Ray Azzopardi mocks my open stance against irregular immigration for being “untuned with reality” and defends the invasion of illegal aliens onto Maltese soil by using the same perverse logic that has seen them swarming and sending out roots all over Europe, namely the rhetoric that: “Compassion knows no boundaries. Compassion goes beyond what is legal [sic]. Compassion puts the other before oneself.”

He also chastises me for failing to “understand the plight of such persons who are fleeing their country... to free themselves from their horrible condition”.

It is this suicidal and emasculated ideology of equality – be it between sexes, religions, or cultures – which is slowly undermining the principles of principled leadership, firmness of character and self-confidence needed to face the crisis of irregular immigration.

The take-over of whole enclaves of London, Paris and Amsterdam is testament to the fact that people look for similarity, not diversity, and that any incentive towards integration is lost as soon as the alien population is allowed to reach critical mass and to form pockets of their own culture within the host.

If that culture does not share our values of freedom of speech and the rule of law, what you will get is what has been going on across Europe these last 30 years: the acceptance of barbaric Shariah law and the issuing of fatwas (most famously that against Salman Rushdie) in London, the violent protests erupting in Paris when veils were made illegal, the cold-blooded murder of Theo Van Gogh and Pim Fortuyn in The Netherlands and the celebration of Ramadan in Germany with four full nights of looting and rioting.

Josè Maria Aznar, Angela Merkel, David Cameron and Nikola Sarkozy have all decried multiculturalism as “a huge failure”.

Sarkozy even told the French people: “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” (The Guardian, February 11, 2011)

Sounds familiar?