If American Somali immigrants are found to be among Kenya mall terrorists, it's a sign US multiculturalism is a failure-Richard Fernandez

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9/22/13, "Americans Abroad," Richard Fernandez, Belmont Club, PJ Media

"NBC news says that the FBI is investigating “whether as many as five Americans were among the small team of terrorists who took over a Kenyan mall and launched a bloodbath that has left at least 68 dead and 175 injured over two days of carnage.”...

The Daily Mail is now reporting that at least one of the attackers — perhaps even the leader — in Nairobi is British.  If it turns out that some of the others are from the US it suggests that multiculturalism, as understood by the Left, has been a complete and utter failure. Barack Obama demonstrated his comprehensive misunderstanding of multiculturalism in the book Audacity of Hope when he wrote:

In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging. They have been reminded that the history of immigration in this country has a dark underbelly; they need specific reassurances that their citizenship really means something, that America has learned the right lessons from the Japanese internments during World War II, and that I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”

But leaving aside the fact that the Japanese Americans were interned by Franklin Roosevelt, a man Obama likens himself to, the most obvious difference in his flawed comparison is that the Nisei volunteered in droves to fight for America in the most gallant fashion conceivable. They went abroad to fight for America, and not against it, which is what makes the facile comparison so grotesque."...via Lucianne

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Comment: Many in the political class on the co-called right agree with the left's view on multiculturalism. That's really not accurate. Most of the political class that pretends to be on the right isn't. They agree with the left on the biggest issues. Meaning they're on the left. Period. Half of America has no representation in the political class.


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