12 January 2011

When will we end the curse of state multiculturalism?

Politicians who once espoused this once-immutable orthodoxy now deride it as ‘a wrong-headed doctrine that has had disastrous results’; Church of England bishops blame it for failing the very immigrants it was supposed to assist; the Chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission has said it is causing us to ‘sleepwalk towards segregation; and even senior employees of the BBC declare that it is responsible for causing the indigenous white population to feel ‘alienated, threatened and voiceless’.

.... Some of these Muslims are more British than the British. It is a theme His Grace has taken up on more than one occasion. But this is not for some future government to sort out.

If we do not act, and act now, we will bequeath to our children the strife of apartheid and sectarianism, and to our grandchildren the curse of civil war. [Archbishop Cranmer] Read more