The Poison of Multiculturalism

[Chris]

The Poison of Multiculturalism

The Poison of Multiculturalism
By Bruce Bawer

If you want a pretty good example of just why multiculturalism is so poisonous, here's one for you.

I live in Norway. Here, as elsewhere in Europe, there reside innumerable immigrants from the Muslim world who despise Western values, reject sexual equality, and affirm primitive patriarchal codes and concepts of "honor" that condemn people (mostly females) to death for infractions that neither you nor I would even recognize as infractions. Nonetheless these individuals enjoy Norwegian residency, and in some cases Norwegian citizenship, which some of them were granted because they claimed asylum (most likely on specious grounds, as demonstrated by the fact that many, if not most, of them return regularly to the countries from which they supposedly "fled"), and which others were granted because they married Norwegian residents (usually their own cousins, whom they married for no other reason than to acquire Western residency).

Every now and then there come along people from the Muslim world who are legitimate asylum-seekers – people who really would be in danger if they returned to their homelands, people to whom Western countries should feel a moral obligation to grant residency, and people from whose presence those countries would actually benefit, precisely because they're people who will appreciate freedom more than most of the rest of us do. To put it another way, they're the kind of immigrants who, generation by generation, have renewed the American spirit and the American dream by reminding those of us whose ancestors preceded them just how precious a thing freedom is.

Meet "Azad." He's a gay Iraqi who, according to an article at the website of NRK, the Norwegian national broadcasting system, has been in a committed relationship since 2006 with somebody named Odd Arne Henriksen. (I don't know either of these guys, though my partner, after looking at the picture of the two of them that accompanies the article, says he's seen Henriksen around town a number of times. Oslo is a pretty small city.)

For years, apparently, "Azad" has lived in Norway without causing any problems or being a burden on the state. But now an appellate court has ordered that he be deported to Iraq. If he goes back there, he says, "my clan will kill me." Indeed, the court recognizes that if it becomes known in Iraq that "Azad" is gay, he risks "exclusion, isolation, and physical punishment." (In fact, he risks much worse.) Nonetheless the court has ruled that "Azad," in the words of NRK's report, "must comply with his homeland's sociocultural norms."

Let me repeat that: he "must comply with his homeland's sociocultural norms."

Forget freedom. Forget Norway's sociocultural norms. Forget the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In making a decision that for "Azad" may mean the difference between life and death, what matters to an appellate court in Norway – a Western European country, a member of NATO – is "his homeland's sociocultural norms"…however brutal and primitive those "norms" may be. NRK notes that "Azad" is far from alone. In the past two years, Norway has turned down no fewer than forty of fifty-two gay asylum seekers. The records of many other Western countries are not much better.

In the case of Norway, however, such statistics are especially outrageous. For this is a country that likes to think of itself as being extremely gay-friendly. It was the second country in the world to recognize same-sex partnerships. It was the sixth to recognize gay marriages. When it comes to native Norwegians who happen to be gay, the Norwegian state is very clear about where it stands on the rights and dignity of gay people. Gay Norwegians deserve no less than every right granted straight Norwegians, up to and including the right to marry.

But when it comes to a person like "Azad," a person from a country where he may well be imprisoned and even executed for being gay, all bets are off. For in such cases the Norwegian state's respect for individuals takes a back seat – in a big way – to its respect for "different cultures." A gay person who happens to have been born into an Islamic culture cannot expect from the Norwegian state any deliverance from his culture's values, even if those values condemn him to death.

The situation is actually even worse than I have already made it sound. Consider this: one of the five million residents of Norway is an Iraqi-born man named Mullah Krekar, who founded the terrorist group Ansar al-Islam. He is a brutal monster who has spoken out in support of Osama bin Laden and the actions of 9/11 and who is known to have ordered the torture of children. He came to Norway many years ago as an asylum seeker and was granted asylum. He now lives in Oslo, where he has a comfortable apartment, receives a generous subsidy from the government, and is able to move around the city freely without supervision. He lives with his wife, who works in a day-care center, and his children, who are being given as good an education as Norway can provide. There have been efforts to return him to Iraq to face justice for his manifold crimes. Yet Norwegian authorities have repeatedly refused to send him back on the grounds that he might be imprisoned or otherwise punished.

