Systematically focused for destroyal? I no longer think so, though there was a time when I did. It's perfectly true, of course, that minority culture is always inconvenient for centralised bureaucracy, and will tend to be disregarded, but that doesn't imply any dark plot to exterminate either Welsh or Scottish Gaelic. It's undeniable, of course, that the use of both languages was actively discouraged (often accompanied by small but humiliating punishments) in schools until not so very long ago; this, however, seems to have been in most cases a well-meant, if misguided, attempt by teachers to equip their pupils for life in the big world, where a monoglot Welsh or Gaelic speaker would have limited employment opportunities, and almost no chance of advancement. It was never official policy. It's only relatively recently that educationalists have understood that children can very easily be raised to be bilingual; nowadays it's positively encouraged.

For myself, I think that Gaelic should certainly be accorded a proper official status in Scotland, as Welsh is in Wales; though we should remember that it has never been the language of the whole country, as some people imagine. It's inevitable, though, that there will be trouble from some who have no grasp either of the historical background or of the quite different state of the languages of more recent immigrant groups; Urdu has already been mentioned, but Italian is another.

These languages belong to ethnic groups which have not long been present in the country, and so remain relatively discrete, and have so far retained their cultures relatively intact, though each successive generation assimilates further. It usually isn't until the third generation that children can grow up ignorant of the language of their grandparents.

To suggest that Urdu (or any other language) should be accorded official "second language" status along with Gaelic is fatuous and stupid, and, as has already been pointed out, does not appear to be the wish of speakers of "recently arrived" languages; regrettably, however, it is a common attitude among "arts" administrators (almost invariably monoglot English speakers, ironically), who control much of the state funding allocated to such things. In England, it can be quite hazardous to mention "English Tradition" to an arts administrator (though there are, of course, honourable exceptions) as they will tend to panic and imagine some racist intent implied by the mere use of the term. Evidently the same problem exists also in Scotland. The problem, though, is not that such people are anti-Gaelic, but that they are well-meaning idiots.