Cohesive Integrativity, Promotive Communitality
Fortified, no doubt, by a doggy-bag from the White House, the Vicar of Downing Street is snapping at the heels of our own home-grown potential terrorists, particularly those who fail to dress in a manner deemed appropriate to the great national task of cultural integration. Public money, his reverence said, has been too easily handed out to organisations which are "tightly bonded around religious, racial or ethnic identities" because, as with New Labour's various other regrettable situations, "very good intentions got the better of us" and ruthless extremists took advantage.
His reverence noted that "it is not sensible to conduct this debate as if the only issue is the very hot and sensitive one of the veil", but nevertheless was unable to resist planting his healing boot on that hot and sensitive place. It is, in his reverence's view "a matter of plain common sense that when it is an essential part of someone's work to communicate directly with people, being able to see their face is important", as in radio broadcasting and all matters involving the telephone. His reverence also observed in passing that "the extremism we face is usually from men not women". His reverence's insight into the terrorist mind remains, it appears, as clear and profound as ever it was.
His reverence reassured the Daily Mail school of theological integration that "any introduction of Islamic sharia law in the UK" has no significant part upon the legacy agenda, and called on mosques which, like the Church of England, exclude the voice of women, to "look again at their practices".
His reverence noted that the 7 July bombings last year had thrown the idea of a multicultural Britain "into sharp relief". They must have been cultural bombings, not political ones. Still, even an idea in sharp relief can be celebrated, so long as the supremacy of Tony's "essential values" is admitted by the lesser breeds. We are, his reverence said, "a nation comfortable with the open world of today", hence our enviable record on civil liberties, human rights and international law.
From now on, in any case, "we will assess bids from groups of any ethnicity or any religious denomination, also against a test, where appropriate, of promoting community cohesion and integration." It will be intriguing to see the testing of the Church of England for integration of women and homosexuals, and of Tony's own white British community for promoting cohesion with its less favoured fellow citizens. But only where appropriate, of course.
His reverence noted that "it is not sensible to conduct this debate as if the only issue is the very hot and sensitive one of the veil", but nevertheless was unable to resist planting his healing boot on that hot and sensitive place. It is, in his reverence's view "a matter of plain common sense that when it is an essential part of someone's work to communicate directly with people, being able to see their face is important", as in radio broadcasting and all matters involving the telephone. His reverence also observed in passing that "the extremism we face is usually from men not women". His reverence's insight into the terrorist mind remains, it appears, as clear and profound as ever it was.
His reverence reassured the Daily Mail school of theological integration that "any introduction of Islamic sharia law in the UK" has no significant part upon the legacy agenda, and called on mosques which, like the Church of England, exclude the voice of women, to "look again at their practices".
His reverence noted that the 7 July bombings last year had thrown the idea of a multicultural Britain "into sharp relief". They must have been cultural bombings, not political ones. Still, even an idea in sharp relief can be celebrated, so long as the supremacy of Tony's "essential values" is admitted by the lesser breeds. We are, his reverence said, "a nation comfortable with the open world of today", hence our enviable record on civil liberties, human rights and international law.
From now on, in any case, "we will assess bids from groups of any ethnicity or any religious denomination, also against a test, where appropriate, of promoting community cohesion and integration." It will be intriguing to see the testing of the Church of England for integration of women and homosexuals, and of Tony's own white British community for promoting cohesion with its less favoured fellow citizens. But only where appropriate, of course.
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