Category Archives: Multiculturalism

"If you want to live under sharia law, go back to the hellhole country you came from, or go to another hellhole country that lives under sharia law," says Mahfooz Kanwar, a member of the Muslim Canadian Congress. (Calgary Herald)

Read about Mahfooz Kanwar’s critique of official multiculturalism in Canada:

About one dozen families who recently immigrated to Canada are demanding that the Louis Riel School Division in Winnipeg excuse their children from music and coed physical education programs for religious reasons.

The families believe that music is un-Islamic – just like the Taliban believe and then imposed on the entire population of Afghanistan – and that physical education classes should be segregated by gender even in the elementary years.

The school division is facing the music in a typically Canadian way – that is, bending itself into a trombone to try to accommodate these demands, even though in Manitoba, and indeed the rest of the country, music and phys. ed are compulsory parts of the curriculum.

In a nutshell. On the position of “state multiculturalism” they are conjoined opposites who both betray liberal principles when they assert Islam, and the people who “adhere” (and I use that term in its loosest sense) to Islam, conform to a homogeneous and immutable religious identity, when it comes to the  issues of diversity of beliefs and equality of rights.

Kenan Malik draws their similarities in a nicely observed piece on the shared values of the anti-Multiculturalism camp and the pro-Multiculturalism camp, the Murrays and the Bunglawalas of the world, and how they are both wrong:

This is a guest post by Mr Happy

They have no more virtue than you and I, no more experience in life or are any wiser but, essentially, this is what Baroness Warsi did a few weeks ago with her speech on ‘Islamophobia’.

I’m sure you followed the story but essentially the speech followed a line of anxiousness over Muslim integration and the problems associated. The most interesting part of the speech wasn’t that the Baroness placed the responsibility of Muslim integration mainly of Muslims (because she didn’t) but because her answer to the problems of ‘Islamophobia’ was to tell ordinary Britons that they should feel guilty when discussing Islam over the dinner table.