Truemors
Opinion
Barry Artiste, Now Public Contributor
Following paragraphs, could not be better said, when we as Canadians are brought up to accept Multiculturalism, yet are sent to foreign wars against a Multicultural society, for if this Culture were living in Canada, Multiculturalist would insist we be accommodating of this culture or be branded as racist.
The following paragraphs are by author Salim Mansur
For the generation that invested in multiculturalism as a political ideal, the test came with the Islamists unleashing their cult of death ideology against the West.
The logic of multiculturalism goes against the thought of Canadian soldiers waging war against the Taliban in Afghanistan when multiculturalists would accommodate Taliban values in Canada.
In writing about the need to dismantle multiculturalism, the advice of Sophocles from the fifth century B.C. comes to mind.
The Athenian playwright and author of the tragedy Oedipus the King counselled, "One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been."
It is with the evening of multiculturalism at hand that we can discern how utterly flawed is the liberal notion proclaiming equality of all cultures at the expense of individual freedom, which has guided governments in western liberal democracies for some time.
Those who engineered the idea of multiculturalism into liberal policy belonged to a generation in the West who took freedom for granted.
For this generation, freedom -- with the ground laid for the greatest expansion of wealth in all of human history -- without breaking a sweat.
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