Multicultural Britain is not working, says Tory chief

By Aussiegirl

Telegraph | News | Multicultural Britain is not working, says Tory chief

Muslims must start integrating into mainstream British society, says David Davis, the shadow home secretary and front-runner to take over the Conservative leadership.

Writing in The Daily Telegraph today, Mr Davis signalled a significant shift away from the policy of multi-culturalism, which allows people of different faiths and cultures to settle without expecting them to integrate.

David Davis: ‘Muslims in turn have obligations not simply to condemn terror, but to confront it’
"Often, the authorities have seemed more concerned with encouraging distinctive identities rather than promoting the common values of nationhood," Mr Davis writes.

Meanwhile, not all are getting the message. Excuse my ignorance, but since when was it our responsibility to answer to their 7th Century version of decadence? If they don't like it let them not emigrate to our countries so that they need not soil their pure Muslim souls with the decadence and rot of the West. Go East, young man, and cease being a "splode-a-dope".

. . . Dominic Grieve, the shadow attorney general, said few politicians yet appreciated the sense of anger and alienation felt by many Muslims in Britain. He said the London suicide bombings were "totally explicable" because of the deep sense of anger over the Iraq war, a wider despair about the Islamic world and what Muslims saw as a "decadent" western society.

However, Miss Blears said there could be no justification "for people blowing themselves up and murdering hundreds of other people".

You'd have thought this truth was self-evident.

. . . "But Muslims in turn have obligations: not simply to condemn terror, as one Labour MP put it, but to confront it."

They might start by turning in the terrorists in their midst. They know who they are and are sheltering them in their mosques and communities.

He praised the Government's response to the London bombings and promised Tory support for tougher laws to catch and convict those preparing terrorist acts or inciting extremism.

Mr Davis calls for the establishment of a new border control police force to secure Britain's "porous" borders.

Sounds like a good idea for this country too.

The process of granting British citizenship should be reviewed. It is "totally unacceptable" that one of the alleged bombers was given a British passport despite having a long record of bad conduct, including time in jail.

Mr Davis repeats the Tory call to review the Human Rights Act.