25 Monday Jul 2016
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I was very impressed by this. I agree with all of it.
D, LDN
28 Monday Sep 2015
Posted in Conservatism, Culture, Decline of the West, Defence, Europe, Germany, Heroism, History, Islamisation of the West, Politics, Psychology
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A few years ago, I was enjoying a lazy evening in my university library when I noticed that an essay was due for the following day. I had been completely unaware of it until then (having been absent on the day it was set). To my further anxiety, I noted that I was also unaware of its subject, the Father of Germany – Otto Von Bismarck.
I can be excused for the latter offence, I think. In British schools, we are taught an extremely limited curriculum (usually covering only the Holocaust, Henry VIII and Slavery in any detail). Bismarck was a familiar name to me, as it is to most people, but I had never been given a reason to make him any more vivid or lifelike in my imagination.
Needless to say, I got no sleep that night, spending the whole period in the library, pumped full of machine coffee and knee deep in a pile of thick, dusty books. But despite the anxious mood in which I was prompted to discover it, the story of Bismarck has proven enduringly fascinating to me. More than anyone in European history, Bismarck seemed to have been a living embodiment of the romantic ideal – Nietzsche’s ‘Ubermensch’, Carlyle’s ‘Great Man’, Machiavelli’s ‘Prince’ – a superman of reality, gifted far beyond the ordinary and with a drive to succeed that dramatically alters world history. There wouldn’t even be a ‘Germany’ without Bismarck, without his deviousness, intellect and personal strength. He is the author of Germany. Germany is his magnum opus. What other major country can call itself the product of one man’s cunning?
I believe the elephantine heroism exhibited by Bismarck goes some way to explain the quintessentially Germanic reverence for strong leaders (a reverence which, of course, went terribly astray in the 20th century). Bismarck was the proof of the German type. He demonstrated what a German could achieve. In this regard, he can be compared to Abu Bakr, the Muslim leader who conquered most of what is now defamed as the ‘Muslim World’. Bakr, like Bismarck, demonstrated an ideal – an ideal which Muslims try (in vain) to emulate right up to the present day (see, Bin Laden, Baghdadi, Zarqawi etc…). They are unwilling to accept that Bakr was a one-off giant, unrepresentative of the human average. Hitler and the Jihadists are thus products of the same delusion.
Still, unlike Bakr (a talented barbarian), Bismarck still has lessons to teach the leaders of the civilised world. For example, what would a man like Bismarck do in the context of the Euro-Islamic war? Let’s speculate now with the aid of three famous Bismarck quotes.
“A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.”
This saying could hardly be more timely. As in Bismarck’s tinderbox era, Europe today finds itself under a long and potentially devastating siege. This time, the conquering army is not composed of other Europeans, but represents a detachment of our most ancient geo-cultural rival. Bismarck is surely correct to say that eloquence, reason and speech-making are bladeless weapons, useless in times of war and crisis. What we need is a physical, material blockade, strong enough to keep the hordes from advancing on our cities. In the case of the ‘refugee’ invasion, we should be deploying a massive, pan-European military force to Southern and South-Eastern coastlines. Anybody who shows up and is unable to prove they are Christian or of another non-Muslim minority faith must be turned away. If they try to rush the borders after being warned, they should be shot. That’s what war is like.
“With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and when I have to do with a pirate, I try to be a pirate and a half.”
Bismarck here uses ‘pirate’ to mean barbarian. He is correct to say that one should adjust one’s manner and values depending upon the force one is faced with. Since with Islam we are faced with a force of barbarism, we need not be overly civilised in defending ourselves.
“The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.”
As regards European politics, this is a timeless truth. No attempt to secure Europe is feasible if it does not factor in the influence of Russia. To have thought otherwise is the foundational error of NATO. If Islam is to be kept at bay, Russia must be incorporated into our security structure and provided with a role reflecting her size and innate capabilities.
Though the age of Great Europeans has passed, their words and wisdom remain as relevant and necessary as in their own time.
D, LDN
24 Monday Aug 2015
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Europe today feels (or should feel) equal parts thankful and humiliated. America has come to our aid again, showing more bravery and decisiveness in an instant than we have shown in years.
