Britain’s Fifth Column is a Minaret

JUST as Cameron starts to bleat about the need to ‘…create more opportunities for celebrating our sense of nationhood’ and Brown monotones that ‘What was wrong about multiculturalism was not the recognition of diversity, but that it emphasised separateness at the cost of unity’ (notice the use of past tense, as if multiculturalism as an active ideology in British politics suddenly doesn’t exist anymore) a survey commissioned by the Policy Exchange think-tank reveals in stark detail the alienation and, let’s not bandy words here, odium that young British Muslims feel from and towards their adopted motherland.
The findings make disturbing reading and indeed, as the stronger opinions are most prevalent amongst younger Muslims, do not bode at all well for future societal cohesion in urban Britain. For your own discomfiture VPL has reproduced some of the more startling findings below:

• 13 per cent of 16-24-year-olds said they admired terrorist organizations like al-Qaeda.
• 37 per cent of 16-24-year-olds said they would prefer to live in Britain under sharia law rather than British law.
• 32 per cent of 25-34-year-olds said they would prefer to live in Britain under sharia law rather than British law.
• 55 per cent of 25-34-year-olds said that, under sharia, a Muslim male should be able to have up to four wives.
• 37 per cent of 25-34-year-olds said that Muslim conversion (to another faith) should be punishable by death.
• 37 per cent of 16-24-year-olds said they would prefer to send their children to an Islamic state school than a mixed state school.
• 59 per cent of all those asked said that they felt more in common with Muslims in other countries than non-Muslims in Britain.
• 53 per cent of all those asked said they prefer that Muslim women choose to wear the veil.

Heady stuff, eh? When unrepentant socialists like Brown start warning of a ‘balkanised Britain’ and that ‘multiculturalism became an excuse for justifying separateness and … even greater exclusivity’ one may begin to hope that the worm is, at last, turning; that the potentially lethal seismic shifts occurring in Britain’s demographic and cultural composition are at last starting to shake the remote ivory towers which our governing class inhabit. However, what ultimate form the reaction of the Labour Party to this fifth column will take remains to be seen. Certainly, if it is to be effective, they will not only have to substantially review and moderate the over-sensitivity with which they treat with ethnic minority groups, but also overcome the obvious distaste with which they themselves view British culture and history; a distaste which has undoubtedly proven such an insurmountable obstacle to encouraging integration and patriotism in the past.