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To:    Guardian CiF
Re:   The West's overreaction to Nazi evil, and the superficiality of "British identity" in multiracial/multicultural society
Date: Monday 4 June  07

 

In response to Prof. Tariq Ramadan's article, "Blair can no longer deny a link exists between terrorism and foreign policy".

Link to article and thread at The Guardian.

I wonder how many more 7/7, Madrid, or worse bombings it will take, before Europeans cast off the chains placed on them by wishy-washy liberals, who care more about West-hating Muslims' human rights than about their own people's right to live their lives free of terrorist threats, and elect governments which will deal with the problem in the interests of their native populations as decisively, and perhaps even more ruthlessly than the Israeli government does?

I'm just wondering. And if Muslims had any sense, they would wonder - and worry, as I do - too.

2nd Post

[Daroon]: "If you really fear this then stop our governments double standards and complicity in the notion of world domination! Stay out of others business and they will stay out of yours…nah…is that not the logic? Ye shall reap that which ye sow…nah?"

Governments, like individuals, will always have double, if not triple or quadruple, standards. That's human nature, which we are all subject to. The best we can do is try to understand and deal with it as rationally and fairly as we can.

I don't think, [Daroon], that you are being very rational or realistic when you maintain that our government is complicit in the notion of "world domination". They are bad enough, without directing such wild accusations at them, which only serve to confuse an already confusing situation.

The West is bad, but most other societies and governments (including all Muslim ones I know of) are even worse (often far worse).

Because of its overwhelming economic and military superiority the West can afford to be magnanimous towards and tolerant of Islam, despite the terror coming from within its ranks. Added to which, the West is still living very much in the aftermath of the defeat of Nazism, which arose within its own ranks, with its insane doctrine of racial superiority (of white men in general and Germans in particular), which is why we now force ourselves to bend over backwards to demonstrate OUR love of "foreigners" and immigrants, to contrast ourselves favourably against the Nazis who, of course, hated them.

This is a main reason why the political Left is ideologically committed to championing immigration and immigrant rights, including those of Muslims. While the political Right is probably more interested in the short-sighted economic benefits of immigration.

This situation, however, will not last for ever. The West will eventually put this overreaction to the insanities of Nazism behind it; we will cease to feel the need to prove, to the world and ourselves, what completely different people we are to the Nazis by championing the opposite (equally false) doctrine of race and culture not mattering at all, and proving it by showing that we can share our "British identity" with anyone, no matter what their ethnic (ancestral), cultural or historic background in a multiracial/multicultural society - but having to deny, of course, its gross and untenable superficiality.

Gandhi understood how to deal with the West's economic and military superiority to his own people's, and the West's, advantage. He wasn't a Muslim or a Christian, but an Asian with something to teach us all.
 


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