On Friday, on a train travelling from Amsterdam to Paris, a Moroccan terrorist – armed with a Kalashnikov assault rifle and various other small arms – opened fire on random passengers. After being resisted unsuccessfully by several civilians, two off-duty marines (together with a third American) tackled the piece of filth, overpowering him (one marine getting shot for his troubles, and another being stabbed), trapping him in a chokehold until he lost consciousness. After the terrorist was incapacitated, other passengers piled on and the gunmen was disarmed and then tied up. It is believed – but not yet confirmed – that the Moroccan had ties to ISIS and had been on the radar of the French secret services for some time now.
What kind of tragedy was averted by this heroism? For an answer, we must cast our minds back to the Mumbai attacks in 2008, and specifically the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (railway station) shootings. On that occasion, two Kalashnikov-wielding terrorists managed to massacre 58 (fifty-eight) people before the attackers chose to leave the Terminus in search of more prey. Over 100 other civilians were also shot at the station but survived.
A Thalys high-speed train, like the one targeted on Friday, has a capacity of 377 seated passengers and well over 400 allowing for standing passengers. In reports issued since the attack was foiled, the service running that evening has been described as ‘packed’. We will assume for our purposes that the population of the train numbered at least 377.
A single attacker moving through packed carriages with a fully-automatic rifle could have quite easily killed a hundred people. Incapacitated by fear, femininity, old-age or childhood, many civilians would not have stood a chance against a young, fearless militant unconcerned with death and legal or moral repercussions. The security services on board we now know were cowering (cowering!) in their staff quarters, leaving no obvious impediment to the attacker other than a feat of spontaneous bravery, which, thank goodness, was forthcoming.
Even though it was averted, we should treat this attack as though it was successful This was an attempted assault by ISIS on the people of Europe. Those who believed ISIS could be quarantined to the Middle East must have this delusion beaten out of them. This is war, no less real than in 1939. A far-reaching licence of special powers must be granted to our governments until this threat is diminished to manageable proportions.
If any Muslim resident in Europe has suspected links to ISIS (and that can be as little as ‘liking’ ISIS propaganda on a facebook post), that is more than enough reason to deport him/her. Stop building Mosques. Stop all Muslim immigration (Bravo Slovakia!). Stop pandering to Muslim causes. Man the f*** up!
America (and the American spirit) will not always be there to defend us. We must develop that spirit within ourselves if we are to survive another millennium.
D, LDN.
06 Monday Jul 2015
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The question of whether Greece remains in or tumbles out of the European currency may well have been decided by the time this article is published. Whichever way the referendum has now gone, my argument here is substantially broader than the current dispute, involving the extent to which Greece forms an essential part of the European geo-cultural community; a question more of an eternal nature than a merely temporal one.
As Greece’s economic health began to flatline in 2007/8, many chauvinist types in Northern Europe (specifically, British, German, Finnish and French conservatives) were quick to ask questions like – “How important is Greece to us anyway?” – “Who cares about Greece?” – “Is Greece/are the Greeks even European?” – “Why does Greece matter to us?” etc….
The attitude underpinning such enquiries would eventually lurch to the wild extreme in the German weekly newspaper Die Welt in which a columnist revived the canard that modern day ‘Greeks’ are not actually the famous ‘Greeks’ of old.
“The idea” he wrote “that the Greeks of modern times are descendants of Pericles or Socrates and not a Turkish-moulded mixture of Slavs, Byzantines and Albanians, used to be a belief among most educated Europeans. The architects of the EU themselves could not escape this belief. In this context, they brought clammy Greece into the European boat in 1980. The consequences can be seen every day.”
I’m not a geneticist and so cannot comment on the ‘Greeks are not real Greeks’ theory, but in regard to the first set of questions, the answers (in order) are as follows – “It is hugely important” – “We all should.” – “Yes.” – “Because of Islam.”
As alert observers (or at least anyone with a map and a brain) will have known for some time, the fate of Greece may foretell the fate of Europe… For over a thousand years, Greece has been the fighting border-guard of the West against the world of Islam, and should it fall now, or – just as bad – shift allegiance, our civilisation becomes at once a thousand times more precarious.
