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The Albanese government is distracting us with shallow truisms and promises of more gun control. Instead, what we need to talk about is mass migration, multiculturalism and Islamism. What have others said on these vital topics?

The recent Bondi terror attack has reignited old debates about mass migration and multiculturalism. Of course, these vitally important matters are largely being ignored by the Albanese government. Instead, he is putting all his hopes in even more gun control.

Aside from that, Albanese is dishing out deep and meaningful truisms, such as: “Love is more powerful than hate” — something straight out of a Hallmark greeting card, as commentator Andrew Bolt put it. Instead of such useless words, we need a genuine national conversation on immigration levels, the threat of Islamism, and how to properly consider multiculturalism.

Consider the following 30 quotes from 24 thinkers on these crucial issues:

“A sovereign nation-state is responsible for the welfare and security of all people living within its territorial boundaries. Under the United Nations (UN) constitutional order, a sovereign state has ultimate authority over its own domestic affairs and its international relations with other states. Because freedom is a basic human right, people are free to leave their homeland, but they do not have an inalienable right to enter another country. Citizens are free to emigrate, but they do not have the right to immigrate. Whether a person is allowed to enter a foreign country is decided by officials of the receiving state… The imbalance between leaving and entering communities is not unique to global society; it is a widely shared practice in most human communities.” — Mark Amstutz, Just Immigration: American Policy In Christian Perspective

“Environmentalists have been outspoken in their support of smaller family size and abortion rights as keys to reducing global warming. But when it comes to immigration, the single biggest contributor to population growth in the industrial world, they stand largely silent.” — Gary Bauer

“We let hundreds of thousands of people come into Australia from regions of the world where it is perfectly normal, mainstream and even virtuous to hate Jews, to even hate Christians, to think that people who are not Muslims therefore are at war with Islam, and therefore can be killed.” — Stephen Chavura

“All Americans… are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country. The jobs they hold might otherwise be held by citizens or legal immigrants. The public service they use impose burdens on our taxpayers. That’s why our administration has moved aggressively to secure our borders more by hiring a record number of new border guards, by deporting twice as many criminal aliens as ever before, by cracking down on illegal hiring, by barring welfare benefits to illegal aliens.” — Bill Clinton, 1995 State of the Union address

“We must enforce the laws we have on the books, secure our borders, and deny special benefits to illegal immigrants such as in-state tuition rates. This approach is best for American citizens and is fair to those who have taken the time and effort to go through the legal immigration process.” — Ron DeSantis

“Every season we hear how ‘Islamophobia’ is out of control, yet synagogues harden their entrances and Christmas markets brace for attacks. Must be the ornaments causing trouble. If the victims aren’t the problem, why is naming the perpetrators considered taboo? Isn’t that backwards?” — Alyona Genkin

“Countries since biblical times have had the right to clearly established secure borders that they controlled and were recognised by surrounding governments, traveling tribes and individuals. Furthermore, nations, including Israel of the Bible, had the right to determine who entered their land and under what circumstances, and they could confer resident or alien status to foreigners should it be mutually beneficial. The same is true today, I maintain.” — James K. Hoffmeier, The Immigration Crisis: Immigrants, Aliens, and the Bible

“Today aliens (i.e. legal immigrants) who are needy should be extended governmental social services such as welfare, unemployment, food stamps, job training and other benefits offered to disadvantaged citizens… However, as the gleaning laws remind us, the poor and the aliens actually had to go out and work in the fields to get the grains and fruits (Leviticus 19:9-10; Leviticus 32:33; Deuteronomy 24:19-21).” — James K. Hoffmeier. The Immigration Crisis: Immigrants, Aliens, and the Bible

“We must insist on assimilation — immigration without assimilation is an invasion. We need to tell folks who want to come here, they need to come here legally. They need to learn English, adopt our values, roll up their sleeves and get to work.” — Bobby Jindal

“In America, multiculturalism is a widely held creed, whose promotion has become the chief mission of our schools. In most European countries, multiculturalism is an official state policy, and deviation from it might land you in jail.” — William Kilpatrick, Christianity, Islam and Atheism

“Why doesn’t multiculturalism work? The answer is that multiculturalism is essentially a form of relativism in which morality is relative to culture. The corresponding belief is that the members of one culture have no right to make judgments about the rightness or wrongness of another culture’s traditions or practices… Because of its inherent divisiveness, the multiculturalist model would eventually fail in any society. But it is particularly fatal to a society that has in its midst an aggressive cultural group that refuses to subscribe to relativism. By neglecting to stand up for their own values, traditions, and religious heritage — indeed, by denigrating them — European countries left themselves almost defenceless against a resurgent Islam. Islam’s success in Europe has been built in large part on European self-doubt.” — William Kilpatrick, Christianity, Islam and Atheism

“Assimilation is the point. If you want to come to our country, follow the rules, adopt our culture, teach your children to love this country, speak English, integrate, and contribute.” — Konstantin Kisin

“Immigration without assimilation means colonisation.” — Brianna Lyman and others

“‘Know your enemy, name your enemy’ is a 9/11 message that has gone unheeded. Our immigration and homeland security policies refuse to profile jihadi adherents at foreign consular offices and at our borders.” — Michelle Malkin

