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2006-04-09 10:33:35 UTC
I'm a Terrorist Groupie, Hear Me Roar!
There are probably always people who are drawn to
blood and mayhem. They would like to destroy the
current political order, but are not capable of doing it
themselves, so they end up as cheerleaders for those
who are attempting to do so. Let's call them "terrorist
groupies." I'm not just talking about the Oscar-nominated
suicide bomber film Paradise Now. There are others
examples of this mentality. "V for Vendetta" is a recent
movie made by the Wachowski brothers, the men
behind the modern sci-fi classic "The Matrix." It is set
in Britain about a generation from now. The USA has
dissolved into chaos and civil war after its involvement
in a prolonged war in the Middle East. Great Britain has
become a Fascist state. The protagonist, a "freedom
fighter" named V, wants to ignite a revolution and brags
about how blowing up a building can change the whole
world. He is wearing a Guy Fawkes mask to conceal
his identity, and proclaims that he wants to finish what
Fawkes tried to do in the so-called Gunpowder Plot in
1605: Blowing up Parliament. He gets an accomplice
in this task, a young girl named Evey, played by Israeli
born actress Natalie Portman. Portman cites a popular
British rhyme that is often quoted on Guy Fawkes Night:
"Remember, remember, the 5th of November Gunpowder
Treason and plot; I know of no reason why Gunpowder
Treason Should ever be forgot."
During the movie, we see a gay man keeping Koran in
a secret room in his house, because he enjoys "the poetry
and imagery" in it. He is later executed when the authorities
discover this, as the Koran is now banned and Muslims
are oppressed. What beautiful imagery we are never told.
"And slay them wherever ye catch them"? "I will instill terror
into the hearts of the unbelievers: smite ye above their necks
and smite all their finger-tips off them"? At the same time,
the Church is shown to be a place of filth, corruption and
hypocrisy. Islam is good and "misunderstood," Christianity
is bad and oppressive. In the final scene of "V for Vendetta,"
the British Parliament is blown up, with hundreds of thousands
of people in Fawkes masks watching and "1812 Overture"
blasting from loudspeakers, fireworks crackling and Natalie
Portman smiling.
In Hollywoodistan, gays admire the beauty of the Koran. In
real life, gays are physically attacked in increasing numbers
by Muslims in Europe, and death squads are targeting gays
in Islamic countries such as Iraq. A gay man, Pim Fortuyn,
was de facto executed for criticizing Islam, after having been
demonized by Dutch media and the Dutch establishment for
"Islamophobia" and "hate speech". In Hollywoodistan, the
Koran has been banned on pain of death in Britain. In real
life, British PM Tony Blair has called Islam "progressive"
and praised the Koran for being "practical and way ahead
of its time in attitudes to marriage, women and governance."
In Hollywoodistan, Muslims in London are ruthlessly persecuted.
In real life, London has become the Islamic terrorist capital
of the entire world, as demonstrated by writer Melanie Phillips
in her book "Londonistan." In Hollywoodistan, native Fascists
kill British civilians to spread fear and terror and soften them
for their goal of overthrowing democracy. In real life, the only
Fascists trying to do this are Muslims, following the example
of their prophet Muhammad who bragged about how he had
been "made victorious by terror."
After the Jihadist terror bombings in London in July 2005, not a single Muslim cleric
has been expelled from Britain. Historian David Starkey warned that Britain is in
danger of sleepwalking into a new era of religious intolerance, as in the sixteenth
and seventeenth centuries. What today might be described as thought crimes, such as
expressing any sympathy for suicide bombers, would in previous eras have been termed
heresy, he said. The right response to the bombings was that Britain should become
more tolerant towards Islam. A Chester professor, Ron Geaves, has stated that the
attacks that killed 52 people were not the acts of terrorists but "just an extreme
Muslim demonstration" and that "the word terrorism is a political word which always
seems to be used to demonise people." Muslim immigration continues unabated, and open
hatred towards the West continues to be preached in mosques. The BBC is busy as
always in campaigning against "Islamophobia" and reminding everybody that Islam is
rich in diversity and that Western civilization would have been impossible without
huge Islamic contributions, which we should be eternally grateful for.
For an outsider, it is sad to see the nation that once faced down Hitler and Napoleon
slowly succumb to these barbarians. It is good that smaller nations such as Denmark
and maybe the Netherlands are at least starting to confront the Islamic threat, but
this is not enough. For the sake of Europe, we need some of the larger countries to
do the same thing. France is sinking into a quagmire of problems of her own, and has
been leading the creation of Eurabia in the first place. Maybe the Germans could do
the job, but they are still restrained by their guilt complex from WW2. We need the
British on board, and so far, there are few signs of this happening. Will Britannia
forever be enslaved, or will she rise to the occasion as she has done in the past?
Luckily, even though Hollywood won't tell the truth, there are still a few people who
will. Mullah Krekar, an Al Qaeda-linked Islamic leader who was granted refugee status
in Norway told an Oslo newspaper that there is a war going on between the West and
Islam. He said he is sure that Islam will win. Muslims could indeed win this, if they
could just sit tight, remain quiet and continue the demographic Jihad. But too many
of them behave so, well, Islamic, boast and brag about their plans. Listening to
Mullah Krekar talking is like watching one of those old James Bond movies, where the
villain just has to tell Bond everything about his evil plans, just in time so that
007 can prevent it. "I'm so smart and evil, you can't stop me, bwuahahaha!" Then
again, given the state of things in Al-Britannia these days, James Bond would
probably have been working for the other team. "There's a nasty case of Islamophobia
going on at the Telegraph newspaper today. Take care of it, will you, 007. How do you
want your Koran, Mr. Bond?" "Shaken, not stirred."
