Moslems and Sikhs

Taking exception to my attack on Prime Minister Martin for kneeling at a Sikh festival, several correspondents have pointed out that the Sikhs are adversaries of Islam, and are admirable in other respects as well. Such considerations are irrelevant to the issue at hand. The issue is not whether the Sikhs are good people, or whether they are our allies against Islam; the issue is that a Western head of government, in perhaps the most flagrant expression of Eloidom to date, got down on his hands and knees in public to pay oriental-style respect to an oriental religion that is followed by a non-Western immigrant group in his country. My correspondents seem to be suggesting that it’s all right for a Western leader to abase himself before a non-Western immigrant culture, so long as that culture is anti-Islamic. Or perhaps they are saying that it is only the Western surrender to Islam that is objectionable, not the Western surrender to non-Western peoples and cultures across the board. If so, they are re-iterating a fallacy that has been committed over and over by the open borders advocates, of assuming that anything better than the totally unassimilable, is assimilable; of assuming that anything better than the worst, is ok.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at April 27, 2005 07:36 PM | Send