A Swinging Pendulum on Multiculturalism?

Legal freedoms and constraints in response to multiculturalism have been hot button topics in Europe for some time now.  As with most cultural trends, it is beginning to stump us Americans as well as people of drastically different cultural backgrounds live life together in the diverse larger metropolitan areas of our country.

"We have been too concerned about the identity of the person who was arriving and not enough about the identity of the country that was receiving him," French President Nicolas Sarkozy stated publicly last month.

Woah.  This is quite a different tune from the laissez-faire focus on absolute tolerance we've seen over the last few years.

In this same vein, the following article reveals a surprising shift in liberal European popular and political thought when it comes to issues of the veil and other religious expression:  Multiple division:  Is the sun setting on multiculturalism?

Check it out to keep your finger on the pulse of this issue.  It won't take long to feel the ripples here from a pendulum swing across the Atlantic.