Islam Comes to Orlando

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I had another post almost finished for today. I’ll have to leave that draft for next week. The story filling the news at the moment is much more serious.

As you’ll probably be aware, 50 or more US citizens have been murdered and a further 50 or so injured at a Gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. According to the media, the gunman is one Omar Mateen, a 29-year old Afghan-American citizen, described in some reports as a ‘native’ – by which they can only mean American-born. His motive has yet to be confirmed, but we can surely speculate with some confidence.

Florida governor Rick Scott responded to the attack by tweeting the following words – “This is an attack on our people. An attack on Orlando. An attack on Florida. An attack on America. An attack on all of us.”

He is almost correct. The current tragedy is certainly centred on America and the American public. But, as ever with Muslim violence, the intended target is much bigger. This is an attack primarily on homosexuality, a way of life considered sinful by the desert philosophers of Islamic orthodoxy. It is also an attack on the very right to choose how to live. Muslims don’t acknowledge the right to a private life, to private indulgences or secret pleasures. Every individual must live like every other individual. This must be understood if blame for this attack is to be accurately apportioned.

Human garbage – Omar Mateen

How should we react to today’s savagery? I think I know how we will react, but that is something different. We will probably react with hashtags (like the one used by UK Chancellor George Osborne on Facebook – #lovewins). This is worse than meaningless. It is a way of avoiding doing something meaningful.

Others will invert reality by claiming that the ‘domestic’ nature of the Orlando attack proves that Donald Trump’s suggestion of barring foreign Muslims from America will make no difference to national security. Others will claim that mental illness, not religion, is the motivating factor. Still others will claim that since homophobia is a general problem in the United States, equally shared by Christians and Muslims alike, no special blame should be placed on the Islamic religion.

That last fallacy needs to be tackled directly. In no way can one compare the caveman aggression of Muslims to the lazy bigotry of right-wing Christians. One kills, the other does not. Christians are uneasy with issues like bathroom usage, wedding cakes and other trivial matters. Muslims take issue with the existence of minority groups entirely.

President Obama has spoken this afternoon of his shock and sadness at the carnage in Orlando. At no point in his address (which lasted less than ten minutes) was the word ‘Islam’ mentioned, let alone Islamism or Islamic terrorism. This suggests to me that the attack will be framed in one of the ways mentioned above. Figures on the left and centre of Western politics will use it to call for stricter gun control, more investment in mental health services and a renewed effort to ‘integrate’ Muslims into the Western mainstream. All this will fail. The real problem will stay untouched, unaddressed.

The Islamic mentality is not suited to the free world. This has been proven time and time again. In Belgium, England, Scotland, America, Germany, Sweden and many other countries, modern people have been slaughtered or assaulted simply for being modern. Islam and modernity are bitterly opposed.

It feels weird to type words I’ve typed countless times before. No sensible person needs to be reminded of these self-evident truths. But on the off-chance someone deluded has stumbled across this site, I would ask them to reflect on what I’ve said. Islam is opposed to everything we love; everything we enjoy, value and celebrate.

If you like the twenty-first century at all, even a little, please join the pushback against the force threatening to destroy it.

D, LDN

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07/01/2015

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“France today is like the fucking Weimar republic.”

So wrote a user of the internet message-board 4chan last month. The thread concerned the rise of anti-immigrant rhetoric across Europe as a whole, and the sentiment quoted met with broad agreement.

The comparison used is certainly an apt one. Modern France, just like Germany in the 1920s, buckles under the weight of a failing economy. Unemployment (though slowly improving) remains a complication to the lives of young people in cities and towns alike. And extremism, on both the left and right, rises rapidly at the expense of a tired-out centre-ground.

One can hope, as one should, that the solution chosen for this malaise won’t resemble the thugs of the NSDAP, but that is far from decided. Marine Le Pen (a very suspicious character indeed) and her party appear likely to reap the political benefit from it. As to whether Le Pen’s newly professed moderation has any link with reality can and will only be revealed by time.

This radicalisation of French politics was thus already underway when an innocent seeming Wednesday became a bloodstain on the national calendar.

In Paris, two Islamist gunmen stormed the office of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and murdered 12 people, many of them noted cartoonists (pictured below). The magazine had been a target for many years, owing to its repeated lampooning of the Islamic prophet and its occupational solidarity with the Danish magazine Jylland Posten.

The aftermath to the massacre proved almost as bloody as the crime itself. Prior to their deaths, the two fugitive gunmen (both Algerian) held up a convenience store and petrol station. After this, they hijacked a car and engaged in a Hollywood-like moving gun-battle with Parisian police. Elsewhere in the city, A third Islamist, connected to the original attackers, took hostages in a Kosher deli. Four innocent French Jews would perish there before the captor could be disposed of.

