Livingstone's multiculturalism is the West's albatross

Submitted by Ibn-Saud... (Canada), Feb 23, 2007 at 04:51

The West's paranoiac rush to disavow and disembowel it's Judeo-Christian heritage to prostrate... at the Altar of unbridled multiculturalism praising every manner of creed other than its own is dispiriting. An intemperate (free range) multiculturalism advocating absolute moral/ethical relativism of all cultural, social, political and religious manifestation is a license to plunder and loot free and open societies.

However when multiculturalism morphs into an undiscriminating merchant peddling rose-colored historical revisionism, so has not to offend volatile sensibilities, repressing any criticism on dubious idiosyncracies, the fine line drawn in the shifting sands has been crossed, heralding a submission of Koranic proportions.

The evolution of humanity into a just and free society, an ideal our fathers fought for, is being ravaged with our blessing! An ideal that gave succor to modern, democratic, pluralist, secular societies championing freedom of speech, religion and the ‘rule of law'.The adoption of ‘universal human rights' is only one of its many luminous realizations. Alas the onslaught of attacks on these time honored values, at the hands of a totalitarian religion leaves us indifferent where nary is heard a disparaging word.

With our unprincipled rush to accommodate, at all cost, we forsake the expectation of reciprocity from the Islamic world to engage in the values of a 21^st century. I would dare propose the paradigm of Islamic multiculturalism can be exemplified by the Hajj, a pillar of Islam, mandating all Muslims to participate in this pilgrimage to the sacred grounds of Saudi Arabia . There you will witness Islam's ‘Shangri-la' with all races basking euphorically under the only true ideology. A realm were nary an infidel is suffered because we are categorically not allowed to darken those hallowed grounds. The brethren ecstatic in chasing and stoning their un-Islamic demons with unmatched fury and vengeance, an intoxicating opiate bordering on mass hysteria.

All the while a generous dose of Wahhabi indoctrination ( one of the world's most odious creed) blares brazenly from the countless minarets, dens of abject inequity, and from hence this virulent virus is carried to the four corners of the world by its recharged disciples. This, folks is the anti-thesis to inclusiveness , accommodation, multiculturalism , it is Islamism gratuitously telling the world what is halal (acceptable) and what is haram ( forbidden). We need to take heed !

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