. The longer you believe them and their crap, the less time you'll have to prepare for the fall of our Country that YOU helped cause by your blind devotion to stupidity. The longer their "Base" sticks up for them by sticking their own heads in the sand, the more inescapable the onrushing disaster gets. The democrats used to be for the 'little guy'. now they're for their rich wall street buddies and they laugh at the poor saps that live from paycheck to paycheck. You can LEAST afford what is coming.

jharp| 2.17.11 @ 5:30PM

"$6.00 a gallon gas"

Bring. It. On. I look forward to the day.

Maybe, just maybe, then you stupid rednecks will figure out that it's finally time for us to end our dependence on foreign oil.

And the teabagging Governors who killed the rails and the idiots who voted for them will get exactly what they so richly deserve.

D R| 2.17.11 @ 6:09PM

How does that independence from foreign oil work?

Obama wants us to use HSR, oh, you knew that.

MikeD| 2.17.11 @ 7:14PM

You made my point exactly and you didn't even realize it. Check out the brilliant teachers in Wisconsin and Ohio. They're so stupid they have no idea where their paychecks come from. Remember what your hero barry said in 2008: "Elections have consequences." And you're so stupid you don't even realize that obama is the guy who HAS STOPPED ALL DRILLING ON OUR CONTINENTAL SHELF! Don't you get it? We can't use our own resources. Where else do you think we'll have to get it, oh brilliant one? Jimmah Cattah started the Dept. of Energy when we got 30% of our oil from outside. Thirty years later it's 70% and obama wants to kill our domestic energy production. Frankly, trying to make sense of anything you say is like getting a tortoise to walk a tightrope: You're genetically incapable of an intelligent thought. And there are millions of you.

jharp| 2.17.11 @ 7:23PM

"And you're so stupid you don't even realize that obama is the guy who HAS STOPPED ALL DRILLING ON OUR CONTINENTAL SHELF!"

You are an idiot.

And a liar.

Obama did no such thing. But when you've got nothing else just lie.

Rush has taught you well.

God you people are stupid.

simon templar| 2.18.11 @ 12:58AM

Liberalism really is a mental disorder.

Ken (Old Texican)| 2.17.11 @ 7:28PM

Hey, Mike D
jharp doesn't get out much. He doesn't even have a car. Why should he care?

Oh? His mom pays for everything?
Nevermind.

simon templar| 2.18.11 @ 1:03AM

jhrap..conservatives have been ranting for decades about getting off of foreign oil and drilling and developing our own resources! Do you live in a parallel universe?

Rmm| 2.18.11 @ 11:39AM

Is that to mean people will start driving greeny cars like the Leaf, which only gets 73 miles between battery charges? Yea, right.
Pull the burr from your ass and talk some sense pal.

Sergeant D| 2.17.11 @ 5:12PM

I don't agree about your comment on Timothy Pennell being a racist. I think he called it like it is. Should he be more Politically Correct and say "Negro African-American Conservative Muslim" I for one am no longer using any of the PC terms any longer. Mexican-American - African- American, Polish - American, Irish-American, you're all Americans...so lets quit with the hyphenated American crap. (Love it or leave it!)

Negro X| 2.17.11 @ 5:32PM

Harp,
You are the idiot. How is your boy Holder doing?

jharp| 2.17.11 @ 5:43PM

Holder is not a boy.

And you are a vile racist piece of scum.

George True| 2.17.11 @ 6:32PM

He who pulls the race card IS the racist.

God you are stupid.

jharp| 2.17.11 @ 7:07PM

Yeah right. Calling someone out for calling a black man "boy" makes me the racist.

Are you really that stupid?

skip| 2.17.11 @ 8:28PM

...said the genius so stupid she-he-it refers to Tea Partiers, individuals who are patriotic, personally accountable, productive, moral, intelligent, honest, and constitutional, as teabaggers, homosexual fags who engage in a particular abominable sexually perverted act.

Since this she-he-it who so is so stupid she-he-it refers to Tea Partiers as teabaggers, let's henceforth refer to teabagging as jharping.

And also shorten the other reference of the so stupid she-he-it to just s-h-i-t when referring to the so stupid s-h-i-t.

When last we saw the so stupid s-h-i-t on January 27, 2011 on AmSpec's 'Texas Tea' I shut this so stupid s-h-i-t up. See for yourself in the comments section.

When last we saw this so stupid s-h-i-t before I shut the so stupid s-h-i-t up on January 27 was on December 2, 2010 on AmSpec's 'Opposing Obama' when I shut this so stupid s-h-i-t up. See for yourself in the comments section.

What do you want to bet that between these last two visits by this so stupid s-h-i-t where I shut this so stupid s-h-i-t up he was mostly doing a lot of jharping?

jharp| 2.17.11 @ 8:43PM

I am flattered that you have such an interest in my posts. Enough of an interest that you took the time to research when and how often I visit.

And yet are too ignorant to come up with one point to repudiate my points.

God you people are stupid.

skip| 2.17.11 @ 9:27PM

...said the genius that is so stupid a s-h-i-t, probably from jharping all the time, that it hasn't yet dawned on the so stupid s-h-i-t, that when readers check out the comments sections on the January 27 'Texas Tea' article and December 2 'Opposing Obama' article, those readers will see the points you the so stupid s-h-i-t made, and see for themselves the counterpoints I made that shut you the so stupid s-h-i-t up.

Do you think you the so stupid s-h-i-t are such a so stupid s-h-i-t because of your obsession with jharping?

jharp| 2.17.11 @ 10:01PM

Teabaggers is the term they coined themselves.

Don't blame me that they are that stupid.

T.E.A. Taxed. Enough. Already. After Obama cut taxes for 95% of us.

God you people are stupid.

skip| 2.17.11 @ 11:16PM

...said the genius who is such a so stupid s-h-i-t it is beyond the comprehension of the so stupid s-h-i-t that the comments sections of the January 27 'Texas Tea' and the December 2 ' "Opposing Obama' articles prove the points that the so stupid s-h-i-t makes are consistently proven to be lies, and that the so stupid s-h-i-t is therefore a liar.

The so stupid s-h-i-t is such a so stupid s-h-i-t that the so stupid s-h-i-t doesn't know Anderson Cooper of CNN, well known for jharping, coined the usage of the word describing a particular sexually deviant act of perversion between homosexual faggots in such a so stupid way, therefore proving yet again what a liar the so stupid s-h-i-t is .

The such a so stupid s-h-i-t is so stupid a s-h-i-t that the law passed by Obama, known as Obamacare, contains the individual tax increase for all tax payers of the Medicare surtax from 2.9% to 3.8%, among numerous other tax increases, therefore proving that the jharping so stupid s-h-i-t is, surprise surprise, a liar.

The such a so stupid s-h-i-t is so stupid a s-h-i-t that the fact that in 2007 the top 1% of income tax payers paid more income taxes than the bottom 95% combined, making the statement the so stupid s-h-i-t made about taxes cut for 95% such a so stupid, pathetic, despicable statement that even jharpers know the so stupid s-h-i-t is such a so stupid s-h-i-t.

If the so stupid s-h-i-t doesn't quit participating, on the receiving end, in jharping soon, the so stupid s-h-i-t's brains will be too loose to allow the stupid s-h-i-t to continue to be a so stupid s-h-i-t, to continue to keep on jharping, or to continue to be a despicable pathetic liar.

jharp| 2.17.11 @ 11:48PM

You are a sad specimen of a human being.

I almost feel sorry for you. Please. Go spend your time doing something worthwhile.

Your idiotic posts serve no one. They are a drain on our society.

skip| 2.18.11 @ 12:29AM

...said the jharping so stupid s-h-i-t who is such a jharping so stupid s-h-i-t that the jharping so stupid s-h-i-t doesn't recognize the hypocrisy of being offended by being called out on the pathetic despicable lies that the jharping so stupid s-h-i-t posts over and over.

The jharping so stupid s-h-i-t who posts pathetic despicable lies over and over is such a jharping so stupid s-h-i-t who posts pathetic despicable lies over and over the jharping so stupid s-h-i-t doesn't recognize these posts use the Lord's name in vain, thereby violating the third of the Ten Commandments over and over, and doesn't recognize these posts lie over and over about others, thereby violating the ninth of the Ten Commandments over and over.

The jharping so stupid s-h-i-t who posts pathetic despicable lies over and over is such a jharping so stupid s-h-i-t who posts pathetic despicable lies over and over that the jharping so stupid s-h-i-t who posts pathetic despicable lies over and over not only doesn't realize the immortal danger the soul of the jharping so stupid s-h-i-t who posts pathetic despicable lies over and over is in, is only concerned with whining and complaining about being called out on being a jharping so stupid s-h-i-t who posts pathetic despicable lies over and over.

Only a jharping so stupid s-h-i-t who posts pathetic despicable lies over and over could possibly be that much of a jharping so stupid s-h-i-t who posts pathetic despicable lies over and over.

skip| 2.18.11 @ 12:44AM

And, you jharping so stupid s-h-i-t who posts pathetic despicable lies over and over and whines when called out on it,

you forgot to end your last post with 'God you people are so stupid',

what a jharping so stupid s-h-i-t who posts pathetic despicable lies over and over and whines when called on it and even forgets to tell everyone God you people are so stupid.

Bhan999| 2.18.11 @ 5:20PM

jharp| 2.17.11 @ 5:43PM
Good Lord, man! Calling someone "your boy" is not a racist remark. It merely means that you're in his pocket or he's in your pocket. That you have undying love for him.

If Negro X had said, "How's your boy Clinton doing?" you wouldn't have pulled out the race card. You would have seen it for the humorously annoying comment that it was intended to be.

On the other hand, since Clinton was the first black president...

BTW what do liberals call a black person who is a boy?

Ray Burke| 2.17.11 @ 7:19PM

jharp, I suggest you stand in front of the nearest mirror - if you have one. The reflection happens to be a genuine idiot and, most probably a racist as well. Takes one to know one. Cheers....

Rosemary| 2.18.11 @ 8:36AM

jharp:

You are precisely the type of person RET's column should be addressing, but you didn't get it. President Obama is the worst President we have ever had, no matter his race. He is definitely a multi-culturalist, no matter his religion. He is destructive and I wish people like you would wise up.

If you don't care to, then at least refrain from making idiotic remarks like that.

Thank you.

RCV| 2.17.11 @ 2:05PM

Rather have him than your ignorant racist kind. Go back under your rock, cretin.

John II| 2.17.11 @ 2:14PM

Roberto, this is the last straw. I am herewith serving you a notice: if you don't stop that liberal hate-speech, I am going to return to calling you "Ricky."

And now back to my collection of "I Love Lucy" episodes, featuring that third-rate Cuban bongo-player Desi Arnaz, aka "Ricky." De mortuo nil nisi bonum and all that, but he was a much better businessman than comedian.

Occam's Tool| 2.17.11 @ 4:11PM

Sorry, RCV. I assume you're slapping Timothy. Quite frankly, Obama's antecedents are meaningless. I genuinely fear that he does not have American interests at heart; that is, he is not a super-patriot. I kind of want my President to have that attitude.

That being said, the reason why Europe is dying is simple: they're not having enough babies because their culture is such that people see no point in continuing to perpetuate their DNA. That's a tragedy for an individual; it's a death sentence for a culture.

Repulsive Corrupt Venality| 2.17.11 @ 8:09PM

I don't worry about silly abortion issues while condescendingly opining on morality matters.

Tom in Michigan| 2.17.11 @ 8:52PM

As a conservative, I find your comment to be racist - and, I don't throw that word around as easily as your average leftist. The President's skin color should not even come into comment or conversation nor should his father's origins. He's also said he's not a Muslim, which is 1. good enough for me (though he has indeed prevaricated on numerous conditions - I don't think one lies about such things) and, 2. his own business. It might be ironic if we had elected a Muslim when we are at war with Islamofascism but no more so than having Eisenhower, of German descent as Supreme Allied Commander during World War II.

You don't do the conservative cause any good by making comments of this nature.

