More blinders. More hypocrites.
In many British cities, there are now demands for sexual segregation in schools and for separate sharia courts to try Muslim defendants. The electoral strength of Muslims is great enough to encourage pandering from all three parties.
I do not understand this. Can I ask one simple question? Why did you move to Britain? I suppose some might prefer Britain’s climate to the desert. I can't imagine anyone preferring boiled beef to ... anything. Islam isn't very alcohol friendly so I wouldn't imagine it would be for the Guinness. So why did you leave your native land and move to a foggy, damp country ridiculed for its atrocious cuisine?
In the Norwegian class I took last year at the state-run Rosenhof School [in Norway], I made friends with students from Muslim countries who were easygoing and open-minded. Yet they were the secularized (or, perhaps, semi-secularized) exceptions among the immigrants from their part of the world; that was why they were in a class made up of people from seventeen different countries in Europe and Asia (plus me, the sole American), all of us with educated backgrounds and at least a smattering of English, rather than in one of the many sexually segregated, Muslim-only classes down the hall. In those classrooms, women sat swathed in fabric, with male relatives at their sides, providing the family escort without which they were prohibited from leaving the house.
Why Norway? Again, probably not for the weather, though I'd be willing to bet that women forced to wear burkas are secretly relieved to be in a country where a burka might actually work to their advantage. However, since women in burkas generally are not allowed to have a voice in family matters, it is highly unlikely that she pressured her husband to move to cooler climes.
So why did you leave your native lands? Was it for financial opportunity you could not have in your own land? Was it for freedom of expression you could not have under your dictatorial/theocratic governments? Was it to escape the fear of being the next victim of a capricious and repressive regime? Then next question is: Why do you want to recreate that now in your new home?
The West is hardly perfect. Churchill has been quoted as saying, "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others," and yet, we must be doing something right or all the Pakistanis living in Norway would have opted for Jordan or Iran or Indonesia where their religion is securely enshrined in culture and politics.
In typical fundamentalist fashion, however, no personal responsibility is accepted for the state of one's life. It's not because your culture and beliefs are backwards, oppressive and counterproductive. It's because someone else is holding you back. It is because of a world of infidels that corrupts the "true order" of things. They see no hypocrisy in living among the infidels. They will not see that it is weaknesses in their own culture and belief system that led to an inhospitable political/social/financial environment.
This is not unique to Islam. Look at our own Senator Santorum, blaming liberal ideas for the corruption of Catholic priests. It had nothing to do with the backward Patriarchal Protection Society that drives the Catholic church. It had nothing to do with an organization run by a man believed to be infallible and therefore highly resistant to admitting fault or showing weakness.
Perhaps this is some kind of organized invasion. Are Islamic families being asked to endure the company of infidels to plant the seeds of Islam around the globe? While it sounds like a great premise for a Tom Clancy book, I rather doubt it.
The biggest question is what are we in the West going to do about it? At what point do we say, "No, this is my country. You moved here. If you don't like the culture here, if you don't like the values we have here, then we would appreciate it if you would find somewhere else to live more to your liking." Is it when groups of young Islamic immigrants begin perpetrating violence against native peoples who don't conform to their ideology? Is it when politicians who dare to speak out against such behaviors are assassinated? Is it when Islamic fundamentalists demand their own Shari’ah court system and expect to be exempt from Western law? Is it when our women are forced to wear burkas for fear of physical violence on the streets? Do we just surrender to political correctness until we are the ones begging a boon of our now Muslim dominated societies?
These are questions that we ask of an ideology becoming more and more visible through it's vitriolic and violent actions and speech. There are some who think we should be asking similar questions of our own ideologues.
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