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Can the Utopian dream of a one big 'melting pot' ever really materialise?
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Is it any wonder that peoples from these countries when they come to our shores, must find it very hard to settle down and change their culture so as to fit in with our laws and our culture?
Is it any wonder that peoples from these countries when they come to our shores, must find it very hard to settle down and change their culture so as to fit in with our laws and our culture?
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How many cultural practices which are contrary to accepted western practice continue in the United States, a country built on immigration from many countries and which continues to take in immigrants of many cultures? The US prides itself on being 'one big melting pot'.
The immigrants learn to adjust and stop cultural practices which don't fit in. If the US is any guide, that happens very quickly.
The immigrants learn to adjust and stop cultural practices which don't fit in. If the US is any guide, that happens very quickly.
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As you may have seen in the papers recently, there is growing evidence that young children – some as young at 5 years old – are being “married” to older men in Sharia courts across Britain. This is increasingly being sanctioned by the Islamists who run Britain’s network of Sharia courts, and there is evidence that this practice is growing.
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We are writing to you today to ask for your urgent and immediate support.
As you may have seen in the papers recently, there is growing evidence that young children – some as young at 5 years old – are being “married” to older men in Sharia courts across Britain. This is increasingly being sanctioned by the Islamists who run Britain’s network of Sharia courts, and there is evidence that this practice is growing.
Recent Investigations
I don't think a cosmopolitan society is a utopian dream - on the contrary, it has a long history all over the world and people from different backgrounds often seem able to live together not as any utopian ideal, but just as a perfectly practical reaction to their circumstances.
Before the C19, large multi-ethnic states were the norm, not the exception. It's only since the very modern idea of nationalism came to be popular that anyone has really expected a state to be just made of one homogenous group of people.
But that doesn't mean these actions can't be condemned or criticised. An important feature of cosmopolitan societies is that they share common laws and cultural rites. Additionally - they should take ideas from everywhere, and the idea of gender equality is one with some pretty impressive results that these marriages aren't compatible with. Our society is perfectly entitled to stand firm by that principle even if others don't.
Before the C19, large multi-ethnic states were the norm, not the exception. It's only since the very modern idea of nationalism came to be popular that anyone has really expected a state to be just made of one homogenous group of people.
But that doesn't mean these actions can't be condemned or criticised. An important feature of cosmopolitan societies is that they share common laws and cultural rites. Additionally - they should take ideas from everywhere, and the idea of gender equality is one with some pretty impressive results that these marriages aren't compatible with. Our society is perfectly entitled to stand firm by that principle even if others don't.
What's all this nonsense about Sharia law? If it requires someone to do something against the law of this country, that person will be dealt with by the courts under the law of this country. If a Sharia court is used to arbitrate in civil disputes over, say debts, and the parties agree to that arbitration and abide by it, that's not materially different from other agreed arbitration. The civil courts are still open to the parties. If it's a matter of deciding on something purely religious then , the parties agreeing, there's no harm in it, subject to the effect of the judgment not breaking any of our laws. These are the kind of matters resolved by Jewish courts, which have been going a long time. Nobody claims that Jewish law is taking over the country.
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/// More than 1,000 of the 8,000 forced marriages of Britons each year are believed to involve girls of 15 or under, with one case last year allegedly involving a girl of five. ///
/// The clerics were approached by man posing as the father of a 12-year-old who wanted her to marry to prevent her being tempted into a decadent Western lifestyle. ///
/// More than 1,000 of the 8,000 forced marriages of Britons each year are believed to involve girls of 15 or under, with one case last year allegedly involving a girl of five. ///
/// The clerics were approached by man posing as the father of a 12-year-old who wanted her to marry to prevent her being tempted into a decadent Western lifestyle. ///
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