Daily Mail Comment
A brave challenge to the new apartheid
21st August 2006A brave challenge to the new apartheid
Today, the Daily Mail publishes a remarkable insight into the impact of multiculturalism that should be compulsory reading for our politically correct ruling establishment.
The questions raised by BBC journalist George Alagiah, born in Sri Lanka and raised in Ghana until he was six, shame the politicians who for decades have insisted on celebrating 'diversity' without a thought for the consequences.
In the London borough of Tower Hamlets, for example - typical of so many other mixed communities - he finds a form of segregation between racial groups that in some ways resembles the hateful old apartheid system in South Africa.
Integration? Forget it. Many migrants don't speak English, which cuts them off from the mainstream. And though schools have language lessons for adults, the local council negates the effect by offering their children classes in Bengali.
But then, such absurdities are nothing new. For years, officialdom has been obsessed with the multicultural ethos, encouraging immigrants to celebrate their own languages, cultures and traditions at the expense of Britishness.
So pupils are taught more about Britain's imperial 'crimes' than about its unique contribution to freedom. Officials ban Christmas celebrations (to the bafflement, it must be said, of most migrants). Ministers - disgracefully - refuse to outlaw forced marriages, for fear of upsetting minority communities.
And the more the ghetto mentality is encouraged, the more ingrained it becomes. Some Muslims want new bank holidays to mark their religious festivals and even the introduction of Sharia law.
The tragedy is that all of us - including decent, moderate Muslims - are paying the price for years of timidity, incompetence and sometimes downright dishonesty on immigration and related issues. And is it really getting any better?
Yes, it may seem the Government is at last taking a grip when Trade and Industry Secretary Alistair Darling promises there will be no 'open door' for migrants from Bulgaria and Romania.
But it will take more than mere words to convince voters, when this administration has encouraged the biggest surge in immigration in our history, without consultation and without considering the impact on employment, public services and community harmony.
This Government doesn't deserve to be trusted. How telling that it takes George Alagiah - not to mention other brave, non-white Britons such as Trevor Phillips of the Commission for Racial Equality and Dr John Sentamu, Archbishop of York - to launch an open, honest debate.
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