Mansur writes with authority both as a professor of political science imbrued in his discipline and as a Muslim who understands how the more extreme elements in his community pose a serious threat to the durability of the society in which they have refused to integrate. These Islamic elements—along with certain disruptive and sectarian portions of the South Asian shame-honor demographic—braid the rope with which we will hang ourselves. Mansur clearly reveals how multiculturalism has failed to establish a viable and harmonious pluralism and has instead created an anarchic and retrograde situation in which old-world identities take precedence over modern, secular and liberal values. He shows how the Western political elites have collaborated in their own eventual dissolution by refusing to control or monitor the flow of tribally oriented immigrants who bring the hatreds, conflicts, social patterns, ancestral traditions and cultural practices of Third World communities into their new home, sowing inevitable discord as a consequence.
At the same time, the patrician class does everything it can to avoid confrontation and, in an access of misplaced solicitude, even strives to facilitate what is nothing less than a “hostile takeover” by stifling opposition to such destructive policies and pandering to the grievance networks set up by these foreign implants. In so doing, our “progressive” beau monde empowers radical immigrant organizations in their quest to impose upon their hosts the standards, customs, rituals and codes of the “old country.” What we are observing is a kind of cultural pleaching, the creation of new structures by interlacing the existing features of the social and political landscape with alternate modes and configurations. The terrain we have long taken for granted slowly becomes unrecognizable.
The casualties of the multicultural delirium are readily discernible to anyone who cares to pay attention. Freedom of speech, the bedrock principle of Western liberalism, has been legislatively curtailed. Freedom of assembly is under threat as well—what we might designate as the Malmo syndrome. The notion of citizenship, as Mansur warns, that “brings people together in liberal democracy and binds them in a relationship of mutual obligation” has also been crucially weakened. “The problem arises,” he continues, “when multiculturalism demands that liberal democracy recognize in law cultural practices that are not merely different, but contrary…to its core values of citizenship rights and responsibilities.”
In order to oppose the growing menace of “tribal and collectivist values” which undermine the social and national consensus, liberal democracy must be defended, Mansur argues, through education in the historical achievements of the Enlightenment and the concept of universal values. The doctrinal lie that “all cultures are worthy of equal respect and equally embracing of individual freedom” must be strenuously countered by affirming a unifying national culture “embedded in the values of the West and shaped by the Enlightenment.”
It must be acknowledged, however, that such education as Mansur recommends does not begin in the schools and universities, or in religious institutions and the media, which have, by and large, been corrupted by “the worm inside the doctrine of multiculturalism.” As he notes in a recent Sun Media column, our “universities, churches and mainstream media…have assumed the role of spinmeisters for Islamists and Islamism.” Genuine education begins with voices like Mansur’s and those of his conservative peers and colleagues—many of whom are mentioned in his book—who speak out resonantly and bravely against the plague of self-doubt, debased creeds and degrading ideologies, unmoored theories and the temptation to cultural and political appeasement that afflicts the West.
These heralds of sound judgment understand that, in effect, multiculturalism is like a horticultural experiment gone wrong, attempting to graft an unsuitable cutting onto a pre-existing stock and producing only a vascular deformity in the process. Subsequent pruning rarely works though it may at least contain the aberration. What is ultimately required is a strong rootstock, the right shoot, and the appropriate conditions to ensure that the insertion “takes”—failing which, we have a disaster rather than a garden.
Mansur’s book tells a bitter truth about a delectable lie. It needs to be read.
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Thank you for writing this clear, detailed, and persuasive book review on a difficult, even painful topic. By highlighting how the misguided doctrine of multiculturalism undermines traditional western values such as freedom of speech and the search for truth, this book has focused on two problematic aspects of the "just be polite and pretend" doctrine. Perhaps Canada has gone further down this dubious road than the United States, but it behooves American citizens to examine how our northern neighbors have been seduced by the multiculturalist fantasy. We still need to find a humane, balanced, and effective way to help legal immigrants and refugees join our open societies – and bring their energy and ambition into the mainstream societies. From my perspective, requiring new citizens to actually learn to read, write, and speak English at more than a second grade level would be a legitimate starting point.
Great critique, Mr Solway. The book sounds like a must-read.
Now lets kick every muslim out of this country!!! Good God I can't wait for a revolution.
The slap in the face point is how many of us have bought into the lie; that all cultures are equal. Western Civilization, which cherishes (or is supposed to) individual freedom and personal responsibility is not equal to a "collective" mindset. It cannot be equal to a Totalitarian system. In one culture you are a citizen and in another you are a subject. THAT is not equal.
Dictator Rights, Now…on picket signs would not sell very well…so they just purchased…..with oil money..the rally, the organizers, and picket signs.
' TAQIYYA '
Do your own research about it if you don't know what this means.
islam IS EVIL. PERIOD.
islam strives for world domination.
The quran commands muslims to exercise jihad.
The quern commands muslims to establish shariah law.