In another movie, "Good Night, and Good Luck," directed by star actor George Clooney,
CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow is shown standing up against Senator Joseph Raymond
McCarthy during his intense anti-Communist movement in the 1950s. I assume Clooney's
motivation for making this movie now is insinuating that the ongoing War on Terror is
"just like" the paranoia of the 50s. First of all: Although there is no doubt that
Senator McCarthy went too far and destroyed the lives of many innocent people, the
Communist threat to the USA and the West was in fact very real during the Cold War.
And second of all: Whoever decided that a new "political witch hunt" necessarily has
to come from the Right?
"McCarthyism" is sometimes defined as "the use of unfair investigatory or accusatory
methods in order to suppress opposition." Some would claim that this describes very
well how critics of Muslim immigration in the West have been demonized during the
previous generation, especially by Leftists. Carl I. Hagen, leader of the right-wing
Progress Party, was for several decades virtually the only Norwegian politician of
some stature that warned against the madness of the current immigration policies. And
he was hated for it by the establishment, denounced as a racist pig, Nazi and subject
to every insult in the dictionary. During the 1990s, when there were still many
people who took the "Oslo Peace Process" seriously, he went in demonstrations in
support of Israel and with the slogan "No money for Arafat." The public now
understands that he was right, which is why his party has grown from being a tiny
protest party to being at the brink of replacing the Labor Party as the largest
political party in Norway, for the first time in 80 years. Why doesn't Mr. Clooney or
other Hollywood personalities make a movie about Carl I. Hagen, Pia Kj?rsgaard of the
Danish People's Party, Pim Fortuyn, Theo van Gogh and Geert Wilders in the
Netherlands or others that have been warning against the madness of Muslim
immigration? They are the real victims of the "new McCarthyism."
Glorification of anti-democratic fanatics has penetrated Western popular culture in
other ways than movies. Che Guevara's face is cropping up everywhere, from posters to
t-shirts. Che is famous for helping Fidel Castro shape the Cuban revolution. Later,
he was in charge of La Cabana prison, where he oversaw a military tribunal which
condemned scores of counterrevolutionaries to death without trial. "Hatred," he said,
is important. It makes you, he reflected, "into an effective, violent, selective and
cold-blooded killing machine." He helped set up a police state in Cuba, and
negotiated the stationing of Soviet nuclear weapons on Cuba in 1962. He later became
furious when Moscow removed them following the Cuba Crisis. "If the rockets had
remained, we would have used them all..." He spoke of "unimaginable destructiveness
to defend a principle." Yet this murderer and symbol of an ideology that killed 100
million people during the 20th century is treated as a pop icon in the democratic
West.
Michel Foucault is one of the best known and most widely read philosophers of our
time, familiar to hundreds of thousands of Western University students. During and
after the 1978-79 revolution, Foucault visited Iran twice and also met with Khomeini
in Paris. Much of Foucault's work is grounded in the problems of modernity in Europe.
Thus he became fascinated with the Iranian revolution because it "challenged the
Western model of progress." He was not the only Western intellectual who was seduced
by the "revolutionary energy" displayed in Iran. The age of marriage for girls was
reduced to 9 years, tens of thousands of political opponents were arrested, tortured
and killed, young women were raped in prisons as a matter of routine to prevent them
from entering Paradise as virgins, and barbaric, medieval laws were re-enacted for
tens of millions of people. Apparently, for some Western intellectuals, anything is
excusable as long as you are anti-Western and have a "revolutionary cause."
Phyllis Chesler writes about the Culture War in academia, where both Western leftists
and Islamists employ a systematic misuse of language, writing about "insurgents," not
"terrorists," whom they describe as "martyrs," not "killers, and as "freedom
fighters," not as "well educated evil men." Meanwhile, hateful anti-American and
anti-Israel demonstrators are described as "peace activists. She believes that
Western academia has been "utterly Palestinianized." Our Islamist opponents have
turned out this propaganda non-stop around the world. As propagandists, they are "far
more sophisticated than Goebbels, and far more patient."
Yale University in the US admitted a former Taliban spokesman, Rahmatullah Hashemi,
as a student. He was the chief translator for Mullah Omar in Afghanistan. Female
Afghan parliamentarian Malalai Joya said Hashemi was one of the Taliban's top
propagandists and called his status as a student at Yale "disgusting" and an
"unforgivable insult." Yet people at Yale fired back and said it was the critics of
Yale and Rahmatullah Hashemi who were the real Taliban, and that excluding him would
" takes us one step closer into the Taliban-like suppression of views that challenge
the party line."
Robert Fisk is a veteran British foreign correspondent. During a visit to Australia,
Fisk said: "I see this immense world of injustice [:] and I must say given our
constant interference in the Middle East, I'm amazed that Muslims have been so
restrained." In fact, so "restrained" are they that Fisk was not sure how much they
can be blamed even for the terror attacks of 9/11. He often spoke in the US, he said,
and "more and more people in the audience believe the American administration had
some kind of involvement". "[:] the worst I can envisage is that they know something
was coming and they preferred it to happen so that their strategy could be put into
place."
