By Micah Halpern
I've Been Thinking:
A French soldier was stabbed and killed by a Muslim terrorist in Paris just days after a British soldier was beheaded in London. And only a few weeks before that, a Muslim terrorist stabbed a gendarme. While stabbing the police officer the terrorist shouted "Alahu Ahkbar," "Allah is great."
These are critical signs about what is happening in Western Europe. People are starting to ask whether the idea of multiculturalism has failed. Some are suggesting that the tensions between Muslims in Europe and their host cultures are akin to a seething caldron about to over boil resulting in tremendous conflict.
In the past, immigrant communities in Western Europe more or less
remained true to their own traditions, but assimilated culturally.
They wanted to be French or British or Belgium while still remaining whatever they originally were.
In today's Europe many community leaders and schools do not emphasize assimilation and acculturation. Instead, they emphasize separation.
This new immigrant, this new response, this new style --- poses a huge dilemma for Western Europe.
In the past those who did not assimilate were shunned by the masses and were not successful. They were mere vestiges of the past.
Today, in Western Europe, entire communities refuse to acculturate.
A cultural war may be on the horizon.
Micah@MicahHalpern.com
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