The Turkish army, for hundreds of years the nemesis of Greek aspiration, is the strongest in the Muslim world and considerably larger and better maintained than any in continental Europe. Indeed, Turkey’s military is the only non-European army currently occupying European land in contravention of international law.
According to most international rulings on the subject, the island of Cyprus is part of Greece. Turkey’s hold on the northern half of the territory is put up with only out of fear of Turkish arms.
Throughout history, various other Greek islands have been claimed by Turkish nationalists, and the Greek mainland was for centuries subsumed entirely by the Ottoman Empire, the modern Hellenic Republic only emerging from the dreamless sleep of Islamic rule in 1830.
At present, Turkey is also the only thing separating Greece (and thus Europe) from the territory of the Islamic State with which it has a rather dubious relationship. Routes through the country are almost always chosen by Western-born terrorists travelling to join ISIS, and local authorities have been notably slack in preventing this. Of course, if there are ISIS cells coming into Europe via Turkey, their footprints will first depress Hellenic soil.
The Greek military, for its part, is large by southern-European standards but still considerably weaker than the armed forces of Turkey, Egypt or Saudi Arabia. Westward from Greece, the first war-capable nation-state is Germany. Europe at its weakest thus shares a border with Islam at its strongest.
History is known to have a gift for poetic irony. As Greece, Rome and Jerusalem are the fountains of our civilisation, it would appear both apocalyptic and appropriate that anti-Western Muslims are freely landing in Italy, crossing into Greece, and plotting the downfall of the Jewish State.
D, LDN.
22 Monday Jun 2015
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The military success of the Islamic State terror group has been almost unbelievable. With a numerical strength of just 25,000 (according to the CIA) IS fighters have performed with such efficiency that Kurdish resistors routinely estimate the true figure as being as high as 250,000.
For over a year now, the Islamic State has fought on three fronts. To the East, the State engages Shia Iraqi and Iranian state Militias. To the South, it sees off the Syrian Army and multiple Free Syrian factions. To the North, it grapples with Kurdish groups and allied Western paramilitaries. If this weren’t enough, the State is also bombed around the clock by a coalition of Arab air forces.
And yet, in spite of this, the organisation grows in strength week by week.
Who or what will it take to degrade the power of this demonic entity? The only answer I can think of is the State of Israel.
“Why is it Israel and ISIS haven’t clashed yet?” – This question is asked regularly by conspiratorial types on the internet, the insinuation being that the Jews actually support the terror group, or at least so approve of its actions against Assad that they feel the benefits outweigh the risks.
I suppose the latter idea isn’t crazy. Assad is certainly a sworn enemy of Jerusalem and his (large and threatening) army is being substantially harmed by the conflict. But even so, given the speed of IS’s advance (and also the threat the group poses to Jordan – Israel’s only genuine ally in the region) a confrontation between Israel and IS may ultimately be inevitable.
ISIS are obviously opposed to Zionism and though they deem Hamas to be made up of apostate ladyboys, they do share many of its goals. As the ISIS frontline bulldozes its way down from the Syrian desert towards the Golan Heights, IDF units will have to adopt a more aggressive posture. This will probably start with a live-fire exercise or two in order to deter the terrorists away without engaging them, but that seems unlikely to work. ISIS are anything but cowards. Stimulated with a fanatical lust for the afterlife, the lovers of perpetual Jihad will surely welcome the opportunity to fight a superior foe.
But what would an IS/Israel look like? We can only guess.
I can certainly tell you what I hope it looks like. Dearest reader, I hope it resembles the apocalypse. I hope missiles rain down like hail, leaving deep craters in the desert. I hope Merkava tanks roll over the rubble of knocked down fortifications, their raised guns popping shells into enemy ranks. I hope the Israeli Air force’s reputation for overkill is made to seem naïve. I wish for fire, smoke and obliteration – Biblical precedents of death. I want Left-wing tears, UN panic attacks, desperate pleas for a ceasefire that never comes. I want the conclusive humiliation of political Islam – a knockout counterpunch from the 21st century against the 7th.
Infeasible? Don’t be so sure. With every passing minute, the gap diminishes. With every passing minute, the mouse stumbles closer to the python.
D, LDN.
