Friday, December 12, 2008

The extraordinary concessions that governments, NGOs and the media extend toward the Islamic fact may be a sign of the unwillingness to accept that the treasured policy of multiculturalism has been a resounding failure. For one thing, the self-perpetuating bureaucracies set up to administer the various multicultural programs that have been put in place cannot easily be dissolved - a bureaucracy is forever. For another, too many official careers and invested egos stand to be discredited. It is difficult to admit that the principles and values one has lived and thought and endorsed throughout an entire career are mistaken. The temptation is to keep pouring good money after bad in an effort to keep one’s conscience out of Chapter 11 or subsidize one’s faltering pride.

The public at large is perhaps somewhat more skeptical, especially among those who have experienced work-related displacement or who resent footing the swollen tax bill for expanded immigrant welfare programs that are often frankly abused, but a consensus is still lacking. This is regrettable. For the longer it takes for people to catch on to the rooted cause of our predicament - the so-called “root causes” are merely the severed twigs and brush of a camouflage operation - the longer we will continue to suffer and the longer it will take us to rally the will to fight back, whether against escalating civic infiltration or acts of raw terror. Multiculturalism at home, soft diplomacy abroad: the end result is the same.  Full Piece