Immigration: Is The West Waking Up?

 

For the doctrines of anti-racism and multiculturalism have not ended intolerance, prejudice or discrimination. They have instead institutionalised reverse discrimination and up-ended truth, morality and justice. -- Melanie Phillips 


Australian Liberals Rethink Immigration

Melanie Phillips writes about Australia’s new Labor Party Prime Minister.

Here is a politician with a solid pedigree on the ‘anti-racist’ Left rejecting former prime minister Kevin Rudd’s call for a ‘Big Australia’ formed by continuing large-scale immigration.

Instead, Gillard has said she understands the anxieties of folk in western Sydney, western Melbourne or the Gold Coast growth corridor in Queensland.

As for the boats of asylum-seekers, Gillard has made clear she wants to be even more effective in stopping them in order to protect ‘our sanctuary’ and ‘the Australian way’.

Great Britain is also opening its eyes...

A similar political convulsion is occurring in Britain. The Conservative Home Secretary, Theresa May, has promised to put a cap on immigration, a pledge that was in the Conservative manifesto but rarely mentioned during the election campaign.

Now that our Western cousins have broken the global taboo, can we open up a few topics of conversation here in the US as well?

Can we point out that fundamentalist Islam and its Sharia law is incompatible with our Constitution and our God-given freedoms?  And that it is diametrically opposed to the fundamental values our country was founded upon?

Can we ask why Muslim “refugees” must take refuge in a Western country? Why can’t they instead go to a country hospitable to their beliefs, like another Muslim country? Saudi Arabia, home of Mecca, would be a great destination.

Of course, refugees who repudiate the 7th Centrury obscurantism and misogyny of fundamentalist Islam and embrace our values, like Aayan Hirsi Ali, are always welcome.

Can we now proudly stand for our culture and our values without being called racist? Muslims do it, why can’t we?

Can we also say that we have nothing against Mexicans and other Latin Americans, but that we just want them to enter our country legally and learn English so they can participate fully in the American dream?

Borders, Language, Culture
Progressives don’t want to hear it because it comes from Doc Savage, but it really is about “Borders, Language and Culture.” That is what defines a people. Break them down and you destroy a nation.

Sharia in The West is like urine in a water hole; any amount is too much.
-- Pat Condell

If a country falls in the Mediterranean, and no one is around to hear it...

A shiftless and flaccid culture that cannot sustain itself is no culture at all

Europe is dying, with angry Vandals and intolerant Goths swarming from the east, tearing down what's left and picking through the ruins. 

Nobody makes pessimism and decline sound classy like the witty and articulate Mark Steyn:

What's happening in the developed world today isn't so very hard to understand: The 20th century Bismarckian welfare state has run out of people to stick it to. In America, the feckless insatiable boobs in Washington, Sacramento, Albany and elsewhere are screwing over our kids and grandkids.

In Europe, they've reached the next stage in social democratic evolution: There are no kids or grandkids to screw over. The United States has a fertility rate of around 2.1 – or just over two kids per couple.

Greece has a fertility rate of about 1.3: 10 grandparents have six kids have four grandkids – i.e., the family tree is upside down. Demographers call 1.3 "lowest-low" fertility – the point from which no society has ever recovered.

Waaah!  Selfish meanies are taking my freebies away!

Steyn strikes at the heart of what's wrong with selfish protesters throwing fits in the street because the government teat they've been suckling at has dried up...

Once a chap's enjoying the fruits of government health care, government-paid vacation, government-funded early retirement, and all the rest, he couldn't give a hoot about the general societal interest; he's got his, and to hell with everyone else.

People's sense of entitlement endures long after the entitlement has ceased to make sense.

Let's face it, if Greece disappeared from the face of the earth, would anyonebesides a few tourists even notice?