Democracy is Britain’s greatest gift to the world
Re. “Britain used divide and rule tactics in colonies”, Have Your Say, May 7
It's interesting that the writer criticizes the Brits while using the greatest asset they bequeathed the world: the international English language. It is also very interesting to see that people from the less developed world are all clambering to enter the United States, a former British colony. It is a honey pot because of the established democratic system base on a 240-year old British-influenced constitution.
All the conflicts of which he writes were not and are not due to British colonialism. The causes are simple tribal bigotry in the micro world as in Sri Lanka, but in a macro sense they stem from two ideologies: Islam and Marxism.
Both are fundamentally fascist, meaning both are dictatorial, fighting for absolute central control. They are both totalitarian denying any rights for the individual. The colonial British were diametrically opposed to both. In India they dismantled the original tribal caste system and established democracy. This is not opinion but reality.
China shows aggression towards Buddhist Tibet and India because both refuse to accept its dictatorial oppressive Communist form of government derived from Marxism. The unrest between the Islam-controlled Pakistan and Bangladesh and predominantly Hindu India is due to the aggressive invasive nature of the political totalitarian ideology of Islam. Similarly, Buddhists in Myanmar refuse to be dominated by the same ideology they see as being represented by the Rohingya who ethnically belong in Bangladesh, not Myanmar. Were Islam simply a religion it could assimilate peacefully within democratic forms of governance. It cannot because of its totalitarian nature. It is politically motivated with its own Sharia law.
Today the struggle between Marxist/Islamist totalitarianism, in the form of the New World Order, and British-styled democratic Christian civilisation is more vital than ever. The outcome will decide whether the world will be bright and democratic or descend into the abyss of Orwellian dystopia.
J C Wilcox
