by Fjordman
One of the bloggers who read this essay stated that “Stuff like this makes me think the f***ing Jihadis ought to just destroy our culture.” OK, but what if that was the intention? I know there is some debate about just how influential radical Leftism and cultural Marxism are in weakening the West. Many observers believe this weakness is mainly caused by a general Western loss of self-confidence, an idea — widely shared even by many so-called right-wingers — that non-discrimination in all walks of life is not just the highest, but the only virtue, and finally, Western guilt for slavery, colonialism, global warming, declining numbers of rhinos — well, just about anything, really. And I sometimes agree with that.
However, when looking at examples such as this, we really have to ask whether cultural Marxism is the prime mover behind this after all. I have seen Socialists in several countries show great respect for Muslims and their culture, on occasion even praising them for their “family values” (What would those be? Honor killings?). Yet these are the very same Socialists who have spent generations systematically dismantling the nuclear family and the traditional culture in their own countries, and smashing their Judeo-Christian religious base in particular. After spending decades destroying our values, they now proceed to import alien cultures to “restore” what they have themselves destroyed. This trend is so powerful that we have to ask whether this is an intentional policy.
British or French commentators tend to talk about a “post-colonial guilt complex” when describing what’s wrong with their countries. Here is a quote by French intellectual Alain Finkielkraut, taken from an interview in the Danish newspaper Politiken:
Those Frenchmen who hate France say they hate the criminal French past, and they don’t think we should remain a nation in this modern, democratic world. They want to dissolve the nation state. They do not hate themselves, but are very proud of hating the past, because they feel strongly superior to their ancestors. They are not biased or prejudiced, they are willing to relinquish their roots in favor of universal values. I have never cared for the idea of self-loathing. I see far more arrogance and self-glorification in their intense criticism than self-loathing.
I disagree with Finkielkraut here. They do not necessarily hate themselves, personally, but they do hate their own culture and history, and want to cooperate with Islam in destroying the West, the most inventive culture in history. Finkielkraut again:
Radical democracy is the idea that everything has to be “democratic,” that all
differences and any form of hierarchy or separation is undemocratic. For instance, they don’t think we should make a difference between citizens and outsiders. To a radical democrat, there is no such thing as an “outsider.” That’s why they are fighting for a regulation of the laws to ensure free access for all immigrants. All immigrants are welcome. If you say that it’s not possible to let everybody in, you get branded a racist. The radical democrats are a small group, but they wield a lot of influence because they can intimidate people. They function as a radical superego all over Europe, and in my country in particular.
Again, this cannot be entirely explained by past colonial history. Sweden (as well as Norway) doesn’t have a colonial history, yet still shares many of these problems. What does Sweden have? Well, an abundance of Socialism and radical Feminism.
Artists Thyra Hilden and Pio Diaz projected video images of flames onto 1,000 square-metre glass screens in a museum in the central Danish town of Aarhus. The “art” exhibition was called “City on Fire – Burning the roots of Western culture.” The artists assured us that “It is not actual fire that destroys actual buildings – but the idea of fire that destroys the historical and ideological roots of Western culture.” Part of their vision was “to create an aesthetic image of the deconstruction of the cultural roots of the Western world,” because as they said, Western culture was “very aggressive,” while Islamic culture has been far less so. What these “artists” don’t seem to understand, or maybe don’t care about, is that while they may “only” burn Western culture figuratively, the Muslims they are cooperating with may well burn thousands of years of Western cultural achievements quite literally, judging from past historical records elsewhere..Some Western Socialists just can’t wait that long. Norwegian comedian Otto Jespersen, a Marxist with a history of hostility towards Christianity, caused a stir by burning pages from the Bible in public. This happened only a few weeks after a Muslim mob set the Norwegian embassy in Syria ablaze because of the Muhammad cartoons. Mr. Jespersen was challenged by some Christians to burn pages of the Koran as well, but he declined to do so. He is also known for having burnt an American flag on national TV. A British schoolgirl has been barred from wearing a crucifix necklace in class in Gillingham, England, on the grounds that it breached health and safety rules. Muslim pupils, however, could wear religious symbols. Why this hatred for Christianity (and Judaism) specifically? Well, if you want to destroy the West, starting with its Judeo-Christian foundations might be a good idea. Since God, according to the Bible, created the world in successive steps, the anti-Western Multiculturalists can presumably uncreate Western man in several steps by attacking his culture, his memory, his self-confidence and above all, his religion: A Multicultural Anti-Genesis:
The Multiculturalist uncreated mankind in his own image: Confused, self-loathing individuals with no concept of right or wrong. And he didn’t create them male of female. He said that they were identical, and that claiming otherwise was sexist. And the Multiculturalist cursed them and said, “Be barren and decrease in numbers, vanish from the face of the earth, let Mother Nature rule and the fish of the sea and the birds of the air reclaim the world.”
