“The United Kingdom presents itself as a target, as a fragmenting, post-Christian society, increasingly divided about interpretations of its history, about its national aims, its values and in its political identity.” This warning was published in a recent Royal United Services Institute (rusi) report.

Though strongly criticized by the British government, the report gives deep insight into Britain’s security problems. Britain has promoted a multicultural society that shuns the idea of imposing a single British identity on the nation. However, this policy of promoting ethnic and cultural diversity has actually further segregated ethnic minorities and undermined the efforts of those trying to fight extremism, all in the name of tolerance.

The rusi report states:

This is a problem worsened by the lack of leadership from the majority, which, in misplaced deference to “multiculturalism,” failed to lay down the line to immigrant communities, thus undercutting those within them trying to fight extremism.

The report continues:

The country’s lack of self-confidence is in stark contrast to the implacability of its Islamist terrorist enemy.

Britain is promoting multiculturalism to the point where it is abandoning British culture and not preventing crimes from being committed in immigrant communities for fear of offending someone. The radical Islamist element in Britain is willing to stand and fight for its ideology, while the British majority slinks away in fear of being labeled jingoistic. This approach gives terrorists a free hand and makes Britain a “soft target” for them.

When foreign ideologies are tolerated in a nation to the point where the culture of the nation actually fragments into a mosaic of minority cultures, the unifying force in that nation has been broken. The next step is the disintegration of society from the inside out. As Shakespeare wrote in Richard ii, “This England that was wont to conquer others hath made a shameful conquest of itself.”