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This is an interesting topic obviously.. and I wish we had a larger group of people who would be willing to discuss this.. What brought this topic to my mind is having listened to a conversation between Irshad Manji and Salman Rushdie (that you can see here). Basically, I think that Rushdie is the most brilliant man in the world -- not only he has great ideas, but he also understands what he´s talking about, which you will certainly see if you do listen to this conversation.
So the gist of the issue is that multiculturalism in the West today is simply a word for hypocricy and political correctness at the cost of human lives. As we all know, the main problem in the West today as far as multiculturalism is concerned, is radical islam, although certainly not only Islam. The West has arrived through centuries of pondering and making mistakes, that certain values are "sacred" -- basic equality between genders, denouncement of violence, criticism as a necessary tool for progress... etc... Now that people from different countries have moved to the West, who did not go through the same process of growth, they make us go back and start having the same conversation as philosophers of the Enlightement had a couple of centuries ago: what are the boundaries of free speech.
What is your take on it?
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