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Cameron: il multiculturalismo è fallito

Il premier britannico: «La tolleranza passiva incoraggia la separazione. Lo stato liberale impone i suoi principi»

INTERVENTIO ALLA CONFERENZA SULLA SICUREZZA DI mONACO

Cameron: il multiculturalismo è fallito

Il premier britannico: «La tolleranza passiva incoraggia la separazione. Lo stato liberale impone i suoi principi»

Cameron e Merkel alla conferenza sulla sicurezza di Monaco (Epa/Ansa)

LONDRA - Il multiculturalismo? E' fallito. La sentenza è del premier britannico, David Cameron. Ed è destinata a sollevare più d'una polemica e più d'una riflessione sui modelli di integrazione con i quali tutta Europa, e non soltanto la Gran Bretagna, ha affrontato il problema dell'immigrazione e dell'integrazione. Con riferimenti specifico all'Islam e in una situazione nella quale ciò che sta avvenendo in Medio Oriente pone nuovi e ulteriori rischi.

VALORI COMUNI PER TUTTI- Secondo Cameron il ««multiculturalismo di stato» ha fallito e ha lasciato i giovani musulmani vulnerabili al radicalismo, ha affermato il primo ministro britannico nell'intervento alla conferenza sulla sicurezza a Monaco di Baviera. «È tempo di voltare pagina sulle politiche fallite del Paese. Per prima cosa, invece di ignorare questa ideologia estremista, noi dovremo affrontarla, in tutte le sue forme». E ancora: «Sotto la dottrina del multiculturalismo di stato, abbiamo incoraggiato culture differenti a vivere vite separate, staccate l'una dall'altra e da quella principale. Non siamo riusciti a fornire una visione della società, alla quale sentissero di voler appartenere. Tutto questo permette che alcuni giovani musulmani si sentano sradicati».
Per Cameron è il momento di lasciare da parte la «tolleranza passiva» del Regno Unito con un «liberalismo attivo, muscolare», per trasmettere il messaggio che la vita in Gran Bretagna ruota intorno a certi valori chiave come la libertà di parola, l'uguaglianza dei diritti e il primato della legge. «Una società passivamente tollerante rimane neutrale tra valori differenti. Un paese davvero liberale fa molto di più. Esso crede in certi valori e li promuove attivamente» (fonte Ansa)
http://www.corriere.it/esteri/11_febbraio_05/cameron-multiculturalismo_9ed76dd4-3120-11e0-90b6-00144f02aabc.shtml

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Cameron attacks 'state multiculturalism'

• • Andrew Sparrow, senior political correspondent
  • guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 26 February 2008 15.58 GMT

  

  David Cameron: 'People today don't worry that criticising multiculturalism is coded racism.' Photograph: Lewis Whyld/PA David Cameron today launched a fierce attack on what he called "state multiculturalism", claiming that it undermined community relations. "State multiculturalism is a wrong-headed doctrine that has had disastrous results. It has fostered difference between communities," the Conservative leader said in a speech. "And it has stopped us from strengthening our collective identity. Indeed, it has deliberately weakened it." Cameron defined "state multiculturalism" as "the idea that we should respect different cultures within Britain to the point of allowing them – indeed encouraging them – to live separate lives, apart from each other and apart from the mainstream." Speaking at a debate hosted by the Equality and Human Rights Commission, Cameron also: • criticised the apparent suggestion from the Archbishop of Canterbury for the extension of sharia law into the UK • claimed that "state multiculturalism" was leading to schoolgirls in Bradford disappearing from school and being forced into marriage • committed the Tories to promoting integration Cameron said that in the voluntary sector "state multiculturalism" had involved "granting financial aid for artistic and other projects purely on account of ethnic background – with various groups, purporting to represent various minorities, competing for money against each other." In public services, it meant "not just essential information, but all information, endlessly translated into numerous languages, to cater for numerous people, who can then continue to go about their daily lives without ever having to learn English. "More generally, it means treating groups of people as monolithic blocks rather than individual citizens." Cameron said that his generation did not have the hang-ups of the past and that "people today don't worry that criticising multiculturalism is coded racism". "Multiculturalism was manipulated to entrench the right to difference – which is a divisive concept. What we need is the right to equal treatment despite difference." Cameron said that he had "tried in good faith" to understand what the archbishop, Rowan Williams, had meant in his recent lecture about sharia and British law. If Williams meant that different communities should have different laws, then that would be "dangerous and illiberal", the Tory leader said. The introduction of sharia law for Muslims would be "the logical endpoint of the now discredited doctrine of state multiculturalism", he said. He went on: "It would alienate other communities who would resent this preferential treatment. It would provide succour to the separatists who want to isolate and divide communities from the mainstream. "And it would – crucially – weaken, destabilise and demoralise those Muslims who embrace liberal values and desperately want to integrate fully in British society." Cameron said that "state multiculturalism" led to people accepting different cultural behaviour, even if it contravened human rights. "Take forced marriages. In Bradford, where I was last week, schoolgirls under the age of sixteen have simply disappeared from school. Nobody knows where they are. "And, until recently, there was little investigation – despite the fact that it is likely that they may have been drugged, imprisoned, kidnapped and forced into an unwanted marriage on the other side of the world." Cameron said that over the coming months he would be unveiling policies designed to "oppose the forces of separation in favour of community". One idea was for children to have more school exchanges, so they could meet children from different backgrounds. http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/feb/26/conservatives.race