[Pushpa]

[QUOTE=roberto;85608]

roberto said

Independent.co.uk
Johann Hari: Rowan Williams has shown us one thing – why multiculturalism must be abandoned

.....

Yet many people feel instinctively uncomfortable when we talk about ditching multiculturalism – for a good reason. The only alternative they are aware of is the old whiter-than-white monoculturalism. This view, voiced most clearly by Enoch Powell and Norman Tebbit, believes that if people are going to live together, they need to look and feel similar, and have a tightly prescribed shared identity. They argue that the number of newcomers should be small, and need to be pressured to assimilate to the 1950s norm of a suburban white family, fast.

Multiculturalism patronisingly treats immigrants as homogenous blocks – when in fact they are as diffuse and dissenting as the rest of us. Would anybody lump me in with Richard Littlejohn and Nick Griffin as part of a "white community"?

I think these are the most important points this article raised, notwithstanding the rather tabloidy style of writing that the article opened with - which I was surprised to see in a paper like The Independent.

"When it comes to contemporary sharia, choice is theory; intimidation is the reality."

Sadly, I agree.