"I found two kinds of people here: the white nationalists who desperately wait for the other people from other colours to go home one day; and those who show sympathy to you and treat you with some respect but not like a real human being but as a vulnerable creature who needs sympathy. I rather like the nationalists or so called racist because they treat me as a human being and that is why they want me to go home. "
VERENIGDE KONINGKRYK EN EUROPA SE LEIERS HOOR DIE MAGTIGE DREUNING VAN NASIONALISME
Tenspyte van David Cameron se dubbelsprakigheid oor die onderwerp, is daar ʼn duidelike waarneembaarheid van ʼn klimaatsverandering namate die betrokke inheemse boorlinge in opstand begin kom oor die bevoordeling van immigrante terwyl dit met hulleself broekskeur gaan! Die leiers begin vrees vir die verkiesings wat moet kom!
Dat die integrasiedrywers alles in die stryd sal werp om eiesoortigheid oftewel nasionalisme te demoniseer, is onafwendbaar omdat hulle op die drumpel gekom het van die vestiging van die Nuwe Wêreld Orde. Nietemin kan Afrikaners opnuut moed skep en met groter ywer en vaster geloof, opnuut in die beleidsbeginsels belêwat ons voorgeslagte as Skrifgeoriënteerde riglyne gevolg en gepropageer het as die suiwerste vorm van regering vir vreedsame naasbestaan en handhawing van Godgegewe identiteit.
DIE BRITSE EERSTEMINISTER OOR VEELRASSIGHEID EN ENKELE KOMMENTARE:
David Cameron launches an attack today on 30 years of multiculturalism in Britain
David Cameron launched a devastating attack today on 30 years of multiculturalism in Britain, warning it is fostering extremist ideology and directly contributing to home-grown Islamic terrorism.
Signalling a radical departure from the strategies of previous governments, Mr Cameron said that Britain must adopt a policy of "muscular liberalism" to enforce the values of equality, law and freedom of speech across all parts of society.
He warned Muslim groups that if they fail to endorse women's rights or promote integration, they will lose all government funding. All immigrants to Britain must speak English and schools will be expected to teach the country's common culture.
The new policy was outlined today in a speech to an international security conference in Munich and will form the basis of the Government's new anti-terrorism strategy to be published later this year.
But his remarks have already infuriated Muslim groups, as they come on the day of what is expected to be the largest demonstration so far of anti-Muslim sentiment being planned by the English Defence League. They accused Mr Cameron of placing an unfair onus on minority communities to integrate, while failing to emphasise how the wider community can help immigrants feel more welcome in Britain. They suggested his speech was part of a concerted attack on multiculturalism from centre-right European governments and pointed out he was making it in Germany – where Chancellor Angela Merkel recently made a similar attack.
In his speech, Mr Cameron rejected suggestions that a change in Western foreign policy could stop the Islamic terrorist threat and says Britain needs to tackle the home-grown causes of extremist ideology. "We have failed to provide a vision of society [to young Muslims] to which they feel they want to belong," he said. "We have even tolerated segregated communities behaving in ways that run counter to our values. All this leaves some young Muslims feeling rootless. And the search for something to belong to and believe in can lead them to extremist ideology."
Mr Cameron blamed a doctrine of "state multiculturalism" which encourages different cultures to live separate lives. This, he says, has led to the "failure of some to confront the horrors of forced marriage". But he added it is also the root cause of radicalisation which can lead to terrorism.
"As evidence emerges about the backgrounds of those convicted of terrorist offences, it is clear that many of them were initially influenced by what some have called 'non-violent extremists' and then took those radical beliefs to the next level by embracing violence. This is an indictment of our approach to these issues in the past. And if we are to defeat this threat, I believe it's time to turn the page on the failed policies of the past.
"Instead of ignoring this extremist ideology, we – as governments and societies – have got to confront it. Instead of encouraging people to live apart, we need a clear sense of shared national identity, open to everyone."