Bhan999| 2.18.11 @ 5:51PM

Tom in Michigan| 2.17.11 @ 8:52PM
Ike wasn't raised in Germany. His birth credentials for qualification to the presidency were clear. He probably couldn't speak German. He never did the "Heil Hitler" thing. I recently read an article that explained that Ike's Christian faith was real, active, and continued to the end of his life.

Ike had none of the questions surrounding his loyalty or his faith that abound with the current potus.

GavInTucson| 2.18.11 @ 1:04AM

Wow, what a bizarre (and racist) turn Timothy's thread has gone, starting with Timothy himself.

The problem with multiculturalism isn't so much about race, ethnicity, or religion, necessarily. It's about ANY group of people wanting to live within a country while remaining completely isolated from that country, and demanding that the host country's laws don't apply to them, while simultaneously demanding that they be allowed to practice their own, separate rule of law.

To the best of my knowledge, Obama integrated into American society upon arriving into the U.S., adhered to our rules/laws, etc., etc.

This isn't the case in a number of European "neighborhoods" right now. They haven't integrated or assimilated with anything. They run roughshod beyond the reach of their host governments.

Let's look at a purely white, Anglo-Christian example in this country; the Branch Dividians (sp). They walled themselves up into a compound, isolated themselves from the surrounding community, performed multiple acts of bigamy, polygamy, child molestation, rape, and incest, and insisted that Federal Law didn't apply to them. That's just plain nuts in a civil, law abiding society.

While I don't condone the federal government's handling of this event, by torching and killing over 80 men, women, and children, I think we can all agree that this nonsense had to stop. They were NOT above the law, but thought they should be.

The idea of "multiculturalism," the idea of maintaining a separate society while refusing to adapt to the cultural norms of your host nation is a powder-keg, and I fail to understand what the hell you think this has to with our current president.

And, as I'm sure most of you know, I believe this country will be much off the moment the current WH occupant is voted out on his ass.

bptr| 2.17.11 @ 2:55PM

"The American people are being replaced - by mass immigration."
Could you people be any dumber???
America IS immigration. That is the very definitition of this country!!!
If you don't like it, you are also free to leave.
EVERYONE in this country is from somewhere else. Are you all Native Americans? I know you would like to believe that this country belongs to the "true Americans". But there is no such thing.
When will you "Conservatives" wake up and grow brains??

Franco| 2.17.11 @ 3:55PM

Wait--I was born here. That meakes me a Native American, does it not? Perhaps you mean "Aboriginal American" with regard to Indian tribal folk. Actually, I am a Caucasian -American, although I wasn't born in the Caucasus any more than many so-called "African Americans" were born in Africa.

America is NOT immigration. America is immigration of people who desire to assimilate and become Americans. Duh.

jharp| 2.17.11 @ 6:09PM

"When will you "Conservatives" wake up and grow brains??"

I don't see it happening. I think they are getting dumber.

Witness todays House of Representatives.

Please conservatives, tell me again what meaningful legislation they have on the table?

The teabag representatives are nearly as ignorant as the teabaggers who voted for them.

T.E.A. Taxed. Enough. Already. AFTER Obama cut taxes for 95% of us!

God these people are stupid.

V8| 2.17.11 @ 6:15PM

Ummm, keeping taxes at the level set by the former president is not cutting taxes.

jharp| 2.17.11 @ 7:09PM

A true statement.

Too bad it isn't relevant.

Obama cut taxes to lower than Bush's tax cuts. For 95% of us.

You idiot.

MikeD| 2.17.11 @ 7:19PM

You appear to be able to read. I wonder how you can retain so little with any value? My six year old grandson makes more sense than you do; but he's normal. You are certainly not. You are either a foreign college student, a domestic college student, or an eight year old child who got hold of mom's laptop and are pretending to be all grown up. Too bad your low level of intelligence and absence of common sense are evident as soon as you pretend to communicate.

Hint: "This is where you type"God you people are stupid." There! I did it for you! All you have to do is just type your name and we'll pretend you wrote it.

Ray Burke| 2.17.11 @ 7:34PM

jharp is obviously a mean spirited, brain dead, blowhard liberal. Why don't we just write him off as the loser he is.

George True| 2.17.11 @ 6:34PM

God you are stupid, Jharp.

Tom in Michigan| 2.17.11 @ 8:54PM

You call others stupid but insist on using a childish sexual reference when discussing the Tea Party members.

jharp| 2.17.11 @ 10:02PM

Again.

Teabaggers is the term they coined themselves.

Don't blame me that they are that stupid.

T.E.A. Taxed. Enough. Already. After Obama cut taxes for 95% of us.

God you people are stupid.

Bhan999| 2.18.11 @ 6:06PM

jharp| 2.17.11 @ 10:02PM wrote, "Teabaggers is the term they coined themselves."

Reference, please.

Their name for themselves is and always has been, "Tea Partiers", or "The Tea Party Movement", or "The Tea Party People", or simply "The Tea Party".

I've been around for 70 years and I was completely unaware of the term "teabagger" until it began to be used as an epithet against the Tea Party by sicko liberals. Whoa! That's a redundant term isn't it?

Lagiusmeatius| 2.17.11 @ 3:12PM

I'm curious what you think about how only a few centuries ago, people may have been asking, "Why are the "New Americans" no longer named Magwa or Pocahontas, but rather Smith and Jones?"

We mustn't ignore the fact that Europeans invaded America, slaughtered numerous tribal Americans (natives of this country mind you), and exploited the land we currently inhabit. I wonder how those natives felt when their culture was stomped out by immigrants (namely Europeans). Now that those tribes have been nearly eliminated, we see Europeans as a "majority", and ask the same question... Why is our culture being "invaded" by foreigners?

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr, has mentioned in his article that "...presenting the West as repugnant and the other civilizations as our prey, particularly during colonial days but also in modern times, we encourage such social pathologies as jihadism". Do you think he is suggesting that we ignore the fact that European immigrants invaded the Americas, treated the natives as their prey, and ultimately stole land that was already inhabited by other people for centuries beforehand?

I don't think anyone can ignore this fact. I believe what the author is trying to communicate, with that sentence in particular, is simply that it is dangerous to use that repugnant image of colonial America or even modern America, as a way to justify favoritism towards "non-European" cultures...to a point where we elevate these new immigrants' rights above our own. That is not true equality, but cultural favoritism. It is a dangerous concept, used by many, that can lead to somehow "compensate" modern immigrants for what Europeans (colonial Americans) as well as modern America has done to other nations as a result of globalization, etc. The truth is that America is not the only country responsible for these invasions, and I find it imperative that we use these past mistakes and experiences constructively as a lesson to help our nation and more importantly the world as a whole continue to grow and evolve our human race to a higher level of cooperation and understanding. So many people prefer to just say, "...because of what "our" people did to those people 300 years ago, we need to be extra nice to these folks to make up for it." So many people hang on to this chip on their shoulder and, rather than use it constructively to make the world better and more equal--there is favoritism and racism all in the name of "making things even". It's a shame.

When American corporations utilize sweat shop labor by outsourcing jobs from honest hardworking Americans to these 2nd and 3rd world nations to save a buck--and then these 2nd and 3rd world people come to America to get their piece of the pie, the American dream, etc., so many say "Hey! Get outta' here! You're not welcome here!". If certain Americans want to say that these people aren't welcome, then it would be less hypocritical to stop taking advantage of those people by utilizing their labor, exploiting their resources (i.e. metals, oil), etc. As soon as this stops (almost certainly not in my lifetime), and America becomes completely independent and self-sufficient, with all resources obtained within our country, then we'll have a good case to say "We're full". When we take advantage of those other people's resources and labor, and then say "you aren't welcome here", that's not a very "American" attribute--and if some people think it is an American attribute, then it certainly isn't one to be proud of. I believe in self-sufficiency, and if America becomes self-sufficient one day, I think some major changes can take place, and with more justification.

I agree with you GSR on the benefits of limited government, but unfortunately we do not have limited economics (or limited capitalism)--and as long as there are selfish people taking advantage of sweat shop labor and exploited 2nd world and 3rd world natural resources overseas-- rather than paying hard working Americans to do the work instead and being self sufficient with our resources--we have a bigger issue to deal with first. This is an issue that not only effects the freedoms of every American, but everyone in the world that "participates" with the American economy (voluntarily or through force).

Peace and love to you GSR,
-Lagius

Leo W| 2.17.11 @ 3:27PM

Europeans did not come to America to find a continent of people singing kumbaya and sharing their lodges and food with any passerby. What was found was a continent divided by warring tribes who all have traditional stories of the tribes they battled, conquered and absorbed or exterminated.

You are too harsh on Europeans. The fact that Native Americans and Aboriginal Australians still exist, often honored with autonomy, is a testament to vast humanitarian progress over anything that preceded them.

If you want to be incensed, look to what happened in the south of the Sudan during the 1980's, where shari'a was imposed, non-Muslims who claimed to own land were killed, their children enslaved and their tenants driven into the wilderness to starve. There are people with living memories of that today.

European colonialism is something to read about, not bleed about. Can the same be said for the jihadis who promise to visit the same fate that the Sudan faced upon the entire world?

You sir, are being foolish in your relativism, and have to plunder a past full of dead perpetrators to make any relation to what is happening in real time today.

MikeD| 2.17.11 @ 4:43PM

Hey, LEGIUS MEATIUS,

Remember, human history is a saga of war, conquest, and replacement. Your beloved "Native Americans, a blood thirsty lot if there ever was one, actually conquered, and exterminated, the tribes descended from the south and central american tribes who were here before them. Don't romanticize them to demonize europeans. And, learn a little history of the mongol hoards and arab muslims who repeatedly invaded europe so THEY could get in their own kind of murder and mayhem! Be honest. Just like the other liberal morons; you hate your own country and your own genetic forbears for some stupid reason. And don't play the race card. Virtually every black slave brought to the 'New World' was brought here by english slavers who bought them from muslim slave traders who bought them from other black tribes who were selling off the booty from their own dirty little wars of conquest; at least the ones they didn't have time to prepare with a light butter sauce.

Leo W| 2.18.11 @ 5:38AM

While the atrocity of slavery is long gone from North America, there are still places (the Sudan amongst them) where you can still buy black slaves today. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.....ern_Africa
It's foolish to talk about the problems of imperialism that we overcame in less than one century after creating out constitution, when people are still being bought and sold as chattel to this very day in other places.

Lagiusmeatius| 2.18.11 @ 9:43AM

See my comment above. Although it is true that "slavery" as we once knew it no longer exists in our country, we still have sweat shops (some in this country illegally operating) and in other countries due to corporations that manufacture and sell the products (i.e. top name clothing brands like Nike, Ann Taylor, Calvin Klein, L.L. Bean, and so many others). So saying that slavery is "long gone" is a little misleading. Sweat shops are a form of slavery, and we don't need to get into semantics if you want to say they are completely different things. I won't argue about that, as it's not the most important point. Look at the bigger picture--if U.S. corporations are not paying their foreign worker's minimum wage, let alone a "living wage", with proper working conditions, and civil rights, then they have an un-American operation that is taking advantage of poor populations. If they paid 2nd and 3rd world nation sweatshop employees what they'd pay an American, and gave them the rights that an American has, and had the same regulations regarding waste, etc., they wouldn't outsource the labor! It wouldn't be cost effective if they were honest and fair, and they'd just keep the jobs here in the U.S. as well as all the other capital investments (I wish this was the case--perhaps one day it will be, then unemployment will no longer be an issue). This lack of regulation, or better yet, lack of conscience on the corporation's side of things perpetuates the problem. The sad thing is, so many people don't even consider this when they go shopping and buy a pair of "designer" jeans or other products. They don't see the source, just the end products. Until consumers really start to take this country back, things are only going to get worse. I think that we as a nation are quite capable! We outnumber the government body as well as the heads of the corporations--and if we were aware of just half of what goes on, things would change. It's starts with political AND consumer awareness!

Peace and love to you Leo,
-Lagius

Leo W| 2.21.11 @ 7:54AM

I'm not buying in to the relativism, Lagius. The open practice of open human chattelry being practiced in Mulsim Africa doesn't compare to sweat shops or child labor in Sri Lanka, no matter how you spin it.

