{"id":1851,"date":"2006-05-27T14:56:03","date_gmt":"2006-05-27T20:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/the-cult-of-multiculturalism\/"},"modified":"2006-05-27T14:56:03","modified_gmt":"2006-05-27T20:56:03","slug":"the-cult-of-multiculturalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/the-cult-of-multiculturalism\/","title":{"rendered":"the cult of multiculturalism?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rightweb.irc-online.org\/rw\/3281\">Right Web | Analysis | Tom Tancredo\u2014Christian Crusader, Cultural Nationalist, and Iran Freedom Fighter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[Colorado Republican Rep. Tom] Tancredo, like many on the right \u2014 from social conservatives to neoconservatives\u2014bases his restrictionism less on economic reasons than on cultural and racial ones. <\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"highlight\">\u201cThe threat to the United States comes from two things: the act of immigration combined with the cult of multiculturalism,\u201d<\/strong> argues Tancredo. \u201cWe will never be able to win in the clash of civilizations if we don&#8217;t know who we are. If Western civilization succumbs to the siren song of multiculturalism, I believe we are finished.\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe that what we are fighting here is <em>not<\/em> just a small group of people who have hijacked a religion, but it is <strong class=\"highlight\">a civilization bent on destroying ours. Radical Islam has been the foe of Christiandom for centuries<\/strong>. The most serious foe of Christiandom.\u201d <span class=\"mine\">[mjh: it WAS a smaller group of people until we blundered royally in Iraq.]<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis combination, massive immigration and radical multiculturalism,\u201d warned Tancredo, \u201cis a prescription for our own demise.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right Web | Analysis | Tom Tancredo\u2014Christian Crusader, Cultural Nationalist, and Iran Freedom Fighter [Colorado Republican Rep. Tom] Tancredo, like many on the right \u2014 from social conservatives to neoconservatives\u2014bases his restrictionism less on economic reasons than on cultural and racial ones. \u201cThe threat to the United States comes from two things: the act of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/the-cult-of-multiculturalism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">the cult of multiculturalism?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}