The Creation of Parallel Societies and Security Challenges
As an ideology opposed to assimilation policies, multiculturalism promotes cultural pluralism and the respect for the customs and traditions of immigrants in Europe. This model began to be promoted after immigrants from Asia and Africa started settling in Europe in the 1960s and 1970s. For example, Turkish workers began migrating to Germany in search of jobs.
Initially, immigrants were seen as temporary workers who would eventually return to their home countries. In line with multiculturalism policies that required the preservation of the newcomers’ culture and customs, their arrival was not accompanied by sociocultural integration into European society. The consequences of such policies have been the creation of parallel societies, or ghettos, where people often do not speak the language of the country they live in and are not integrated into society.
Migration and the Creation of Closed Communities in Europe
Sweden is perhaps the best example of the collapse of multiculturalism. The general public is now aware that mass and uncontrolled migration has significantly undermined the country’s security. Conflicts between migrant gangs make normal life difficult, and the Swedish prime minister called on the military to help curb the rise in killings attributed to migrant gangs. Crime and rape rates have dramatically increased in certain parts of Sweden. Demographic studies suggest that Swedes will become a minority in their own country within the lifetime of most Swedes alive today.
Many Sharia ghettos, or no-go zones, also exist in France. The protests in 2023, accompanied by car burnings, thefts, and violence, showed that migrants do not treat France as their country. Police even struggle to enter many parts of the country. The suburb of Saint Denis in Paris, historically significant for France with its famous cathedral and the graves of French kings, now reflects the strong influence of immigrant communities, especially from North Africa. Due to security concerns, Sunday mass in this area is held under the protection of heavily armed military personnel, highlighting the challenges the local community faces in maintaining law and order. Similar issues exist in numerous other suburbs of major EU cities, such as Brussels, Amsterdam, Malmö, and the Wedding district in Berlin.
French intellectual Alain Finkielkraut, in a 2014 interview with Der Spiegel during the great migration crisis, stated that “multiculturalism doesn’t mean cultures mix. Distrust prevails, communitarianism is unreliable—parallel societies are created that continuously drift apart from each other.” Finkielkraut added that many of the newcomers no longer want to integrate into French culture. “If immigrants are in the majority in their surroundings, how can we integrate them?” he asked. He has no doubt that this is a clash of civilizations. Finkielkraut, who is of Jewish descent, is well aware of the consequences of multiculturalism policies. Although Jews make up less than 1% of France’s population, they have been the victims of almost half of all recorded racist attacks in the country. After Israel’s attacks on Gaza, this number rapidly increased.
Finkielkraut aligns with Samuel Huntington’s thesis on the clash of civilizations. In his last book, Huntington referred to multiculturalism as an “anti-European” and “anti-Western” ideology.
Mass Rapes and Cover-Ups: Cases from Europe
Multiculturalism simply does not work, and Germany is not immune to the harmful effects of this ideology. The mass gang rapes in Cologne on New Year’s Eve 2016 could not be ignored even by major global media outlets, with the Daily Mail reporting that the phenomenon of migrant rapes of women had spread across Europe.
Norway’s National Bureau of Statistics in 2011 emphasized that migrants in that country were “disproportionately overrepresented in crime statistics” (source: Douglas Murray, The Strange Death of Europe, Puls, 2018, p. 62).
Similar mass rape cases occurred in Rotherham, UK. Initially hidden from the public, those who raised alarms about them were quickly labeled racists and fascists. Investigations later revealed, and a final court ruling confirmed, that all the victims (at least 1,400 children from 1997 to 2014) were white, non-Muslim girls selected for abuse because they were not Muslims, and nearly all the perpetrators were Pakistani men organized in gangs (source: Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Exploitation in Rotherham, 1997-2013).
In Telford, UK, around 1,000 girls were raped over the last 40 years, with the perpetrators again being Pakistani men.
In 2018, Deutsche Welle published an article titled “Rape as a Social Problem,” discussing the so-called culture of rape (more accurately described as an anti-culture) in Pakistan and parts of India, where sexual violence against women is deeply ingrained in society and is part of broader discrimination and oppression.
Interestingly, feminist and women’s rights organizations often remain silent on this phenomenon of rape, unlike their responses to other issues. Instead, those who point out the rapes or the collapse of multiculturalism are often blamed. These organizations, contrary to women’s interests, advocate pro-immigration policies.
All past experiences show that the ideology of multiculturalism simply does not work in practice. During the great migrant crisis of 2015, Kuwaiti official Hahad al-Shalami commented on why wealthy Kuwait did not grant asylum to any Syrian refugees, saying that Kuwait “cannot accept people who come from a different atmosphere, from another region.”
If Kuwait and Syria, as Muslim countries, are considered “different atmospheres,” what can be said about the deep civilizational differences between migrants and Europe? The ideology of multiculturalism is truly anti-European. It has already destroyed many parts of Europe, stripping them of their European identity.
The collapse of multiculturalism was declared before the major migration crisis of 2015 by former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, former British Prime Minister and now Foreign Minister David Cameron, and former French President Nicolas Sarkozy. At a security conference in Munich in 2011, Cameron clearly stated that migrants had been allowed to “behave completely contrary to our European values.” This clearly reflects a policy of self-denial and self-hatred.
It is important to emphasize that many individuals have successfully integrated into European societies. However, when we talk about mass migration, serious security problems arise that cannot be ignored.
Despite awareness of the failure of multiculturalism, the so-called “welcome policy” was inaugurated in 2015. Thus, the ideology of multiculturalism continued to destroy the European identity and the security of many states. The British are already a minority in their own capital city, and similar trends threaten many other major European cities. Are these the true goals of multiculturalism—the destructive ideology imposed by globalist elites?