As for Canada?

Multiculturalism and the discontent it provokes:

Multiculturalism works best when there is an overarching national culture, a strong sense of identity steeped in values of pluralism, respect and tolerance. That is not to say we tolerate intolerance, or allow liberalism to self-destruct because we do not have the courage to confront fanaticism. In today's Britain, we seem unable to define Britishness or develop an inclusive sense of belonging...

...Why do so many Asians fuel the identity crisis of our youth by importing spouses from the subcontinent, rather than marrying here from any culture? While black Britons and whites inter-marry in increasing numbers, why are Asians lagging behind? For how much longer will we see fellow Brits as goreh, used as a derogatary term for white people, yet complain against the use of "Paki"?..

And among Muslims we have an extremism problem. We Muslims need to be transparent and accept that significant numbers of our youth hold, and sometimes act out, conclusions based on extremist Islamist discourse. The vast majority of Britain's Muslims are a bulwark against extremism and terrror, an asset to the fight against fanaticism. It is British Muslims who will pioneer Western Islam, liberated from the political baggage of the Muslim East. But this requires the creation of a public space free from Islamist interference, free for the emergence of a genuinely Western Islam...

• Ed Husain is author of The Islamist and a former activist of the extremist Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir

As for that organization:

In the Muslim world, Hizb ut-Tahrir works at all levels of society to bring the Muslims back to living an Islamic way of life under the shade of the Khilafah (Caliphate) State following an exclusively political method.

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In the West, Hizb ut-Tahrir works to cultivate a Muslim community that lives by Islam in thought and deed, adhering to the rules of Islam and preserving a strong Islamic identity. The party does not work in the West to change the system of government...

I suspect, though, that it does not really accept that system of government. Biding its time, as it were...

Mark C.

Posted by markc at January 13, 2008 06:18 PM