Lagiusmeatius| 2.18.11 @ 10:02AM

MikeD,

First of all, remember that history doesn't need to repeat itself. There have been times in the past where war or "protection" wasn't as important as growth and creativity.
Second, where did I see these were my "beloved Native Americans"? Did I say that they were never violent? Nope. I was merely pointing out that European immigrants (your ancestors I presume, although I don't know your ethnicity), and their culture clashed with that of the natives. We undergo the same struggle today with current immigrants, where some Americans see themselves as the natives (because enough time has passed after our immigration hundreds of years ago), and some see current immigrants as "invaders" for example.
What's with the name calling, "liberal morons"..that's not very nice. I won't resort to calling you any names because I have more respect for my fellow man and will choose to employ the golden rule.
Third, where did I play the race card? Give me an excerpt from my post that was playing "the race card"--I'd like to see what you mean. My whole point is to NOT play the race card! Have you been reading anything I wrote, or just cherry picking words here and there to form your own ideas? My point is that we should listen to the author's point and NOT use our past, or images of America to encourage favoritism or jihadism. We should instead learn from these experiences to help us grow into a more cooperative human race.
Fourth, I do not hate my own country--I feel very lucky to live here, and you should feel the same. You could have been born an Iraqi or an Egyptian or some other race and your life would be radically different (as well as your standard of living). I do not hate my "genetic forbears" either. In face, I don't hate anyone. I might hate certain actions (as well as love certain actions), but I never hate the person. My ancestors worked a hell of a lot harder than modern Americans, myself included, because they didn't have the same frills and luxuries that we have today. In many cases, those with new settlements were starting from scratch--as opposed to being born into an already industrialized nation like you and I. I always like to look at the positive accomplishments of my ancestors, but that doesn't mean I can't look at or learn from their mistakes. That's the entire benefit of history...it allows us to see what people have done, and the consequences (good or bad) that result from those actions. To make matters worse, times change. What may have "worked" for our ancestors may not work today, since we not only have 330 million people in this country, but different technology, more distractions, globalization, etc.

Peace and love to you MikeD,
-Lagius

Lagiusmeatius| 2.18.11 @ 9:28AM

I think you're missing the point here. I wasn't trying to say that native Americans (or tribal Americans as I prefer to call them) were all peaceful people that didn't participate in bloodshed, violent conquests, etc. I was merely pointing out that the Europeans came to America and invaded, when the land was already inhabited by those natives. They purged those natives out, until the initial numbers dwindled from anywhere between 5-20 million down to around 250,000 in just a couple centuries. Now there are more present day, just as there are millions more of everyone, but the relative numbers post colonially were staggeringly low.
So the Europeans (our ancestors) were immigrants to this country, and our culture was forced upon the current inhabitants (and subsequently became dominant as those original tribal cultures were near extinguished). So when we look at current immigrants coming to this country with their own culture, etc., we mustn't forget that our ancestors a few generations back were immigrants as well. We had a cultural clash back then, just as we do with current immigrants. Do not forget where you come from! You would not be here right now if it weren't for those immigrant ancestors of yours, that came to this country however uninvited they might have been. That was my main point. The other point I was trying to make was to eliminate the double standard and/or hypocrisy when it comes to tolerances of other cultures. American corporations which outsource labor to foreign countries, when they should be giving those jobs to honest hardworking Americans--are taking advantage of 2nd and 3rd world peoples to save a buck. When we as a nation (corporations as well as the demand fueled by certain consumerism) exploit other countries for their resources (such as oil, minerals, cheap products, etc.), and then get upset when those same people want to come to America to get a piece of the pie--it's laughable! America needs to become more self-sufficient and independent if we want to have a better defined identity within our borders--keeping jobs here, obtaining resources here, etc. If we continue to trade with other countries because we want their goods, then we must learn to be flexible when those same cultures that we're doing business with want to move here. You may not understand the level of exploitation the U.S. implements in order to get the resources that we have. As a quick reminder to you, the U.S. consumes about 25% of the world's resources (oil included) and produces about 25% of the world's waste, with only 5% or so of the world's population. This disproportionate consumption and waste production has to come with a cost. We can't take care of this level of consumption and waste with our resources alone. The only way the U.S. has been able to keep up with demands like this is by other nations resources. We simply do not have enough resources here to maintain this level of consumption, and due to this lack of conservatism, corporations exploit other nation's for their resources. Wars are started over ownership of oil and other resources--and if you think this isn't happening then you need to wake up and smell the hit men!
I'm also not implying that the U.S. is the only nation that participates in this kind of tomfoolery, absolutely not! However, we definitely are responsible for the majority. If you were living in a 2nd or 3rd world country, that was falling further into debt and poverty because the leaders of that country were paid off to sell resources and not share the income and prosperity to help your nation grow--and then you found out which country was obtaining those resources, wouldn't you want to move to that country? Think about this honestly, and if you don't think that this would be a reasonable decision to join a nation that is eating others, or be eaten yourself--then you're in denial. I don't doubt that you agree with me here. If not, then perhaps you need to move to Indonesia or another country where this is happening to see firsthand. Another thing--if you didn't want certain immigrants coming to the U.S. because you don't like their culture, then should you be purchasing products from those people? Would you barter or trade with the devil? I would think out of principle, you wouldn't, right? Take a look at the plethora of goods in your home, in your gas tank, on your back, etc., and almost indefinitely you are sure to find traces of this foreign trade. As I mentioned in my last post, I think an important thing that the author was trying to convey was that using images of America as being a repugnant predator to encourage favoritism is wrong! I completely agree with this, do you?
We should instead use any images or better yet, experiences from the past to learn and progress towards a better more cooperative humanity. This is a current challenge that we face, and with all the racism (favoritism, affirmative action, bigotry, etc.) and hatred around many of us--it's an even harder challenge indeed. People are trying to somehow "compensate" other people for past transgressions, when they should put the past behind them, learn from it, but not dwell on things--an illness that just perpetuates inequality and favoritism toward "minorities"...Don't you see that? I think that was one of the authors main points here, and it is important to recognize it.

Peace and love to you Leo W,
-Lagius

Leo W| 2.21.11 @ 7:58AM

Again, I don't buy into the relativism. I also don't buy your line, "the US isn't the only perpetrator" - the US isn't the perpetrator, TODAY. Today, the same thing is being openly practiced. Why attempt to demonize those who actively worked against those practices to the point that they've eliminated them locally when the same practices are directly underway? Your wrath and disdain are misdirected against long dead perpetrators as a means to excuse those who are still practicing.

Lagiusmeatius| 2.22.11 @ 1:07PM

You'll need to be a little more specific. What exactly don't you "buy"? What do you think is not true? As for my "wrath and disdain" being misdirected against "long dead perpetrators"...to whom are you referring? My point was that-- what did occur years ago, is still occurring today. The "perpetrators" as you call them existed long ago, and more are alive today. They are newer, larger, and under the guise of U.S. corporations--a guise which has allowed them to exploit others' resources with little or no consumer awareness. Also, I'm not excusing anyone per se, but merely illustrating that our European ancestors were also immigrants who purged out Tribal American culture with their own culture. This is exactly what is happening today. New immigrants are coming to this country with a different culture, and trying to push aside ours to make room for theirs. Hence the "melting pot" expression. So not much has changed, except that many "Americans" now consider themselves to be natives or "rightful owners" now, and any new immigrants to be "foreigners". The only thing that really changed was that a few hundred years had passed us by, and that apparently is enough time to change our immigrant status to "native" or "true" American. We mustn't forget that the only reason we are here is because our European immigrant ancestors came to America--spreading their culture, and changing the country from what it was (tribal American lands) to European-turned-American lands. We use the same exploitation with corporations obtaining labor and resources from overseas, rather than using American labor and resources. What part of this do you not agree with?

Peace and love to you Leo W,
-Lagius

Anton Fleegl| 2.17.11 @ 5:28PM

dear gsr,
You are right. I am reminded of the Roy Orbison song: "It's over. It's all over."- or something like that. With Europe's disastrous birth rates, the end is in sight, even here in the U.S. Add to that the politicians' total surrender, and I feel like I'm in a coffin with the rest of western civilization, watching the lid close.

Deborah D | 2.17.11 @ 7:04AM

Political correctness and multiculturalism go hand-in-hand. If you don't want one, you must address the other. Political correctness is prior restraint on speech...what else can one say about it?

Stephanie| 2.17.11 @ 7:05AM

But, but, we aren't RACIST!!!!!!!!We have a half black president!!!!!!!!!!

Lawrence Boccardi| 2.17.11 @ 8:43AM

Yes, and probably the last one for a long, long, time.

garydeeb| 2.17.11 @ 2:19PM

And thank God for that.

Occam's Tool| 2.17.11 @ 4:13PM

I dunno---I'd be happy with Allen West. He's great.

MikeD| 2.17.11 @ 4:56PM

Mr. West is not a half black, racist, muslim, fraudulent, America hating, narcissistic, self absorbed, pseudo-intellectual socialist puppet for george soros and the other 'hate America' crowd. Same with Herman Cain, J.C. Watts, or any number of REAL Americans who just happen to have a bit more melanin that some of us pale people. But, the blacks and the lib enablers would never approve of them, calling them "Uncle Toms" because they're not left wing twits.

We're also awaiting the return of the clearly law breaking demoncrap senators in Wisconsin because they don't want to do what they were elected to do; serve the people of the state. This is just another typical democrat play, like they did in Texas when they skipped town because their tiny little brains were bent out of shape. The time has come to enforce the law and crush the illegal tactics of the dems and their lefty tools. I can't wait to read the cries and wails of the lefties all over America because they're not getting their way and continuing the destruction of OUR Country. Am I getting angry? You bet; more and more every day as the dems reveal more and more of their criminal ploys, deeds, and attitudes.

Lagiusmeatius| 2.22.11 @ 1:21PM

Please keep your racist comments to yourself.
You are entitled to your opinion, but it would be wiser to restrain yourself from making racist comments which have no constructive value to others on this post. If anything, it feeds into horrible stereotypes of conservatives, and others on this post don't deserve such an unfair stereotype. If you don't like the president, that's fine, but please...please...do not say it is because of his race, or that you'd be thankful to "God" if we didn't have another president of color. I hope that you haven't been voting primarily on that attribute...I can only hope...

Peace and love to you garydeeb,
-Lagius

Pete| 2.17.11 @ 9:42AM

He is half white too. Wonder why don't we ever hear about that half?

USSAlabama| 2.17.11 @ 10:51AM

You know the saying Pete: one drop of black makes you black.

Appleby| 2.17.11 @ 7:15AM

Again, if you want a laboratory depiction of why *multiculturaism* (which is better called Balkanization, if you are older than 40) doesnt work. Just watch the Egyptian-Canadians cheering in the streets and saying to the cameras *Now we can GO HOME!* Yep, they were camping in enclaves, carefully preserving their language and culture without joining Canada in any way, until the day they could Go Home. No matter how long they live here, this is not Home.

Or consider the soccer game between a Serbian and a Croatian team, that had to be played twice, because Serbian and Croat fans could not be in the stadium together without trying to kill each other.

Or finally, consider a country whose identity has been reduced to the assertion that We Are Not Americans.

You have a lab for every failed European policy right up here North of 49 -- come up and take a gander before you institute a jot or tittle of it.

crooked wren| 2.17.11 @ 9:31AM

Maybe Canadia will get lucky and some of those folks actually WILL "go home." Maybe some of the extremists will get out of town. Maybe.

Here in the States, they tend to stay. Stay and try to destroy it. Stay and thrive and try to bring it down. Clamp on to the more hospitable host and try to destroy it.

Here they just tend to stay put, traveling back and forth to their fatherlands. Here they live and try to radicalize others, taking full advantage of the fact that our educational system -- both secondary and post-secondary -- and our mainstream media/journalism & broadcasting "professionals" are working hard to destroy our Constitutional Republic and what is left of the Free Market System.