19 Monday Jan 2015
Posted in Conservatism, Culture, Defence, Europe, European Union, Germany, Heroism, Politics
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A couple of months ago, a political poll was published in France that showed Marine Le Pen’s Front National in the lead. One month later, record-breaking protests against the Islamisation of Europe were held in Germany, the most powerful country in European Union. One week on from that, two massacres occurred in swift succession – the first at a Parisian comic, the second at a Parisian Kosher Deli. And despite all the pointless carnage caused in those incidents, Muslims have apparently chosen to make another move this afternoon, taking three hostages in a suburb outside the French capital. This intensification (or quickening of the pace) of history must represent something. I’m sure that in due course we will be told it signals the failure of socialism, capitalism, the European Union, social integration or some similar garbage. But I have a feeling they’ll be wasting their breath. The people know the zeitgeist. We are now approaching the endgame of Islam in Europe.
And this is no bad thing of course. This is a conflict (or rather, contest) that should have been a first round knockout. The superiority of the West is so great that even Muslims vote with their feet to join us here.
And had they behaved themselves, treated people with kindness and tolerance, and not tried to enforce their way of life on others, they could have become an accepted, even valued minority, no more controversial than Africans or Jews. As it happens, we have been subjected to the meanest hell. Our citizens, young and old, male and female, have been stabbed, punched, raped, pimped and blown up. Had this behaviour been inflicted on a Muslim country by Christian migrants, those migrants would hang from lampposts and their innocent peers would be expelled.
So bring on the end game. Let it finally be here. Bring on the crowds in city squares demanding deportation. Bring on Pegida, Geert Wilders and the EDL.
If you hear of an anti-Islam demonstration near you, however small, please join it. If you know a person on the fence, knock him over onto the right side of it. The quicker we can get this out of the way, the sooner Europe can go back to its traditional pursuits of science, literature and progressivism (in the good sense of that word).
The author of this blog has never been on the soft side of the counter-jihad spectrum. I have made no secret of how I think this should end. And now, at last, I think that end is in sight.
D, LDN.
11 Sunday Jan 2015
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I have used this blog many times (perhaps too many) to criticise the iconic millionaire Malala Yousafzai. In three articles, I have argued that the Pakistani starlet has none of the qualifications needed to justify the praise lavished upon her, and that (by remaining devoutly wedded to her faith) she actually exerts a harmful influence on the cause of women’s liberation in the Islamic world.
To balance this criticism, or rather to intensify it by comparison, what follows is a roll-call of honor for those women who really do put life and limb on the line for their convictions. People who, when Islam finally crumbles (or is otherwise destroyed), will be spoken of in retrospect as Orwells, Pankhursts and Solzhenitsyns.
1. Caroline Glick.
Anyone who follows the Israel/’Palestine’ conflict with any seriousness will be familiar with the work of Caroline Glick. Her regular columns typically provide the best take on issues pertaining to the Middle East, North Africa and global Islamic terrorism.
Last year, Ms Glick (author of ‘Shackled Warrior’ and editor of the Jerusalem Post) used her formidable talent to achieve the seemingly impossible, summing up one of the ‘world’s most complicated conflicts’ in a single paragraph. And this is it:
“The absence of regional peace (in the Middle East) has nothing at all to do with Israel. It stems from the virulent Jew hatred that is endemic throughout the Islamic world. Due to this hatred Israel’s neighbors seek its destruction. The centrality of their irrational, obsessive desire to seek the eradication of the Jewish people and the Jewish state is the reason there has been no true peace between Israel and its neighbors – including its Palestinian neighbors. And because their hatred is irrational and all-encompassing, there is nothing Israel can do to appease them.”
As a piece of writing, as a work of compression and articulation, this is faultless. Glick is a hero of exposition and a priceless asset in the struggle against our enemies.
2. Wafa Sultan.
Female activists from the Islamic world are a rare breed. Female activists from the Arab world are rarer still. This considered, the Syrian born commentator Wafa Sultan is a women of incalculable importance.
