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Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam.
Another great one from Greenfield.
Islam uber alles; Hussein uber alles.
A Parallel construction for coordination against The Other.
I think this is an excellent analysis.
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That is also a perfect working description of the form of Marxism that currently is informing the Left. Join, subvert, agitate, undermine, overthrow. To state that:
The left despises tribal thinking and yet its entire political infrastructure is built on rewarding it.
...is, I think not quite the case. The Left professes to despise tribal thinking and yet indulges in the most intense, self-rewarding form of it. The concept of international class solidarity depends on forming the "correct", "conscious" form of tribalism that is the Left's one talisman shaken against an untidy universe. It is not only similar, it is precisely the same as Islam's form of tribalism; it employs similar tactics and is similarly assured of ultimate victory of its tribe over all others. There can, of course, be only one, and it is an article of faith on the part of both of these that it ultimately will be them.
Nationalism has become a dirty word among the academic cognoscenti, a form of tribalism that has thankfully been discarded in favor of the above. It is, however, superior to that of the Left despite appearances: doctrinaire Communists were infuriated when German workers ended up fighting Russian workers shortly after the latter had prevailed in 1917. Surely a properly informed class consciousness would allow them to transcend this nonsense? But it never did. Nationalism prevailed.
It is largely to combat that victory of nationalism that the European Union's proponents adopted a nominally internationalist, multicultural standpoint that in theory would avoid the mistakes of nationalism but has come to repeat all of them and add a few of its own conception. Nationalism was responsible for war, went the logic, and hence replacing it would replace war. It has not. What it has done is weaken resistance to an aggressive foreign tribalism that isn't buying the fairy tale. And so either way the Left must admit defeat if it is to survive, and at the moment it cannot. It has enough of a partial victory, institutional power, to cling to it desperately like a monkey with its hand trapped in a jar because it will not release the cookie. In the meantime the tiger eats it. And right now in Europe the tiger is approaching, and it's licking its lips.
In the United States the Left, especially within the lamentable current administration, thinks that it can have its cake and eat it too: that it can use American nationalism, that cursed patriotism, as a shield against the foreign tribe while simultaneously remaining in a position to subvert it to the Left's own ends when the time is right. This happy illusion is fraying pretty badly at the moment but they cling to it, monkey-like. They calculate that the country they despise will not fail them. It may eat them instead.
Good work, Greenfield. Right now Islam is fighting the bed-wetting, wimpy, commie precious snowflake tribe. Let’s see how Islam fares when it meets the bitter clinger, gun-toting, bacon-flavored TVP eating tribe.
A good article. It is true that different subgroups within American society put forward their own version of “our values,” purportedly on behalf of the entire nation. But one area of actual commonality between many on the Right and the Left is a belief in the brotherhood of man. Whether this belief has a secular origin in multiculturalism, or a religious basis in Biblical teachings, the problem is that our enemies do not share it. Indeed, they view this belief as a sign of weakness and take every opportunity to exploit it to their advantage and our disadvantage. Virtually unconditional altruism toward intruders from hostile, alien cultures intent on taking what we have and displacing or destroying us is surely a form of national suicide—hence the term, suicidal altruism. Many Americans intuitively understand this and are drawn to Donald Trump’s message that we must place our own interests above those of competing groups and save our country before it’s too late. Our people conquered a continent and turned it into the wonder of the world, and it would be a very sad end to our story for us now to give it all away in the furtherance of “our values.”
In their confused world order, the terrorists are attacking “our values” and we in turn must attack “their values” with our superior “values”.
Hell, we don’t even do that.
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Look at history when tribal forces attacked Europe beginning as far back as when invading barbarians brought about the end of the Roman Empire, western civilization survived only when there were decisive military defeats of the invaders. Twice Islamic forces threatened the end of Western Civilization and were turned back by military victories first at Tours in 732 and at Vienna in 1683.