Europe, Racism And the Anti-Jihad Movement

There's a rather nasty controversy going on in the blogosphere and elsewhere. Quite simply, it concerns the anti-Jihad movement,particularly in Europe and the alliance within the movement between anti-Jihadist elements and certain parties some people characterize as `nativist' or even racist and anti-Semitic.

The question, of course, is whether the anti-Jihad movement is compromising and damaging itself by taking these parties into its coalition.


I should point out that I predicted this would happen a long time ago...which is why I advised most of Western Europe's Jews to think about leaving post haste, so as not to be caught between nativist movements on the one hand and jihadist Muslims on the other.

As distasteful as it sounds, I think that this particular train has already left the station. As much as I would like to see it, the anti-Jihadist movement is not going to oust any anti-Semites in th ranks.

In Europe, we have a situation in much of Western Europe where the indigenous white European population is being marginalized, has had their culture and heritage demonized, has had whole sections of their cities rendered virtually `off limits' and have been subjected to violence while being censored by various `hate crime' laws from even debating what's becoming of their own native lands. And this has been done with the connivance of the Leftist political establishment, which, in many of these countries, increasingly depends on Muslim votes to stay in power.

The priorities of the anti-Jihadist movement are on defeating this establishment politically - and if that happens, it will probably result in the expulsion of a large part of Europe's Muslim population. That's unlikely to be a peaceful event.

Given the times, it's a fallacy to expect anti-Jihadist Europeans to start excluding `nativist' parties or even out and out anti-Semites from their coalition. They can't afford to even if they wanted to, given the position they're already in and the struggle they know have ahead of them.

Put another way, the anti-Jihadist movement is going to be too busy dealing with what amounts to an Islamist `colonization' of parts of Europe to bother much about some of the foot soldier's peculiar views on the Jews or Muslims, for that matter. The first rule of coalitions is that you find broad areas of agreement and finesse the differences.

And to be blunt honest about it, when it comes to the anti-Semitism, many Europeans could care less. Virulent Jew hatred, often camouflaged as `anti-Zionism' has become so common in countries like Britain, Spain, Norway, Sweden and France that it hardly even merits a mention anymore.

On the Left, of course, tolerance for hate speech in mosques and open Islamic expressions of Jew hatred are a given. Did any major political figure, for example, castigate the Muslim Council of Britain for calling for the UK to abolish Holocaust Remembrance Day? And the EU's own report on anti-Semitic attacks in Europe was whitewashed and `rewritten' to downplay the endemic street attacks on Jews by Muslims and the almost routine desecration and destruction of Jewish religious sites as vandalism and routine street crime.

On the right, while many of the players don't consider themselves anti-Semitic, at this point they're not going to risk a rupture with the groups that are, especially over the Jews, the Eternal Strangers. The time for Europeans to start weeding out the Jew haters in their midst came and went a long time ago, and the virus is so deep seated by now that it's almost endemic.

I also think that it's worthwhile considering the nature of what `nativism' actually is.

The essence of multiculturalism, after all, is that all cultures are equal. And taken to it's furthest extremes, especially in academia, that western culture is in fact `inferior' and that so-called `white people' are inherently racist in nature.

Think I'm exaggerating? In Europe and here in our own United States, we have the Orwellian specter of forced `diversity training' and `whiteness studies' designed to indoctrinate white people into exactly that mode.

At the University of Delaware, University of Delaware, a publicly funded institution, students are required to undergo indoctrination at what amounts to ideological `re-education' classes in multiculturalism, white racism,sexuality, sociology, moral philosophy, and environmentalism.

No American university has a `caucasian studies' program, yet ethnic studies programs for almost every other ethnic group abound. What we have instead is `whiteness studies' designed to promulgate the notion that all whites are inherently racist and the beneficiaries of `white skin privilege' to quote one fatuous tome on the subject.

In Britain, teachers were ordered to dress up as Muslims to promote multiculturalism, and there have been incidents where non-Muslim school children in both the UK and America have been forced to play at being `Muslims', with girls dressing in the oppressive burkas, children writing essays on jihad,and children `pretending' to say Muslim prayers and the shehada, the Muslim pillars of faith recited by reverts. School textbooks abound with chapters on the glorious achievements of Islam while shortchanging the western civilization we've inherited thathas provided more freedom and a better life for the common man than any other culture on the face of the earth.

The core of multiculturalism is in fact that western civilization and that its Judeo-Christian-Hellenic basis is inferior...particularly when it comes to Islam, the only religion apparently worthy of respect in public schools.

What is this if not racism? And why shouldn't the majority populations in the west insist of respect for their culture and the right to promulgate and preserve it from what amounts to an attack? I neither consider such efforts to be xenophobic, racist or anti-Semitic...up until the point where people are targeted with concrete actions specifically for their race, religion or nationality, rather than their individual actions.

All people may be equally worthy of respect, but all cultures aren't, frankly. And the native populations of the west have the right and the duty to protect and pass on their cultures to their posterity without `patriotism' or `nativism' becoming dirty words.

They also have the right to insist that immigrants to their countries, attracted by the freedom and prosperity western civilization affords respect the majority culture and assimilate to a degree.

Oddly enough, the Jews, with a history of being attacked as the Eternal Stranger, the Other, provide a perfect example of how people can practice their own culture while respecting the majority culture of the countries they've lived in. And while it hasn't helped the Jews overly much in most of Europe for a variety of reasons, it's been a successful model in places like America and Australia, among others.

I doubt that this has occurred to many people, but if more Muslims followed that model, and if Islam in general `played nicely with others' without insisting on its inherent superiority, none of this would even be an issue.

As regular members of Joshua's Army know,I have no sympathy whatsoever for racists. But I also think we need to be very careful in applying that label. And especially now, when unity is the face of an ongoing struggle is imperative.