The term ‘multicultural’ has come to define both a society that is particularly diverse, usually as a result of immigration, and the policies necessary to manage such a society. It has come to embody, in other words, both a description of a society and a prescription for managing it. Multiculturalism is both the problem and the solution – and when the problem and the solution are one and the same we can only be dealing with political snake oil. - Kenan Malik, From Fatwa to Jihad: Legacies of the Salman Rushdie affair

Multiculturalists assumed that minority groups would not want to jettison the past but to embrace it, that those born here would want to define themselves through their parents’ cultures and traditions. They imagined Britain as a, ‘community of communities’, and pushed second generation Britons of immigrant stock back into the traditional cultures that they had rejected. And so those second generation migrants found themselves adrift without any cultural ballast. - Kenan Malik, From Fatwa to Jihad: Legacies of the Salman Rushdie affair

Now the great thing is this: we re consecrated and dedicated to God in order that we may thereafter think, speak, meditate, and do nothing except to His glory." ~John Calvin

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