Gottfried on cultural masochism.
Paul Gottfried writes about how the West is indulging radical Muslims who have emigrated to the West. (*)
He does not draw the next two conclusions, both of supreme importance.
The first is that we are indulging radical Islamists who have come to our society because so many of us have come to hate our society, our culture, and our civilization. What corrupts us is falsely thought to help us.
The second is that radical Islamists find multiculturalism in the West to be not a new, strange, liberal innovation; but instead to be quite familiar environs. The master/servant relationship between radical Islamist and Western man whose culture is worth nothing is the perfect equivalence of the Muslim and dhimmi (Christian or Jew) of countries that have enacted full sharia—radical Islamic law. The radical Islamist who is demanding special rights in the West is not doing anything extraordinary from his point of view. He is claiming the superior level of rights he believes is his due as a Muslim.