Guess you find out who your friends are when you find yourself on the wrong end of a fatwa. There the British Left was, all lovey-dovey with France, complimenting it on how macho it looked when it opposed the Iraq war, how sensitively it took care of all its citizens - except the old ones, obviously - and how intellectual it was to reject the cowboy concept of divinding the world between good and evil, in favour of the truly so-fist-ikayted approach of divinding the world into potential customers and potential enemies of customers. But now suddenly they aren't returning its calls.
Really, to hear the BBC today is to feel you've fallen into a parallel universe in which Liberals never spent epic amounts of oxygen citing France as the very model we should follow. Au contrair, BritTwits have been queuing up all day to claim they always knew France was horrible. It's like 1989 all over again.
No wonder Leftists are so into yoga. You need to stay flexible to keep up with all the backflips. Seems like only yesterday Lefties were toasting each other with Bordeaux wine and complaining that America should be more like France. Now it turns out the Left think France is too much like France. Not for the first time, the Left seems to be looking for Goldilocks Nation. In fact, things must be pretty desperate for the Left, since they're reverted to what for them must be the political equivalent of cannibalism: praising Britain.
What it's all about is Liberals being faced with their worst fear: reality. First, they argued that the US model of fairly-free markets destroyed social cohesion, now they're faced with events in France, a country which has its very own minister for social cohesion. So US capitalism doesn't work and neither does Eurosocialism. Hey - maybe it's something to do with the 'alienated' themselves ? No - apparently, the world has to follow the British model. Indeed, there hasn't been so much excited talk about the supremacy of the British way since Victoria died - and never from Leftists.
As far as Liberals can actually define this supposed British model, it revolves around the fact that France forces immigrants to assimilate therefore leading to them being alienated (huh ?) while British multiculturalism let's immigrants stay isolated from the wider culture so they fit in better. Leaving aside the morality of letting immigrants maintain their cultural quirks like honour killings, female circumcision and forced marriage, it's questionable whether the British model actually works.
Sure, many immigrants have done great in Britian, but when we come to the specifc question of Islamic immigration... Let's just say that if there were two more Hindu billionaires in the country, there'd be as many as there are Muslim millionaires. On the other hand, British Muslims don't lag behind in all areas: there may be far fewer than in France, but they still manage to riot regularly, plus I'm pretty sure that there was something in July....
In so far as Britain has avoided a France-type situation, it has been achieved purely by policy of short-term appeasement, which has achieved little more than to embolden the Islamopaths to make more and more demands (Burqua King fatwa, anyone ?). In so far as the Islamopaths have not been as violent as their French counterparts, it is purely because the British Establishment could not possibly be more Dhimmi anyway. Our cultural elite has looked into the belly of the beast and said 'OK, maybe we can work something out...'. Liberals can't stop yapping about the success of their policy of appeasement simply because any honest consideration of the current situation would expose them as what they are: this century's Chamberleins.
Really, to hear the BBC today is to feel you've fallen into a parallel universe in which Liberals never spent epic amounts of oxygen citing France as the very model we should follow. Au contrair, BritTwits have been queuing up all day to claim they always knew France was horrible. It's like 1989 all over again.
No wonder Leftists are so into yoga. You need to stay flexible to keep up with all the backflips. Seems like only yesterday Lefties were toasting each other with Bordeaux wine and complaining that America should be more like France. Now it turns out the Left think France is too much like France. Not for the first time, the Left seems to be looking for Goldilocks Nation. In fact, things must be pretty desperate for the Left, since they're reverted to what for them must be the political equivalent of cannibalism: praising Britain.
What it's all about is Liberals being faced with their worst fear: reality. First, they argued that the US model of fairly-free markets destroyed social cohesion, now they're faced with events in France, a country which has its very own minister for social cohesion. So US capitalism doesn't work and neither does Eurosocialism. Hey - maybe it's something to do with the 'alienated' themselves ? No - apparently, the world has to follow the British model. Indeed, there hasn't been so much excited talk about the supremacy of the British way since Victoria died - and never from Leftists.
As far as Liberals can actually define this supposed British model, it revolves around the fact that France forces immigrants to assimilate therefore leading to them being alienated (huh ?) while British multiculturalism let's immigrants stay isolated from the wider culture so they fit in better. Leaving aside the morality of letting immigrants maintain their cultural quirks like honour killings, female circumcision and forced marriage, it's questionable whether the British model actually works.
Sure, many immigrants have done great in Britian, but when we come to the specifc question of Islamic immigration... Let's just say that if there were two more Hindu billionaires in the country, there'd be as many as there are Muslim millionaires. On the other hand, British Muslims don't lag behind in all areas: there may be far fewer than in France, but they still manage to riot regularly, plus I'm pretty sure that there was something in July....
In so far as Britain has avoided a France-type situation, it has been achieved purely by policy of short-term appeasement, which has achieved little more than to embolden the Islamopaths to make more and more demands (Burqua King fatwa, anyone ?). In so far as the Islamopaths have not been as violent as their French counterparts, it is purely because the British Establishment could not possibly be more Dhimmi anyway. Our cultural elite has looked into the belly of the beast and said 'OK, maybe we can work something out...'. Liberals can't stop yapping about the success of their policy of appeasement simply because any honest consideration of the current situation would expose them as what they are: this century's Chamberleins.
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