I was watching Question Time the other
day and in the audience was a row of Muslim women all wearing
the veil. It is quite disconcerting to say the least, even
more so for children I would imagine. We don’t know
why we feel like we do, it does seem strange and even absurd
to us and it most certainly makes us feel uncomfortable.
The reason it makes us feel this way, even
though we don’t particularly know why, is because,
contrary to popular belief, the English people do actually
have a culture of their own and trying to communicate with
people who have covered their faces is totally alien to
that culture. I don’t think you can ever tell people
what they can or cannot wear in their own homes or even
walking down the street but we have every right to object
to it if involves us or our children directly. We have cultural
sensitivities too you know, and this is the Catch 22 that
highlights the absurdity that is multi-culturalism. What
happens when it goes against Muslim culture to take a veil
off but it goes against ours to have it on?
When Jack Straw first got himself into a spot of bother
by raising the issue we were hoping he was going to hang
himself with his own multi-cultural rope. It seems slightly
perverse that he and his New Labour friends with their own
particular zealous brand of multi-culturalism are the ones
who have done more than anyone else to allow situations
like this to happen. It’s a bit rich that New Labour
now seems to have jumped on the “British values”
bandwagon and do a spectalur U-turn on their radical multi-cultural
doctrine once they realise that they have lost so many Muslim
votes over the carnage in Iraq. It all sounds to me like
trying to slam the stable door once the horse has bolted.
With successive governments adopting multi-cultural policies
it has given the impression that everything that we have
is up for grabs. It has given the impression of weakness
and encouraged others to take ever more. With bombs going
off on the underground and even worse round the corner,
the cat is well and truly out the bag and trying to keep
a lid on it on it now is only going to drive ever more into
the hands of the fundamentalists. Whatever way we turn now
it still spells trouble. Our politicians were warned by
many people but they refused to listen because they knew
better. There will be no apolgy and multi-culturalism will
continue under a different name with the same "experts"
at the helm. This time round it will be called "Britishness"
but make no mistake this new "Britishness" will
be a million miles from what we consider Englishness and
the same fools promoting it will still see Englishness as
the biggest threat to their new masterplan. - TC