Mr Cameron went on to suggest a radically new government approach which Downing Street said would form the basis of a review of the "Prevent Strategy", launched under Labour in 2007. "We need to think much harder about who it's in the public interest to work with," he said. "Some organisations that seek to present themselves as a gateway to the Muslim community are showered with public money despite doing little to combat extremism. This is like turning to a right-wing fascist party to fight a violent white supremacist movement."
He adds, that in future, only organisations which believe in universal human rights – particularly for women – and promote integration will be supported with public money. "Frankly, we need a lot less of the passive tolerance of recent years and much more active, muscular liberalism," he will say.
But Muslim groups said Mr Cameron's approach was simplistic and would not succeed in tackling extremism. "Communities are not static entities and there are those who see being British as their identity and there are those who do not feel that it is an overriding part of their identity," said Fiyaz Mughal, founder of interfaith group Faith Matters. "Finger-pointing at communities and then cutting social investment into projects is a sure-fire way of causing greater resentment. It blames some communities while his Government slashes social investment."
Inayat Bunglawala, chairman of Muslims4UK, described the speech as "deeply patronising". He said: "The overwhelming majority of UK Muslims are proud to be British and are appalled by the antics of a tiny group of extremists."
In its latest annual survey of immigration attitudes, the German Marshall Fund found that 23 per cent of Britons believed immigration was the country's largest problem. In Canada and the US, where the number of foreign-born people is considerably higher, the figure is closer to 10 per cent.
* Mohammed Shafiq, chief executive of Muslim youth group The Ramadhan Foundation, said: "The speech by British Prime Minister David Cameron MP fails to tackle the stooge of the fascists EDL and the BNP. Singling out Muslims as he has done feeds the hysteria and paranoia about Islam and Muslims.
"British Muslims abhor terrorism and extremism and we have worked hard to eradicate this evil from our country but to suggest that we do not sign up to the values of tolerance, respect and freedom is deeply offensive and incorrect.
"Multiculturalism is about understanding each others faiths and cultures whilst being proud of our British citizenship - it would help if politicians stopped pandering to the agenda of the BNP and the fascist EDL.
"On the day we see fascists marching in Luton we have seen no similar condemnation or leadership shown from the Government. Only when we see true action on the fascists will confidence be restored in our politics. "Politicians should be working to bring communities together not ripping them apart.
"This sort of rhetoric to score cheap political points will damage community relations in the long term and affect our efforts to deal with terrorism and extremism." Dr Faisal Hanjra, assistant secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain, described Mr Cameron's speech as "disappointing". "We were hoping that with the new Government, the coalition, there would be a change of emphasis in terms of counter-terrorism and dealing with the problem at hand," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
He said he supported the Prime Minister's comments about learning English and the need for a more coherent national identity. But he went on: "In terms of the approach to tackling terrorism, though, it doesn't seem to be particularly new - it wasn't so long ago that the Labour government was telling Muslim parents to look out for your young children and make sure you tell us if they are becoming radicalised.
"Again, it seems very much that the Muslim community is in the spotlight and being treated as part of the problem rather than part of the solution."
Cameron's rules. What he said:
"Young white men are told, 'The blacks are all criminals. Young Afro-Caribbean men are told, 'The Asian shopkeepers are ripping you off'. Young Muslim men are told, 'The British want to destroy Islam'. The best answer to ignorance like this is a good education. We've got to make sure that people learn English, and we've got to make sure that kids are taught British history properly at school." 29 January 2007
"We wouldn't be half the country we are without immigration. But you can't have a situation where a country doesn't know – and can't control – who is coming in and out, and who is settling here. The government needs to be in control of the situation." 29 January 2007
"For too long we've caved in to more extreme elements by hiding under the cloak of cultural sensitivity. For too long we've given in to the loudest voices from each community, without listening to what the majority want. And for too long, we've come to ignore differences – even if they fly in the face of human rights, notions of equality and child protection – with a hapless shrug of the shoulders, saying, 'It's their culture isn't it? Let them do what they want'." 26 February 2008
"Whether it's making sure that imams coming over to this country can speak English properly, whether it's making sure we deradicalise our universities, I think we do have to take a range of further steps and I'm going to be working hard to make sure that we do this. Yes, we have got to have the policing in place, yes, we've got to make sure we invest in our intelligence services, yes, we've got to co-operate with other countries. But we've also got to ask why it is that so many young men in our own country get radicalised in this completely unacceptable way." 15 December 2010
Yes Mr Cameron. Why don't you tell us all the rest of your my war's so we know really what kind of bloke you are. Where did you learn all this claptrap if you don't mind me asking. You want to know who the 'ethnic minorities' are? WE, the white British people living in big cities are the ethnic minorities. Minorities in OUR OWN COUNTRY.
