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We are almost 12 years on from the September the 11th attacks in America, and we are at last approaching the point where we can say the right has triumphed in the debate over Islamism in Europe.
This might sound a bit too optimistic to some, but I see the evidence all around. There are no serious, mainstream conservatives or liberals still arguing for the unconditional appeasement of Islam in Europe. A huge wave of European conservative and liberal intellectuals have converted almost wholesale to neo-conservative ideas, or at least those which involve the defence of Western culture. They still don’t want to be American of course, but at last they’re realising that it wouldn’t be a ball to be Iranian, Algerian or Turkish either. The ‘either-or’ fallacy has collapsed and while America bolts leftward, Europe has never been so united in ‘right-wing’ sentiment.
If you cast your mind back just a few years ago, you can appreciate the magnitude and speed of this shift. Think back as late as 2006 when the world was first mesmerised by the oratorical skills of Barack Obama, and consider the then fashionable opinions in Europe regarding the War on Terror. It was still broadly regarded as an idiotic cowboy initiative, and the reasons for it – the threat of radical Islam – was deemed to consist mostly of hype, bloated and promoted by arms manufacturers and straw-chewing Christian fundamentalists. George W. Bush, the great dumb American caricature, was still beloved by comedians and political cartoonists in London, Paris and Berlin. You could still get a laugh by pointing to the verbal errors of the out-going President, or by linking the uneducated twang of his accent to the foreign policy he initiated. The threat of Jihad was not just a lie, but an American lie, and it was patriotic not to believe it.
And look at things now.
With veiled faces multiplying, darkening the romance of Parisian streets, Pakistani paedophiles pimping orphan girls in Oxfordshire, kebab houses degentrifying great swathes of Birmingham, and terror alerts issued in Stockholm, Belgium and Denmark – no European can any longer think it patriotic to deny that this is a problem. One could call it fashionable, one could call it bold, and provocative, but no longer is it patriotism.
The right has won the debate….but only among people of a certain generation.
For the young, the debate is ongoing, and the anti-Islamist side has its work cut out.
One of the reasons it is still a challenge is the ongoing demographic shift among European youth. Not only are Muslims growing in number and influence with each new generation, but they are managing to integrate ‘sideways’ with other immigrant communities; in particular those of Christian black Africans. Islam is becoming respected on the street even by Christians, as a natural part of third-world identity. Islam, and even Islamism, is increasingly viewed as being as much a victim of ‘the system’ (and a cool enough means of rebelling against it) as hip-hop and gangsterism.
This is a cause for concern for anyone who understands where the real cultural power lies these days.
When a Counter-Jihad activist watches a good Mark Steyn or Pamela Geller video on YouTube, they might well feel a sense of relief that the “the message is getting out there.”, and that “People are waking up…”
But such a feeling can’t survive a glance at the view count for these clips. The figures are usually at best around the 10-15,000 mark.
Even videos of the late Christopher Hitchens, one of the most popular and media-friendly intellectuals of recent memory, rarely score views over 100,000. Pat Condell, the atheist commentator maxed out on less than 4 million views with a video that was uploaded more than 3 years ago. This is nowhere near sufficient.
Notice also that the ‘video demographics’ reveal a majority of viewers to be over the age of forty.
None of that data bodes well for the future.
Elsewhere on the cultural map, if Lil Wayne or Rihanna release a new music video, views can head toward 100,000,000 within weeks.
Who’s to say that in the future, there won’t be a Rihanna in a headscarf, or a Lil Wayne with a prayer-cap? Were that to occur, the number of people educated by the Counter-Jihad community over the last ten years, would be cancelled out by the number of younger citizens gained over period of hours. And then the offices at the Daily Telegraph could go as crazy as they like; it wouldn’t matter one jot to the younger generation. They would accept a Muslim Rihanna as perfectly natural – as well as historically and culturally consistent. The third-world in the White man’s world is one-world after all – all distinctions or divisions fall away, disappear…..
And who is to blame for this?
I, as a young person, would nominate the ethno-nationalists; people who maintain that there is no qualitative difference between foreign cultures, and that all are equally undesirable. Only European, White culture is acceptable. All else is an invasion or a surrender.
We cannot win against Islamism if we surrender to this kind of catch-all racism.
We should be glad that groups like the EDL and SION have made a start at unifying world cultures in a defensive phalanx, rather than, as the BNP would do, scattering us all like birdseed to be eaten separately.
D, LDN.
Defend the Modern World 
you are very sensible people here.
these essays are very well written.
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Thank you Sir.
Just the one guy here though. I’m a student so I have a lot of spare time to blog.
Regards.
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i am very impressed. you are a brave young man. thank you for having some backbone…but tread lightly as you can see they jail everyone in sight. good luck son.
bob e
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David, I’m glad to know that you are part-Italian. I admire Oriana Fallaci too. She’s the one that first alerted me to the dangers of Islam.
