Douglas Murray är på debatturné med den högprofilerade vänsteraktivistiske professorn Cornel West. Nu har turen kommit till Australien och Murray blir intervjuad av Nick Whigham för news.com.au. Denne Nick Whigham lyckas med något få svenska sk journalister lyckas med, nämligen att, trots egen skepsis inför Murrays tankar om västerlandets risk för utplåning under massiv muslimsk invandring, låta bli att tillskriva Murray nazistrasistfascistisk agenda för att i stället låta honom komma till tals och själv förklara vad han är ute efter. Där en SVT- eller DN-politruk snabbt skulle haft den avfärdande analysen klar för sig får Nick Whigham veta något som skulle fått vänstermedia här hemma att förvånas en smula. Men de lyssnar förstås aldrig tillräckligt länge för att urskilja nyanser. . Redan Nick Whighams presentation andas ett helt annat debattklimat än vad vi blivit vana vid: HE’S not a right-wing internet provocateur, but Douglas Murray has some ideas that may offend — and he’s bringing them to Australia. Det börjar sedan med lite samtal kring den vidunderliga publikationen The Strange Death of Europe.
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“It was the result of a long time in which I was travelling for many years across Europe, travelling to many countries where people were fleeing form to go to Europe in the height of the migration crisis in 2015,” he told news.com.au.
“I thought someone needs to describe why it was happening, and chart the consequences.”
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“In one year alone, Germany and Sweden for instance took between two and three per cent addition of their entire population, so this is one of the most significant movements into Europe ever,” the British commentator said of the height of the migrant crisis a few years ago.
For western Europe, he identifies Muslim immigration as the most destructive force and a problem for the social cohesion of the West.
From his perspective, Islamic migrants — a portion of whom have particularly strict religious beliefs — are clashing with a Europe that is tired from history, guilt-ridden, increasingly faithless and overrun with the notion of political correctness.
If allowed to continue, Murray asserts, the result will ultimately be the Islamisation of the continent and the end of European cultural civilisation.
One of the people Murray often cites in his book is German historian and philosopher of Syrian origin Bassam Tibi who in the past has made similar warnings on this topic.
In an interview more than a decade ago he told German magazine Der Spiegel: “Muslims stand by their religion entirely. It is a sort of religious absolutism. While Europeans have stopped defending the values of their civilisation. They confuse tolerance with relativism.”
Murray’s book has been called “brilliant” by The Sunday Times; “compelling, fearless and truth-telling” by the Evening Standard and labelled as “gentrified xenophobia” by The Guardian.
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When he heads to Australia next week, he will speak to audiences alongside American philosopher, activist and public intellectual Dr Cornel West.
Dr West has held professorships at Harvard University, Princeton University and Yale University and is an outspoken social democrat and human rights advocate. If Murray is on the right, Dr West is very much his counterweight.
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Murray says his book is about finding a solution to migration that is “liberal, humane and sustainable” but is also cautious about blindly embracing the pursuit of multiculturalism, which many Western governments are quick to celebrate.
“If by multiculturalism you mean multiracial, pluralist society then I have no problem with that, and indeed think there are obvious advantages from it, in some circumstance and to some degree,” he said.
“But multiculturalism in recent decades has become something else. It’s become, among other things government policy to push the idea that there is no such things as a core common culture in a country. We are simply convening bodies in which the world can come and celebrate whoever they are in our countries. I think this is a hugely problematic idea.”
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“I think Australia has done the right thing. The situation in Australia is not that dissimilar to that of Europe but Australia decided to act in a very different way.
“The Australian Government have seen that if you allow illegal migration to occur, if you decided there is no difference between legal and illegal immigration then you’re giving up the law, and that’s a heck of a thing to give up.”
When he appears in front of Australian audiences, it will be much more than immigration on the table.
His recent touring with Sam Harris and Jordan Peterson was labelled “the Woodstock of Debate” and Murray is looking forward to engaging with Australian audiences on a range of topics.
“Dr Cornel West comes from a very different tradition from me, we have very different views. He’s very much of the left, I’m very much not and I think we’ll disagree on an awful lot. But I have an enormous amount of respect for Cornel West … and one of the things that I want to do is work out where we can agree.”
https://www.news.com.au/technology/i...aa302e5d549485
Så kan man alltså handskas med åsiktsmångfald på ett civiliserat sätt. Att tänka rätt är stort, att tänka fritt är större. Ett sådant synsätt verkar emellertid helt främmande för åsiktskommissariaten på DN, SVT och Aftonbladet m fl. Där har man bilden klar för sig och det finns ett och endast ett rätt sätt att tänka och detta ska efterlevas slaviskt. A Lindberg, chefsideolog och och högste åsiktskommissarie på Aftonbladet t ex, han fullständigt excellerar i den anbefallda tankeenfalden i dagens ledare. Bestörtningen över att de uteblivna gårdagsbränningarna av bilar, vilket skulle bevisa att Putin låg bakom måndagsbränderna i syfte att vinna valet åt SD, uteblev orerar han i stackatoaktig desperation om rysspåverkan på alla möjliga plan. Det ena osannolikare än det andra. "Kosackvalet" 1928. Ja, det och själva den ödesmättade rubriken säger väl det mesta.
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"En var som röstar på SD röstar för Moskva"
https://www.aftonbladet.se/ledare/a/...tar-for-moskva