About time someone stood up and confronted the secrecy culture that SOME Muslim Communites Harbour..no doubt encouraged by The Labour Party who bent over backwards in numerous ways to discriminate against White Anglo Saxons Britons and threw money to various groups who quite frankly hate Britsh Culture/History, opened the flood gates of our borders to promote their disastrous 'Multicultralism project with the fantastic offer to all of a 'dhimmi' future....then shreiked like hyena's if anyone challenged it. Now we find out they couldn't wait to release the Islamic Terrorist Lockerbie Bomber Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi to please their Muslim friends abroad..Truly Sickening. Stand Up Mr Cameron..a British Leader, for a British country, for British Culture..I applaud you.
"He adds, that in future, only organisations which believe in universal human rights – particularly for women – and promote integration will be supported with public money."
So he's scrapping academies/faith schools then?
Personally I class faith schools in exactly the same way as public schools and I don't believe either should get any funding from the tax payer. They should of course meet the minimum standards of state education and they need to be monitored on the curriculum they use as well as ensuring that any political / social teachings are in line with main stream Britain. We've already seen to our cost what happens when radicals brainwash young British kids and that has to be prevented.
Multiculturalism is rubbish. I came from another culture about ten years ago and I was shocked by what I saw here. For the first time since I was 7 years old I was forced back again to say that I was a Muslim. I was expecting a strong western culture here in Britain. I was expecting adapting myself to that culture and be part of it, love it, defend it and be ready to do everything for it and at the same time to get farer and farer from my own home culture.
I found two kinds of people here: the white nationalists who desperately wait for the other people from other colours to go home one day; and those who show sympathy to you and treat you with some respect but not like a real human being but as a vulnerable creature who needs sympathy. I rather like the nationalists or so called racist because they treat me as a human being and that is why they want me to go home.
I am grateful to GB as they game me leave to remain here but I am not grateful for naturalizing me as a British Citizen because that could not be given as a favour or counting years or stupid criteria; I MUST had deserve it. Unfortunately that is not the case for so many people who get British Citizenship every day.
If we work on building a strong British culture and do not allow anybody to be called a 'British Citizen' unless he/she follows the main rules of that culture and allow some allowances for religion and beliefs.
I agree with Mr Cameron %100. Love it or leave it is what I have been expecting all the time and finally the PM came across it. If I do not love it I must hate it so what should I have to do here if I hate it?
If Cameron doesn't stay the only one, who eventually wakes up and is aware ot the gravity of the situation, then there is hope for Britain. If he continues on this path and does not turn around halfway, and if he let not the muslim society intimidate him, he can be an eye-opener for others. From what I observed, Britain is in great danger.
I can't remember hearing Angela Merkel making similar remarks in Germany.
From my point of view Cameron ist still to soft in his aproach. Britain should put a stop to immigration of people form muslim countries. Especially to those from Pakistan and Arab countries. Then they should deport all immigrants, legal or not legal, who have violated the law and participated in any criminal activity in any way. Not only extremists and hate-preachers and terrorists. And finally the government has to ban the sharia in Britain or any attempts to insert sharia law. Cameron's rules are a good start. It is good, but it is not enough to say, immigrants need to learn English, and to speak English. They have to adapt the western system of values.
I agree with your sentiment, but we have to remember its not just Muslims, they are just flavour of the month, its ALL ''troublesome'' immigrants. On a negative I have to ask what are the British system of values now?......Not 50years ago, but now?
ANGELA MERKEL VAN DUITSLAND OOR VEELRASSIGHEID
German Chancellor Angela Merkel told a gathering of young members of her conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party this weekend that the "multikulti" concept – where people of different backgrounds would live together happily – does not work in Germany.