A life-risking apostate, Sultan has used the sanctuary of the West to take aim at her native culture with a fury unmatched even by her enemies. On the subject of terrorism – now tearing the civil society of her homeland into bloodied rags – Sultan wrote the following:
“Why does a young Muslim, in the prime of life, with a full life ahead, go and blow himself up in a bus full of innocent passengers?… He was not born a terrorist, and did not become a terrorist overnight. Islamic teachings played a role in weaving his ideological fabric, thread by thread, and did not allow other sources to play a role. It was these teachings that distorted this terrorist, and killed his humanity; it was not (the terrorist) who distorted the religious teachings, and misunderstood them, as some ignorant people claim. When you recite to a child still in his early years the verse ‘They will be killed or crucified, or have their hands and feet on alternative sides cut off,’ regardless of this verse’s interpretation, and regardless of the reasons it was conveyed, or its time, you have made the first step towards creating a terrorist.”
3. Pamela Geller.
I’ve already written a celebratory essay on this lady. Despite its length, my praises are not yet exhausted.
Where would we be with Geller’s dedication to raising awareness of Islamisation? I wouldn’t be at all surprised if I first read that dark, foreboding phrase on her website.
Geller arrived on the scene before Fjordman, Mark Steyn or the EDL. She realised before everyone (and long before it was safe and fashionable to do so) that 9/11 was not an isolated case destined to remain a quirk of history. She saw all too keenly that the curtain was going up on a horror show far richer in death and detail than anyone could imagine.
4. Katie Hopkins.
You might think this a bit unserious. Katie Hopkins, the middle-class fury from the Apprentice… A potential Solzhenitsyn? Well, who are we to say how things will turn out?
Over recent weeks, the columnist has spoken with a thrilling, suicidal bravery on the topic of Islam, tweeting things that can all too often result directly in injury or even death. Her fearless style is the best of British. It demonstrates that someone from the apolitical mainstream, someone from planet celebrity no less, is willing to maintain our cultural frontline. I for one, find that rather splendid.
5. Brigitte Gabriel.
The Lebanese civil war must rank as one of the greatest tragedies in the history of Islamic colonisation. A beautiful, civilised Christian nation, blessed with natural splendour and decorated with ancient grandeur was slowly dismantled, disfigured and destroyed by a violent wave of barbarism.
For centuries, the Lebanese have fought gallantly to overturn the demographic conquest of their land by Muslim Arabs. Alas, they have failed, and with much destruction having been done and a huge diaspora having been created in the process.
A notable member of the diaspora is Ms. Brigitte Gabriel. Via her organisation ‘Act For America’, Gabriel campaigns boldly against an enemy she knows all too personally.
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These five women put liberal feminists to shame. Nobody stands to lose more from the Islamisation of the West than members of the female sex. Bravo to those who resist. Shame on those who acquiesce.
D, LDN.
09 Tuesday Apr 2013
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I wanted to write a post this week defending the legitimacy of the Zionist project but I quickly realised that with this conflict, most of the arguments have already been made.
Just as some people are right-handed and some left, everybody seems to have an inbuilt bias on the Middle East dispute.
People with no interest in politics whatsoever nevertheless reserve a space in their hearts for either the Jews or the Arabs of the near-east, rarely both. They may have never met a Jew or an Arab in their lives, but they still fight for ‘their’ side with all the determination of a brother coming to the aid of a brother.
If you think about it, this is actually quite strange. It certainly isn’t the case with other conflicts. When the Sinhalese and the Tamils fight each other in Sri Lanka, a majority of people require an explanation as to who the Sinhalese and Tamils are before the reasons behind the conflict themselves are elucidated. Some might even need an index finger on a map to show them where Sri Lanka is.
Why is Israel and Palestine different? One reason could be religion.
I grew up in a religious household and remember going to Sunday-school each week where I read the Bible with the teachers. The word ‘Israel’ was familiar to me long before I knew anything political, as were Jews, Syrians, Egyptians, Lebanese Cedar trees and the concept of the promised land. When I become politically aware and learned about Zionism, I already had a basic grasp of the actors and religious stakes involved.
Most Westerners (or at least Christian Westerners) therefore are bound to see the conflict as an interesting one. The same I imagine is true of Muslims, who are taught from an early age about Mohammads alleged journey to Jerusalem as well as more explicitly about the politics of Palestine.
Another reason of course is race. The Jews are a subject of unending fascination for Europeans, who can’t quite fathom whether to adore or despise them. In America too, the Jewish people are both liked and disliked but rarely ignored.
