THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume VI, Issue # 251, November 26, 2004
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
IMMIGRANT ASSIMILATION VERSUS IMMIGRANT SEPARATISM:
ENGLISH VERSUS ARABIC & SPANISH
By Alan Caruba
IMMIGRATION: ASSIMILATION OR SEPARATISM? THE VERY IMPORTANT ISSUES & PROBLEMS THAT AMERICA,
BRITAIN, & OTHER WESTERN CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC SOCIETIES ENCOUNTER WHEN THEY OPEN THEIR BORDERS TO THE
IMMIGRATION OF PERSONS WHO DO NOT WISH TO ASSIMILATE INTO THE CULTURES OF THE RESPECTIVE COUNTRIES TO WHICH
THEY MIGRATE -- HIGH TIME FOR EVERY WESTERN SOCIETY TO CLOSE ITS DOORS TIGHTLY TO ANY & EVERY ISLAMIC, LATIN
AMERICAN, OR OTHER THIRD WORLD IMMIGRANT WHO INSISTS ON RETAINING POLITICAL ALLEGIANCE TO HIS COUNTRY OF
ORIGIN OR TO SOME RADICAL, REVOLUTIONARY SUBVERSIVE POLITICAL MOVEMENT -- HIGH TIME FOR A LEGALLY IMPOSED &
STRICTLY ENFORCED ABSOLUTE PROHIBITION ON TAX-SUPPORTED BILINGUAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS
FULL STORY:
Recently, I received an email from the London School of Islamics authored by Iftikhar Ahmad. It reflects some very large issues and
problems that the British, European, and American political communities encounter when they open their doors to the immigration
of groups who do not want to assimilate into the cultures of the respective political societies to which they migrate, though they
enjoy the benefits of those societies, chief among which are freedoms that do not exist in the immigrants' home countries.
America is the greatest and most successful experiment regarding the integration and assimilation of people of differing cultures,
languages, and religions. America is living proof that such assimilation is possible and results in a society that rewards personal
merit and hard work.
The London School of Islamics (LSI) news release, dated November 13, began with the headline, “Crime Against Humanity.” It
stated that, “to deprive a Muslim child from his/her culture and language is a crime against humanity.” After the Church of England
and the Roman Catholic Church, Islam is the third largest religion in the United Kingdom. Throughout Europe, Muslims are a
growing, though minority, population. What the LSI wants, however, are “state-funded Muslim schools.” It wants to be separate
from the mainstream of English society.
In a comparable fashion, Hispanics in America have been lobbying, often with success, to make Spanish the second official
language of the nation. There is even a movement to “reconquer” those formerly Mexican areas of the nation and the official policy
of the Mexican government is to create a southern border which Mexicans could cross at will, electing to live here if they wish,
enjoy all the benefits of American citizenship, but retaining their own citizenship at the same time.
The LSI, however, maintains, “It is absurd to say that [the] Muslim community should demonstrate ‘Englishness.’ They can’t. But
they can be and are British.” No, they can’t, unless they are fluent in the English language and feel at home in England. Neither can
Mexicans who insist on remaining Mexican rightly call themselves American without being able to speak English and adapting to
our society. One either chooses to assimilate into their new, chosen homeland or they should return to their former one.
According to the LSI, however, the only way a Muslim can be an Englishman would be if they “start moving in and around pubs,
indulge in binge drinking, visiting night clubs, and frequently changing partners.” This picture of an English society of drunkards
and sexual depravity might be laughable if it was only shared by Iftikar Ahmad, but the battle being waged in the world these days
between Muslims and all others is based on this belief in the moral superiority of Islam and the view that the world can only exist if
Islam is imposed on it through holy war.
The LSI wants a Britain where Arabic, Urdu, and Persian are languages on an equal footing with the language of Shakespeare and
Churchill. The LSI wants a Muslim England. In a comparable fashion, the Mexicans and other Hispanics who live among Americans,
but insist that their language and culture take precedence, are equally arrogant and indifferent to the majority of the population.
Fortunately, many Mexican-Americans love their adopted nation and oppose such views.
What we are discussing here is more than a clash of cultures. It is the demand for separatism and of isolation within the larger
societies they call home or, at least, in which they live. It is this cultural, religious, and social separatism that has mired the Middle
East in a seventh century society living in a 2lst. century world. It encourages despotism and corruption. In a comparable way, no
American would trade our economic, electoral, and justice system for that of Mexico, where poverty is so vast that it drives its
people to risk their lives to come here to simply feed and cloth their families.
The real crime against humanity would be if Islam succeeded in its goal of eliminating all other religions, and the real crime of illegal
immigration to America is testing our willingness to compromise our laws and our society for the demands of a minority that flouts
our legal system and drains our economy by putting demands on our education, health, and law enforcement systems. One either is
an American by birth or naturalization, or he is not. A Muslim in England either is British, or he is not.
The notion that Great Britain should pay for separate school systems for Muslims is absurd. The notion that America should
abandon its legal system to absorb every illegal alien is absurd. No one is asking that a minority abandon its culture, but neither
should the host nation be asked to abandon its culture.
It is a supreme irony that both American and British soldiers are in the process of fighting to liberate millions of Afghanis and Iraqis
from decades, if not centuries, of oppression, while, at the same time, striving to establish a system of self-governance they have
never known, striving to do this in order to connect them to the rest of the world.
Just imagine if millions of Americans were to enter Mexico illegally, demand that the local government provide free medical care,
demand bilingual doctors and nurses, demand bilingual government forms, fly the US flag from their homes and cars, demand
courses on American culture in their schools, demand local driver’s licenses, and insist that local law enforcement officers speak
only English. It is appalling that our sovereign, national southern border is scorned by our neighbors.
These are demands to which neither Great Britain nor the United States of America should ever agree.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Immigration & Illegal Aliens
Political Culture, Patriotism, & American National Identity
LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES DEALING WITH
IMMIGRATION & ILLEGAL ALIENS:
Center for Immigration Studies
VDARE
Federation for American Immigration Reform
Congressional Immigration Caucus
Americans for Immigration Control
American Immigration Control Foundation
California Coalition for Immigration Reform
Alan Caruba is a veteran business and science writer, a Public Relations Counselor, Communications Director of the American Policy Center,
and Founder of the National Anxiety Center, a clearinghouse for information about media-driven scare campaigns. Caruba writes a weekly
column, "Warning Signs," posted on the Internet website of the National Anxiety Center
(www.anxietycenter.com). A compilation of his past columns, entitled Warning Signs, is published by Merril Press. In addition
to Warning Signs, Caruba is the author of A Pocket Guide to Militant Islam and The United Nations vs. the United States,
both of which are available from the National Anxiety Center, 28 West Third Street, Apartment 1321, South Orange, New Jersey, 07079.
Copyright 2004 Alan Caruba
Published with Permission of Alan Caruba
ACaruba@AOL.Com
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