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Allah at Hot Air links to New Sisyphus who has the transcript of a speech on multiculturalism which Steyn delivered last week in Australia….

So, in this limited case, what is more humane, five years in prison or 5 shots from a cane? I’d take the cane. Other than our unwillingness to actually execute someone for drug offenses the hysteria and cruelty of the US Government toward drug users and dealers is just as bad as that in fundamentalist muslim countries.

THeDRiFTeR and I agree that France is beautiful, that many things French are good/chic/interesting and that porn is mostly exploitative. Beyond that I think we think/believe very differently.

Anyway, just trying to clarify…

To say the key to assimilation is education is correct. However, students must have their minds right to absorb education. Otherwise, the exercise simply drags down the willing students and fowls up the hole show. In some cultures, western education is considered evil and something to resist. I would rather not waste the time on those types. My tent isn’t that big.

I’m not a francophobe. I grew up in Romania, where until 1945 the language of the court was French. To this day it is taught up to 12th grade and I love it. The TV system is still French and the Romanians are fond of many things French. I receive French magazines monthly, have friends there, have worked there and visited often. It is one of the most beautiful and rich countries in Europe. French chic is unsurpassable.

Yes, there are French traits I don’t like. I also believe that monsieur Chirac has floundered his years in office, much to the detriment of France, the EU and the world.

To our country, I adore it with Randian passion, with all its imperfections. It’s not a political reaction (I am not a registerd Republican) – it’s having lived in communism and refusing to accept anything less than freedom, for all who don’t have it yet.

Best regards to you and your beautiful wife, sincerely,

Big funny. The defense, of course, is that one of the two cartoonists here is Jewish. Hey, so was Hitler. Kinda. Thanks to Allah, who’s got this great big post on, well, all sorts of things. How about this Styen……

I wonder what he thinks about the hip hop culture?

…were you not a U.S. citizen (assuming that you are) this could be a “foregone conclusion” for you too.

I do retain my US citizenship, although, and it may be comforting to you Entelechy, I do “live elsewhere”. My beautiful wife is a french national, so we live in France.

And I also want to see a clear understanding that although fundamental rights must be equal for everyone, with rights come responsibilities. Even within a framework of mutual tolerance, I believe that there are non-negotiable rules, understood by all groups, both new and established. We must be clear and unafraid to say that we expect these will be shared and followed by all who live here.

Even though I’m a Transylvania-native, really true, I’ve never asked for blood-letting to be made my right as a U.S. citizen.

…either you live elsewhere…

THeDRiFTeR, were you not a U.S. citizen (assuming that you are) this could be a “foregone conclusion” for you too.
You, of all people should consider what terror possesses the woman in the caption-picture. Oh, you feaux “progressives”, you kill me!

They’re slouching in the same direction as the American Indians(???), many of whom probably thought a thousand new, unassimilated palefaces here and there were no big deal.

Are you suggesting that had the American Indians been more vigilant, they may have reversed their fortunes, kept the colonial powers out and retained “their land” (a concept, that of private property that didn’t exist in pre columbian america)?

And before I get an onslaught of attacks on my character, sanity or patriotism, I am not suggesting that a lack of vigilence or selective immigration couldn’t change the demographic trends in the afore mentioned countries, ie Canda, Britain etc… The real question is, is that desirable?

Allah had it pretty much right yesterday when he stated in an urelated post that the key is in education.

yea, I know. It’s still shocking to me, though, that there are still countries and governments out there promoting this. Disgusting.

Europe, Great Britain, Canada, and the United States have low birth rates and are receiving muslim immigrants in large, though varying, proportion to their respective numbers. If the reports are accurate, that they’re not assimilating their immigrants, then they’re being colonized, and they’re on course to be either “reverse-assimilated” or replaced by the colonists. They’re slouching in the same direction as the American Indians, many of whom probably thought a thousand new, unassimilated palefaces here and there were no big deal.

[T]he dangerous argument is the lazy line pedalled by too many politicians that in an Australia or a Canada of evolving immigration patterns, an immigrant from Moldova or China or Brazil or Saudi Arabia can’t be expected to relate to the Queen, to the existing constitutional system…

So when we accept that argument, in essence we’re explicitly promoting the principle of reverse assimilation; that immigration imposes not the obligation that the immigrant assimilate to his new land, but that his new land assimilate to him.

Unproven assumption.

Even within a framework of mutual tolerance, I believe that there are non-negotiable rules, understood by all groups, both new and established. We must be clear and unafraid to say that we expect these will be shared and followed by all who live here.

But my message is: whether you are white, Asian, black, Muslim, Christian or Jew, if you don’t like where you’re living you have two choices: either you live elsewhere, or you engage in the political process, attempt to create change and ultimately respect the will of the majority.

Foregone conclusion.

Hot damn, this is like economics!

either you live elsewhere, or you engage in the political process, attempt to create change and ultimately respect the will of the majority.

That’s an interesting road he’s travelling there. If Brits by any chance don’t discover some additional 5 million WASP children in a forgotten box in the attic then by the mid-century the majority will indeed be “Asian”.

I have the strong feeling that Central Europe is soon approaching the Turkish or North-African model, i.e. an elite slash junta that enforces a semi-secularian rule by sheer military and police power whilst ignoring the political (read: religious) will of the majority.