Anything involving Jews therefore tends to attract scrutiny.
Reflecting this interest, the Middle East conflict has inspired passionate and important political books on both sides of the debate. On the Pro-Israel side there are volumes like “The Case for Israel”, “From Time Immemorial”, and “Shackled Warrior”. On the anti-Israel side, there is “Beyond Chutzpah”, “Fateful Triangle” and “The Gun and the Olive Branch”.
Some of these books have become classics of political writing and their authors are looked to as intellectual sages not just on the Middle East but World Politics more broadly.
But for me, the strongest political argument for Israel arises naturally from an examination of the realities on the ground.
Israel as a country can easily deceive people. It looks so Western and sophisticated, so calm and cosmopolitan that it’s scarcely believable to think that in a coastal strip just to its south, there is a nightmare territory of illiteracy, genital mutilation, veiling and stoning to death.
Just a mile from beachfront Israeli coffee shops, in which young Jewish women and young Jewish men drink Cappuccino and chat about sport, literature and fashion, there are other women, forbidden to leave the crumbling houses of men they were forced to marry as children, and whose children dance on the unpaved streets outside praising suicide bombing.
These are not, as if often claimed, ‘two different cultures’. These are two different stages of cultural development. One is in the 21st century, and the other in the 13th.
In Israeli cafes, a heated argument might break out over which marks the greater artistic leap forward, “The Bends” or “OK Computer” (the answer incidentally is the latter). In a Gaza shack, a brawl might ensue over whether music (of any kind) should be punishable by fine or amputation.
It pays to remind oneself every so often just how weird this contrast is. Imagine Denmark sharing a border with Afghanistan. Switzerland with Pakistan. Tokyo with Darfur.
And yet – knowing all this – how does the West, so comfortable in its own version of the 21st century, react?
It gathers both sides together and shouts “Make a deal!…”, and then reacts with feigned surprise when nothing comes of it.
I suppose this isn’t strictly-speaking ‘betrayal’. Israel is not in Europe. It’s more a simple kind of hypocrisy, as well as a motivated failure to comprehend an obvious truth; that the age of mutilation, dogma, and suicide bombing cannot be reconciled with the world of fashion, irony and relaxed society. They are not equal and – more importantly – they are not equally valuable. This simple, cartoonish contrast may prove to be the strongest argument for Israel, even after all the academic head-scratching and moral grandstanding has fallen away.
If you wish to defend the West from Islamisation, and modernity from barbarism, you must be a supporter of the Jewish State and defend what it represents. It is a border of the civilised world and an armed front against its darkest enemies. The Jews are a talented, humane and indispensable race and their state should reflect this in security, prosperity and size.
These are the vital arguments. So if you’re asked again to choose between modernity and barbarism, or whatever else you might wish to call the same choice, ‘Civilization or madness’, ‘Israel or Palestine’…. don’t think too deeply about it. Despite the weighty books, complicated theorems and wars of interpretation, honesty alone should lead you to the century you belong in.
D, LDN
02 Tuesday Apr 2013
Posted in Conservatism, Eurabia, Heroism, Islamisation of the West
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“Europe becomes more and more a province of Islam, a colony of Islam. And Italy is an outpost of that province, a stronghold of that colony…In each of our cities lies a second city: a Muslim city, a city run by the Quran. A stage of Islamic expansion.”
The most beautiful, talented and inspiring political writer of the millennial age was an Italian named Oriana Fallaci.
Her name, so musically pleasant to hear and say, unlocks a reputation of beauty, courage and indefatigability (let’s not allow that last word to be forever tarnished by Mr Galloway).
Fallaci wrote, before most of us had found our bearings on the issue, the two greatest books about the Islamisation of Europe ever written – “The Rage and the Pride” and “The Force of Reason”.
These volumes are not like any other book on the subject published before or since. They are written not by an academic, or a soapbox agitator, but by a witness to history of the first rank. The language used in the expression of their content is so passionate, well-chosen and spiritual, it easily ascends to poetry. While the books aren’t particularly complex, they reward slow and thoughtful reading and settle eventually more as philosophy than journalism.