I can see your point in this post, however I see an excess of pessimism in it. The young generation you are referring to
1) does not hold much power
2) is more differentiated than you describe.
I can spot a different, opposite trend among some young people who go in a non-conformist direction and are not afraid of saying so, don’t just follow the fashion but think with their head and they may be role models too and have influence:
http://www.enzaferreri.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/xfactor-christian-jahmene-raises-quality.html
I think that we have many reasons for hope, some of which I explained here:
http://www.enzaferreri.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/hope-is-theological-virtue.html
Bear with me if I quote myself from that post:
“When I was a teenager in the 60s and 70s, the radical ideas of the Left seemed unrealistic and their goals unattainable. Now for them it’s almost mission accomplished.
“Things can turn around the other way just as easily as they did this way.”
When things go too far, we can expect a reaction.
Enza
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Maybe, I like your optimism, although the demographic tide is against us. I still believe the growth in African and Islamic co-operation will fuse together pop-culture and Islam at some point. Witness the ‘Kosovan’ singer Rita Ora for example. It may be happening already. And as for them not holding power, that is very true, and that’s the reason many Conservatives are too complacent in my view. They look at the House of Commons and see only White, Christian faces, and think that the tide will never come in. But at my University, I can see the future of London all around me and it looks very, very different. If you look up on youtube, the “youth parliament’ sessions in the UK, you can see the massive shifts in politico-cultural power which are coming with the next generation. The counter-culture is working against us. We badly need respected musicians and actors to join the counter-jihad movement before it’s too late.
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I’ve checked Rita Ora and it seems more likely that she is Catholic than Muslim:
http://hollowverse.com/rita-ora/
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120804135911AA2FbSJ
What you say may be true, but can pop culture, with all its hedonistic and self-gratifying messages, and Islam really fuse together?
We know that there are young Brits, especially women, who convert to Islam, but can that really become an en mass phenomenon when the UK young generation has been brought up to expect everything, whereas Islam is a (pseudo-)religion born out of hardship?
I don’t know the answer to these questions, but questions they are.
And also, Islamists and Muslims have a history of forming alliances with the most unlikely causes and people when they are weak, but over time when they get stronger they reveal their true faces, and I wonder whether when they do people will still put up with them. We can only hope that it will not be too late.
Maybe I just prefer to be optimist, it could be it.
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Yes, miss Ora may be Catholic, however she has released politicised songs about the Balkans. As to the decadence pf pop-culture rendering it incompatible with Islam, I’m not certain that will be the case. In hiphop, black Muslim musicians treat the moral restrictions of Islam in the same ala carte way Christian rappers treat Biblical laws against casual sex and excessive displays of wealth. Their secret loyalty however will be with the ummah. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if there emerges a Muslim lady gaga at some point. Perhaps her gimmick could be a message of ‘moderation’, ‘one world unity’, and harmony. Liberals will buy into it and thus it begins….
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I have done a reading of this essay, with response, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoEgofSweuk
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Thank you for your response. You raise many valid points. I don’t have a youtube account so I can’t reply on that site, but I’ll write a longer response this evening here when I get home.
David.
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I don’t fully agree with everything I wrote here, but I think a lot of it stands up quite well.
We clearly come from two very different areas of the right-wing. You are an ethno-nationalist and I am a Classical Liberal. I believe that liberal capitalist democracy has proven to be the most (if not the only) workable social arrangement for Western countries yet found, and that to embark on a communist or third position experiment at this point in history would be disastrous. America, as a model, works. Its major flaws (and there are many) usually stem from imported toxins like radical feminism and political correctness. It is by American example that European Socialism and Fascism were exposed as dead-ends.
As to race: You suggest that it is human nature to prefer the company of your own kind and to feel uncomfortable being surrounded by an outgroup. I can’t deny that most social research agrees with you here. Nevertheless, one must recognise the realities of modern British society and the implausibility of winding back the demographic clock. Given your ethno-nationalist starting point, how would you rectify the situation in practice? To re-segregate or re-homogenise Britain (let alone America) would require the suspension of democratic norms and a period of martial law, the necessary support for which would be nigh on impossible to incite. You might say the same is true of the deportation of Muslims, but this – I believe – will eventually be regarded as a necessary evil after riots, terror attacks and sexual violence become too common to tolerate.
Meritocratic individualism is the ideal we should strive for. Being of a certain ethnic group should not be rewarded by government, and nor should it be grounds for government persecution. Only a regime encouraging people to stand on their own two feet – that is, on their own merit, lends itself to progress.
Anyway, thank you for a stimulating response. I’ll be sure to check out your videos in future.
David.
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It didn’t take long after you wrote this blog, see Rihanna in headscarf here:
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/rihanna-kicked-famed-abu-dhabi-mosque-racy-photos-article-1.1491658
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Oh dear…
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