The quern commands muslims to impose islam on the entire world.
islam is NOT a religion, it IS a totalitarian ideology.
islam IS and has remained a death cult from its beginnings.
islam wants to dominate all aspects of life, from the cradle to the grave.
shariah law is a law that controls every detail of life in a islamic society.
From civic- and family law to criminal law.
It determines how one should eat, dress and even use the toilet.
Oppression of women is good, drinking alcohol is bad.
The core of the quran is the call to jihad.
Jihad means a lot of things and is arabic for battle.
islam means submission, there cannot be any mistake about its goal.
islam and freedom, islam and democracy are not compatible.
They are opposite values.
mohamed's "wife" was six years old.
That makes mohamed a PEDOPHILE!!!
And you want to base a "Religion" on this a z z -holes rantings?
Are you INSANE?
I STAND with Israel
The very notion that cultures are equal to one another and of the same moral worth is a threat to political sanity. Would multi-culturalists have agreed that soviet culture or nazi germany's culture are no better of no worse than democracy? islam, like fascism and communism promotes violence and brutality. All three are anti-semitic, anti-American, and steadfastly opposed to individual freedom. All three live on hatred and within a medieval mindset that blunts human progress. All three are evil. Western civilization is good. I'm an islamophobe with no desire to recover and accept any of the doctrines of the pedophile mohammad.
Multiculti is the leftist welfare state`s child. Sitting on the state`s neck ( your neck) lefists offer the place by to immigrants. Their common hate of the capitalism (buorgeoisie) defines their tribe`s culture enthusiasm.
During the time when Israel Zangwill wrote the assimilationist play The Melting Pot, which won the hearts and minds of Americans, Israel as the diaspora corporation foisted Bolshevism and the Balfour Declaration on the world simultaneously. They gave the Brits the recipe to TNT and took over the Soviet Revolution by backdoor coup. Henry Ford, the most obnoxious assimilationist of his day was trying to crank out model American citizens like Model Ts. His corporation clashed with the corporations of the Tweed Machine and the Kehillath. Neither Bolshevism nor Zionism were assimilationist ideologies. Rather, they were the Sampson Option and Clean Break Strategy of their day: behave like thugs, make money for your racial tribe, build up your foreign country if origin, or else wage war worldwide against capital and nationalism. Two World Wars later, Rahm Emmanuel teams up with Mayor Daley, the Knesset makes angry lectures on the floor of Congress, the Muslims watch Al Jazeera via satellite in Dearborn, Michigan, and Jews lecture goyim about the evils of their own 1970s backlash against assimilationism.
"make money for your racial tribe"
you hae the right o be a racist. i have the right to turn the page on you.
Please,Flipside. Stop trying to hide your anti-semitism in a history lesson. Everyone on this site knows you hate Jews so quit trying to be something you're not.
Is history antisemitic now? I must have imagined Benjamin Disraeli, Jacob Schiff, Karl Marx, The House of Rothschild, Saul of Tarsus, Rosa Luxemburg, Ze'ev Jabotinsky. None of those people had an effect on history and no criticism of them is warranted.
oh my gosh – i did not notice i was addressing the jew-hater flipside.
silly stuff from a silly man.
jakbotinsy – big zionist. marx – secular jew applying darwin's ideas to economics and social theory. disraeli – jew converted to christianity. saul of tarsus – another christian convert.
so what is your point; because there are jews who are bad all jews are bad ? then because hitler was born christian anfd rejectec it later all christians are bad ? hitler was short so all short people are bad ?
clearly, i am an idiot for arguing with this person.
No. I have never said anything about the goodness or badness of whole races or religions of people. The writer of this article is encouraging us to read a book and learn to scorn multiculturalism. I am saying that that is a big laugh, because assimilationism and multiculturalism have both been major flops in the United States and have both been proposed excessively by various talking heads including prominent Jews. Multiculturalism was really being pushed hard predominantly by Jewish socialists at Columbia University. Now Neocon racists are pushing a backlash against multiculturalism. I am saying that the Kulturkampf gas and brake pedals have now broken off in the hands of a bunch of people who cant decide whether WASPS or Muslims are their greatest enemy. It is pure foolishness.
Please,Flipside. Stop trying to hide your anti-semitism in a history lesson. Everyone on this site knows you hate Jews so quit trying to be something you're not.
Welcome to Saudi America.
Apparently Mr. Mansur still considers himself to be a Muslim. However, unfortunately for him devout mainstream orthodox Muslims consider Mr. Mansur to be a blasphemous apostate that should be executed per the dictates of Islam. Nevertheless, he is very right about the scourges of multiculturalism and political correctness.
Hi; this concept was instilled not to promote our own but to deny our Canadian culture. It was designed to garner ethnic votes in Canada. It needs to be scrapped or else we'll lose our culture to backwards minded people. Burquas and headscarves are declarations of war against the equality of the treatment of women. Holland, France, England and Germany have scrapped multiculturalism. Canadian governments should teach newcomers Canadian history and culture. We are over 200+ years old, and people need to know where we come from and our language and laws(The magna carta and not Sharia Law). Islam has killed multiculturalism and thank god for that. Now bring on the melting pot.
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