Article: "If someone freely chooses to wear a niqab, what skin is it off your nose?"

Like many others, Timothy is quite mistaken in believing that our society will become ever "more diverse". The current striking diversity of multi-racial/multi-cultural society is only temporary, the initial, transitionary stage of the "melting pot", in which racial and cultural diversity and distinctiveness will, over time, dissolve and largely disappear - unless structures are developed to cultivate and preserve them. But this causes social friction and undermines national identity and unity, and is thus now being discouraged, even amongst the immigrant population; for the native population, of course (the receiving medium), it has always been strictly forbidden as a form of "xenophobia" or "racism".

 

All human diversity - racial, cultural or whether - is very largely a consequence of populations having been geographically isolated from each other in the past. When the inhumane madness of economic and ideological forces, facilitated by modern transportation, brought these diverse populations together (insanely, in our already overpopulated country), what we got (what we now have in London) is a "melting pot".

 

However, human beings, being what they are, do not all want to dissolve and disappear into the melting pot of racial and cultural homogeneity. Only a powerful ideology can force them to: the ideology of multi-racial and multi-culturalism, backed up by the militant ideology of "anti-racism" (an understandable, but now politically opportune, overreaction to Nazi racism).

 

This ideology requires the native population to love and embrace the "melting pot" of multi-racial/multi-cultural society (and with it established authority in the state, local government, the media, etc.), just as in medieval times it was required to love and embrace Christian dogma and authority, or in the Soviet Union the people were required to love and embrace Communist ideology and authority. Any resistance was nipped in the bud by suspicions or accusations of "heresy", "counterrevolution" or, nowadays, "racism".

 

In her way, the Muslim woman in her niqab is resisting the "melting pot", although I cannot help asking myself what she is doing in it in the first place.

 

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