But will this be enough?
Interesting how the reactionaries would deny that Britain has a problem in this regard. We've had a few on these forums who would claim otherwise. Smoke screens, deflection, poisoning the well, denial.
But, as I said, they and their ilk do not represent the vast majority of British citizens.
Now, finally, we have the highest politician in the land to finally acknowledge what has been obvious to most for the past decade or more. He'll also join the ranks with Angela Merkel to admit that multiculturalism is a bankrupt belief system. Instead of assimilating, it has allowed religious minorities to radicalize and segregate even further from mainstream society.
After all, if you don't openly challenge backwards belief systems, there's no reason to expect these communities will challenge them. We have educated people here who want to take society back to the seventh century.
The difference between France and Britain in this respect is astounding. In spite of urban crowding, unemployment and poverty, France's religious minority community is light years more progressive than Britain's.
The French treated their immigrants like they were Westerners. To me, that's the opposite of the ethnocentric multiculturalist view that non-Westerners are too fragile to be treated equally.
Entering the debate on national identity and religious tolerance, the Prime Minister declared an end to “passive tolerance” of divided communities, and say that members of all faiths must integrate into wider society and accept core values.
To be British is to believe in freedom of speech and religion, democracy and equal rights regardless of race, sex or sexuality, he will say. Proclaiming a doctrine of “muscular liberalism”, he said that everyone, from ministers to ordinary voters, should actively confront those who hold extremist views.
He warned that groups that fail to promote British values will no longer receive public money or be able to engage with the state.
His speech, to an international security conference in Munich, comes after The Daily Telegraph disclosed the extent to which the British intelligence community fears the “unique threat” of terrorist attacks by radicalised British Muslims.
Mr Cameron promised a new willingness to argue against and “defeat” extremist ideologies that lead some to engage in terrorism.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... -says.html
