Seismic undercurrents of discontent are surfacing in society as religious beliefs collide and a generation is locked out of the housing market.
Already a subscriber?We may have entered a turning-point moment in the modern history of the West. If so, France stands at the cutting edge. The quite extraordinary political upheavals there, reaching a climax in just concluded parliamentary elections, suggest that the Huntington thesis, as it came to be known, may be of resurgent significance.made a huge impact on release in 1996, a book that became as controversial as it was influential.
Of significant note too, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent invasion of Ukraine has been motivated, in part, by a civilisational factor, recapturing the founding source of the Russian Orthodox Church in Kyiv. The success of National Rally is due primarily to two related factors. The first is immigration, with country-wide fear that a mass influx of people from Africa is bringing with it intolerable levels of social, economic, and especially cultural disturbance and stress. It is unambiguously Islamic immigration that is feared, not that from Eastern Europe or anywhere else.Which links with the second factor, hostility to Islam per se, a civilisational fear that the French way of life is under threat.
The federal Labor government is finessing its decisions on Israel and the Gaza war, in part to appease large Muslim electoral minorities – there are cases of up to 30 per cent of the voters in some of its seats. Activist Islamic groups areLabor electorates, as they successfully did in the recent British election.
Immigrants into Australia have, in effect, been asked to make two political pledges in return for their acceptance and welcome. They are asked to sign up to the liberal social contract that requires them, in their public lives, to conform to the working customs and practices of the host society – the monocultural component. They are then free to conduct themselves in private however they choose, as long as they don’t harm others – the multicultural component.
To select an incendiary symbol, how out of kilter with Australian custom is the spectacle of keffiyeh-clad men riding loud motorbikes slowly down crowded inner-city shopping streets on Saturday mornings, waving large Palestinian flags and hectoring locals with megaphones. One can just imagine the reaction in middle Australia.
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