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Multiculturalism: at what point does it stop being an inherent good? : Comments
By Jenny Goldie, published 25/2/2011Can multiculturalism be good when it incorporates cultures which do not mirror our own liberal, humanitarian and egalitarian culture?
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Thanks for the support and info.
Yes, I realise 'grateful's' playing a game, what else can he do when the facts are obvious? That's why I referred him to those books which relate the insidious nature of the spread of Islam. I'm familiar with the process of dhimmification and the jiziah. The claim Islam wasn't spread by the sword is pure sophistry. Once the ruling class of a conquered nation was destroyed and replaced by Moslems and non-Moslems were assigned a greatly inferior status, Islamification(and often Arabization) was more or less inevitable (The Iranians have been one of the few Moslem societies in the ME to, an extent, resist Arabization). The populations of north Africa and the ME ultimately weren't converted to Islam by persuasion but by force- the periods of tolerance were few and far between. Of course, Western Christians were also brutally intolerant of relgious minorities during the medieval period,particularly Jews and Christian 'heretics' who were probably 'safer' in Moslem or Eastern Orthodox communities.
The cruel history of the Janissaries is related in both 'Lords of the Horizons' and 'Lords of the Golden Horn'.
I have to say that I'm sceptical of the idea that Islam is just another religion,given the appalling economic, social and political state of Islamic societies. The multiculturalists should really learn more about the nature of Islam and its affects on society.
The campaign to protect Islam from criticism is particularly sinister as it's an attempt to reproduce the 'ruling class' position of Moslems in liberal democracies.