I think if the new culture assimilates the racism levels go down but cultures don't always assimilate. I know diversity is good but large infusions of new cultures are not.
recent German elections show racist parties enjoy higher levels of support, precisely as a reaction against Muslim immigration
the UK, like the USA, pursuing a lib policy, has issued laws compelling the acceptance of these immigrants, at the expense, many feel, of native UK citizens (just as the USA hate crime legislation has done)
Europe also shows the compromise between its civic culture, and the accommodation of these immigrants:
see, the biographies of
Oriana Fallaci
e.g., fom Wikpedia: Oriana Fallaci (
29 June 1929[1] -
15 September 2006) was an
Italian journalist,
author, and political interviewer. A former
partisan during
World War II, she had a long and successful journalistic career.
Controversy
In recent years, she received much public attention for her controversial comments on
Islam and European
Muslims. This point of view was expressed in two bestselling books,
The Rage and The Pride (initially a four-page article in
Corriere della Sera, the major national newspaper in Italy) and
The Force of Reason. Both agreement and disagreements have been published on Italian newspapers (among which
La Repubblica and
Corriere della Sera had series of articles) as well as
David Holcberg at the
Ayn Rand Institute supported her cause with a letter to
The Washington Times.
[6]
Fallaci received support in Italy, where her books have sold over one million copies, but also from individuals and organisations in the rest of the world.
[7][8] At the first
European Social Forum, which was held in Florence in November 2002, Fallaci invited the people of Florence to cease commercial operations and stay home. Furthermore, she compared the ESF to the
Nazi occupation of
Florence. Protest organizers declared "We have done it for Oriana, because she hasn't spoken in public for the last 12 years, and hasn't been laughing in the last 50".
[9]
In 2002 in
Switzerland the Islamic Center and the Somal Association of
Geneva,
SOS Racisme of
Lausanne, along with a private citizen, sued her for the allegedly "racist" content of
The Rage and The Pride.
[10][11] In November 2002 a Swiss judge issued an arrest warrant for violations of article 261 and 261 bis of the Swiss criminal code and requested the Italian government to either try or extradite or prosecute her.
Roberto Castelli, Italian
minister of Justice rejected the request on the grounds that the
Constitution of Italy protects
freedom of speech and thus the extradition request was to be rejected.
[12]
In May 2005,
Adel Smith, president of the
Union of Italian Muslims, launched a lawsuit against Fallaci charging that "some of the things she said in her book
The Force of Reason are offensive to Islam." Smith's attorney, cited a phrase from the book that refers to Islam as "a pool that never purifies." Consequently an Italian judge ordered her to stand trial set for June 2006 in
Bergamo on charges of "defaming Islam." A previous prosecutor had sought dismissal of the charges. The preliminary trial began on
12 June in Bergamo and on
25 June Judge Beatrice Siccardi decided that Oriana Fallaci should indeed stand trial beginning on
18 December.
[13] Fallaci accused the judge of having disregarded the fact that Smith called for her murder and defamed Christianity.
[14]
On
3 June 2005, Fallaci published on the front page of the Italian daily newspaper a highly controversial article entitled "Noi Cannibali e i figli di
Medea" ("We cannibals and Medea's offspring") inviting women not to vote for a public
referendum about
artificial insemination that was held on June 12 and 13, 2006.
[15]
On
27 August 2005, Fallaci had a private audience with
Pope Benedict XVI at
Castel Gandolfo. Although an atheist, Fallaci reportedly had great respect for Pope Benedict XVI and expressed admiration for his 2004 essay titled "If Europe Hates Itself".
[16][17]