Ironically, it seems as if some of the chief defenders of democracy and Western
civilization now are immigrants. Britain's first black Archbishop made a powerful
attack on multiculturalism, urging English people to reclaim their national identity.
The Ugandan-born Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, said "that too many people were
embarrassed about being English." "Multiculturalism has seemed to imply, wrongly for
me, let other cultures be allowed to express themselves but do not let the majority
culture at all tell us its glories, its struggles, its joys, its pains," he said. He
said that the failure of England to rediscover its culture afresh would lead only to
greater political extremism. "What is it to be English? It is a very serious
question," he said. "When you ask a lot of people in this country, 'What is English
culture?', they are very vague. It is a culture that whether we like it or not has
given us parliamentary democracy. It is the mother of it."
Writing about the Muhammad cartoons controversy, author Ibn Warraq quoted what the
great British philosopher John Stuart Mill wrote in On Liberty, "Strange it is, that
men should admit the validity of the arguments for free discussion, but object to
their being 'pushed to an extreme'; not seeing that unless the reasons are good for
an extreme case, they are not good for any case."
"The west is the source of the liberating ideas of individual liberty, political
democracy, the rule of law, human rights and cultural freedom. It is the west that
has raised the status of women, fought against slavery, defended freedom of enquiry,
expression and conscience," Ibn Warraq stated. "How can we expect immigrants to
integrate into western society when they are at the same time being taught that the
west is decadent, a den of iniquity, the source of all evil, racist, imperialist and
to be despised? Why should they, in the words of the African-American writer James
Baldwin, want to integrate into a sinking ship?"
These are encouraging words, but they cannot conceal the fact that there is a very
powerful undercurrent of self-loathing and guilt-obsession in the West at the
beginning of the 21st century. Where does it come from?
Lars Hedegaard, writer and columnist for newspaper Berlingske Tidende, has, together
with colleagues Helle Merete Brix and Torben Hansen, been one of the leading forces
behind making tiny Denmark into a frontline country in the battle against Islam. In
his book "While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within,"
Bruce Bawer gives an account of a meeting with Hedegaard and Brix in Copenhagen:
"Hedegaard was of the view, however, that the Danish establishment's benign neglect
of Islamic extremism must have deeper causes than snobbism or hippie nostalgia. After
all, he said, the Islamicization of the Nordic countries was "the most fundamental
transformation" they'd experienced in a millennium. Something so monumental, in his
opinion, could not be explained simply by a few people's foolishness or class
snobbery. "Heavy consequences," he insisted, "must have heavy causes." The surrender
of Denmark to Muslims had to be the result of some deep-seated compulsion. [:] His
theory was that Western Europe's ongoing surrender to radical Islam had its roots in
the psychic devastation of the First World War. For while that conflict marked
America's ascent to the rank of Great Power, Europeans took it as a devastating
proof, Hedegaard said, "the our culture was worthless. It was basically destroyed.
And that prepared the way for two sorts of totalitarianism" - Nazism and Communism -
and for "atrocities of a magnitude that is hard to imagine." Those atrocities, in
turn, placed upon Europeans an unbearable burden of guilt. The Nazis, he said, "made
Europe think it is doomed and sinful...and deserves what it has coming."
Lars Hedegaard's view seems to mirror that of French philosopher and cultural critic
Alain Finkielkraut, who thinks that "Europe does not love itself." Finkielkraut says
that it's not forces from outside that are threatening Europe as much as the
voluntary renunciation of European identity, its wish of freeing itself from itself,
its own history and its traditions, only replaced by human rights. The European Union
thus is not just post-national, but post-European. What characterizes Europe today is
the will to define itself, not from an ideology, but by dismissing any sense of
identity. Europe is now built upon an oath: Never again. Never again extermination,
never again war, but also never again nationalism. Europe prides itself on being
nothing. According to Finkielkraut, Auschwitz has become part of the foundation of
the EU, a culture based on guilt. But this is a vague ideology saying that "We have
to oppose everything the Nazis were for." Consequently, nationalism or any kind of
attachment to your own country, including what some would say is healthy,
non-aggressive patriotism, is frowned upon. To remember is to regret. Europe rejects
its past. "European identity" is the de-identification of Europe. Of the past, we are
only to remember crimes. This didn't just happen in Germany, but in all of Europe. "I
can understand the feeling of remorse that is leading Europe to this definition, but
this remorse goes too far. It is too great a gift to present Hitler to reject
everything that led to him." This is said by the Jewish son of an Auschwitz prisoner.
Finkielkraut says that Europe has made human rights its gospel, to such an extent
that it threatens European history and culture. This creates a Europe without
substance. "When hatred of culture becomes itself a part of culture, the life of the
mind loses all meaning." Finkielkraut reminds us that the multiculturalists' demand
for "diversity" requires the eclipse of the individual in favor of the group. The
abdication of reason demanded by multiculturalism has been the result of the
subjection of culture to anthropology. "Under the equalizing eye of social science,"
he writes, hierarchies are abolished. The disintegration of faith in reason and
common humanity leads not only to a destruction of standards, but also involves a
crisis of courage. "A careless indifference to grand causes," Finkielkraut warns,
"has its counterpart in abdication in the face of force," and weakens the commitment
required to preserve freedom.