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At "the beginning of the 1960s our country called the foreign workers to come to Germany and now they live in our country," said Ms. Merkel at the event in Potsdam, near Berlin. "We kidded ourselves a while. We said: 'They won't stay, [after some time] they will be gone,' but this isn't reality. And of course, the approach [to build] a multicultural [society] and to live side by side and to enjoy each other ... has failed, utterly failed."
The crowd gathered in Potsdam greeted the above remark, delivered from the podium with fervor by Ms. Merkel, with a standing ovation. And her comments come just days after a study by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation think tank (which is affiliated with the center-left Social Democratic Party) found that more than 30 percent of people believed Germany was "overrun by foreigners" who had come to Germany chiefly for its social benefits.
STORY: Why 13 percent of Germans would welcome a 'Führer'
The study also found that 13 percent of Germans would welcome a “Führer” – a German word for leader that is explicitly associated with Adolf Hitler – to run the country “with a firm hand.” Some 60 percent of Germans would “restrict the practice of Islam,” and 17 percent think Jews have “too much influence,” according to the study.
"The findings signal that Europe’s largest nation, freed from cold-war strictures, is not immune from the extreme and often right-wing politics on the rise around the Continent," writes the Monitor's Europe Bureau chief, Robert Marquand. "The year 2010 is marking a clear shift toward extremist politics across Europe, analysts say. An uncertain economy, a gap between elites and ordinary Europeans, and fraying of a traditional sense of national identity has just in the past month brought more hard-line politics and speech, often aimed at Islam or immigrants – into a political mainstream where it had been absent or considered taboo."
'Multkulti is dead' Multiculturalism has taken a beating in recent months in Germany.
Last week, Horst Seehofer, the leader of the CDU's Bavarian sister party, the CSU, said it was "obvious that immigrants from different cultures like Turkey and Arab countries, all in all, find it harder" to integrate. " 'Multikulti' is dead," he said
Nicolas Sarkozy joins David Cameron and Angela Merkel view that multiculturalism has failed
Failed: Nicolas Sarkozy singled out Muslims when he said that multiculturalism in France had not worked
French president Nicolas Sarkozy has joined David Cameron in condemning multiculturalism as a failure.
Cameron launched a scathing attack earlier this months on 30 years of multiculturalism in Britain warning that it fostered extremism.
His damning verdict came just months after German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that multiculturalism in Germany had failed.
Now Sarkozy has joined the growing number of European leaders who have adopted identical views on multiculturalism.
He told the French people: 'We have been too concerned about the identity of the person who was arriving and not enough about the identity of the country that was receiving him.'
The president made the declaration in a TV debate last night after being asked if the policy of encouraging the religious and cultural differences of immigrants was not working.
He told viewers: 'My answer is clearly yes, it is a failure.
'Of course we must all respect differences, but we do not want a society where communities coexist side by side.
'Our Muslim compatriots must be able to practise their religion, as any citizen can, but we in France do not want people to pray in an ostentatious way in the street.
'If you come to France, you accept to melt into a single community, which is the national community, and if you do not want to accept that, you cannot be welcome in France.
Shared policies: German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Prime Minister David Cameron have both criticised multiculturalism in recent months
'The French national community cannot accept a change in its lifestyle, equality between men and women and freedom for little girls to go to school.'
Sarkozy's statement comes after Prime Minister Mr Cameron said last week that public money should not be handed to ethnic groups who did not share British values.
He called for an end to the 'passive tolerance' of divided communities and said members of all faiths must integrate into wider society and accept core values.
His remarks were praised by the leader of the French National Front Marine Le Pen, who said Mr Cameron's views proved that he supported her far right-wing party's ideals.
She said: 'I sense an evolution at European level, even in classic governments. I can only congratulate him.'
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Australia's former prime minister John Howard and former Spanish prime minister Jose Maria Aznar have also said in recent months that multicultural policies had not successfully integrated immigrants.
NEDERLANDERS, BELGE EN FLAMINGE
For the Dutch right, attacking Islam is a psychologically useful way of reworking their own heritage.
