Facing some inconvenient truths.
The world is a wonderful and terrifying place, in which the most sublime human virtues and the most unimaginable human depravity are revealed.
There are many examples. Let’s consider the Nazis, lets note the many acts of courage and compassion that saved lives. And let’s note the bigger reality of what happened as this sophisticated, “cultured” European nation descended into the moral abyss. I have no doubt that millions of decent German people lived through this, alongside the monsters. How much did they know? What did they do if they knew, what could they have done? The most common response no doubt was accommodation, sometimes uncomfortable, sometimes unconscious, eyes averted. What would I have done?
This is not a completely hypothetical question. I grew up in a morally bankrupt racist society, a cruel, crude, police state. And when it came to decision-making time, I left. I left, not only as an act of moral conviction, but also, let it be said, out of fear, out of fear of lapsing into quiet complicity (as most had done) or the existential consequences of resistance.
Now, especially since October 7, I look at the world and wonder, wonder why so many ordinary “western” people find it impossible to condemn the massacre of Oct. 7, and others who even celebrate it, and wonder how many there are who are simply averting their eyes from the veritable explosion of Jew-hatred, in America and all over the world. But, mostly I wonder, and worry about, the persistent existence of Nazism (and, if one can credit it, even worse) in the world today.
Again, I have no doubt that, in the Muslim world at large, there are millions of decent, loving people who want to live in peace and let others live in peace, no matter who these others are. But, the elephant of an inconvenient truth is that there are also millions of “ordinary” Muslims who do not regard Oct. 7 as a moral problem, and who firmly harbor the belief that a state of Israel, ruled by non-Muslims, as a secular state, is unacceptable, and that it is a religious imperative to fix this, some would say by any means, indeed even recommend by the extermination of the Jews, there and everywhere (and after them it will be time to deal with the other infidels), and others, perhaps the majority who would prefer to eschew violence while, nevertheless, dismantling the state of Israel. That this belief is so widespread is testimony to the power of sustained (religious ) indoctrination, starting at childhood.
This truth is apparently quite opaque to the majority in the west, who shrink from the thought that there could be cultures in the world that completely reject the western values of tolerance, especially freedom of religion, indeed believe that the world should be ruled by the religious law of the one true religion. Oh, of course, they know about this, but have convinced themselves that it is simply the extreme fringe beliefs of a minority, and that the rest can be made in time to accept the self-evident truths that underlie western civilization. They cannot contemplate the numbers arrayed against this and the absolute impossibility, of easily reforming this “death cult”. It has existed for centuries in great number, and now, in the greatest numbers ever.
How to deal with a death cult that is out to destroy your culture and your civilization? It is not a military problem, though military problems are involved. It is a cultural problem. It entails the awareness and application of counter indoctrination, that will take generations, but the sooner it starts the better. At home and abroad, an awareness of the importance and achievements of western values need to be hammered home, contra the woke folk agenda. And, in the meantime the unacceptable actions of the death cult promoters need to be vigorously resisted.
States "defecting" from the anti-western Muslim alliance are most welcome. Will it be reliable and will it be enough?
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