Rising with the smoke of 9/11

Two years ago on September 11, I stared in disbelief at the television watching two towers come crashing down. On that fateful Tuesday morning it became clear to me what was unfolding.

I had been taught in high school and in my first month at college that multiculturalism was one of America's greatest attributes and strengths, yet this conflicted with what the billowing smoke over the Big Apple skyline was telling me. The lies I had been taught died hard that day, as Rudyard Kipling's famous verse became entrenched in my mind: "The West is the West and the East is the East and never the twain shall meet."

In the days after the attack, it became clear the perpetrators were Muslim and all but four of the 19 hijackers were in the United States illegally.

The summer before that horrific event I read the powerful book "The Clash of Civilizations" by Samuel Huntington, who happens to be a Harvard professor. In it, he argued a truth that goes against all we are currently taught in colleges throughout America, that Western Civilization is superior to others and in order to fight up and coming civilizations, we must unite to combat those who wish to destroy us.

"The West differs from other civilizations...distinctive character of its values and institutions, including most notably its Christianity, pluralism, individualism, and rule of law, which made it possible for the West to invent modernity..."he says.

He then quotes Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., who said "the unique source of the ideas of individual liberty, political democracy, human rights and cultural freedom... These are European ideas, not Asian, nor African, nor Middle Eastern ideas, except by adoption."

The world is becoming increasingly smaller, as technology has allowed instantaneous communications with other nations and peoples.

Many cultures around the world resent Western Civilization, for the perceived dominance we have exerted over the world for the past 500 years.

When the towers came down on Sept. 11, it became obvious that civilizations were now pitted against each other, Muslim vs. Christian, the West vs. the East.

As the cultures of the world clash, another problem confronts what is left of the West: massive immigration. The old idea of assimilation is dead, as a trip to any major city in the United States will tell you. Thanks to the idea of group rights, the individual is dead in our nation. The newcomers arriving on our shores or deserts, legally or illegally, will automatically associate with people like themselves, whether it be racially or religiously.

These newcomers bring with them their cultures and views of life and Western civilizations appreciation for other cultures is bringing will ultimately fragment American society.

The time to defend the West from those who hate us has come. It's time for those who we elect to defend our Constitution to stop selling our futures out to political correctness and globalism and actually work to defend what's left of the West.

Jesse Jackson once led Stanford students, yelling, "Hey, hey, ho, ho, Western Culture's got to go." Indeed it has gone.

On many college campuses, Western Civilization classes are being replaced by multiculturalist courses and diversity training. Instead of learning what makes America great and the West unique, we are taught about the wonders of African tribalism, Aboriginal life and the mighty Inca civilization and how the west is evil, racist and exploitive of other peoples.

Jeffrey Hart said in his book, "Smiling Through the Cultural Catastrophe," that "None of the cultures we are supposed to be "multi" about is at all itself multicultural--certainly not an African tribe, certainly not China or Japan, certainly not Hindus or Muslims. In fact, multiculturalism is an ideological academic fantasy maintained in obvious bad faith. It really amounts to a form of anti-Westernism. That is, all cultures are to be respected and valued except the civilization of the West, to which, not surprisingly, the actual inhabitants of those other cultures are trying to migrate in large numbers."

In many of my history classes, I have repeatedly heard the tired line, "all civilizations are equal."

Western civilization has infused knowledge from others civilizations, but by and large the ideas which set the West apart manifested within the minds of those who live in what is now Europe, or the areas of the world colonized by its former inhabitants.

As Lawrence Auster argued in his pamphlet "Erasing America": "The West, if it means anything real, means Western European Christian society and its modern successor states in Europe, North America and Australia. It means the culture and civilization created by Western European white people, joined by numerous people of other backgrounds along the way, but not capable of infinite expansion and redefinition. If the modern branches of the West lose so much of their moral, cultural and racial character that they become irrevocably separated from their European and Christian roots, then they will no longer be part of the historic West in any real sense, and the West will have ceased to exist."

Many consider those that defend their cultures as "racist," those that try and ensure the continuation of Western values as "ethnocentric."

Wrong. In our misguided public education system, we our taught these beliefs and the continued inculcation of students will perpetuate this myth.

Aristotle, in his "Politics," said, "No one will doubt that a lawgiver should direct his attention above all to the education of youth, or that the neglect of education does harm to the states. The citizen should be molded to suit the form of government under which he lives. For each government has a peculiar character, which originally formed and which continues to preserve it."

How can we preserve anything, when in schools we are taught about the supposed perversity of the West?

It is illogical that America continues to allow massive non-Western immigration and also teach anti-Western values in the schools that will shape future leaders for the country.

