How multiculturalism is betraying women

It would be easy to congratulate ourselves on our tolerance of the fanatically intolerant

Do you believe in the rights of women, or do you believe in multiculturalism? A series of verdicts in the German courts in the past month, have shown with hot, hard logic that you can't back both. You have to choose. Full Story »

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by John Burgess - Oct. 1, 2008

I think this article puts its finger exactly on the problem. In refusing to make value judgments, multiculturalism runs the risk of standing for nothing. All things are not equal, else we would need no laws. Some may think a homogenized world will be a better place, all of us happily marching to the sound of the same drum. [Note that this dream does not apply when it comes to multi-national corporations, of course!] Immigrants move to new countries because it will offer something that their own country does not. That may be economic freedom, religious freedom, political freedom, or sometimes, just jobs. But the target country is the result of decades or centuries of unique and accumulated religious, cultural, and intellectual development. Turning the target country into a mirror of the country departed rather defeats the purpose, at least for the next generation of immigrants.

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