Although both incidents are equally cruel and equally senseless, the Charlie Hebdo massacre has hit the global imagination hardest. An attack on Jews by Muslims is lamentably predictable and as such breaks no new ground. However, there is something fresh and pathetic about attacking people for drawing pictures. Even the Christians of the dark ages never stooped so low. It goes to show how girlish the Islamic constitution has become that it can now be bruised by the point of a crayon.

The reaction to the attacks internationally has been at once heartening and heart-sinking. While most Brits and Americans have offered their warmest condolences to the French people, others have (disgracefully) opted to bring up myths about Gallic passivity and cowardice. Let’s be quite clear about this: If anyone should ever doubt the patriotism or fighting abilities of the French, let him say so after reading a biography of Napoleon.

Much has been made of the fact that a French Muslim was a victim of this wave of violence. The police officer shot in cold blood outside the Hebdo offices was called Ahmed (thus allowing for the damage-limitation hashtag JeSuisAhmed on twitter). There is no solid proof Ahmed was a devout believer, but even if he was, what can this teach us other than senseless violence produces senseless results?

Though we may never know for sure one way or the other, I strongly suspect ISIS had a hand in this atrocity. The mysterious tweets sent from the (potentially hacked) Charlie Hebdo twitter account reference Caliph Baghdadi, and the professionalism of the massacre itself would suggest training from a quasi-military force.

Whether that is the case or not, there is certainly a bigger picture here. Just as those charity adverts urge of humanitarians, Islamists act locally but think globally. This nasty little attack –  though it was aimed at closing a specific vendetta – was really meant for all of us. The Muslims have made a giant sign for the whole of Europe to see, its huge words scrawled in innocent blood: “Be careful what you say. Be careful what you do. We know you where you live.”

And though Le Pen – with all her vague promises to go easy on the Jews and gays – is really not the answer we are looking for, an answer must still be provided. We cannot seriously be expected to lie back and see our hard-won freedoms smashed into fragments.

D, LDN.

Why We Fight.

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“…Freedom’s battle, once begun,
Bequeath’d by bleeding sire to son,
Though baffled oft, is ever won.

At times like these, with a continent sparking steadily ablaze, Britain ceases to be a country and becomes a province of something greater. After the massacre in Paris, we are Europeans.

Though we might dislike the European Union with an exaggerated passion, we must strive to remember that Europe is our common home; that on this continent, we have siblings of beautiful variety, all of whom share the same ideals as we do. France is our farmland; Germany, our factory; Spain, our place in the sun. Europe is a civilisation in and of itself.

At the base of the country I currently write from, there is a place called Tarifa; an ornate beach city, famous for its white sand and deep blue waters. Across the Mediterranean river, no more than an hour away by boat, is Morocco.

The standard of living in Morocco belongs to the miserable past. There, chaos permeates everything and makes impossible the order necessary for commerce. Religion, of the most stuffy and regressive variety stultifies the local population and prevents cultural evolution. The natives of that country would kill to be where we are. Not just in Britain or Spain; they’d gladly settle for Germany, France, Luxembourg or even Estonia.

And this has nothing to do with economics. It has everything to do with the superiority (by every measure) of our civilisation. Unlike them, we are blessed with stable economies, relaxed secular governments, epic histories, marble grandeur and decadent modern excess.

There really is nowhere quite like Europe. While it’s true that the USA, Canada, Korea and Japan all have wealth and free societies, they do not have our philosophers, poets, symphonies and frescos, that peculiar sophistication in food, art, literature and language that Europe has possessed ever since the renaissance. The USA and Canada would not even exist were it not for Europe and the adventurous spirit coiled in the hearts of its people.

Muslims hate and love our cultural success simultaneously. One half of the (male) Muslim mind dreams of marrying Monica Bellucci, the other half dreams of killing her. One half of the Muslim mind dreams of integrating into London, the other half dreams of destroying it.

Energised by this confused longing, Muslims have begun to move to Tarifa in large numbers. Morocco creeps northward, rolling back the clock as it goes. Local attitudes devolve, freedoms grow vulnerable and buildings fall into haggard disrepair.

We should be prepared to do almost anything to prevent this. If we fail, a thousand years of progress will be lost in just a few decades. A stand must now be made and a whispered sentiment made explicit.

From hereon, only Christians, Jews and ex-Muslims should be allowed to emigrate from the Muslim world to Europe. This is basic common-sense. Those Muslims who are already here should be forced to move somewhere else.  

European Leftists – if they are to be taken seriously on anything ever again – must look beyond the limitations of their doctrine. It isn’t ‘good-natured’ for liberals to side with those who hate liberty. It’s stupid and cartoonishly hypocritical. How dare they continue to enjoy art, and at the same time protect the enemies of self-expression…How dare people attend anti-‘Islamophobia’ rallies in Placebo or David Bowie t-shirts. How can they not see something so obvious?

Muslims hate (and would outlaw) everything we celebrate. That is why we fight. The longer people take to concede this, the more stupid history will make them look.

D, LDN.