What, in fact, is replacing assimilation? Anyone who does not want to assimilate,
French culture assimilates into his identity. Children aren't speaking French, but
rather a jargon composed of Arabic words and meager French. "There is always a
culture that emerges victorious. In no society is there a vacuum." Another thinker,
Pascal Bruckner, agrees that Europe has made repentance for old sins, perceived or
real, the central point of its identity, and something close to an obsession. And
this is unhealthy, according to him. "If somebody hits you, you will think: This is
for something I have done." "Never again" and the belief that dialogue will take care
of all problems are the guiding principles. We are filled with regret, but cannot
fill Europe with anything positive.
This idea that Auschwitz has defined the modern identity of Europe is reflected by
Spanish journalist Sebastian Villar Rodriguez in his piece "Europe died in
Auschwitz:"
I was walking along Raval [Barcelona] when all of a sudden I understood that Europe
died with Auschwitz.
We assassinated 6 million Jews in order to end up bringing in 20 million Muslims!
We burnt in Auschwitz the culture, intelligence and power to create.[...] Because it
is the people who gave to humanity the symbolic figures who were capable of changing
history (Christ, Marx, Einstein, Freud...) and who is the origin of progress and
wellbeing.
We must admit that Europe, by relaxing its borders [:] opened its doors to 20 million
Muslims, often illiterates and fanatics [:], the poorest of the nations and of the
ghettos, and who are preparing the worst, such as the 9/11 and the Madrid bombing and
who are lodged in apartment blocs provided by the social welfare.
We also have exchanged culture with fanaticism, the capacity to create with the will
to destroy, the wisdom with the superstition. We have exchanged the transcendental
instinct of the Jews, who even under the worst possible conditions have always looked
for a better peaceful world, for the suicide bomber. We have exchanged the pride of
life for the fanatic obsession of death. Our death and that of our children.
But why does this guilt complex also apply to Britain, which defeated the Nazis, or
Denmark, which saved most of its Jews? Why do we detect some of the same currents
even in the United States? And why on earth can't Europeans give stronger support to
the survivors of the Holocaust in Israel?
Yes, we have been sold out by our elites through the creation of Eurabia and the
wiping out of our own cultures through Multiculturalism. But this is only half of the
story. In democratic societies, even if sometimes flawed ones, this would never have
been possible if there wasn't a profound undercurrent of self-loathing present in the
general public already. The trauma caused by the events of 70 years ago is clouding
our judgment this time, since any talk at all about the threat posed by Muslim
immigration or about preserving our own culture is being dismissed as "the same
rhetoric as the Nazis used against the Jews." Europeans have been taught to be so
scared of our own shadow that we are incapable of seeing that darkness can come from
the outside, too. Maybe Europe will burn again, in part as a belated reaction to the
horrors of Auschwitz.
V.S. Naipaul has called India "a wounded civilization." But maybe it is really Europe
that is the wounded civilization, the difference being that India's wounds were
inflicted from the outside, whereas Europe's wounds are largely self-inflicted. Islam
is not destroying Europe, Europe is destroying itself. Just as a patient with AIDS
may formally die from flu or even a common cold, the real cause is the long, slow
decay of his immune system. It resembles euthanasia on an entire civilization: Europe
is tired of living. Islam just puts it out of its misery.
It is almost fascinating to see how self-loathing and West-bashing make scores of
people in the media and the academia misunderstand and misrepresent the threat we are
facing. The good guys become the bad guys and vice versa, or alternatively, we're all
equally good and bad, since all cultures are equal. Some would say that I am reading
too much into a few simple movies. Perhaps. But these are the same people that claim
that popular culture will destroy Islam.
Pop culture matters. It both reflects and shapes the values of a civilization.
Judging from the message in too many films, almost five years after 9/11 we have
hardly even begun to understand the scale of the Islamic challenge. On the contrary,
many Westerners are busy demonstrating "understanding," even sympathy, towards the
enemies of civilization.
Britain in "V for Vendetta" is a totalitarian state where the authorities promise
peace in return for total submission. Peace for submission, where have we heard this
mantra before? I know: Islam. "Islam" means submission, and comes from the same root
as "salaam," which means "peace". It is curious to notice that in the previous movie
by the Wachowski brothers, "The Matrix," people are turned into slaves and passive
tools by living in a make-belief reality designed to pacify them and keep them in
chains. In the real world, one fifth of humanity are proud to proclaim themselves
"the slaves of Allah," and consider it their mission in life to make the rest of
mankind share their mental bondage.
Islam is the Matrix. Somebody better give the Wachowski brothers their red pills.
