Related here, including my own comment.
Here follows my new comment on Braverman’s utterances:
What is there about these immigrants like Braverman that make them want to deny to others the very privileges that they themselves have been afforded? Where would she be today had Britain viewed in such a cruel way her family’s application for immigration status to this country?
In many ways, she is right in saying that multiculturalism has been a failure. That, I would not deny. But where she is making a grave mistake is in conflating the two things: granting people who might be persecuted for something, perhaps for being gay, and bringing into the country ‘wholesale’ people of other religious backgrounds, ethnic backgrounds, with totally different outlooks on life — something which successive governments have done with no consideration of its impact on the country’s rich Christian heritage — is something quite, quite different.
The people were not asked if they wanted their own way of life and customs swamped by alien religions, ways of life, or customs. Governments just opened the floodgates to let them all in, because they needed the workforce for business and commerce. Perahps they would have been better off encouraging young women to stay at home and give birth! Hasn't a lack of procreation been our Achilles heel? Doesn't feminism, perhaps, have much to answer for?
Ask yourselves which given name is the most used for new born babies in modern Britain. The answers to these questions might alarm you! Then, ask yourselves what this means for Britain’s future.
But please, let us not allow Suella Braverman try and re-write the 1951 Geneva Convention. It doesn’t need re-writing. What needs to be done is for it to be respected; and, furthermore, for governments to behave responsibly.
One of the greatest failures of multiculturalism has been the attempt to mix other faiths with our own (however nominal it is), and especially trying to mix Islam with it. This is where multiculturalism has failed as an experiment. It hasn’t failed because we have given sanctuary to people in fear of persecution.
By the way, the problems of trying to mix Islam with Christianity are many and varied. Over the lifetime of this blog — it has been up and running for nearly 22 years! — I have pointed out the pitfalls countless times. But seemingly nobody wanted to listen. More especially politicians. Nothing would come in the way of the execution of their grand multicultural experiment!
In very simple terms, the greatest problem of trying to mix Islam with Christianity stems from the FACT that Islam is one organic whole. It does not respect or differentiate between the temporal and the spiritual. That means to say, it respects no separation of mosque and state, no separation of Church and state, no separation of the religious from the political. Whereas Christianity, by contrast does. Not only does it, it is its sine qua non! “…Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's.” [KJB: Matthew 22:21]
Only in the past few days, in a trial in France, a Muslim on trial for terrorism, stated this in a French court! He said that Islam is not compatible with democracy! [« L’islam n’est pas compatible avec la démocratie » (Source)]
Suella Braverman needs to rethink her strategy on asylum seekers, especially on asylum seekers in grave danger of persecution, among whom are very many gays. They need this country’s help and protection. – © Mark Alexander
