Whenever an outrage like the London or Madrid bombing happens, there is a relatively sizable contingent of individuals who tend to blame the victims with excuses like we westerners live too high off the hog, or we consume too much of the earth’s resources or our forbears who colonized africa and the Sub-continent mistreated the indigenes and this is payback, so we had it coming. In a sense this is a true statement. While it has nothing to do with how we live or what kind of and how much gasoline we use or what our ancestors did for a living, it has everything to do with our overweening commitment to multiculturalism.
Multiculturalism only works if everyone involved agrees that it’s a good thing. If a certain segment of our multicultural society sees us as degenerate reprobates who deserve to be erased from the face of the earth, then the concept of multiculturalism takes on a whole new complexion.
In Europe, as in Canada, the official party line is that multiculturalism is a good thing, something that shows we play well with others and that we are capable of sharing. Consequently, a radical jihadist in Paris can board the train and go to London without the need for any kind of official documentation. No passport, no proof of citizenship, no proof of residency, nothing. Once in London the jihadist can theoretically apply for welfare and set about planning the destruction of the decadent infidel society that is feeding and clothing him. and there’s very little that we infidels are prepared to do about it.
Our cultural sensitivity keeps us from insisting that if a newcomer to our country is going to be supported by and live among us, then there should be some modicum of reciprocation. There should be a commitment on their part to contribute in some way to our culture, other than to attempt to blow it and us to smithereens.
The four lads from Leeds may well have been British "citizens" either through birth or naturalization, but their allegiance was about as far from British mainstream society as the aboriginals in australia, maybe farther. It appears that these fab four fell under the spell of a fanatical Islamic cleric and were seduced by the lure of deflowering 72 virgins as martyrs in Islamic heaven. Ironically enough, one of the places at which they met regularly was an Islamic community centre in Leeds, which was funded, in large part by British taxpayers. But that isn’t anything new. Official Britain has long been accommodating radical Islamofascists by providing funding and venues from which to spout their poison. In 2004 the so-called moderate Islamic cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi talked publicly about liberating Israel through the use of "children bombs". That’s not the bizarre part- he did so at a conference entitled "Our Children Our Future", sponsored by London’s Metropolitan Police and the Department for Work and Pensions.
The four lads from Leeds have variously been described as "good Muslims", "ordinary husbands" and "good sons", descriptions that in the face of recent events seems bizarre. If the four had been all those things, one would have thought that they’d pass up the chance to meet allah while taking over 50 of their fellow citizens with them.
We westerners must be genuinely possessed of a strong will do die, given our continuing politically correct responses to hate crimes committed against us and our overly sensitive attitude toward atrocities committed in the name of Islam.
Given that in a multicultural context we essentially sever our roots from our traditional society (and what can be more traditional than British society with over 2,000 years of continuously documented history) and sacrifice them to an idea that’s less than three decades old and conceptually shaky, at best one would think it’s time to rethink the whole concept. In that sense Britain, and indeed all the other countries that are embracing the fallacy of a multicultural society, really was asking for it.