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I intend to last long enough to put out of business all COck-suckers
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"The army that will defeat terrorism doesn't wear uniforms, or drive
Humvies, or calls in air-strikes. It doesn't have a high command, or
high security, or a high budget. The army that can defeat terrorism
does battle quietly, clearing minefields and vaccinating children. It
undermines military dictatorships and military lobbyists. It subverts
sweatshops and special interests.Where people feel powerless, it
helps them organize for change, and where people are powerful, it
reminds them of their responsibility." ~~~~ Author Unknown ~~~~
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There are probably always people who are drawn to
blood and mayhem. They would like to destroy the
current political order, but are not capable of doing it
themselves, so they end up as cheerleaders for those
who are attempting to do so. Let's call them "terrorist
groupies." I'm not just talking about the Oscar-nominated
suicide bomber film Paradise Now. There are others
examples of this mentality. "V for Vendetta" is a recent
movie made by the Wachowski brothers, the men
behind the modern sci-fi classic "The Matrix." It is set
in Britain about a generation from now. The USA has
dissolved into chaos and civil war after its involvement
in a prolonged war in the Middle East. Great Britain has
become a Fascist state. The protagonist, a "freedom
fighter" named V, wants to ignite a revolution and brags
about how blowing up a building can change the whole
world. He is wearing a Guy Fawkes mask to conceal
his identity, and proclaims that he wants to finish what
Fawkes tried to do in the so-called Gunpowder Plot in
1605: Blowing up Parliament. He gets an accomplice
in this task, a young girl named Evey, played by Israeli
born actress Natalie Portman. Portman cites a popular
British rhyme that is often quoted on Guy Fawkes Night:
"Remember, remember, the 5th of November Gunpowder
Treason and plot; I know of no reason why Gunpowder
Treason Should ever be forgot."
During the movie, we see a gay man keeping Koran in
a secret room in his house, because he enjoys "the poetry
and imagery" in it. He is later executed when the authorities
discover this, as the Koran is now banned and Muslims
are oppressed. What beautiful imagery we are never told.
"And slay them wherever ye catch them"? "I will instill terror
into the hearts of the unbelievers: smite ye above their necks
and smite all their finger-tips off them"? At the same time,
the Church is shown to be a place of filth, corruption and
hypocrisy. Islam is good and "misunderstood," Christianity
is bad and oppressive. In the final scene of "V for Vendetta,"
the British Parliament is blown up, with hundreds of thousands
of people in Fawkes masks watching and "1812 Overture"
blasting from loudspeakers, fireworks crackling and Natalie
Portman smiling.
In Hollywoodistan, gays admire the beauty of the Koran. In
real life, gays are physically attacked in increasing numbers
by Muslims in Europe, and death squads are targeting gays
in Islamic countries such as Iraq. A gay man, Pim Fortuyn,
was de facto executed for criticizing Islam, after having been
demonized by Dutch media and the Dutch establishment for
"Islamophobia" and "hate speech". In Hollywoodistan, the
Koran has been banned on pain of death in Britain. In real
life, British PM Tony Blair has called Islam "progressive"
and praised the Koran for being "practical and way ahead
of its time in attitudes to marriage, women and governance."
In Hollywoodistan, Muslims in London are ruthlessly persecuted.
In real life, London has become the Islamic terrorist capital
of the entire world, as demonstrated by writer Melanie Phillips
in her book "Londonistan." In Hollywoodistan, native Fascists
kill British civilians to spread fear and terror and soften them
for their goal of overthrowing democracy. In real life, the only
Fascists trying to do this are Muslims, following the example
of their prophet Muhammad who bragged about how he had
been "made victorious by terror."
After the Jihadist terror bombings in London in July 2005, not a single Muslim cleric
has been expelled from Britain. Historian David Starkey warned that Britain is in
danger of sleepwalking into a new era of religious intolerance, as in the sixteenth
and seventeenth centuries. What today might be described as thought crimes, such as
expressing any sympathy for suicide bombers, would in previous eras have been termed
heresy, he said. The right response to the bombings was that Britain should become
more tolerant towards Islam. A Chester professor, Ron Geaves, has stated that the
attacks that killed 52 people were not the acts of terrorists but "just an extreme
Muslim demonstration" and that "the word terrorism is a political word which always
seems to be used to demonise people." Muslim immigration continues unabated, and open
hatred towards the West continues to be preached in mosques. The BBC is busy as
always in campaigning against "Islamophobia" and reminding everybody that Islam is
rich in diversity and that Western civilization would have been impossible without
huge Islamic contributions, which we should be eternally grateful for.
For an outsider, it is sad to see the nation that once faced down Hitler and Napoleon
slowly succumb to these barbarians. It is good that smaller nations such as Denmark
and maybe the Netherlands are at least starting to confront the Islamic threat, but
this is not enough. For the sake of Europe, we need some of the larger countries to
do the same thing. France is sinking into a quagmire of problems of her own, and has
been leading the creation of Eurabia in the first place. Maybe the Germans could do
the job, but they are still restrained by their guilt complex from WW2. We need the
British on board, and so far, there are few signs of this happening. Will Britannia
forever be enslaved, or will she rise to the occasion as she has done in the past?
Luckily, even though Hollywood won't tell the truth, there are still a few people who
will. Mullah Krekar, an Al Qaeda-linked Islamic leader who was granted refugee status
in Norway told an Oslo newspaper that there is a war going on between the West and
Islam. He said he is sure that Islam will win. Muslims could indeed win this, if they
could just sit tight, remain quiet and continue the demographic Jihad. But too many
of them behave so, well, Islamic, boast and brag about their plans. Listening to
Mullah Krekar talking is like watching one of those old James Bond movies, where the
villain just has to tell Bond everything about his evil plans, just in time so that
007 can prevent it. "I'm so smart and evil, you can't stop me, bwuahahaha!" Then
again, given the state of things in Al-Britannia these days, James Bond would
probably have been working for the other team. "There's a nasty case of Islamophobia
going on at the Telegraph newspaper today. Take care of it, will you, 007. How do you
want your Koran, Mr. Bond?" "Shaken, not stirred."