This social conception of keeping the religious and political peace by separating people according to religion subtended policies of creating and financing religious schools. Although the pillar structure had come apart before major Muslim immigration was underway in the 1970s and ’80s, a psychological residue persisted, dictating that each religious group should ignore the particularities of the other. Far from accepting or recognizing the other’s validity, this attitude promoted bare tolerance, civic acceptance of the right to the existence of Catholics, Protestants, and for that matter, gays and pot-smokers. Condemnation was constrained to the home or the pulpit. So while Dutch policies and norms favored a diverse society, they took no part of what is today thought of as multiculturalism, with its efforts to reach beyond toleration toward appreciation.
At the same time, governments developed a series of policies aimed at promoting the advancement of minorities through provision of schoolteachers who spoke their languages (principally Arabic and Turkish), construction of local councils that would advise the government on how best to foster integration, and special funding to provide additional tutoring and support at schools heavily attended by the children of immigrants. By the end of the twentieth century these policies had been changed to focus more on skills training and teaching in Dutch, but the goal of state policy continued to be, as it had always been, that of promoting integration. In the Netherlands, as in France, financial aid was targeted to schools with many poor students, who happened to descend from recent immigrants.
The attack on these policies and attitudes has focused on values attributed to Muslims or to Islamic doctrine. In 1991 parliamentary opposition leader Frits Bolkestein criticized the government for failing to defend Western values of free speech and equality against Islamic views. He used the case of Islam to launch a broader attack against the political elite and their way of papering over differences (the polder model) rather than standing up for Enlightenment values against the Islam of the Ayatollahs. A rising class of populist politicians seconded this critique, among them the right-wing and openly gay Pim Fortuyn—killed in 2002 by an activist concerned about scapegoating Muslims—and the anti-Islam campaigners Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Geert Wilders. Their attacks on Islam were also political appeals against the elites in order to curry favor with the forgotten working classes. Polder politics, elite domination, and Islam were the common enemy, and the refusal of the leading classes to denounce non-Dutch and anti-Enlightenment Islamic values was the major evidence that things had gone wrong. As in France this admonition has been heard on the left and the right, from Social Democrats as well as from Wilders’s far-right Party for Freedom. It reflects a cultural nationalism that can appeal to the old-style populism of the right or to the universalism of the left.
In life and in death, Fortuyn focused the attack on multiculturalism even more narrowly as an attack on Islamic intolerance of sexual diversity, and in particular, of gay lifestyles. Fortuyn personified a secularist, sexually open, and “tolerant” Dutch identity, against which Islam and Muslims could easily be targeted as the pre-Enlightenment other. In no other country has the issue of tolerating gays become so central and so salient a part of the critique of Islam. This line of attack was powerful because it also was a critique of older Dutch ways of doing politics and thinking about sexuality. Throughout most of the twentieth century, most Dutch people held religious views about homosexuality and women’s rights that were not too different from those now ascribed to Muslims by their opponents. Attacking Islam was thus also a psychologically useful way of reworking one’s own heritage.
Ironically, the current focus on Islam per se—Wilders compared the Qur’an to Mein Kampf and seeks to have it banned in the Netherlands—has distracted the far right from policies about minority achievement and language learning. The focus now is on the acceptability in the Enlightenment West of the pre-Enlightenment Muslim. And yet the right continues to attack Dutch multiculturalism because it remains rhetorically useful to link the cultural critique of religion to a populist critique of past elites.
Laat diegene wat geloof verloor het en vergeet het hoe ons God en Vader ons deur Bloedrivier, Majuba, Magersfontein ens., ens. gelei het, verwonderd staan en kennis neem van hoe Hy gedagtes kan verander en dan ophou om na die pype van die ongelowiges te dans en polities “korrek” op te tree. Hiérdie land is óns land wat ons deur Sy genade uit Sy hand ontvang het! Die minste wat ons behoort te doen is om ons dankbaarheid te betoon deur dit te verdedig en daarmee saam die waardes wat daarmee gepaard gaan en wat nou bedreig word deur die teenpool van apartheid, naamlik multikulturalisme!