Wow, pretty strong words in this opinion piece about what he regards as Western governments' "retreat from reality" in how they deal with immigrant populations.
" European countries especially have thrown their doors open to a large influx of Moslem immigrants who have no intention of becoming part of the cultures of the countries to which they immigrate but to recreate their own cultures in those countries.
In the name of tolerance, these countries have imported intolerance, of which growing antisemitism in Europe is just one example. In the name of respecting all cultures, Western nations have welcomed people who respect neither the cultures nor the rights of the population among whom they have settled."
Has Western "tolerance" become a hindrance to a healthy civil society? I don't think the multicultural tolerance of modern liberal society was a part of, or even foreseen by, the founders who depended on a strong cultural moral base to make the freedoms of society work. Unfortunately, in the name of "tolerance," we've torn away the morality and now don't seem to have a basis for building coomon values or practices or order other than resorting to more authoritarian government, which has always been anathema to Western democracy.
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