In another movie, "Good Night, and Good Luck," directed by star actor George Clooney,
CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow is shown standing up against Senator Joseph Raymond
McCarthy during his intense anti-Communist movement in the 1950s. I assume Clooney's
motivation for making this movie now is insinuating that the ongoing War on Terror is
"just like" the paranoia of the 50s. First of all: Although there is no doubt that
Senator McCarthy went too far and destroyed the lives of many innocent people, the
Communist threat to the USA and the West was in fact very real during the Cold War.
And second of all: Whoever decided that a new "political witch hunt" necessarily has
to come from the Right?
"McCarthyism" is sometimes defined as "the use of unfair investigatory or accusatory
methods in order to suppress opposition." Some would claim that this describes very
well how critics of Muslim immigration in the West have been demonized during the
previous generation, especially by Leftists. Carl I. Hagen, leader of the right-wing
Progress Party, was for several decades virtually the only Norwegian politician of
some stature that warned against the madness of the current immigration policies. And
he was hated for it by the establishment, denounced as a racist pig, Nazi and subject
to every insult in the dictionary. During the 1990s, when there were still many
people who took the "Oslo Peace Process" seriously, he went in demonstrations in
support of Israel and with the slogan "No money for Arafat." The public now
understands that he was right, which is why his party has grown from being a tiny
protest party to being at the brink of replacing the Labor Party as the largest
political party in Norway, for the first time in 80 years. Why doesn't Mr. Clooney or
other Hollywood personalities make a movie about Carl I. Hagen, Pia Kj?rsgaard of the
Danish People's Party, Pim Fortuyn, Theo van Gogh and Geert Wilders in the
Netherlands or others that have been warning against the madness of Muslim
immigration? They are the real victims of the "new McCarthyism."
Glorification of anti-democratic fanatics has penetrated Western popular culture in
other ways than movies. Che Guevara's face is cropping up everywhere, from posters to
t-shirts. Che is famous for helping Fidel Castro shape the Cuban revolution. Later,
he was in charge of La Cabana prison, where he oversaw a military tribunal which
condemned scores of counterrevolutionaries to death without trial. "Hatred," he said,
is important. It makes you, he reflected, "into an effective, violent, selective and
cold-blooded killing machine." He helped set up a police state in Cuba, and
negotiated the stationing of Soviet nuclear weapons on Cuba in 1962. He later became
furious when Moscow removed them following the Cuba Crisis. "If the rockets had
remained, we would have used them all..." He spoke of "unimaginable destructiveness
to defend a principle." Yet this murderer and symbol of an ideology that killed 100
million people during the 20th century is treated as a pop icon in the democratic
West.
Michel Foucault is one of the best known and most widely read philosophers of our
time, familiar to hundreds of thousands of Western University students. During and
after the 1978-79 revolution, Foucault visited Iran twice and also met with Khomeini
in Paris. Much of Foucault's work is grounded in the problems of modernity in Europe.
Thus he became fascinated with the Iranian revolution because it "challenged the
Western model of progress." He was not the only Western intellectual who was seduced
by the "revolutionary energy" displayed in Iran. The age of marriage for girls was
reduced to 9 years, tens of thousands of political opponents were arrested, tortured
and killed, young women were raped in prisons as a matter of routine to prevent them
from entering Paradise as virgins, and barbaric, medieval laws were re-enacted for
tens of millions of people. Apparently, for some Western intellectuals, anything is
excusable as long as you are anti-Western and have a "revolutionary cause."
Phyllis Chesler writes about the Culture War in academia, where both Western leftists
and Islamists employ a systematic misuse of language, writing about "insurgents," not
"terrorists," whom they describe as "martyrs," not "killers, and as "freedom
fighters," not as "well educated evil men." Meanwhile, hateful anti-American and
anti-Israel demonstrators are described as "peace activists. She believes that
Western academia has been "utterly Palestinianized." Our Islamist opponents have
turned out this propaganda non-stop around the world. As propagandists, they are "far
more sophisticated than Goebbels, and far more patient."
Yale University in the US admitted a former Taliban spokesman, Rahmatullah Hashemi,
as a student. He was the chief translator for Mullah Omar in Afghanistan. Female
Afghan parliamentarian Malalai Joya said Hashemi was one of the Taliban's top
propagandists and called his status as a student at Yale "disgusting" and an
"unforgivable insult." Yet people at Yale fired back and said it was the critics of
Yale and Rahmatullah Hashemi who were the real Taliban, and that excluding him would
" takes us one step closer into the Taliban-like suppression of views that challenge
the party line."
Robert Fisk is a veteran British foreign correspondent. During a visit to Australia,
Fisk said: "I see this immense world of injustice [:] and I must say given our
constant interference in the Middle East, I'm amazed that Muslims have been so
restrained." In fact, so "restrained" are they that Fisk was not sure how much they
can be blamed even for the terror attacks of 9/11. He often spoke in the US, he said,
and "more and more people in the audience believe the American administration had
some kind of involvement". "[:] the worst I can envisage is that they know something
was coming and they preferred it to happen so that their strategy could be put into
place."
