Lesley Riddoch omits from her discourse (Perspective, 12 January) one significant issue: she fails to properly address multiculturalism.
If it means welcoming and celebrating the culture of people from another land, it’s fine and desirable, but when it means importing ?anti-democratic and theocratic ideas into a secular ?democracy in the name of “tolerance and diversity”, then we have a problem.
The kind of multiculturalism that Charlie Hebdo opposed and saw as undermining French values is that which is increasingly problematic here and elsewhere.
It includes the incursion of Sharia law into the mainstream (even the venerable Law Society got in on the Islamic theology business recently before withdrawing, suitably chastened). [The Scotsman] Read more