I'm afraid our schools hopped onto the "multiculturism" train years ago, so our young people are still enamored of it. (We were taught in our ed. classes that the "melting pot" was not a good thing; we should operate on the "tossed salad" idea. Problem is -- the melting pot worked pretty well. The so-called tossed salad idea was a misnomer. Tossed salad implies different flavors and textures that blend well together, that taste good in combination with one another. I'd say Sarkozy, Merkel, Cameron, etc. would consider that metaphor rather ridiculous -- as did I when I heard it -- years ago.)

bptr| 2.17.11 @ 3:05PM

Also, it doesn't matter if multiculturism "works" or not. It is simply the reality of the world. What you people really are angry about is that you are too stupid to handle it with your tiny simplistic minds. What you really want is to be "free" to be a selfish asshole who basically believes that the world is all for you and not others. No, it is not your "American Right" to be a selfish jerk. You still live in a society. And Yes, I'm sorry, but you ARE racists. You are simply scared stupid people afraid of the big world that your tiny brain can't understand (this also explains you white church people). You want a "nice" all white place to live with none of those "other" people.
Your closed society policy (classic Isolationism) cannot possibly "work" either.
Now grow TF up you small-minded morons!!

Brian Mc| 2.17.11 @ 3:37PM

You talk as if racism is the creation of those who write here. I can only assume that those who first crossed the Appallachians and cut a small portion out of the timber in order to raise a family but were hacked to death by the Shawnee would tend to disagree with you.

All throughout history cultures have moved, settled, been incorporated, assimilated, exterminated or victoriously destroyed those who were already there. To assume that we have no right to protect and defend the greatest country ever devised by bruskly setting a gauntlet to stem those who would attempt to destroy what we hacked from the wilderness is ludicrous in the extreme.

Read "Gallic Wars" by Julius Caesar and settle right the heck down, my friend.

V8| 2.17.11 @ 4:56PM

bptr, Your a dumba**. Go to any country and you are expected to blend in and become like the native population. When I lived in Italy, I was expected to learn Italian, the Italians were not expected to learn my language just to do business with me. They were not expected to make changes to their system just so I would feel more at home. You are allowed to celbrate your culture but that is not what multiculturism is about. They want to take their laws to their new country. If they want to live under the same rules of their homeland than why in the hell move? You can not expect a country to have multiple laws and rules based upon your cultural heritage. Moron!

Lagiusmeatius| 2.24.11 @ 12:02PM

V8,

Exactly, when you go to another country you are many times expected to learn their language and become like the native population. What happened when your immigrant European ancestors came to this land, and didn't learn the Native American language(s), nor became like the native population? Your ancestors just forced their own language and culture over the Native Americans...so who are you calling a moron exactly?

Peace and love to you V8,
-Lagius

MikeD| 2.17.11 @ 5:03PM

BPTR,
I won't waste much time of effort on you; you're just too far gone. Just remember my comment when our currency is worthless, a gallon of gas costs $8.00; you spend $500 a week on groceries, and you can't afford to heat or cool your house. When your kids are hungry and you can't afford food, think about this period of time when YOU helped barry and his thugs destroy our economy and our currency. But you'll be fine because you'll be proud that you ignored history and reality while our Country was destroyed around you and you refused to learn because you didn't want to admit you might have backed the wrong horse. Sucker.

Jimbobogie| 2.19.11 @ 4:14PM

Sorry Crooked Wren-as a Canadian who has witnessed the late Pierre Elliot Trudeaus "vision" of a multi-cultural Canada (creating what we "proudly" call a "cultural mosiac"), my bet is that that nobody's going home-at least not long enough so that they lose their medical care---but that's another issue for another time, right?

Charles| 2.17.11 @ 7:20AM

"If your culture entertained cannibalism, you could not sit down to a nice leg of neighbor."
Hahahahahaha - I love that line!

Lullabys, Legends and Lies| 2.17.11 @ 8:06AM

I hear that's what the nice Muslim Taxi-driver Sam Hassan Daly, who ran over all those people in San Diego last weekend was looking for, just a little nice leg of neighbor, and he got it. He says it tastes just like Chicken!!

Curly Smith| 2.17.11 @ 7:28AM

I've got a different theory for multiculturalism. By inviting those who won't integrate into the national community you create a permanent underclass. You have ready-made proof of your inherent superiority as you distribute largesse to the huddled mass. Consider what happens when the enlightened refuse to teach English to Mexican immigrants - the vast majority of economic opportunity is forever closed to the non-English speaker. Multiculturalism is based on the superiority of Western ideals and the need for "elites" to eliminate all possible competition. Multiculturalism builds on the destructive power of Affirmative Active by institutionalizing unequal opportunity and conveniently passes the blame along to somebody else.

MikeD| 2.17.11 @ 8:42AM

Nice try sneaking lib guilt into your post, but you've been busted. Having lived in 12 countries around the world, I found NOT ONE that teaches immigrants the local language as part of the taxpayer funded public schools. If you move to about any country in Europe, you pay somebody, or pay to go to a language school. They have the philosophy that people who go to their country learn their language. That should be the same thing here. It is not my responsibility to pay for immigrants' language classes, especially if they're here illegally. Their relocation was a choice; they should pay for their own language classes.

Marilyn| 2.17.11 @ 9:16AM

I find your remark to be quite thought provoking and I find myself thinking of how this comment also can be applied to affirmative action. Is it a help, or is it a way of continuing to hold people separate?

crooked wren| 2.17.11 @ 9:51AM

You say "when the enlightened refuse to teach English to Mexican immigrants - the vast majority of economic opportunity is forever closed to the non-English speaker" --

In South Florida, they tried teaching both English to the Hispanics and Spanish to the natives -- half day of school in each language. Education declined.

Some English teachers -- "back in the day" -- who FULLY BELIEVED in the INFERIORITY of Western ideals -- feel that street speech should be encouraged, that teaching students how to speak well and intelligently in an English that is discernable to most Americans (not those who have refused to learn to speak English) is somehow foisting snobbery and imperialism upon the innocents.

That, in itself, smacks of elitism and snobbery, but the multiculturalists I've met (and I've taught, so boy have I met them) do tend to think that any culture other than our own is superior to ours. Harold Bloom's book on the Western Canon is a pretty good one. We're destroying our own culture. That's suicide.

Even if you've created a permanent underclass to serve you, as an elite you've got to realize that you've sown the seeds of your own demise. Your children will never have the chance to reap what you've sown. Because the multiculturalists in the classroom are teaching the good in Islam, the terrible in Christianity, the good in anti-capitalism and the bad in the free market, the good in Union thugism and the bad in entrepreneurship, the elitist is destroying the Republic. (WE ARE NOT A DEMOCRACY AND I RESENT COMMUNISTS' USURPATION OF THE WORD -- A WORD ANTITHETICAL TO THEIR AGENDA.) In destroying the Republic, the elitist will -- very soon -- have no place at the table of rulers. It takes ruthless thugs, not Harvard grads, to rule an oligarchical Islamic theocracy -- or an oligarchical Marxist New World Order.

It'll be one or the other. They can't coexist.

Brian Mc| 2.17.11 @ 3:45PM

Amen, and again, amen...

ted22| 2.17.11 @ 10:28AM

Why is it then that the entire "greatest generation", a generation made of many 1st and 2nd generation Americans, thrived in their lifetimes? How could they have possibly survived if the government didn't teach them in Polish, German, etc.? My dad was born overseas, came here as a young child, learned English when he went to school (no pre-kingergarten classes back then in New York, he learned it by immersing himself because it was an imperative.) My grandmother spoke 7 languages by the end of her life, but my sister in law has yet to come up with more than 2 words of English after 20 years in the country. Perhaps if we told people that to live in America you need to become an American (no hyphens allowed) it would provide a tremendous service to those who are part of that "permanent underclass" by their own choosing.

cuban pete| 2.17.11 @ 11:33AM

Upon arrival from Italy my grandfather got a job with a construction crew that was almost all Polish.
He learned enough Polish to get along with his co-workers while he learned English.
I have a decidedly non Italian first name because my parents believed I should have an "American" name.

Historyshowsus| 2.17.11 @ 12:55PM

I grew up in a community that competed with New Bedford MA for the unenviable position of having the largest Portuguese population in the nation. In the early grade school years there were countless students who only had rudimentary English skills. By the time I was in high school all spoke very good English (if with an accent) and, as I was a lazy student, were often doing better in school than I was. We did not create a "permanent underclass" but fostered a culture of achievement where you were responsible for your own success. Our school system also refused to spend a lot of time "teaching English to immigrants". The difference is our immigrants WANTED TO LEARN ENGLISH. The type of society you are talking about is the result of massive multiculturalism that discourages inclusion. It has created an attitude of both entitlement and victimization based on dependence on others rather than taking care of yourself. It is just another form of slavery.

Brian Mc| 2.17.11 @ 3:48PM

Excellent points but, I must state that I don't recall your pen name on these pages before today and for that I am sorry. Was it created in order to respond to this thread? I'd prefer to think not and that we can count on more...under the same heading.

Clint| 2.17.11 @ 7:42AM

Multiculturalism is a front for a deconstructionist agenda,which is attempting to tear down America's traditions, culture, affiliations, etc. & turn us into a European Socialist Mediocrity.

Marilyn| 2.17.11 @ 9:18AM

So, given this deconstructionist agenda, is the current purchase of our NYSE by Germany a good thing, or is it a bad thing? In my opinion, it is a very bad thing.

Clint| 2.17.11 @ 11:53AM

The NYSE is owned by the publicly traded corporation NYSE Euronext & there is an all stock $10 billion merger with Deutche Borse controlling 60%.
Since trading is going electronic and away from The NYSE & other Floors, it's basically just a business deal.

Since NYSE Euronext was a publicly traded corporation, lots of foreigners owned it already anyhow.

Mihcael Tomlinson| 2.17.11 @ 7:42AM

It would be wise for the anti-immigrant faction of the conservative movement to focus on the far more dangerous and deadly immigrant coming to the US legally and illegally -- Muslims. It is time for the US to take the war Islamic imperialism is waging against it seriously and keep them out of this country. Start by limiting the number of Visas issued to Muslims to those who have passed a rigorous background check and seriously look at deporting those who are here and supportive of jihad.

For those who call this kind of thinking racist and I'd suggest it is a desire to preserve our nation's survival and based on clear eyed realism that Imperialistic Islam is at war with the US and West whatever we do or say.

As for Curly Smith's assertion that we refuse to teach English to Mexican immigrants that's a fallacy that could only be cooked up by supporters of bi-lingual education (a sure way to keep Spanish speakers an underclass in the US). The best way to help Hispanic immigrants become a productive part of the US is have them enter the country legally and seal the borders of the US to their fellow countrymen who are violent and/or criminal.

Pelligrino| 2.17.11 @ 8:27AM

When jogging my distance one evening last summer, a youngish grad student decided to pace alongside. I was glad for the company because she wanted to converse. And as any jogger can tell you, the effort melts away if one has the pleasant diversion of good conversation.

We talked about many things. But the most intriguing part of the conversation was her roots in Northern Virginia (just outside the US capitol) and her recent study abroad in Spain.

She proved in conversation to have excellent Spanish -- far better than what she could have attained in 6 months overseas. (And to make this point clear, she looked of Norwegian or Swedish decent -- blonde, tall, Nordic)

Amazed at her Spanish proficiency, I inquired about it. She looked a bit astonished and repeated the neighborhoods where she grew up in NOVA (N. Virginia) playing sports and doing what teens do.

I still didn't get it.

So she made it very plain for me by saying, "Well, I went to public school. (She emphasized 'public school.') In that suburb that meant 65-70% of my classmates were latinos, hispanics. And, no, they didn't speak English, not much at all. So if we were going to get along on the sports teams, and if we were going to break down the language barrier, I had to initiate."

Swell.

She was talking present tense. And a suburb just 10.5 miles from the Washington Monument.

