“The very notion of creating common values has been abandoned”

From "Multiculturalism has fanned the flames of Islamic extremism," by Kenan Malik:

… But multiculturalism as a political ideology has helped to create a tribal Britain with no political or moral centre.

For an earlier generation of Muslims their religion was not so
strong that it prevented them from identifying with Britain. Today many
young British Muslims identify more with Islam than Britain primarily
because there no longer seems much that is compelling about being
British. …

That old racist notion of identity has thankfully crumbled.
But nothing new has come to replace it. The very notion of creating
common values has been abandoned except at a most minimal level.
Britishness has come to be defined simply as a toleration of
difference. The politics of ideology has given way to the politics of
identity, creating a more fragmented Britain, and one where many groups
assert their identity through a sense of victimhood and grievance.

Link: The Times Online guest contributors Opinion.  Hat tip:  TitusOneNine.