Monday, January 12, 2015

Succumbing To Islamophobia And Terrorism

From Vox Day:

It takes two to tango
" But only one party to wage war. This is honest, but remarkably stupid commentary on the current European situation from the Mayor of London:
'About 10 years ago, the whole Danish cartoon controversy blew up – and I remember distinctly concluding that I would never have published them in The Spectator, which I edited, not just because they were gratuitously inflammatory, but because I didn’t see how I could justify my decision to the widows and orphans of my staff, in the event of an attack on our offices (and I note that one of the German publications to use the Charlie Hebdo cartoons has just been fire-bombed).

'It is essential to admit this element of fear (and several editors have been candid enough to do so), because fear is a very bad and corrosive thing. Fear leads to anger. Fear leads to mistrust. Fear can make you irrational, and in the case of Islamist terrorism, the resulting fear can obviously encourage prejudice and division. Fear leads to hatred – and that is exactly what those terrorists hope to provoke. They want to see anti-Muslim marches of the kind that are now appearing in Germany; they want an anti-Muslim backlash; they want war; and it would be absolutely fatal if we were to allow ourselves to fall for it.

Imagine if, instead of his famous call to "fight them on the beaches", Winston Churchill had said something like this back in 1940. "Fear leads to hatred and that is exactly what the Nazis hope to provoke. They want to see us sending out warships to guard the Channel. They want an anti-German backlash; they want war and it would be absolutely fatal if we were to allow ourselves to fall for it."

The astonishing thing is that Boris Johnson knows his history. He and other self-admitted cowards know that Chamberlain was wrong to attempt to appease Hitler, just as FDR was wrong to attempt to appease Stalin, and yet they are making precisely the same mistake by trying to pretend that Islam can be won over if they are sufficiently accommodating.

Everything about the multicultural status quo is a lie. The headline in the Telegraph says: "Paris march of unity: after a minute's silence the crowd roared 'We are not afraid!'"

They lie. They are most certainly afraid. They are afraid of the Muslims in their midst, and they are afraid of the nationalist forces that are rising. They are right to be afraid, because it is primarily their fault that the Reconquista 2.0 is now both necessary and inevitable."
And THIS:
"Islam is not compatible with the West. Islam is literally at war with the West, which is part of the Dar al-Harb, "the House of War". As Mizanur Rahman has declared, Britain is the enemy of Islam. So is France. So is Germany. So is Italy. So is the United States of America. Samuel Huntington warned of this coming great clash of civilizations back in 1993. Enoch Powell warned of the rivers of blood that would flow if mass immigration from non-European countries was permitted back in 1968.

That long-predicted day has finally arrived. If the situation is not adequately addressed in the next decade, then the Rotherhams and Parises will eventually become Peshawars and Bagas. Now the victims of Islam in the West are numbered in double-digits, eventually they will be numbered in the hundreds and the thousands, if the Reconquista 2.0 does not begin sooner rather than later."
When the full brunt of domestic barbarism is finally understood by western leaders, the internal war will begin; it will be as brutal as the Islamists can make it be.

2 comments:

Steven Satak said...

"He and other self-admitted cowards know that Chamberlain was wrong to attempt to appease Hitler..."

It was understood by Chamberlain and others in his government that Britain was in no way prepared to deal with an attack by Hitler if he declared war in 1938.

The British factories had just started turning out Hurricanes and Spitfires in quantity, their Chain Home radar defense had not come online yet and so the British basically stalled for time with the Munich Agreement.

Yes, it appeared to be cowardly, and yes, the Sudetenland led to other things. But I recall reading that Chamberlain was kept fully informed by Churchill during the war (Chamberlain died halfway through) of what was going on - and that Churchill often consulted him.

It's at least another take on a much-maligned man.

Rikalonius said...

If Chamberlain new that war was inevitable he didn't return to England and put his country on a war preparation footing. It seems to me, he was convinced that his treaty would be honored.