KyMouse| 2.17.11 @ 9:22AM

When I started volunteering in a hospital ER, I was seeing so many hispanic people receiving treatment that I decided to learn some basic Spanish. After a while, I thought, why should I do that? They should be learning English. So now when I talk to them, I speak slowly and use only basic English when possible, but I figure I am encouraging them to learn some. (Mostly I give coffee or water to hospital visitors, so it isn't a question of medical stuff).

By the way, the two kids next door to me are learning Mandarin Chinese in their classes. The kids are six and seven years old. Wow.

Vern Crisler | 2.17.11 @ 8:30AM

I've been reading American history books written in the 1950s and 60s, before all the multi-cult stuff got started. These histories are not as bad as today's history books, but there is still a pro-liberal tilt in the books.

There is usually a cynicism about our religious heritage, constant invocation of economic motivation (in the style of that g-ddamn Beard), and a marked hostility to Republican presidents.

In short, American history was told from the point of view of post WW2 progressives, and multi-cult history was the next logical step.

Derek Leaberry| 2.17.11 @ 8:38AM

Unfortunately, Mr. Cameron, Mr. Sarkozy and Mrs. Merkel are blowing smoke. If they truly wished to eradicate multiculturalism, they would return their Third World immigrants back to whence they came- Morocco, Algeria, Turkey, Pakistan, Bangla Desh, India, Jamaica, Nigeria etc. But all three are captives of the European Union multicultural crowd and won't do anything but whine. They are gelded.

In America, the multicultural crowd owns the Democratic Party and about half the Republican Party- the Bush family, John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Richard Lugar, Jeff Flake, Ed Gillespie, Mark Mehlman and Grover Norquist, among others. The best defense against multiculturalism is a bad economy and the inculcation of the values of Christianity and Western Civilization.

Pelligrino| 2.17.11 @ 8:44AM

We need to reign in 1) illegal immigration NOW! -- all borders sealed tight immediately and 2) legal immigration -- drastically limit it.

I think many of us are -- rightly so -- concerned that what is arriving as legal immigrants (look at the burgeoning Muslim poplulation in places like Lincoln, Nebraska!!!) is NOT top-drawer people with fantastic, ready-to-go skills that employers are salivating to have.

(we bring in people that don't even have rudimentary English language skills? What?)

No, we certainly aren't immigrating the best & brightest to these shores. Why?

This is the best country on earth -- still. We should be able to pick and choose. VERY selectively.

Presently we get inundated with Arab world, African, and very poor Latin American countries. Why?

It is not wrong to be upset (just as they are in Germany, Austria, England, France, Switzerland, Scotland, the Netherlands, and Belgium) that those coming show little personal drive or 'umph' to 1) immediately learn the language, 2) socially integrate (dress, customs, etc.), 3) show absolute, genuine appreciation for the 'lifesaving' rescue they just received, 4) speedily learn all they can about the wonders and facets of their new homeland.

We have it presently backwards. The USA is the best in the world. And needs to start acting like it. We 'sign-on' only the best talent.

Brian Mc| 2.17.11 @ 3:56PM

I wonder what would happen if I went into work tomorrow and tore down all the Spanish billings? Since we are a retailer in the Midwest and have no employees who speak anything but English, what would be the harm in it? But, alas, I must glance up at all the Fed Notes and note that half are in...Spanish...by law.

Occam's Tool| 2.17.11 @ 4:17PM

We should have the exact same immigration policy as New Zealand, and policed just as strongly. (Even a broken clock is right twice daily.)

donserge| 2.17.11 @ 8:50AM

European countries are probably too late to denounce multi-culturism as they are not replacing themselves and will be overrun by baby producing Muslims. If we continue to have unchecked borders and continue to be tolerant of the intolerant religion of Islam, our 2.1 reproduction rate will not matter.

Intelligent Design| 2.17.11 @ 9:05AM

Plain English translation: Muslims are undermining freedom in Europe, and they want to play the same movie here in the U.S.. Congress should recognize Islam for what it is: a subversive organization seeking to undermine the Constitution by forcing the merger of so-called "religion" (Islam) and the state. Islam is totally hostile to religious freedom and our Bill of Rights. Muslims do not assimilate, they want everyone else to "submit" (that's the meaning of the word Islam). The problem is not just with "extremists"; the problem includes so-called "moderates": the whole of Islam.

Two good books: Reflections on the Revolution in Europe by Christopher Caldwell, and The Grand Jihad, by Andrew McCarthy (a former prosecutor with the Justice Department). These are real eye-openers! Also, The Crisis of Islam, by Bernard Lewis.

Marilyn| 2.17.11 @ 9:24AM

I'm not so sure that all Muslims who come here are bad as I've read The Infidel and some other things that lead me to believe that some come here to escape their theocracies.

Brian Mc| 2.17.11 @ 4:03PM

Go to Jihad Watch's Website and scroll down and click on the video "Fitna" and be very afraid. All the Muslim approaches to infidels are explained in the Koran. You are being hood-winked. It is there for those who have eyes to see.

simon templar| 2.17.11 @ 9:07AM

I think they are awakening to the fact that multiculturalism is self destructive, illogical, and unworkable. It is essentially the balkanization of one's own nation and the invitation to outside enemies to take over that nation under the banner of political correctness. Conservatives are not anti-immigration nor anti-muslim per se but rather believe that there must be a lawful and rational immigration process and a enculturation process that makes it very clear that immigrants accept and adopt the traditions, history, laws, and language of the host country. All are welcome. If you can not buy this, then do not come. Multi-culturalism is a left wing created concept and a reaction to the traditional american melting pot theory. It is a fraudulent concept designed to destroy the dominant western cultures and bring down western civilization.

Marilyn| 2.17.11 @ 9:28AM

It's all wrapped up in One World thinking which both parties appear to be embracing. Would a Repbulican administration not have allowed the purchase of our NYSE by Germany? America is being sold piece by piece to meet One World objectives. Free markets are ok, but not if they mean there is no more national identity. Globalization is going to be the end of us if we don't wake up.

simon templar| 2.17.11 @ 2:44PM

You are absolutely correct. Globalization and multiculturalism are the two hands by which they will strangle the west. Please never confuse conservatives with elitist Republicans. The concept of a free market has also been perverted by the globalist. National economies compete and always will compete..not corporate entities. Free market implies competition. Corporate entities are granted personhood and citizenship and benefit from the same national defense, interests, and responsibilities that we all do. Globalization is another fraudulent concept with a hidden agenda as is multiculturalism.

ornelas| 2.17.11 @ 10:58PM

Brilliant.Tx.

Scott| 2.17.11 @ 9:11AM

I'm pretty sure Bernard Lewis said Europe is toast.

Purple Lips| 2.17.11 @ 9:11AM

Those Eurocrats are a little late with thier denunciations. What does France, Germany, or Italy have to offer immigrants other than free dentures, a welfare check, and a lousy appartment in a state run sould crushing urban ghetto? Hell, they can get that in Ankara, Jakarta, or Tunis.

A hundred years ago, if one was lucky enough to emigrate to Europe he and his family would have to convert to Anglicanism, Catholicism, or Greek Orthodox; they would have to learn the language and be subsumed into the 2000 year history of the local culture. Oh, but what a culture! Belief wasn't an option. Of course, there were plenty of secularist, anarchists, and communists. But they too were bound inside of that Hegelian Zeitgeist from which there was no getting out. The dichotomy between Belief and Reason, Thought and Feeling prevaded everyone. From Pope Pious X to Tolystoy; from Anarchists to Impressionists there was a tension in Europe that created the last great period of European greatness. Young people, students, the wealthy and the artists from all over the world traveled compulsively to Europe to drink from the well. However, a Muslim or Hindi would have felt very out of place there -as he should have been. Even rural American students who traveled there felt alienated, as Europe was as different from Witchita as you could get.

That Europe died on the fields of Flanders and Galacia circa 1914-1918. Today's Europeans have no more in common with Hugo or Monet than they do with religion. And in a few decades the miranet would probably replace the steeple in Paris and Rome.

Todd S| 2.17.11 @ 11:56PM

You obviously haven't been to Jakarta, there is not much of a welfare check to be had there I can assure you having lived there. Not that I disagree with your main point but living off welfare in the western world is far preferable than how many live in the 3rd world. Actually I would describe Jakarta as 1st world meets 3rd world with not much to separate it other than gates and security guards.

Ken (Old Texican)| 2.17.11 @ 9:14AM

Mr. Tyrrell,
You write that multi... has "failed". Uh what was a passing grade to be?

Seems to me the Europeans have "failed"... again.
The question now is... Will we?

Tim the Enchanter| 2.17.11 @ 11:41AM

Mr. Tyrrell: From the title of this article, one must ask the question: Did you just notice?

Timothy L. Pennell| 2.17.11 @ 9:43AM

France. England. Germany. What about right here?!
We have a Black African Muslim in the Oval office.
How's that working out?

PolishKnight| 2.17.11 @ 9:55AM

I thought it was obvious: Multiculturalism is an anti-American philosophy created by the left as a response to the fact that they had lost the mainstream electorate to anti-communism during the 1950's. In order to stay in power, they needed new recipients of the welfare state and government entitlements so they started out with women and minorities. There were still whites and men who were stupid enough to continue voting Democrat to make this strategy successful. As they lost white males (namely, they smartened up), the American left had to get new votes via immigration.

The left in Europe cheered on the downfall of their arch nemesis and unconsciously adapted the ruinous policies over time. In addition, just as the moderate right such as GW adapted multiculturalism in the states, the moderate left also saw personal interests in expanding the welfare state even at the expense of their long term viability. After all, leftism and short-term selfish politics go hand-in-hand.

Anthony| 2.17.11 @ 10:10AM

Multiculturalism is just another in a long line of leftist constructs that seeks to tear down their own existence.
The tap root of leftism is nihilism.

Order In English| 2.17.11 @ 10:21AM

I agree with Mark Steyn, multiculturalism isn't about knowing anything about other cultures, but about feeling warm and fluffy about them. It's a denial of reality.

TURK| 2.17.11 @ 10:24AM

There are 2 forces alive and well in the dangers overtaking the U.S. One is as stated above: the Black Muslim in the Oval Office; the other is the socialist/communist or communist/socialist in the oval office. I see the 2 fighting over our mangled carcass the way a group of lions tear into whats left of a gazele or wildebeast on wonderful public tv.

Years of propaganda caused millions of fools to elect O because to do otherwise would be racist. Years of propaganda also taught us Joe McCarthy and HUAC misled us on the "red scare". The propaganda worked!! Read Stanley Kurtz-Radical in Chief!

Dixie Pixie| 2.17.11 @ 2:48PM

Turk...I too loved the book.
But you missed the point that Obama was elected in a classic political bait and switch.
Like FDR's first election, Obama was elected to implement a center-right political philosophy and then promptly went as far left as possible.

Frankly I have always wondered why a group of conservative lawyers has not organized a class action lawsuit to charge Obama with "Theft by Political Deception".

Melvin| 2.17.11 @ 10:30AM

People, if a nation strives for the assimilation of those who immigrate into it, it will by natural default through the unity of a nation achieve a acceptable level of multiculturalism along with the preservation and continuance of the host nation. Therefore the host nation keeps it's cultural identity, unity as a people, and acceptance of those who immigrate to it.

Yukon Jack| 2.17.11 @ 10:50AM

I am glad I am old enough to pass on and so will not have to see the utter destruction and deterioration of North America by unbridled and insane immigration - legal and illegal - and multiculturalism.

I say that as an immigrant who never lost sight of what my adopted country expected of me.

DAVID| 2.17.11 @ 11:04PM

Jack, I stand with you hoping to leave this happy hunting ground for the joys of Heaven before we are totally destroyed by the heathens of today. As a 75 yr old Korean war vet if I knew my country would degenerate as far as we have to date, I might have gone AWOL instead of putting my young life on the line. I truly pray not to see our total demise just as I pray for my grandchildrens survival, especially my grandsons who, as white males are already the most despised of Americans.

Yukon Jack| 2.18.11 @ 8:43AM

DAVID, I am only a seventeen-year-old refugee from the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.

