I was not convinced by Michael van der Galien’s recent analysis of the radicalization of British Muslims. Citing an article in The Telegraph, Michael writes that British Muslims are becoming increasingly fundamentalist and that their support for terrorism is on the rise. How does he explain this phenomenon? Michael argues that it is “multiculturalism” that has encouraged this radicalization. The British policy of tolerance towards people of different cultures, he suggests, is so backwards that it has led to the increasingly radical views of the British Muslim population.
But is this really so? Is it a policy of acceptance that has led to a more radicalized Muslim community in Britain?
I doubt it. Read my response to Galien’s post here.