Heavy-Handed Politics posts a story from CNSNews.com about a new test incorporated into Australia's citizenship process that includes questions about "Australian values", history, sports and political institutions, as well as a basic grasp of English. Asserting that Australia has been built on values based on "Judeo-Christian ethics," Prime Minister John Howard's government makes the move amid concerns about extremist views among some Australian Muslims. Naturally, the opposition is screaming about "bigots" and civil rights, but look what happens if accommodation becomes the norm:
Self-censorship. Conservative Thoughts reports on an Opus cartoon that several major newspapers won't run since it may offend Muslims.
God = Allah. A Dutch bishop proposes Christians call 'God' Allah to avoid offending Muslims.
Europe Capitulates. Scotland Yard has allowed a Muslim female officer to wear a different uniform and refuse to shake hands with men; British Prime Minister Gordon Brown forbade his ministers from using the word Muslim in connection with the attacks, carried out by Muslim terrorists; and many more.
England is vanishing. Cal Thomas writes on RealClearPolitics.com that England is approaching critical mass in national identity due to an influx of Muslim immigrants (both legal and illegal) combined with British citizens leaving because "they fear lawlessness and the threat of more terrorism from a growing Muslim population and the loss of a sense of Britishness, exacerbated by the growing refusal of public schools to teach the history and culture of the nation to the next generation. What it means to be British has been watered down in a plague of political correctness." Incidentally, England is currently debating an amnesty program very similar to the one that Americans threw down earlier this summer; it looks likely to succeed over the pond.
Do we want America to follow England or Australia? It's up to us, but we're going to have to overcome the virus of political correctness first.
There's my two cents.
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