THE WAR ON TERROR
Tony Blair made a speech on Saturday setting out the need for a global struggle for the ‘battle of ideas’ in the fight against ‘an evil ideology’. Apparently, from the depths of the Amazon rain forest to the frozen wilds of Siberia, and even to the bushmen of the Kalahari, we are all involved in this global struggle.
This is all very well and Mr Blair has made some good points. There is indeed a political and ideological dimension. This crisis is not solely about security measures or security lapses.
But Mr Blair is a proficient political showman, and his speech is as important for what it excludes as much as for what it includes. In particular, Mr Blair does not deal with political correctness, or the political pressure from Labour for mass immigration. Both of these political issues are central to the situation in this country, and talk of global action should not be an excuse for inaction at home.
Nor should Labour be allowed to skewer the debate away from their own policies and the inevitable consequences of those policies. Simply spouting inane cliches such as: ‘the prejudices of the past are put behind us, where our diversity is our strength’, is simply to adhere to the politically correct nonsense that has contributed to the tolerance, if not promotion, of Muslim extremism. Labour is primarily responsible for this.
We need to see the abandonment of the British Inquisition and of race war politics. We need to see an end to mass immigration. Mr Blair has no intention at all of making such policy changes.
There is also a misunderstanding of what political correctness actually is. There has been some criticism that we have been too fearful of being politically incorrect, too wary of being called racist, and that certain state entities have allowed political correctness to distract them from their proper functions (eg the Metropolitan Police who have actually been funding Muslim extremists to visit the UK rather than tracking down the terrorists).
This is all true, but it is not the complete picture. The ideology we now know as political correctness always had at its heart the aim of dividing western society and destroying it from within. In that sense, political correctness is an ally of Muslim extremism.
Political Correctness is an evil, neo-communist ideology and it too needs to be confronted and destroyed.
This is all very well and Mr Blair has made some good points. There is indeed a political and ideological dimension. This crisis is not solely about security measures or security lapses.
But Mr Blair is a proficient political showman, and his speech is as important for what it excludes as much as for what it includes. In particular, Mr Blair does not deal with political correctness, or the political pressure from Labour for mass immigration. Both of these political issues are central to the situation in this country, and talk of global action should not be an excuse for inaction at home.
Nor should Labour be allowed to skewer the debate away from their own policies and the inevitable consequences of those policies. Simply spouting inane cliches such as: ‘the prejudices of the past are put behind us, where our diversity is our strength’, is simply to adhere to the politically correct nonsense that has contributed to the tolerance, if not promotion, of Muslim extremism. Labour is primarily responsible for this.
We need to see the abandonment of the British Inquisition and of race war politics. We need to see an end to mass immigration. Mr Blair has no intention at all of making such policy changes.
There is also a misunderstanding of what political correctness actually is. There has been some criticism that we have been too fearful of being politically incorrect, too wary of being called racist, and that certain state entities have allowed political correctness to distract them from their proper functions (eg the Metropolitan Police who have actually been funding Muslim extremists to visit the UK rather than tracking down the terrorists).
This is all true, but it is not the complete picture. The ideology we now know as political correctness always had at its heart the aim of dividing western society and destroying it from within. In that sense, political correctness is an ally of Muslim extremism.
Political Correctness is an evil, neo-communist ideology and it too needs to be confronted and destroyed.
posted by erc @ 10:13 pm
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