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To: ManyMoose who wrote (67489)	10/13/2008 1:40:47 PM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 90947

Do you believe that Great Britain has the proper method for handling Muslim incursions? A mildly provocative piece of phrasing, but I'll let it pass. No, actually I don't, but overall attitudes are changing. There was a strong movement effectively in favour of separateness (multiculturalism), encouraged by our left wing here (who IMO were informed about equally by the wilder US rights movements and bizarro readings of socialist tracts) on the basis that no culture is intrinsically better and therefore other choices etc are just as valid... My response is, "and that is fine. But in the UK our culture is primarily different: it is as <... description...> and IMO it is up to people immigrating to conform or adapt, not for us to change our culture except as we wish." Which is the majority view now, and thankfully even the more right-on fools who felt otherwise have seen that separate development breeds divisiveness and resentment. A small minority aside, though, it's not a problem. The vast majority of children born here to immigrant parents are born into a western culture and that basically is their own - they may indeed enrich it a little. Sure, the most extreme religious groups will attract and nourish nutters with totally unrealistic mindsets pamper their zealotry, and leave them woefully ill-equipped for dealing with reality, but that seems to me to be the habit of all monotheistic religions.