The rape gang scandal that has afflicted Britain compels us to review the assumptions that underlie multiculturalism. It’s time for us in the free world to look at human beings and their various cultures as they truly are, and not as the bien pensants wish and then so dangerously insist they must be.
A society where women can bring their talents to the table as independent, safe, and respected individuals requires certain stringent psychological and social preconditions: a widely shared view of the value of women as equal, intrinsically, to men; a police and justice system with genuine integrity; as well as material and more specifically hygienic standards associated only with industrialised societies. It also requires effective birth control, and the mores that allow or even encourage its use. These conditions are prohibitively difficult to meet. Furthermore, their existence is taken for granted at our extreme peril.
None of these preconditions apply in oppressive authoritarian societies, where intercourse of any sort between men and women is severely restricted and punished, and all forms of sexual psychopathology flourish.
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