The Multiculturalist then said, “Let here be darkness,” and there was darkness. The Multiculturalist saw that the darkness was good, and he unseparated the darkness from the light. The Multiculturalist called the light “discrimination and bigotry,” and the darkness he called “tolerance.” On the seventh day, the Multiculturalist rested, and he saw that it was good. He had unmade reason, he had unmade logic, he had unmade truth, he had unmade the very reason and desire to exist. And there was evening on the seventh day, but there was no new morning.
Written by well known blogger Fjordman, you can find many of his works at: Gates of Vienna, Islam-Watch, Global Politician, JihadWatch, The Brussels Journal and his own blog @ Blogspot bearing his name Fjordman.
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2 comments:
Very good article. My question is: is there still hope for Europe? Can we still save the continent that God used to give so much to the world?
I wonder...
In his recent book "Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950", conservative American psychologist Charles Murray scientifically investigates the role of Europe throughout history.
He concludes that Europeans account for about 95% of all great inventions, discoveries and scientific achievements. According to Murray, it is safe to say that modern world and science in general just would not exist the way we know it, if it was not for the Europeans, who, using their cleverness, their intelligence, their thirst for knowledge and power, created what, at the beginning of the 20th century, was the most advanced civilization ever witnessed on earth.
Since then, the great Asian civilizations of the Korean, the Chinese and the Japanese have quicky adapted to European technology and were able to catch up with Europe in many ways, while European settlers have converted the wilderness of North America into what is now regarded as the world's only remaining superpower. However, the Arabs, bound to the absurd rules of a violent nomad of the middle ages known as Muhammad, remained at the very bottom of technological and social development.
Is there still hope for Europe? Yes, there is. We only need to remember who we are. It is no coincidence that the Muslims are performing so poorly in our societies. Our culture is superior to their culture in nearly all ways imaginable. We may be paralyzed by our compassion, our humanity, our tolerance - for the moment. But if Muslims ever dare to openly declare war on Western civilization, we might as well show them why it was Europe which colonized nearly the entire world, but was never colonized itself. We have become gentle, peaceful, sympathetic, while our wealth grew so strongly that our youth nearly forgot the harsh reality of the bloody history of human interaction in this world. But we are not stupid. We are not apathetic.
For ages, Europeans have fought each other. But they also united against their evil enemy, the Islam. They fought, and they won. Islam stayed out of Europe, allowing our continent to become the source of immense wealth and scientific achievements which are impossible under Muslim rule.
Facing the threat of Islam again, Europeans need to unite against their old enemy. We need to remember once again that Europe has always stood united against Islam. We need to remember that this conflict is much, much older than anything which might be the root of hate among Europeans.
But as Islam grows, so does awareness. From the beautiful North Cape to the mediterranean sun of Crete, Europeans are beginning to realize that the demons of the past are haunting Europe once again. And in the end, they will stand united to fight these demons, saving the freedom of their children, saving their culture, saving everything we consider valuable and desirable.
Whoever starts a fight might lose. Whoever gives up has lost already.
Europeans, let us fight against the Islamization of Europe. It is not too late. And we should start right now. Wherever politicians are playing down Islam-based violence, wherever Muslims are threatening our children, wherever the Sharia is introduced into European society and laws, the time has come to stand up and fight. If we like to draw Muhammad cartoons, it is our right to do so. If we like to live a secular or Christian life, it is our right to do so. If we like to eat pork or drink alcohol, it is our damn right to do so, and no Muslim has the right to stand in our way.
Have the ones of us lived in this continent for some thousand years just to have it lost to Muslim conquest driven by immigration within two generations? We have survived worse threats than this. Remember, we are not trying to conquer the entire world, as our ancestors did during the time of colonization. We are are defending our very own homeland so our children and grandchildren can grow up in a society free from the inhuman and atrocious ideas of that insane guy named Muhammad the Muslims call their "prophet". What could be more justified than this?
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