Ironically, it seems as if some of the chief defenders of democracy and Western
civilization now are immigrants. Britain's first black Archbishop made a powerful
attack on multiculturalism, urging English people to reclaim their national identity.
The Ugandan-born Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, said "that too many people were
embarrassed about being English." "Multiculturalism has seemed to imply, wrongly for
me, let other cultures be allowed to express themselves but do not let the majority
culture at all tell us its glories, its struggles, its joys, its pains," he said. He
said that the failure of England to rediscover its culture afresh would lead only to
greater political extremism. "What is it to be English? It is a very serious
question," he said. "When you ask a lot of people in this country, 'What is English
culture?', they are very vague. It is a culture that whether we like it or not has
given us parliamentary democracy. It is the mother of it."
Writing about the Muhammad cartoons controversy, author Ibn Warraq quoted what the
great British philosopher John Stuart Mill wrote in On Liberty, "Strange it is, that
men should admit the validity of the arguments for free discussion, but object to
their being 'pushed to an extreme'; not seeing that unless the reasons are good for
an extreme case, they are not good for any case."
"The west is the source of the liberating ideas of individual liberty, political
democracy, the rule of law, human rights and cultural freedom. It is the west that
has raised the status of women, fought against slavery, defended freedom of enquiry,
expression and conscience," Ibn Warraq stated. "How can we expect immigrants to
integrate into western society when they are at the same time being taught that the
west is decadent, a den of iniquity, the source of all evil, racist, imperialist and
to be despised? Why should they, in the words of the African-American writer James
Baldwin, want to integrate into a sinking ship?"
These are encouraging words, but they cannot conceal the fact that there is a very
powerful undercurrent of self-loathing and guilt-obsession in the West at the
beginning of the 21st century. Where does it come from?
Lars Hedegaard, writer and columnist for newspaper Berlingske Tidende, has, together
with colleagues Helle Merete Brix and Torben Hansen, been one of the leading forces
behind making tiny Denmark into a frontline country in the battle against Islam. In
his book "While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within,"
Bruce Bawer gives an account of a meeting with Hedegaard and Brix in Copenhagen:
"Hedegaard was of the view, however, that the Danish establishment's benign neglect
of Islamic extremism must have deeper causes than snobbism or hippie nostalgia. After
all, he said, the Islamicization of the Nordic countries was "the most fundamental
transformation" they'd experienced in a millennium. Something so monumental, in his
opinion, could not be explained simply by a few people's foolishness or class
snobbery. "Heavy consequences," he insisted, "must have heavy causes." The surrender
of Denmark to Muslims had to be the result of some deep-seated compulsion. [:] His
theory was that Western Europe's ongoing surrender to radical Islam had its roots in
the psychic devastation of the First World War. For while that conflict marked
America's ascent to the rank of Great Power, Europeans took it as a devastating
proof, Hedegaard said, "the our culture was worthless. It was basically destroyed.
And that prepared the way for two sorts of totalitarianism" - Nazism and Communism -
and for "atrocities of a magnitude that is hard to imagine." Those atrocities, in
turn, placed upon Europeans an unbearable burden of guilt. The Nazis, he said, "made
Europe think it is doomed and sinful...and deserves what it has coming."
Lars Hedegaard's view seems to mirror that of French philosopher and cultural critic
Alain Finkielkraut, who thinks that "Europe does not love itself." Finkielkraut says
that it's not forces from outside that are threatening Europe as much as the
voluntary renunciation of European identity, its wish of freeing itself from itself,
its own history and its traditions, only replaced by human rights. The European Union
thus is not just post-national, but post-European. What characterizes Europe today is
the will to define itself, not from an ideology, but by dismissing any sense of
identity. Europe is now built upon an oath: Never again. Never again extermination,
never again war, but also never again nationalism. Europe prides itself on being
nothing. According to Finkielkraut, Auschwitz has become part of the foundation of
the EU, a culture based on guilt. But this is a vague ideology saying that "We have
to oppose everything the Nazis were for." Consequently, nationalism or any kind of
attachment to your own country, including what some would say is healthy,
non-aggressive patriotism, is frowned upon. To remember is to regret. Europe rejects
its past. "European identity" is the de-identification of Europe. Of the past, we are
only to remember crimes. This didn't just happen in Germany, but in all of Europe. "I
can understand the feeling of remorse that is leading Europe to this definition, but
this remorse goes too far. It is too great a gift to present Hitler to reject
everything that led to him." This is said by the Jewish son of an Auschwitz prisoner.
Finkielkraut says that Europe has made human rights its gospel, to such an extent
that it threatens European history and culture. This creates a Europe without
substance. "When hatred of culture becomes itself a part of culture, the life of the
mind loses all meaning." Finkielkraut reminds us that the multiculturalists' demand
for "diversity" requires the eclipse of the individual in favor of the group. The
abdication of reason demanded by multiculturalism has been the result of the
subjection of culture to anthropology. "Under the equalizing eye of social science,"
he writes, hierarchies are abolished. The disintegration of faith in reason and
common humanity leads not only to a destruction of standards, but also involves a
crisis of courage. "A careless indifference to grand causes," Finkielkraut warns,
"has its counterpart in abdication in the face of force," and weakens the commitment
required to preserve freedom.