But when Canada accepted me, I knew that standing up for my new country and the political system it represents should be a goal that is worth standing up for. Unionism, socialism and the phony equality for all is nothing but a poorly disguised attempt to achieve equality for the undeserving.

I made what I achieved in my life (such as it is) on my own merit, without some union thug speaking "on my behalf". And of course for my dues.

If I were in Wisconsin today, I would ask the teachers who called in sick if they would trust their kids under the care of liars.

Yukon Jack| 2.18.11 @ 8:44AM

Meant to say: I WAS a seventeen...

Kurt in S.L.C.| 2.17.11 @ 11:33AM

Good article Mr. Tyrrell, Your readers might like a more in depth observation by James Lewis over at American Thinker. You've both nailed it very well.First we witness the grueome birth and slow death of Obamacare,next comes the exposure that AGW (climate change) is a fraud, now multiculturalism. The left has to be outraged over this outbreak of common sense. The rest of us have reason for hope that change is coming.

Jane_Tarzan| 2.17.11 @ 11:37AM

Many people have experience with foreign exchange students in their high schools. Typically, these kids, even ones who arrive with almost no English, are speaking well in three or four months. They learn through immersion in the language plus a little tutoring. Learning a language is not as difficult as many people think, especially for children and young people.

Oldefarte| 2.17.11 @ 12:00PM

The most recent egrious example of this political correctness in this country has to be the Army Commandant's declaration after the Fort Hood massacre that THE MOST PRESSING ISSUE FACING THE US MILITARY WAS ITS LACK OF DIVERSITY WITHIN ITS RANKS. Give me a GD break, please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

bobmontgomery| 2.17.11 @ 2:09PM

Actually, Olde, if I remember his comment was even worse than you recall. It was along these lines "As tragic as the loss of these soldiers, I think even more tragic would be the loss of diversity,". For which he should have been fired on the spot, and since he was not, he should have been called before Congress, and since he was not, the lot of them - the administration, the defense establishment, and the Congress are despicable.

Doctor Right| 2.17.11 @ 12:06PM

How did "multiculturalism" ever get to this point?

That's easy.

But before I provide the answer, let's play a little game.

I'm going to ask a question; please insert whatever political/social/economical disaster you prefer into the blank.

Ready?

"How did (___________) ever get to this point?"

ANSWER: Liberalism

Mistral| 2.17.11 @ 12:07PM

Not only has multiculturalism failed but so has liberal cultural relativism which permits legalised infanticide and artificial birth control with legalised euthanasia. Demographic statistics demonstrate that unless western-style nations permit mass immigration from Africa, Latin America and Asia they will fade away into absolute population decline. The rates of immigration required are so great that it is logistically impossible to successfully integrate the sort of numbers recruited today. Mr Sarkoczy, Mrs Merkel, Mr Cameron and company are already sounding the tocsin far too late. Whites are in danger of extinction - once 1 in 3 of the planet's population in the early twentieth century was one in ten by the late twentieth century. This trend is bound to continue into the 21st century as it is irreversible.

Mistral| 2.17.11 @ 12:10PM

Amoralism is far more destructive than multiculturalism.

Oldefarte| 2.17.11 @ 1:47PM

Amoralism? Have you ever studied the meaning of MORALITY in theology or philosophy????????????

WAKE UP| 2.17.11 @ 1:49PM

The most we can expect from the current bunch of politicians (Cameron, Sarkozy and Merkel included), who have connived with the multicultural bullshit all along, is that, when it all finally implodes, they will try to save their own self-interested backsides, and in the process will pretend that they’re saving ours. Any good that comes out of their activities will be entirely accidental. Nothing will ever change where the Muslims themselves are concerned*, and Cameron/Sarkozy et al are either being disingenuous or simply have no idea what they’re doing – or both.

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* ever since 9/11, the entire “expatriate” Muslim community in the West has had ample chance to show they GET IT. They haven’t got it, and never will.

Doctor Right| 2.17.11 @ 1:53PM

Oh, they'll get it...it may take some more time, but they'll get it.

WAKE UP| 2.17.11 @ 2:11PM

Doc, although I understand (with a wry smile) what you're saying (and so will other readers of this blogsite), forgive that I still have to say that I regret seeing you make a cheap pun out of my very serious serious point ( the stumbling block of Muslim intractability) . Don't you think we have enough of that kind of avoiding-the-issue-by-making-a-bad-joke-of-it, from Maher, Letterman, Goldberg and company? It's long past time America got serious about understanding this. Unlike previous wars, the Barbarians are INSIDE the gates already (at our own foolish invitation!). This a new experience for continental America, and you need to get on to it, fast. There's no more time left to merely treat it as the latest entertainment phenomenon.

Pelligrino| 2.17.11 @ 2:47PM

Thank you, Wake Up.

He's right, folks. This is NO joke; it ain't funny. This is NOW. You can feel -- in no time at all -- a complete stranger and completely unwanted in a corner of town where you grew up or where your grandparents lived. Just like urban black N0-Go zones (even for the police). Shops or small resturants now under "new management" where you dare not enter?

Maybe a just off the downtown public library where it is unsafe to park and walk to enter? Yet that's where your Mom got her very first children's book as grandma taught her to read. Now UNSAFE. Not smart to go there during certain hours of the day.

Isn't this now the entire 100+ mile zone north of most of our Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California border for whites/"gringos?" Sure seems like it in Texas.

When a mosque is already in a place like Murfreesboro Tennessee and one now being built near you, don't you ask WHY?

When the guys behind the highway hotel counters all along I-95 (north to south) are looking like they just got off plane from Calcutta yesterday (and all have the name Patel -- a region in India), don't you scratch your head wondering? It's almost ALL of those family budget hotels now....so it seems.

(They are a perfect example. Talk to the 40-something man who is the "manager." He arrived in NYC or Boston or somewhere in NJ. Now he's migrated south and been in the USA for 12+ years. His English still stinks and he has no grasp of what he should know following the local news, local papers, etc. for this past decade of being "in America." And his parents who now live permanently in Room 218 know nothing of America despite 5-8 years here already.)

When you go to these corners of America do you feel like you are still in America where you were raised and where your grandparents lived?

No, you are a stranger. And except for the fact that you bring money in your wallet or purse, you are really not wanted or welcome.

WAKE UP| 2.17.11 @ 4:08PM

Thanks Pellegrino: Every chance I get, I try to get my American friends to understand that it's not just about America; the whole free world is depending on America to get it right.

Doctor Right| 2.17.11 @ 3:46PM

What makes you think I was joking??

WAKE UP| 2.17.11 @ 4:07PM

Doc, I know you weren't joking - you were punning. But you're also wasting time.

WAKE UP| 2.17.11 @ 1:55PM

EVERYBODY tapdances around the FACTS:
(1) the "multicultural" experiment is ONLY taking place in advanced, stable, democratic Western nations
(2) the "multicultural" people being brought in to test this are people who are incapable of multiculturalism in their own, backward societies (if they could do it, they would have modernised their societies and done it . QED)
(3) the result is that the solid fabric of Western democracies is being destroyed as intractable backward cultures are imported
(4) eventually the West will be reduced to the same bickering, tribal primitivism that the "multiculturals" have come from, and man's noblest achievement ever (the establishing of a sane, Judeo-Christian, democratic, free society) will be finished.

Unless we STOP it all now.

bobmontgomery| 2.17.11 @ 2:28PM

What? You mean t tell me that there are no Christian Churches allowed in Saudi Arabia? You mean to tell me that Christians, Bhuddists nd Hindus are not even allowed to step foot in Mecca of Medinah? You mean this vaunted "interfaith dialogue" that all the Progressive Pastors and acolytes in the US are pushing is not tolerated in the Muslims states? Say it isn't so, Joe!!!

Christian| 2.17.11 @ 3:49PM

The BS "Interfaith" dialogue is only between the Religionists and lukewarm Christians. Real Christians need not apply.

Occam's Tool| 2.17.11 @ 4:20PM

You haven't read enough of the Doc. He doesn't joke much. And neither do I.

Bob From District 9| 2.17.11 @ 2:14PM

How did multiculturalism get established? People like you wanted low paid poverty stricken workers to pull down the middle class.

Guess who they turned out to be.

Allah Akbar is Arabic for God is Great. No good Christian should have a problem with that.

If a German said something nice about Gott would you have a problem with it? Maybe the village atheist would, but, then again, he does have a legitimate case for saying "there is no God."

Your choice, your guilt.

Pelligrino| 2.17.11 @ 3:15PM

Whoa, Bob from District 9, where'd you get that funky line of thinking?

My choice? (My guilt?)

No way.

When you cannot even have a basic exchange of simple phrases with the man or woman (mostly Pakistani or more likely Indian) at the local Wal-Mart when checking out...

And an Indian man nearby is sneering at you if you try to speak to the woman Indian at the cash register (and she seems afraid to speak to you as you are a male)....

No, I didn't choose that. And I have no idea who did choose this for us.

It would be one thing if these people came here and kissed the earth (like the Pope used to do when landing on a visit abroad) and RACED in all aspects of their lives to become the best possible Americans....

But they don't. Instead they learn how to band together, lawyer-up, and study at the feet of the Jesse Jackson/Al Sharpton/Louis Farrakhan schools of "I'm Offended!," "I'm Discriminated Against!," "I'm Held Back!" and "We demand quotas!"

I don't know of anyone who chose this to save a few dollars at the check out.

You must know nothing of the use of the Allah name when uttered/spoken by a practicing Muslim in your presence.

MikeD| 2.17.11 @ 5:25PM

BOB,
Although I realize you really don't want to know, I'll tell you where multiculturalism came from. It started in North Carolina, at NC State and UNC, with input from Duke, when Stanley Fish, professor of English, and America hater from the post Vietnam era, decided to 'codify' a few ideas he thought might help destroy the America he had come to despise. He called it "Deconstructionism", which meant, at its heart, that no idea or concept is inherently superior to any other when sufficiently 'de-con-structed', or broken into its component parts. That also meant that love, hate, treason, trust, etc... were 'null' concepts. From that shakey start, he continued on to "Multiculturalism", or, the idea that, since ideas and concepts are inherently equal with no moral or ethical superiority in any one or the other; then cultures and countries must fall into the same kind of morass. Hence, multi-or many cultural-cultures; ism-study of. Since they're all equal and there are no moral or ethical degrees of superiority, a culture that mutilates its young girls or kills its babies is no better or worse than one that doesn't. And that is the basis of the problem; because some ideas ARE evil and some are not. It is evil to kill babies and mutilate young girls, regardless of the academic bleating of some fool in his ivory tower.

Frankly, if idiots like you who have no idea what they're talking about would actually learn something about the terms and concepts the liberal media and academics love to throw around would actually take the time and invest the effort to really learn what is being said, you might change your mind. But, it is much easier to just throw the words around, yell "Bush did it!" and blindly agree with the deadly poisonous trash that obama is distributing, than it is to think carefully about what it is doing to us and our once great country. I can almost understand self destruction through misguided ideas, but through ignorance and laziness? What a crime.

bobmontgomery| 2.17.11 @ 2:22PM

What to do in the immediate sense is for the leaders Mr. Tyrrell mentions to immediately sign a pact with the state o f Israel and begin movin.g assets to the region. The immediate tack is for these leaders to show up Obama and the US State Department for the spineless multicultural apologists they are who turn their backs on Israel after 60 years of the US guaranteeing its security.
France, Germany and Britain together are capable of holding the line until a new US administration can enunciate and implement the resolve expressed by Eisenhower, Kennedy, Reagan.

Al Wunsch| 2.17.11 @ 2:35PM

The whole point, and genius, of America regarding immigration is/was assimilation, the opposite of multiculuralism. A nation stands for something and must carefully shepard the culture through education, assimilation and growth through freedom and exchange of ideas. Thanks to PC and multiculturalism, the schools have become a propaganda tool for the left that espouses a view antithetical to what our constitution stands for and is based on. That will cause failure and as the Europeans have seen, a new culture that results in a nation within a nation. Within the PC, mulitcultural world arises a leadership of another culture that rejects the original host culture and exploits the ignorance of those who chose not to fight for their culture or even know much about their own nation.

