From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Fri Nov 04 2005 - 14:01:55 GMT
To All:
Riots have been going on now for eight days in Muslim enclaves surrounding
Paris. In the name of multiculturalism (uncritical acceptance of all
cultures regardless of their values) the EU has fostered a policy
guaranteeing that Muslim immigrants in Europe would not be compelled in
any way to adopt the customs or values of their host countries. In fact,
the policy deliberately encouraged the formation of Islamic enclaves
wherein jihad ideology is spread unchallenged.
This EU policy has been sanctioned wholeheartedly by Muslims. The Arab
European League states, "We believe in a multicultural society as a social
and political model where different cultures coexist with equal rights
under the law. We do not want to assimilate. . . We want to foster our
own identity and culture . . . . In order to achieve that it is imperative
for us to teach our children the Arabic language and history and the
Islamic faith. We will resist any attempt to strip us of our right to our
own cultural and religious identity . . ."
What is the ideology of "Muslim cultural and religious identity?" For one
thing, it's an ideology that condones stoning for adultery. For another,
it is an ideology that condemns to death anyone who blasphemes Islam -
the justification used by the murderer of Theo Van Gogh in Holland. For
another, it is an ideology that calls for homosexuals to be thrown head
first off tall buildings.
Those, I submit, are NOT the values of Western society.
Thus the current riots reaffirm the conservative position that
multiculturalism -- the belief that groups can coexist within a nation
without sharing basic values -- is a dangerous hoax that inevitably leads
to social unrest as is currently happening in Paris and threatens to
engulf all of Europe. .
In other words, what is happening in Paris is a clash of social level
patterns, resulting in an outbreak of biological patterns that society is
supposed to control.
"And this is a war in which intellect, to end the paralysis of society,
has to know whose side it is on, and support that side, never undercut it.
Where biological values are undermining social values, intellectuals must
identify social behavior, no matter what its ethnic connection, and
support it all the way without restraint. Intellectuals must find
biological behavior, no matter what its ethnic connection, and limit or
destroy destructive biological patterns with complete moral ruthlessness,
the way a doctor destroys germs, before the biological patterns destroy
civilization itself." (Lila, 24)
It remains to be see whether French intellectuals understand Pirsig's
warning.
Platt
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