What, in fact, is replacing assimilation? Anyone who does not want to assimilate,
French culture assimilates into his identity. Children aren't speaking French, but
rather a jargon composed of Arabic words and meager French. "There is always a
culture that emerges victorious. In no society is there a vacuum." Another thinker,
Pascal Bruckner, agrees that Europe has made repentance for old sins, perceived or
real, the central point of its identity, and something close to an obsession. And
this is unhealthy, according to him. "If somebody hits you, you will think: This is
for something I have done." "Never again" and the belief that dialogue will take care
of all problems are the guiding principles. We are filled with regret, but cannot
fill Europe with anything positive.
This idea that Auschwitz has defined the modern identity of Europe is reflected by
Spanish journalist Sebastian Villar Rodriguez in his piece "Europe died in
Auschwitz:"
I was walking along Raval [Barcelona] when all of a sudden I understood that Europe
died with Auschwitz.
We assassinated 6 million Jews in order to end up bringing in 20 million Muslims!
We burnt in Auschwitz the culture, intelligence and power to create.[...] Because it
is the people who gave to humanity the symbolic figures who were capable of changing
history (Christ, Marx, Einstein, Freud...) and who is the origin of progress and
wellbeing.
We must admit that Europe, by relaxing its borders [:] opened its doors to 20 million
Muslims, often illiterates and fanatics [:], the poorest of the nations and of the
ghettos, and who are preparing the worst, such as the 9/11 and the Madrid bombing and
who are lodged in apartment blocs provided by the social welfare.
We also have exchanged culture with fanaticism, the capacity to create with the will
to destroy, the wisdom with the superstition. We have exchanged the transcendental
instinct of the Jews, who even under the worst possible conditions have always looked
for a better peaceful world, for the suicide bomber. We have exchanged the pride of
life for the fanatic obsession of death. Our death and that of our children.
But why does this guilt complex also apply to Britain, which defeated the Nazis, or
Denmark, which saved most of its Jews? Why do we detect some of the same currents
even in the United States? And why on earth can't Europeans give stronger support to
the survivors of the Holocaust in Israel?
Yes, we have been sold out by our elites through the creation of Eurabia and the
wiping out of our own cultures through Multiculturalism. But this is only half of the
story. In democratic societies, even if sometimes flawed ones, this would never have
been possible if there wasn't a profound undercurrent of self-loathing present in the
general public already. The trauma caused by the events of 70 years ago is clouding
our judgment this time, since any talk at all about the threat posed by Muslim
immigration or about preserving our own culture is being dismissed as "the same
rhetoric as the Nazis used against the Jews." Europeans have been taught to be so
scared of our own shadow that we are incapable of seeing that darkness can come from
the outside, too. Maybe Europe will burn again, in part as a belated reaction to the
horrors of Auschwitz.
V.S. Naipaul has called India "a wounded civilization." But maybe it is really Europe
that is the wounded civilization, the difference being that India's wounds were
inflicted from the outside, whereas Europe's wounds are largely self-inflicted. Islam
is not destroying Europe, Europe is destroying itself. Just as a patient with AIDS
may formally die from flu or even a common cold, the real cause is the long, slow
decay of his immune system. It resembles euthanasia on an entire civilization: Europe
is tired of living. Islam just puts it out of its misery.
It is almost fascinating to see how self-loathing and West-bashing make scores of
people in the media and the academia misunderstand and misrepresent the threat we are
facing. The good guys become the bad guys and vice versa, or alternatively, we're all
equally good and bad, since all cultures are equal. Some would say that I am reading
too much into a few simple movies. Perhaps. But these are the same people that claim
that popular culture will destroy Islam.
Pop culture matters. It both reflects and shapes the values of a civilization.
Judging from the message in too many films, almost five years after 9/11 we have
hardly even begun to understand the scale of the Islamic challenge. On the contrary,
many Westerners are busy demonstrating "understanding," even sympathy, towards the
enemies of civilization.
Britain in "V for Vendetta" is a totalitarian state where the authorities promise
peace in return for total submission. Peace for submission, where have we heard this
mantra before? I know: Islam. "Islam" means submission, and comes from the same root
as "salaam," which means "peace". It is curious to notice that in the previous movie
by the Wachowski brothers, "The Matrix," people are turned into slaves and passive
tools by living in a make-belief reality designed to pacify them and keep them in
chains. In the real world, one fifth of humanity are proud to proclaim themselves
"the slaves of Allah," and consider it their mission in life to make the rest of
mankind share their mental bondage.
Islam is the Matrix. Somebody better give the Wachowski brothers their red pills.
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I intend to last long enough to put out of business all COck-suckers
along with all institutions of the industrialized slavery and genocide.
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"The army that will defeat terrorism doesn't wear uniforms, or drive
Humvies, or calls in air-strikes. It doesn't have a high command, or
high security, or a high budget. The army that can defeat terrorism
does battle quietly, clearing minefields and vaccinating children. It
undermines military dictatorships and military lobbyists. It subverts
sweatshops and special interests.Where people feel powerless, it
helps them organize for change, and where people are powerful, it
reminds them of their responsibility." ~~~~ Author Unknown ~~~~
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