Great Britain: Multiculturalism and Islam Turn It Upside-Down

by Giulio Meotti • December 18, 2022 at 5:00 am

This year, Leicester's famous multiculturalism, so praised by the establishment, exploded. Knife attacks, stone- and bottle-throwing, cars torched, religious symbols under siege, dozens wounded, including policemen.... Then the hunt for Hindus began in Britain's streets.
"Leicester to be first city where white people are minority," announced The Independent in 2007. Some understood that it would not end well.
What happened? Leicester became Islamized fast. In 2001, the Muslim population was 11%. By 2017, it made up 20%. Among children, Islam is dominant.
For the first time since the 7th century AD, England is no longer majority Christian.
A British bishop, the brave Michael Nazir-Ali, was attacked for denouncing the existence of "no-go areas" in the UK.
No one knows what Britain will be like in 30 years. We might, however, be concerned about a scenario in which large parts of the UK and Europe could resemble Pakistan.

This year, Leicester's famous multiculturalism, so praised by the establishment, exploded. Knife attacks, stone- and bottle-throwing, cars torched, religious symbols under siege, dozens wounded, including policemen.... Then the hunt for Hindus began in Britain's streets. No one knows what Britain will be like in 30 years. We might, however, be concerned about a scenario in which large parts of the UK and Europe could resemble Pakistan. Pictured: The Masjid Umar mosque in Leicester, England. (Image source: NotFromUtrecht/Wikimedia Commons)

"Leicester has become the poster city for multicultural Britain, a place where the stunning number and size of the minorities – the 55 mosques, 18 Hindu temples, nine Sikh gurudwaras, two synagogues, two Buddhist centres and one Jain centre – are seen not as a recipe for conflict or a millstone around the city's neck, but a badge of honour," was how, in 2013, the British liberal newspaper The Independent celebrated the transformation of Britain's tenth-largest city.

There are places in Europe that visited the future sooner than others: Malmö in Sweden, Trappes and Roubaix in France, Cologne in Germany, Molenbeek in Belgium, Leicester in England...

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Global Prospects: A German View

by Amir Taheri • December 18, 2022 at 4:00 am

What [German Chancellor Olaf Scholz] fails or decides not to mention is the need to acknowledge the return of the nation-state as the key force capable of correcting those mistakes.
Because a certain gang of Germans gave nationalism a bad name in the last century, one must not forget that in a world of diversity, the nation-state is the most workable model of socio-political and economic organization.
A world of nation-states does not mean "each one for himself", all the time, pursuing narrow and selfish "national interests". Groupings of nation-states such as NATO or the European Union would be based on the common interests of all member nations with their right of opt-out or veto on certain issues preserved....
However, the real force that pushes inflation upwards may be the decision by "liberal democratic capitalist" governments to print money as if there were no tomorrow.
More good news is that the chancellor distances himself, ever so gingerly, from the federalist project of some of the founders of the European Union in its earlier version as the Common Market.
Reminding Europeans that there is no peace without security and no security without a measure of self-sufficiency in strategic domains is a timely contribution to the current debate about the future of democracy in an increasingly complex world.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. (Photo by Omer Messinger/Getty Images)

Is the world order heading for a tectonic shift? And, if yes, what will that shift be like?

These are the questions that German Chancellor Olaf Scholz posed in an article in the American magazine Foreign Affairs, published almost immediately after his lightning visit to China. The word that Scholz uses to describe the shift is "Zeitenwende" or "game-changer", but the tone of the article is more in tune with Euro-pessimism of the kind expressed by French President Emmanuel Macron, reflecting the current Zeitgeist or "spirit of the time" in Western democracies.

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