In other words, Norwegian authorities are able to defend – are, indeed, zealous about defending – what they see as the individual "rights" and "dignity" of a terrorist, so long as those "rights" and "dignity" don't appear to conflict with any cultural "norms" or "values" that they're afraid of offending. But when it comes to "Azad"? Well, sorry, fella – this way to the plane.

[mattfivefour]

Culture is a means of preserving the imperatives which all groups need for the purposes of strength and cohesion within the group. When transplanted into another culture, foreign cultures can enrich the new society. But they must be kept in the proper perspective and never allowed to dominate or even challenge the prevailing one. To ignore that is to allow culture to become a divisive and destructive force rather than one of cohesion. That is the danger of multiculturalism as it has been practiced in Canada and is increasingly being practiced in the United States.

[micah719]

Gen 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

Gen 9:1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

Gen 11:1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.

Gen 11:4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Gen 11:5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
Gen 11:6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
Gen 11:7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
Gen 11:8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
Gen 11:9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

Act 17:25 Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;
Act 17:26 And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
Act 17:27 That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:

Rev 17:12 And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
Rev 17:13 These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
Rev 17:14 These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.
Rev 17:15 And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the ***** sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.
Rev 17:16 And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the *****, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
Rev 17:17 For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
Rev 17:18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.


Multiculturalism....the attempt to reverse The Lord's decree for men to multiply and fill the earth. Instead, they once again seek to make a name for themselves and build a tower to heaven. Socialism is the attempt to rebuild Eden without God, despite God, so as to spite God. That is why we have to be so careful because that poisonous ideology ever seeks to infiltrate and subvert the church by counterfeiting and deception. Every fellowship is in danger, and the stronger the fellowship the more determined and subtle the attacks against it.

With regard to the OP article, perhaps a more serious example would be the vanishing Christians of Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and Egypt. It may seem callous, but I for one am not that sorry for sodomites that have a hard time on account of their chosen perversion. There are far worse injustices in the world, such as people suffering for the sake of righteousness rather than those reaping the harvest of their sins. So Norway is "gay-friendly". Cultural sodomy is a judgement and leads to further judgement. It is no accident that the liberal-infested west is being torn down from within by imported barbarians; the lawless immigrant bandits are merely a disposable tool for chastisement just as Assyria, Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome, islam, Mongols, Britain, Germany, Russia and the USA have been, for disciplining various peoples but mainly Israel and the grafted-in church. The Lord's plan marches on to its inevitable conclusion, it is up to us to study His word and stand firm on it in the evil day (that is every day...), and beware the counterfeits and subverters.

[KissimmeeBeliever]

It's only dangerous because we allow people to come to our lands and set the culture. I don't feel sorry for the Scandanavian countries who have allowed these Muslims to come in and tell them how their culture will be from now on. These countries have a history of beautiful cultures and PC has caused them to allow for these infiltrations. These Muslims know about the weak PC minds from these countries and they use it against them just as cultures have done to the US. There is no United States culture or traditions anymore. We have allowed foreigners to come in and set the tone. We are all sooo weak minded know that we let one person set the tone for the masses. This is the most ignorant form of thinking I've ever seen. I can't imagine moving to Vietnam and telling them to live like I think they should live. I would try to mesh in with their culture. Not here we want to lose our entire identity......

[dave-o]

Multiculturalism....the attempt to reverse The Lord's decree for men to multiply and fill the earth. Instead, they once again seek to make a name for themselves and build a tower to heaven. Socialism is the attempt to rebuild Eden without God, despite God, so as to spite God.

I totally agree with your assessment.

The problem we face is that if one does NOT believe the Bible, then it's the only logical thing to do. Take God out of the equation and PC-ness actually makes perfect sense. Sure (from their point of view) there will be problems at first but eventually all those cultures will "evolve" and blend into one culture. Then we can join together and through the miracles of modern science learn to defeat death and even obtain eternal life. No God needed.

But blocking the fast-track to this "cultural evolution" is religious fundamentalism, specifically Islam and Christianity, and the homosexual issue is the weapon of choice being used to break them both down.

So what is happening to this gay Muslim man makes perfect sense when one looks at the world from the other side's point of view. His unfair treatment is being used to cause an out-cry against fundamental Islam.