George True| 2.17.11 @ 2:36PM

I agree with your sentiment, Bob. But to pick a nit, Allahu Akbar does not mean what most Westerners think it does. When a muslim says Allahu Akbar, he is saying "my god is greater than you". Notice they don't say it to each other, but only to infidels. Unlike all other major world religions, they do not acknowledge the spark of the divine in all humans, or in other words that all people are created in the image of God. Thus, when they say Allahu Akbar, they are saying that we infidels are sub-human, and fair game to be killed in the name of their moon god. As a Christian, I have a HUGE problem with this.

Harold Sanders| 2.17.11 @ 3:01PM

Different colors of skin and looks and etc. Is more easy to deal with than all the kinds of theory in Religion. Drop religion and it would work, probably

John II| 2.17.11 @ 2:36PM

"Or actually another question: how did multiculturalism ever become a policy of these European countries anyway?"

I think I know the answer to that question, if I may extrapolate from 40 years of experience in the rarefied atmosphere of academia.

The primness and moral smugness of multiculturalism are the keynotes. Everyone I know who is actively, even fanatically into the ethos of multiculturalism is burdened with a personal life which, in traditional moral terms, can only be called disordered. When true morality is shunted aside, the vacuum left in the human heart requires a kind of stuffing, and all that's left to serve as stuffing is this or that bogus filler snatched more or less arbitrarily from the idiot enthusiasms that proliferate in a shallow culture.

The ideology of multiculturalism serves very conveniently as a substitute for true morality, since the former makes no real demands on the self. All the demands can be projected outward from a soul besotted with the cheap substitute.

Simple, no? On the other hand, how any particular person could be drawn into such a creepy state of cozy smugness is a question that takes us into deeper waters. There's a kind of Gresham's Law in the moral universe whereby bad instincts drive good instincts out of circulation, but the ontology of it all eludes me.

Brian Mc| 2.17.11 @ 4:45PM

I'm starting to put a finger on what it is about liberalism that gives me the creeps, Johnny...! The bad guys are the ones who refuse to wallow in the warm mire.

bptr| 2.17.11 @ 2:49PM

So you nitwit "Conservatives" are now officially promoting INTOLERANCE???? It used to be just implied in all your rambling stupidity. You now have many outlets to spew your disgusting propaganda to the gullible fat stupid masses. This one disguises iteself as Intellectualism. Yes, you people are clearly CORPORATE FASCISTS with nothing but power and greed in your interest.

VBMax| 2.17.11 @ 3:07PM

This guy's got a perfect post for the other article "Egypt and the Death of Argument".

John II| 2.17.11 @ 3:09PM

Exhibit A: Lefty Tolerance.

W| 2.17.11 @ 3:33PM

Are you the designated daily lefty troll? How do you come up with these names like "yes" or "bptr" or "vtwin" or "jarp" ? you are all the same person. same message: usa is bad, bush is bad, republicans are bad. there, we got your message, go away and watch msnbc.

Brian Mc| 2.17.11 @ 4:54PM

Thanks, bptr! Wow, you are soooooo right and all along...what a nitwit I've been! That's it everyone, I'm separating myself from all that is decent, righteous, morally sound, tolerant without surrender, galant, joyous, worthy, and attainable thanks to bptr's lividly and passionately thought-out supposition. I'm sure I'm not the only one who has done a 180 here...am I right? You damn right I'm RIGHT. I too, someday hope to achieve bptrism!

albert constantine, jr.| 2.17.11 @ 8:11PM

I've posted this previously, but whenever I see a post that tosses around labels like "you people are clearly CORPORATE FASCISTS ", I am reminded of a scene from Episode 73 of the Rockford Files, where Rockford is trying to rescue a hippie loser from a deadly situation largely of her own making:

Rockford (James Garner): What can you do, lady?
Sky Aquarian (Valerie Curtin): My consciousness doesn’t lend itself to problem solving likes yours does, okay. I’m into an alternative lifestyle. I’m a seeker of truth. What’s so wrong with that?
Rockford: Your alternative lifestyle comes out of someone else’s pocket. You mooch, you borrow, you hardly work. Anyone who doesn’t go along with it is a fascist…
Sky Aquarian: I’m not into structured living or accumulated things. I’m into my consciousness.
Rockford: You’re practically unconscious 24 hours a day. What you’re into is having someone else do your thinking for you.

Almost 24 years after that episode first aired, the dialogue the character Rockford spoke still accurately describes anyone who uses the label Fascist to describe anyone other than a member of Il Duce's Party in Italy pre-1945

simon templar| 2.18.11 @ 12:36AM

LOL. I love Jimbo..Angel too! Excellent post!

John| 2.17.11 @ 3:03PM

Multiculturalism is a great thing. It enriches society without taking anything away. The main problem is that there has not been enough mulicultrism. For example Muslim holidays are not recognised in Europe USA. They should be. Those in America who don't like multiculturalism should go back to Europe . it's great to see that Muslim hatred are out in force (NOT). Islam is one of the greatest and most peaceful faiths. it is the only faith in which all worship is directed to god without any intermediaries. for people who don't like other cultures you sure do like to interfere in other countries. I think may it was time you brought your 1000 bases in other countries home. The people in ME definitely dont want them. change you can beleive in.

John II| 2.17.11 @ 3:10PM

Exhibit B: More Lefty Tolerance.

W| 2.17.11 @ 3:29PM

Another bad translation from arabic, john. what country do you live in?
You think islam is a religion of peace, what planet do you live on?

Occam's Tool| 2.17.11 @ 4:21PM

John has commented, giving us the vermin input.

Negro X| 2.17.11 @ 5:40PM

John,
Multiculturalism is working out really good in the middle east. Go back to sniffing obama's ass.

skip| 2.17.11 @ 9:57PM

In the interest of multiculturism help me better understand Islam.

How old was the great prophet's child bride?

How many times was this little girl raped?

Does the number of virgins you get depend on how many times you rape a little girl?

Do you have to commit rape to even get virgins?

And, dammit, is it 72 or 77 virgins?

bptr| 2.17.11 @ 3:10PM

From reading these posts, it is obvious that this is simply a forum for HATRED and STUPIDITY (which America has no shortage of).

John II| 2.17.11 @ 3:18PM

Exhibit C: Even More Lefty Tolerance.

Occam's Tool| 2.17.11 @ 4:21PM

My above comment NEVER applies to John II. You know who I'm talking about, sir.

skip| 2.17.11 @ 10:10PM

Good Grief.

Duh.

If it wasn't for no shortage of hatred and stupidity in America Obama would never have been elected

ERM| 2.17.11 @ 3:11PM

Sounds like Europe is ahead of the U.S on this one. Tell me again why everything seems to have to be in Spanish (and in Houston Vietnamese) in addition to English? We have thrown away our melting pot and that has not improved the cohesiveness of our Country. How very sad; the strength of the fabric of our country came from the melding of many nationalities and cultures.

proreason| 2.17.11 @ 3:24PM

Multi-culturalism is a marxist tactic, one of thousands. Each tactic is designed to break down national or group identity, so that when the chaos and anarchy begin, the marxists can step in.

The tactics are the root of almost all of the problems that happens in the west; attacks on the family (though feminism, elevating homosexuality and other means), attacks on religion, attacks on business / economies / investing, vesting of power in unions (so that they can accumulate more power than other institutions), attacks on moral frameworks, attacks on fraternal organizations (the Boy Scouts, for god's sake), condemnation of the history of a country, and on and on.

It's a big part of the overall strategy. The other two legs are already complete: capture of the media and capture of the intelligensia.

John| 2.17.11 @ 4:15PM

I am from planet earth a beautiful world with thousands of cultures languages religions . Oh what a beutiful world. May god continue to bless humanity and help us to recognise good in each other.amin. here's saluting the multicultural flag.

George True| 2.17.11 @ 4:20PM

Your god is the moon god allah. Your religion was created by the one who rebelled against the Creator of the universe.

John| 2.17.11 @ 5:50PM

My god is the creator of all things including the moon. True religion, faith lies in worshiping the creator and not the created. This is the essence of Islam . listen to the Quran . Your life will change for the better.

George True| 2.17.11 @ 6:48PM

Even though you do not realize it, your god that you worship is the adversary, also known as Lucifer, or Satan. He set up a fraudulent religion around 730 A.D. that is a subversion and a perversion of all true religion. You THINK you are worshipping the Creator, but in fact you have been duped and you are worshipping Satan.

John| 2.17.11 @ 7:34PM

you need to broaden your horizons. I suggest making a visit to your local mosque. Meeting a local Muslim convert. I'm sure you will find that deeply enriching. It wil dispel any prejudices that you have. It will melt your heart. Bring you closer to god. Regarding lucifer he is a creature of god and therefore not worthy of worship. God has given him temporary respite until day of judgement.

albert constantine, jr.| 2.17.11 @ 8:16PM

Having worked in law enforcement for 25 years, I have met many Muslim converts. Unfortunately, I continue to meet most professionally post-conversion. I often find it ironic, though, that while many are Muslim converts, they apparently don't subscribe to Islamic punishment, or else I'd know many multiple amputees.

skip| 2.17.11 @ 11:24PM

If I do this then can I find out how many virgins the little child raping leader of your faith was given, and how deeply enriching it was for your prophet to rape that little child, and whether it was the muhammed's heart that melted by raping that little child, the raped little child's heart that melted, or both?

DRed| 2.18.11 @ 12:03AM

Skippy, you're always accusing Mohammed of being a child rapist. Is that in the Koran? Something else?

skip| 2.18.11 @ 12:56AM

You've always given me a sense you want to really understand the intelligent and honest positions on issues, but you end up resisting it a little too much.

Show me your mettle; find it yourself.

simon templar| 2.18.11 @ 12:46AM

I have. I read very large segments of it. Was particularly fascinated by the parts about establishing a global caliphate, warring with infidels, levying taxes on those conquered who refuse to submit, demanding tribute of foreign nations, lying, cheating, and disguising one's religion to promote Islam. Great book.

Occam's Tool| 2.17.11 @ 4:22PM

Except Israel and Jews, right John?

John| 2.17.11 @ 5:18PM

Jews are a great people an asset to any nation. Their contribution to humanity is unpalleled. Shame the Europeans murdered all them. Very nasty business. of course that doesn't that I support everything that isreal does. For example zionism is wrong. You know colonising ethnic cleansing . Nasty business. bless all those jewish people who speak against Zionism- Norman finkelstein comes to mind. I'm big supporter of Palestinian refugees. they're coming home soon. Change you canbelieve in. Peace.

George True| 2.17.11 @ 6:51PM

Peace, my ass. You say "peace" while you bear false witness against innocent people and make excuses for mass murdering so-called Palestinians. The arabs of the middle east are the greatest bigots and the greatest ethnic cleansers the world has ever seen.

Charles| 2.17.11 @ 4:22PM

btr,
You are so full of it ,I can smell you from all the way here.If you want to live in Mexico, why don`t
you go live there? I don`t want any other country
to have so many of there people here that they change the very fabric of our society.Come here legal and I will welcome you. Come here illegal and
I`ll put you on a boat and kick your ass back to where you came from. You may think its a welfare
state we live in but it isn`t . Yes we are a nation of
immigrants and we will welcome a certain amount
of people from other nations.We will not empty
all of Mexico into the USA. We already have schools in the United States that speak nothing
but Spanish and thats all they want to speak. We are a nation of laws,written by immigrants,so you better obey them.

Charles| 2.17.11 @ 4:25PM

Dixie Pixie,
I couldn`t have said it any better.Go girl go!!!!!!!!

Charles| 2.17.11 @ 5:28PM

btr,
You are the left wing ass hole. If you don`t like
America go to Hell where you belong, or where
they cut your dam head off as they yell ALLAH
AKBAR.

Negro X| 2.17.11 @ 5:39PM

There is not one instance where diversity or multiculturalism has any benefits. The race scam is used to silence this fact it produces no benefits society. The only response the left has to the truth is the time worn "rich tapestry, vibrant community" clique. Nothing but garbage.

