Obama: Europe should better integrate Muslims
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President Barack Obama on Friday urged European governments to try to better assimilate their Muslim minority populations as they respond to extremist attacks like last week’s shootings in Paris.What could "assimilate" mean if not to end the suicidal practice of multiculturalism? But this will be much harder for the French and other Europeans than Obama thinks:
This dilemma is compounded by Europe's hidden secret: The Europeans do not see Muslims from North Africa or Turkey as Europeans, nor do they intend to allow them to be Europeans. The European solution to their isolation is the concept of multiculturalism — on the surface a most liberal notion, and in practice, a movement for both cultural fragmentation and ghettoization. ...Europeans have never conceived of their countries as "melting pots." They do not actually want the Muslims colonies on their soil to be "assimilated." And there is no reason to believe that Muslims in Europe want it, either. For sure the radicalized ones don't. And so another "bell the cat" suggestion from the US president.
But the dirty secret of multiculturalism was that its consequence was to perpetuate Muslim isolation. And it was not the intention of Muslims to become Europeans, even if they could. They came to make money, not become French. The shallowness of the European postwar values system thereby becomes the horror show that occurred in Paris last week.
Update: Whether Presiden Obama understood the implications of "assimilation," it is certain that Gov. Bobby Jindal does, and says so.
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