The Strange Death of Multiculturalism

Europe's ideology of multiculturalism has proven to be both wrongheaded and unworkable. But Europeans' fear of Islam and Muslim immigrants has given rise to a form of Enlightenment fundamentalism that poses a more serious threat to European values.

An ideology which holds that people from different cultures must live in separate communities within a country, should not take an interest in each other and must not criticise each other is both wrong and unworkable. Of course, multiculturalism’s more thoughtful advocates never imagined that a cultural community could or should substitute for a political community. They believed that so long as everyone abided by the law, it was not necessary for citizens to have a single hierarchy of values.

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