There was a stat posted here couple weeks ago about how the UK is the most anti-European and the most self-hating. I came to the conclusion that the Muslims born in the UK are actually well integrated, however they are integrated in a culture that taught them how to hate itself and themselves.
A strong confident culture with strong confident male role models is what most young people are looking for. White or black, African, Asian, American or British when we are young we look for something to unite behind.
Preferably something that is gutsy enough to assert itself and if it's followers are tough enough to assert themselves violently the more attractive that culture or group is to most young men and a handful of young women.
We need to belong and we want to stand out and look tough.
The problem with the UK is that we don't have anything to offer.
We apologise for the warriors who came from our country and present them as cowardly thugs who we want to distance ourselves from.
We teach that English/British culture is a bland, dead racist concept and that all other cultures are superior.
In Britain we have a culture that teaches minorities that they are oppressed by the system and that we are an inherently racist society, minorities are the noble blameless victims and the true heros of our society.
What do we have to offer young people from minorities to unite behind apart from their own cultures and sense of noble victimhood?
A fluffy nebulous concept of fair play, freedom and minority rights with a love for other peoples cultures and a dash of pacifism and masochism. "War is never the answer" "It's all our fault"
Or The Sun, Big Brother, binge drinking and football.
We do have great scientists, poets, intellectuals and philosophers to be proud of but lets be honest as great as these minds are they are the geeks not the warriors and young men want something to stand up and proudly beat their chests for and that is never going to be Keats, Shakespeare, Bertrand Russel, Sir Issac Newton and Darwin is it?
Warriors like Churchill are forever tainted with the crimes of Empire so it is not the done thing to be overly proud or identify with the likes of him or the men in our armed forces.
So what do we have left?
A demoralised apologetic spineless middle class majority with nothing to be proud of and unite behind apart from multiculturalism, anti Americanism and self hate.
An angry disenfranchised bunch of white working class wasters with nothing to unite behind apart from the robustly masculine black street culture or binge drinking, football and the pathetic BNP or maybe conversion to Islam.
Ethnic minorities who are taught that Britain is inherently racist and that the oppression they suffer makes them morally superior to the rest of society.
So who can blame black and Muslim youth if they join a gang or become jihadis.
Lets face it the UK isn't showing them anything they can proudly unite behind.
These lads are not integrated because there is nothing tangible to integrate into.
They are just latching on to anything that gives them a sense of power.
Victimhood empowers the youth and gives a reason to have a "Don't fuck with me attitude" which strangely the middle class majority applaud and gangsta identity or fearless jihadi warriors give them that robust masculine culture to unite behind.
For the first time since 7.7 I will have to agree with the anti imperialists. "It's all our fault" Not because of our history of imperialism and the Iraq war but because we are so bloody apologetic and spineless.
Topic: Maryam Namazie, Anjem Choudary, Majid Nawaz on BBC's The Big Question