“This is the great lie of mass migration. You are not just importing individuals. You are importing societies. No magic transformation occurs when failed states cross borders. At scale, migrants and their descendants recreate the conditions, and terrors, of their broken homelands.” — US Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller

“I cannot understand how a society can be so insane that it can welcome in people who want to destroy it.” — Douglas Murray

“The most dangerous lie of the 21st century was that all cultures are interchangeable. Sweden is the irrefutable proof that they are not. As an Iranian who watched my own country fall to extremism, the tragedy unfolding in Scandinavia feels like a recurring nightmare. I have seen a civilisation commit suicide before, and the symptoms are always the same: a fatal tolerance for those who explicitly wish to dismantle your way of life. We are witnessing the total collapse of a utopian fantasy. Sweden now rivals nations like Mexico in bombing frequency for a country not officially at war. This is not merely a crime wave. It is the sound of a society fracturing under the weight of imported conflict. It echoes the silence that eventually fell over my own homeland when the vibrancy of culture was traded for the rigidity of dogma. Sweden is the canary in the coal mine. It demonstrates that tolerance cannot extend to the intolerant.” — Armin Navabi

“The American people are a welcoming and generous people. But those who enter our country illegally, and those who employ them, disrespect the rule of law. And because we live in an age when terrorists are challenging our borders, we simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, undocumented, and unchecked. Americans are right to demand better border security and better enforcement of the immigration laws.” — Barack Obama, April 2006 speech

“Multiculturalism is the PC sexing-up of modern Western society’s profound alienation from its own culture, from its 300-year-old traditions of democracy, reason, growth and an aspiration, at least, to freedom, though that has been frequently thwarted. As such, the core instinct of multiculturalism, its driving force in fact, is to shush and stifle, to elevate self-censorship and denial of difficult reality over the volatility of allowing open discussion and, worse, a judgement of and between values.” — Brendan O’Neill

“What is being brought home to us, through painful experiences that we might have avoided had it been permitted before now to say the truth, is that we, like everyone else, depend upon a shared culture for our security, our prosperity and our freedom to be. We don’t require everyone to have the same faith, to lead the same kind of family life or to participate in the same festivals. But we have a shared civic culture, a shared language and a shared public sphere. Our societies are built upon the Judeo-Christian ideal of neighbour-love, according to which strangers and intimates deserve equal concern.” — Roger Scruton, How To Be a Conservative

“So what happens when people whose identity is fixed by creed or kinship immigrate into places settled by Western culture? The multiculturalists say that we must make room for them, and that we do this by relinquishing the space in which their culture can flourish. Our political class has at last recognized that this is a recipe for disaster, and that we can welcome immigrants only if we welcome them into our culture, and not beside and against it. But that means telling them to accept rules, customs, and procedures that may be alien to their old way of life. Is this an injustice? Surely not. If immigrants come it is because they gain by doing so. It is therefore reasonable to remind them that there is also a cost. Only now, however, is our political class prepared to say so, and to insist that the cost be paid. And it may be that this change of heart comes too late.” — Roger Scruton

“When you import people, you import cultures, including cultures that have been far less successful in providing decent lives and decent livelihoods.” — Thomas Sowell, Migrations and Cultures

“What ‘multiculturalism’ boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture — and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.” — Thomas Sowell

“When you import people, you import cultures. Those cultures no longer give way to the American culture when ‘multiculturalism’ is a dogma and its apostles and activists make it necessary for American laws, language, and culture to give way, or at least accommodate growing alien enclaves in our midst. A nation is more than a collection of whatever population happens to reside within its borders. Something has to unite those people if the country is not to degenerate into the kind of unending internal strife brought on by Balkanization in many countries around the world, not just in the Balkans. Unity and patriotism are not luxuries. Survival in an international jungle depends on them. What are dangerous luxuries are the open borders which erode national solidarity. The fact that we are already at each other’s throats over the immigration issue is an ominous sign.” — Thomas Sowell

“[Multiculturalism] is a cult of tolerance in which you demonstrate your sensitivity to other cultures by being almost totally insensitive to your own.” — Mark Steyn, Face of the Tiger

“At the heart of multiculturalism is a lie: that all cultures are equally ‘valid.’ To accept that proposition means denying reality — the reality of any objective measure of human freedom, societal health, and global population movement. Multiculturalism is not the first ideology founded on the denial of truth.” — Mark Steyn, America Alone

“We have harboured those who hated us, tolerated those who threatened us and indulged those who weakened us.” — Margaret Thatcher

“Having a wall does not mean ‘keep out’. It means ‘use the door’ (come in legally).” — President Trump and others

“This is why we say, ‘Import the third world, become the third world’. Because the thing nobody wants to say is that the reason why third world countries are the way they are is because third world people are the way they are. At the end of the day, your country is a reflection of its people; every country is, when it comes down to it. Somalia is totally dysfunctional and corrupt because scam and fraud and piracy is part of the lifestyle, part of the culture. Bring it over here and you get the same stuff.” — Matt Walsh

“If those who wrote and ratified the 14th Amendment had imagined laws restricting immigration — and had anticipated huge waves of illegal immigration — is it reasonable to presume they would have wanted to provide the reward of citizenship to the children of the violators of those laws? Surely not.” — George Will

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