On Civilizational Erasure

American Thinker ^ | 15 Dec, 2025 | Erik Gregory, Todd Gregory

[MtnClimber]

Civilizational erasure, as it relates to Europe, has been in the news lately, with the renewed and scaled up predations of Islam once again commanding center stage.

Islam’s resurgence has been a full century in the making, enabled in large part by Western ignorance and enforced taboos against discussing Islam’s highly relevant 1,400-year history of mass bloodshed and conquest.

Indeed, that history is whitewashed by Western academics, whether pseudo-historians like the late Edward Said or execrable and ahistorical oikophobes like Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky. Wikipedia, Google, and artificial intelligence also play outsized roles in the academic and historical whitewash.

The true history of Islam and what it has wrought through the centuries is not taught to Western schoolchildren. Modern Westerners have zero historical memory of Islam extending back more than a few decades, nor would they be the least bit curious if they were taught this hugely important but ignored and forgotten topic.

Armed instead with the fake morality of luxury beliefs about alleged Western racism or Islamophobia, and fetishizing whatever seems exotic, today’s decadent Westerner lacks the moral and physical courage that enabled his distant forebears to beat back the centuries-long Muslim onslaught, which finally ignited Europe’s Renaissance and Age of Enlightenment.

Regionally, and over the centuries, Muslims were known to Europeans by many names.

The Muslim Moors of North Africa (Berbers and Arabs) invaded, conquered, and occupied a vast swath of Western Europe, including present-day Portugal and Spain (for nearly 800 years), along with significant territory in France.

Al Andalusia is romanticized by fawning, servile Western scholars as a great flowering, with Muslims, Jews, and Christians all living side by side in multicultural harmony, singing Kumbaya together for almost a full millennium. To this day, many Spaniards and Hispanics bear Arabic names like Omar and Medina.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: jihad; leftism

[MtnClimber]

Why isn’t the left offended by the muslim slave trading that continues to this day?

[TBP]

Politics is downstream from culture.

[Savage Beast]

Western Civilization is worth fighting for!

Its intrinsic value is priceless, but it has brought countless miracle to the world, from a cure for Hodgkin's lymphoma and acute lymphocytic leukemia to placing a man on the moon, from Bach's St. Matthew Passion to the Information age, from safe childbirth to human life expectancy in the 80's, from the abolition of slavery to liberty and justice for all.

Even greater miracles are yet to come.

President Trump has championed the ascendance of Western Civilization and the utter annihilation of its decadence.

He is to be supported and praised.

He is overwhelmingly supported and praised by the wise and benevolent.

In his words: "The best it yet to come."

[BigJimSportCamper]

“The Jewish Messiah will only appear once Europe and Christianity is totally destroyed. So I ask you, is it good news that Islam invades Europe? It is excellent news! Islam is the broom of Israel.”
- Rabbi David Touitou

Oops.

[stanne]

“ Why isn’t the left offended by the muslim slave trading that continues to this day?”

What has the right done? What have republicans done?

[Flag_This]

"Why isn’t the left offended by the muslim slave trading that continues to this day?"

Because leftists are slavers themselves?

[Tell It Right]

Why isn’t the left offended by the muslim slave trading that continues to this day?

The racist left sees the Muslims as doing their dirty work for them (the left) by undermining the only people the left fear: whites. Most specifically ether left fears Judeo-Christian valued people.

[Battlestar]

Well that’s never going to happen. Europe yes, but Christianity will never be destroyed. Keep dreamining Rabbi.

[Iron Munro]

CIVILIZATION ERASURE

Forget about Europe - much of it has passed the tipping point. Just write it off.

It's not only Europe that is being destroyed.

Civilization erasure by Muslims is already rampant in America.

Minneapolis-St. Paul, Dearbornistan, NY State, California, Texas, etc. etc. etc.

No one has the guts to do what would be necessary to halt and reverse the muslim terrorist invasion.

The same people and media who have been communist sypathizers and enablers for more than a century are now protecting and enabling the muslim terrorist insugency here in America.

COMING SOON TO THE STREETS IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD

[Governor Dinwiddie]

The Church of England has certainly erased itself.

[dfwgator]

The Church of England has certainly erased itself.

Well it's founder wasn't exactly a 'paragon of virtue'.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Henry VIII was a certified card carrying evil psychopath. Can't think of a single good thing to say about him.

[MikelTackNailer]

Today's "Word of the Day" is: Oikophobia

Oikophobia is a tendency to criticize or reject one's own home or home society while praising others. It has been used in political contexts to refer critically to political ideologies that are held to repudiate one's own culture.

This moment of illumination has been brought to you by the ghost of William F. Buckley.

[Vehmgericht]

Were Zinn and Chomsky true oikophobes? Were they also critical of Jewish history? All Muslims should be removed from the West. However, it appears no longer possible. They will eventually dominate in every Western country. There is much to criticize in Islam, but we should give them credit for what they have contributed. They did preserve much ancient knowledge. And we wouldn’t want to go back to using Roman numerals.