Posted on 05/14/2007 8:57:10 PM PDT by rmlew
One of the reasons my writings would tend to be seen as "racist" in contemporary terms is that I don't speak only of defending "America," I sometimes, depending on context, speak of defending "white America"; and I don't speak just of my fear for the future of "Western civilization," I also speak of my concern for "white Western civilization." The racial character of European and British civilization and its overseas extensions is simply a historic fact. Without the white race and its distinct sub-groups and their particular characteristics and cultures, there would have been no Greece, there would have been no Rome, there would have been no Middle Ages, there would have been no France, no Germany, no Italy. Without the Anglo-Saxon and closely related peoples, there would have been no Britain, no United States of America. Of course, today's liberal ideology--embraced by liberals and conservatives--tells us that the West is defined only by abstract ideas, not by any race, ethnicity, or culture. The fact nevertheless remains that insofar as the West loses its predominantly white character, it will inevitably change into something that is no longer the West. This is happening before our eyes in the Third-Worldized city of London, and in the American Southwest.
White "conservatives" never let these obvious and fundamental facts cross the threshold of their minds, let alone their lips. To "conservatives" any acknowledgment of the whiteness of the West is racist; indeed, for more than a few white "conservatives," merely to think of oneself as white is racist. Of course, it's fine to refer to the whiteness of the West when one is deriding the West's or America's past and present bigotry. What is forbidden is any positive or, indeed, any neutral acknowledgment of the historic and actual whiteness of the West and its constituent nations.
The West's enemies, whether of the Third World or the Western left, are not so inhibited in their speech. They know they are out to destroy the West. And they know that since whites are the historic and actual majority of the West, if white dominance can be delegitimized and destroyed, the West itself will have been crippled and thus brought within the power of the left and the Third World.
Our jihadist enemies recognize this, even though Islam claims not to place any importance on race.
In a new video, Al Qaeda number-two man and top ideologist Ayman al-Zawahiri specifically describes Al Qaeda's jihad against the West in racial terms, calling on "oppressed" non-white minorities to ally themselves with Al Qaeda.
As the AP reports:
Al-Zawahiri encouraged minorities around the world to join the holy war, or jihad.You heard it from the horse's mouth. The jihad is not aimed just against pro-Jewish and pro-Israel America; it is not aimed just against the modern, secular, decadent West; and it is not aimed just against the Christian West: it is aimed against the white West."Al-Qaida is not merely for the benefit of Muslims," he said. "That's why I want blacks in America, people of color, American Indians, Hispanics, and all the weak and oppressed in North and South America, in Africa and Asia, and all over the world."
Of course, our so-called conservatives will refuse to recognize Al Qaeda's call to racial jihad, because, for today's conservatives, it is racist to identify oneself or one's culture as white, even if oneself or one's culture is being attacked as white. From which it follows that the only way for the West to remain non-racist is for it to keep itself defenseless and helpless before its mortal enemies, until it is extinguished. And that, in reality, is the true end of today's liberalism and conservatism.
Zawahiri's remark raises an intriguing question. The anti-Semitic white right doesn't like to oppose Islam, because Islam is the enemy of the Jews. Will Zawahiri's call for jihad against whites stir the far-whites from their anti-Semitic stupor?
Roger writes:
No it won't. Such anti-Semitism does not have intellectual origins and cannot be dismissed for intellectual or pragmatic reasons. It arises out of severe personality psychopathology characterized by projective mechanisms resulting in a paranoid delusional system. This becomes the primary force in such people's whole motivational system and takes on an obsessive quality. No real threat such as those posed today to the West can compete with the imaginary threat of the Jews.It is significant that those who pose the greatest threat to the West today, that is the Islamic world and the radical left, have anti-Semitism as a central feature. So the anti-Semitic far right shares an essential feature with the West's worst enemies, which means that in some essential way they are like them. At best such people will offer no defense against the Islamic threat. This is one of the reasons why anti-Semitism itself poses a mortal threat to the West.
Racist bigots! They must be Dems.
In Chapter 4 of Milestones Sayyid Qutb defines Jihad as liberation and turns offense into defense:
Anyone who understands this particular character of this religion will also understand the place of Jihaad bis saif (striving through fighting), which is to clear the way for striving through preaching in the application of the Islamic movement. He will understand that Islam is not a 'defensive movement' in the narrow sense which today is technically called a 'defensive war.' This narrow meaning is ascribed to it by those who are under the pressure of circumstances and are defeated by the wily attacks of the orientalists, who distort the concept of Islamic Jihad. It was a movement to wipe out tyranny and to introduce true freedom to mankind, using resources according to the actual human situation, and it had definite stages, for each of which it utilized new methods.
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As a Californian youth, I wish that I could view the races without scarcely noticing them. My friends span all of the races, and I find it comforting that the majority of this new generation could care less what race a person is, and opposing affirmative action pretty strongly.
But history repeats itself. And what we have today in America we owe to white freedom-lovers. There is a white heritage that deserves to be taught and celebrated.
Islam has been from it’s very inception a collectivist ideology masquerading as a religion. The concept of the ummah blends well with modern socialist collectivist concepts. Islam has an advantage that atheistic communism did not have. A spiritual component and an afterlife. That was a failure of communism in trying to get rid of God. The Muslims on the other hand hijacked God for their own ends.
I don’t know of any country where the call will fall on more deaf ears than here in the US. Sure, there are minorities who’ve been suckered into the marxist propaganda: that’s going to happen anywhere. But minorities can do pretty well here - better than in the “old country”, in many cases. Those who heed the call were spoiling for a fight anyway, and like many jihadists, are simply looking for an excuse to be animals.
I know that this is a very controversial post. I am certain that someone will yell racist. I want to make it clear that these are not my opinions, as I do not define the west in terms of race. However, Mr. Auster has a serious point.
I'm not quite sure, yet, what it is that he's saying, other than the quite obvious tactic of what Al Qaida is doing. I think I would have to go into a few of his other articles to see if he's not trying to take some "backdoor route" to get people to go another direction that he hasn't made quite clear yet. That remains to be seen. I don't know if I want to trust that article very much, at this point in time.
Regards,
Star Traveler
Perhaps. However, how long will it be before “bring our troops home” becomes “bring the war home” thanks to the far left?
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