This is why it is time to close the borders, because continued mass immigration will only persist to erode what is left of the West in America. If it continues, logically it follows that in a few generations, Western civilization will be extirpated from America. Many immigrants do assimilate to our culture, but that number is quite small compared to the number that doesn't.

We must also challenge those in America who claim that the West is equal to other cultures. We must teach children in schools, whether they be white, black, brown, yellow or red that the civilization of the West is superior and it gives them the best chance to flourish in the future. We must stop this multicultural madness.

"The days have gone down in the West, behind the hills into shadow. How did it come to this?" one of the King's in "Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" asks.

Because those who still care about our nation are afraid to take a stand, for fear of being shouted down as a "nativist" or "racist." It's time to meet those, who wish to see our civilization brought to its knees, head on.

In effect, it is time to change our immigration policy once and for all. If not, Sept. 11 will be remembered by future historians as the official death of Western civilization.

This article is only half-right. It's assessment of Islam is quite wrong.

What 9/11 is about is NOT about an attempt by an Islam that is 'resurgent' to conquer the Christian West (although OBL has deluded himself into thinking so); what it REALLY is about is that Islam is on the verge of total and utter collapse.

Christianity, in case the guy who wrote this article hasn't noticed, has not enjoyed a very good run this last 100 years. Christian self-assurance and belief in its own dominance was mortally wounded in northern France from about 1916 onward--Verdun, the Somme, Passchendaele, Vimy--when tens of thousands of Christian men committed mass homocide-suicide in the name of God, King and Country. Mortally wounded, yes--but death was not instantaneous. What Hindenberg and Haig failed to accomplish in the trenches of WWI, Hitler, Himmler, Hoess, Lenin, Stalin, and Beria finished in the 1930s through 1950s. What worth of Christian philosophic dominance if it could not save the Jews from mass extinction? Could not save the Ukraine from starvation? (Compared to these mass crimes, America's contribution--Hiroshima--pales in comparison, a mere pecadillo).

The ongoing collapse of Christianity in the West that started with the Great Orgasm of the 1960s was not set in motion by the Pill; it was set in motion by the great wars. The great ongoing self-extinction in the West, brought about by mass contraception, freely available abortion, and the total collapse of the meaning of 'marriage' to the point where two men(!) are seriously thought to be able to marry by otherwise nominally sane people...

This does not mean that Islam is any better off; indeed, it's internal contradictions are worse, and 9/11 is all about that very fact.

I've made a rather noisy name for myself in some FR circles for my defense of the Bosnian Muslims (Bosniacs) and my loathing for their genocide that happened at the hand of the Bosnian Serbs in 1995. However, that doesn't change the fact that I recognize that Islam, as actually practiced in most of the world (and not as it is practiced thank goodness in Bosnia) is in a state of rot and self-collapse far worse than Christianity.

Christianity, for all its difficulties of the last hundred years, has one major advantage over any other faith: it is *literally* true. Christ, the Son of God, really DID rise from the dead. All of Western history orbits around this fact (even if it is not taken very seriously in certain intellectual circles). Islam, OTOH, is a mere faded copy of Christianity, rooted in the witness of a prophet dead (and not risen) 1500 years ago. Its social institutions, although a clear improvement over those which came before, have been left in the dust by the Christian West, and those living under its baleful influence are waking up to the fact that, at the very least, MTV is a lot more fun to watch on TV than some ranting imam, and that it's better to see women in bikinis (ahem) than to force them at gun point to wear burkas. Thirdly, modern technology requires the education of women--and any culture that wants to live in anything other than a tent in the desert these days needs to educate ALL its population. OTOH, educated women and traditional Islam don't mix. They CAN'T mix. You can't assume that half of your population is only for ----ing, and force them to wear black bags over their whole body, when they can carry an AK-47 under said bag and blow you away without warning.

The reason Islam is going berzerk is for the same reason the old South went berzerk in 1860: fear of 'slave insurrection'. Talk of northern abolition, the slave owners thought, would inspire their slaves to kill them in their beds (which accounts for the post war Jim Crow laws too, but that's a side issue).

Islam is facing, at the hands of Western technology, a total revolution in its way of doing business. Certain individuals recognize this, and want to avoid it any way possible. But you can't stop this sort of evolution.

Upshot: we're looking at a very real set of new religious wars in our lifetimes. The Muslim world (more specifically the Arab Muslim world, which is 90% of the problem) is about to undergo a social revolution that will make the SOuth of the 1950s look like peanuts.

Unfortunately, a technological world in which women can carry Uzis under burkas also makes it possible to carry nukes in briefcases, or at the very least boxcutters in carry on luggage. Hence, we're in for dark days ahead.

Christianity, being the true faith, will triumph. But it doesn't mean it will be quick, easy or bloodless. Life is not that simple.

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