Praise for Ms Fallaci (particularly in her native Italy) often takes on a tone reminiscent of Saint-worship. This is easily explained. As a polemicist, she wrote with an emotional, Latin urgency which tends to either greatly repel or greatly endear.
When her writing repels, it shocks. When it endears, it turns one from an admirer into a devotee.
Fallaci’s prematurity created a strong and strange mystique, much like that which attaches to George Orwell and his lonely stand against prevailing orthodoxies. Fallaci like Orwell, got to the point of the era before the intellectuals. She had the correct answer before the question was widely known. To protest against Muslim immigration now is common-sense, but when Fallaci wrote those books, it was regarded as outrageous racism. Her willingness to be misunderstood in this respect truly deserves the epithet ‘heroic’.
Fallaci was instrumental in waking up the Western intellect to the horror of Muslim immigration (and not just terrorism). Her books predate those which made the anti-Islamisation position easy and fashionable. Her volumes never topped the bestseller stands either here or in Europe. She tragically died of cancer before her opinions were vindicated or broadly accepted. As terrible as such facts are, they have served to embalm her reputation from the arrows of her (numerous) critics.
Fallaci’s physical beauty greatly amplifies the effect of her writing. This brilliant, beautiful, empowered Italian woman when compared against the house-bound wretches of the Islamic World adds great emphasis to our struggle. How could we give up the cultural foundations which allow for this superior kind of womanhood?
Age and ill-health never completely diminished Fallaci’s appearance. At 75, she still looked like a film star. The fight for liberty never looked so dignified.
Leftists – of course – continue to despise her. For as long as they do this, I will despise Leftists. On dozens of occasions liberals have trotted out the same Fallaci quote in which she complains that Muslim immigrants ‘breed like rats’ and held it up as if it was a bleeding knife, hard evidence of some kind of nascent National Socialism in her personality.
But this is ridiculous. As a metaphor, it is nicely to the point and entirely correct. Muslim immigrants are breeding like rats. Rats, rabbits, bacteria…whatever you might want to compare it to, that is what they are doing, and should it continue, we will end up with a continent burning with hatred and war.
Fallaci’s tone was often furious, even – some say – ‘fanatical’, but since our enemies are so easily enlivened by the dictats of Sharia law, we could do worse than become fanatical about our own beliefs and virtues. The Muslims are fanatical about the need for women to be veiled. We can (and should) match that fanaticism with a desire that they should remain free. Let’s not be afraid of anger, even less of passion.
As we go forward in the struggle to avoid the destiny she forewarned us of, Fallaci’s books must be our manifesto. I will continue to read her and take encouragement from her words. I hope that she will not be forgotten now that her views have become widespread. No-one has yet matched her tone of moral anger, her poetry, her cruel exactness. Her words still perfectly define our challenge….
“There are moments in Life when keeping silent becomes a fault, and speaking an obligation. A civic duty, a moral challenge, a categorical imperative from which we cannot escape.”
D, LDN.
26 Tuesday Feb 2013
Posted in America, Communism, Conservatism, Crime and Punishment, Decline of the West, Heroism
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9/11, Counter-Jihad, Country Music, Defend the modern world, Dixie Chicks, Eurabia, George W. Bush, Green Day, Patriotism, Radio RWB, Rihanna Muslim, Toby Keith, United States, Willie Nelson
Great music can create history. History can also create great music.
When the United States was brutally attacked in the Autumn of 2001, most recording artists reacted by temporarily toning down their usual liberalism. Groups like Rage Against the Machine – whose lyrics speak openly of bombing government buildings among other things – decided not to protest when their music was blacklisted on every responsible radio station in the country. Left-leaning outfits like Green Day (who would later record the horrible song ‘American Idiot’), chose to remain silent rather than agitate while the bodies were still warm. Even rap artists refused to exonerate or understand the killings and a Dr Dre track entitled ‘Kill Bin Laden’ was at one point rumoured to be in production (the track was later cancelled).
After about a month, the liberal truce fell away and things returned very much to normal. Later, when Europeans ended what had been up-till-then a remarkable period of solidarity and rejoined the traditional “dumb American” narrative bolstered by talk of an ‘unjustified’ war, many US musicians and celebrities treacherously joined with them. In 2003, when anti-US hatred and victim-blaming reached a shameful apex, almost every US recording artist of note was speaking out against the march to war in Iraq and against the US president – the “stupid fat, cowboy Texan” (and American hero) George W. Bush.
