The Problem Of Immigrants Whose Faith Mandates Conquest

These are not the hard-working economic immigrants of old; this is a whole new type of immigrant, and America must address the change soon. In Wednesday’s Pluralism Is Broken, I argued that pluralism only works when cultural differences operate within a shared civic framework. Multiculturalism reverses that premise by asking America to accommodate differences without requiring assimilation. When immigration policy no longer reinforces a common framework—and when we become unwilling to examine its consequences—we are not preserving pluralism; we have sown the seeds of our own destruction. The central question is whether a society committed to individual liberty can remain...