PCP Smoker| 2.17.11 @ 7:14PM

You are behind the times on this. Mark Steyn had it right. Talking is nice, how about some action? How about restrictions of (dirty) muslims entering the country? How about shutting down madrassahs?
We are waiting

Mike M| 2.17.11 @ 7:43PM

Alas, and what is to become of "Homosexual relationships?" Should the brave French just allow gay marriage and "gay pride " festivals unfettered, leading to a Muslim backlash - dare I say Jihad - against said gay community? Perish the thought!

deltablues| 2.17.11 @ 9:25PM

Multiculturism is a tool of cultural Marxism. Which means dividing the people of the world/countries into socio/ethnic groups. It hides within the Trojan Horse labelled - All Cultures Are Equal. Paradoxically, despite the equal cultures mantra, multiculturalism also fosters groups which it deems have less power - these are the special needs groups which require "affirmative" action. This enables big government and its tax-consuming apparatchiks to mestatisize through the social structure and mindset..

deltablues| 2.17.11 @ 9:43PM

metastasize

Am Freemen| 2.17.11 @ 10:30PM

----DUH!

FACT IS 'Free Trade', which in point of fact
is no such thing ---is a destroyer which ultimately
serves and benefits, in any longlasting way, ONLY the small, entrenched, centuries inbred elites of global finance and policy-making.

FREE Trade, by its very nature, implies
ultimate, unaccountable TOTALITARIAN
control. The con-men call that 'governance'
and standardization.

"Free Trade remember is ALWAYS intertwined
with Globalism and EUGENICS. ALWAYS."
-Alan Watt
(on YouTube)

NOTE: the heyday of the British Empire and finance, the nineteenth century was perhaps
the MOST horrendous in history for the average
Brit.

The very pit of Dickensiam workhouse
industrialism that made even the life of American
slaves enviable. Even Marx's capstone benefactor Engels said as much.

Free Trade, the 'opening' of Japan) led to the murder
of their emperor, the end of perhaps their
greatest cultural flowering, massive militarization,
'zealous' campaigns for eugenics and genocide,
along with wars ---which, we NOW learn, were
'by design' to level the traditional cultures,
bring in Communism, standardization and
EUGENOCIDE on a scale never before seen,
or even imagined, and which, even now is in ominous second bloom.

Of course all this after the Sassoon family,
with helpful assists from British East India,
and some notable Yale/Harvard scions
(Russells, Delanos et al a la 'Skull and Bones')
had spent a century sowing famine and opium
addiction across the continent.

That the 'gorgeous mosaic' is a sham is nothing
new.

That the 'ideals' of 'FREE trade' and Globalism are everywhere, and in all cases,
intertwined with cultural and economic destruction by an entrenched, unreachable elite, and that the ultimate aims ALWAYS prominently, indeed, pre-eminently 'population easing' and
'control' (i.e. genocide) --is UNDENIABLE...

Charles| 2.17.11 @ 11:23PM

John,
You think we should honor more Muslim holidays.
I don`t think we can. Don`t the Muslims have a
holiday every other day. We would never get any
work done and we would be poor like the Muslim
countries.Isn`t this the time they spend blowing
each other up. I think I`ll stick to our holidays.
Thanks anyway for offering.

Ralph Novy| 2.18.11 @ 2:04AM

Yikes!

What xenophobic/racist crap.

New low.

How can you look yourself in the eye in the mirror in the morning and think yourself a decent human being, Mr. Tyrrell?

Your "arguments," such as they are, merit no response. Ask the mirror for answers.

Marc Jeric| 2.18.11 @ 2:43AM

Komrad Novy - read my comment below.

Marc Jeric| 2.18.11 @ 2:41AM

In America the situation is much worse. We have Abu Hussein al-Mombassa as President, wherever in Kenya that marxist Muslim was born. In addition to promoting communism here, he also encourages Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt with their sharia law. He has abandoned Israel now to the combined jihadi forces of Lebanon, Gaza, Syria, Iran, and soon those of Jordan. Here we have not only multiculturalism but also political correctness, affirmative action, and hate crimes laws. All of these apply only to the whites, especially Christian whites.

Marc Jeric| 2.18.11 @ 2:53AM

There is much talk about Islam being "a religion of peace". Even that weakling Bush bought that farce, Islam is not a religion - it is a political program consisting of
1) conquest by force of arms, then
2) coversion; if resisted then
3) slavery; if resisted then
4) mass murder.
The 13 centuries of Islam are the witness of the above. And - by the way - I heard nothing from our brave "feminists" about this particular multiculturalism; well - that's logical: their "feminism" is only a cover for their communist program.

Charles| 2.18.11 @ 9:57AM

mikeD,
Good job!!! You can talk to you are blue in the
face,there are people out there that will never learn. They are either stupid or just to lazy to find out the truth. I would say,probley a little bit of both.

Dan Ryan| 2.18.11 @ 10:22AM

"One cannot but ponder the question: what if the Arabs had been Christians? To me it seems certain that the fatalistic teachings of Mohammed and the utter degradation of women is the outstanding cause for the arrested development of the Arab. He is exactly as he was around the year 700, while we have kept on developing. Here, I think, is a text for some eloquent sermon on the virtues of Christianity." ~ General George S. Patton, Jr., War As I Knew It.

gsr| 2.18.11 @ 11:00AM

Actually, the USA is NOT about immigration. Those who say that don't know history very well. The USA was formed for LIBERTY (of the individual). Immigration has never been a major part of US history until the early 20th century (then we went 40-50 yrs with low imigration) and more recently (from the mid-1990s until now).

Furthermore, most every nation can be labeled a "nation of imigrants" because no one grew out of the ground - in other words, the American Indians came to North America too. Same can be said of Russia, Italy, Germany, Japan, etc., if you go back far enough in time. But that argument is irrelevant. The issue is whether high immigration is good for the USA today?

I say no. I say we need to enter in a period of lower immigration for 10-20 years.

Eric| 2.18.11 @ 1:14PM

How could you write this without even addressing the extensive history of multiculturalism in the United States? The US is exemplar here, and probably did much to inspire policy and attitude in Europe. How do you account for the success of the US?

Charles| 2.19.11 @ 12:55PM

I didn`t know Bernanke was a cousin to the Roths childs, in turn are George Soros Boss. Now we know why all the money the Federal Reserve is printing and why.Obama and the Fed reserve are trying like hell to destroy our curency.Backing
them up his our boy Soros, who answers to Jacob
or Anthony Rothschild. where ever you see a
country`s curency being destroyed, you will find Soros lurking close by.

Charles| 2.19.11 @ 1:14PM

Three books a must read.
No1.>1984 by Aldous Huxley
No2>Brave New World by George Orwell
(1984 should be read first.It is happing now.
No3>Culture of Corruption by Michelle Malkin
Michelle knows more about Obama than anyone
I know.

Tony in Central PA| 2.20.11 @ 7:25PM

The nations, peoples and cultures of Europe largely survived millenia of war, disease, famine and natural disasters. Now its all dying. Gradually at first, but rapidly by the 20th century, Europe abandoned Christianity in favor of various 'isms, all of which have failed or are now failing.
The problems of Europe are the result of a loss of truth that accompanied the loss of faith. A culture that has no use for God has no use for things like virtue, and a society that does not promote virtue is doomed.

Joan Earth | 2.21.11 @ 7:12AM

It really does not matter, in a way, what the small minded few think. Multiculturalism is a reality and true integration of all human beings on planet Earth is an inevitability. Failing or succeeding does not even come into it – it has always been happening and will continue to happen regardless of the petty thoughts and wishes of the short-lived generations who struggle against evolution. Like a hive driven Sisyphus, their efforts can only be in vain and prolong the suffering and pain that accompanies humankind’s progress to a society where culture, borders and beliefs are no longer a dividing issue.

LORRAINE INGERSOLL | 2.21.11 @ 10:42AM

MULTICULTURISM DEGRADES AMERICA TO THE POINT OF LOSS OF COMMON SENSE ! HOW TO CORRECT THIS 'INDIFFERENCE" OF THE PEOPLE DEMANDS CHANGE IN TREATING OTHER UNINFORMED PEOPLE . THIS WILL TAKE TIME WHICH WE HAVE , I BELIEVE, UNTIL TRUTH SLAMS OUT OF THE LONG ROAD OF HISTORY INTO THIS NEW GENERATION! LORRAINE INGERSOLL

Charles| 2.21.11 @ 11:38AM

Tony,
You are right. The Europeans have abanded
Christinanity.Their churches set almost empty
on Sunday. They are paying a high price for this and will continue to pay.

Russ| 4.28.11 @ 1:15PM

The main push of 'cultural diversity' (multiculturalism) is meant to show tolerance and friendship between cultures - well, that is the public claim. What it really does is to break DOWN cultures. No culture can continue to exist when it has been fragmented so that its people cannot any longer practice their own culture for fear of offending others. America, like it or not, was always a primarily Christian nation. Now we can barely say Merry Christmas for fear of offending non-Christians. Any perceived difference in how person X is treated vs. person Y is bound to end up in the courts, with the end result being bad feelings when both sides feel they are not being treated fairly.

I will never defend for a moment any of the terrible things Adolph Hitler did, but he did demonstrate that a people with a common culture and interest pulling in one direction can accomplish a lot more than any nation which is tearing at itself due to cultural differences.

Theo Prinse| 4.29.11 @ 6:28AM

Thanks for the artikel mr. Emmett Tyrrell ! In Holland we discovered that islam is too big for multiculturalism.
Multiculturalism (M) - like communism (C) - both first re-distribute and innovate later or no more. To re-distribute, M & C first have to chain people in the concept of victimhood .. of what ? The Innovators ?
In turm, the ideology of Islam chains all of multiculturalism. So Islam cannot be victimized by the multiculturalism of the liberals.
http://www.tulane.edu/~phil/faculty/mack.html

Warspite| 5.24.11 @ 2:08PM

Part of political correctness agenda of destroying Europe is re-writing history to only show it's errors and thus instill a guilt complex. Multiculturism is nothing more than the genocide of the white christian world the northern hemisphere.

weddingdress | 7.15.11 @ 5:26AM

Like FDR's first election, Obama was elected to implement a center-right political philosophy and then promptly went as far left as possible.

Frankly I have always wondered why a group of conservative lawyers has not organized a class action lawsuit to charge Obama with "Theft by Political Deception".

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Ernest| 8.29.11 @ 12:48PM

Islam's and Muslim's goal is to rule the world and subjugate the non-Muslims and nothing else matters. Where ever there are enough of them to cause trouble they will cause conflict in society. We see it in the news all the time.

Muslims will wage war against non-Muslims, even other Muslims (sunni against shiite), no matter what because they are commanded to by the Allah, Quran and Muhammad.

People are just feed up Muslim's barbaric behavior. Muslims just cannot be helped.

Hanako| 9.27.11 @ 6:19PM

Multiculturalism was supposed to allow people of different cultures to live united as one national culture.

Through my own experience in life, rather than uniting people together, all multiculturalism has done is create little sub-cultures that live totally separately from the mainstream. Look at the Latin Americans or Asians, for instance. A lot of them grew up quite separate from the mainstream "white" (for the lack of a better term), and as a result you get Chinese/Vietnamese/whatever speaking almost exclusively their native language, being taught only their moral/cultural values and not the ones that the Western world were teaching them. Not to mention most of those said foreigners speak TERRIBLE English in such thick accents you can't help but wonder if they're speaking Engrish...

While I think it's fine to celebrate your origins and your religion in private and whatnot, if you have no desire to integrate into the mainstream society, what's the point? I never understood why some foreigners speak so highly of their country and act like they're still at home and not in the US; if the foreigner liked likes his homeland so much, why live here? It freaking baffles me.

Even though I'm pretty open minded, there are just some things I can't tolerate.

So what's the final solution? Shoot all the foreigners (like me, even though I'm trying to be an American)?

العاب بنات | 4.11.12 @ 5:03PM

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