Almost every recording artist…. Almost.
There were exceptions to the idiotic trend described. Perhaps the exceptions are not very well known internationally, but inside the US, every Patriot will have observed who stood by the flag in an hour when the world was mocking it.
One of those exceptions was a gentleman named Toby Keith.
Toby Keith was an established country artist long before 2001, enjoying great success within the broad confines of the Southern and Heartland country music scene. But his name would become much more famous and controversial after the Islamist attacks of that September.
Keith, who suffered the passing of his USAF veteran father around the same time of the atrocity penned a song in reaction to it that is now notorious.
“Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (the Angry American)”.
http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruNrdmjcNTc
This song is unabashedly patriotic and admonishes in a swaggering, confident voice those responsible for the hijackings. The lyrics include the following –
“My daddy served in the army, even lost his right eye,The last line here offended many. Keith is referring to the bombardment of Afghanistan (the song was written before Iraq), and many thought the boast of ‘lighting up’ someone’s world with incendiary bombs was somewhat tasteless.
But many weren’t offended by it. Many loved it, and Keith’s album ‘Unleashed’ topped the Billboard 200.
Later during the Iraq war, Keith penned other songs in a patriotic vein like the hit single ‘American Soldier’, and (mocking his critics) even titled the 2003 follow-up to Unleashed, “Shock’n Ya’ll” after the recent bombing of Baghdad. This second album transcended the achievement of Unleashed and reached number 1 in the first week of release. Just as the Dixie Chicks were by then strongly associated with anti-war sentiment, Keith’s name was now synonymous with support for the Bush regime and with patriotism more broadly.
Over in Britain, I suppose it’s harder for people to comprehend the idea of a patriotic singer topping the charts.
In the UK, there is no Toby Keith figure, or even a tradition of patriotic music to produce one. The nearest equivalent Britain has to country music is folk; a genre equal parts unpopular and dronefully uninspiring.
Some time ago I remember listening (out of curiosity) to the BNP internet radio station – Radio Red, White and Blue. Most of the airtime was taken up with nationalistic folk tunes with lyrics like
“What would good old Winston say,
If he could see England today…?”.
The songs were the opposite of uplifting. They were funny, but not in any way the artists could have intended. They harked back to the simple, boring Britain of the 1930s. Whereas Toby Keith’s America was about fireworks, shopping-malls, rodeos, megachurches and capitalism, the folk scene of radio RWB reminisced about a Britain of petticoats, tea-cosys, patterned wall-paper and WI meetings.
Can’t we do better than this?
Toby Keith’s patriotism is complemented by a more general social conservatism, as is evidenced in the song “Beer for my horses”, especially the lines (sung by Willie Nelson)
“Grandpappy told my pappy, back in my day son,This utopian vision of old-school justice was the subject of further criticism for Keith, but the singer dug down admirably and defended the song, denying any of the racist undertones some had suspected.
Back in blighty, I think there’s a genuine market for a singer espousing such views. But to be successful, unlike those played on radio RWB, he can’t be a laughable George Formby figure from a buried age, but someone identifiably modern and talented.
That is another of Keith’s distinctions: talent. Consider these lines from “Made in America:
“My old man is that old manThis verse has a real poetic quality, one that many wouldn’t expect from the genre (or even the nationality).
I won’t list all my favourite tracks and lyrics here. It would take too long. Let’s just say I highly recommend listening to Keith’s records, even if you’re British. To help you start, his best album in my opinion is still Unleashed. After this go on chronologically. Shock’n’Ya’ll is a superb second place and is let down soley by being too polished.
One day I dream of escaping the confines of my gentle, quietly imploding England and flying to America, whereupon I replant myself somewhere in the Bible Belt. Somewhere like Birmingham, Alabama, or Nashville, Tennessee. The pull of these places involves their social warmth and cultural confidence. That confidence is protected by heroes like Toby Keith. When Britain, now so ill, produces a matching equivalent of him, it will be a sign that some kind of recovery has begun.
D, LDN.
