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To sum up, the vice-chancellor of the University of Buckingham is saying that you can choose to be an Islamic fundamentalist or you can choose to be civilised. You cannot choose both.

We are fighting to protect individualism. Let us not forget how our enemies call upon the individual to surrender themselves to "the will of Allah" (the mullahs really), which sounds suspciously like Hitler asking Germans to surrender their will and obey. These mullahs call upon youth to make the supreme sacrifice, while they themselves sit in reclusive comfort, growing ever more decrepit, whilst indulging the primal lusts they would have their followers deny. We need to obliterate these people. We need to make clean this situation. It will not do to anything less.

Regards, Ivan

But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, "This was their finest hour."

Today is Trinity Sunday. Centuries ago words were written to be a call and a spur to the faithful servants of Truth and Justice: "Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valour, and be in readiness for the conflict; for it is better for us to perish in battle than to look upon the outrage of our nation and our altar. As the Will of God is in Heaven, even so let it be." - Winston Churchill, 1940

This then, my lords and gentlemen, is the message which we send forth today to all states and nations, bound or free, to all the men in all the lands who care for freedom's cause. To our Allies and well-wishers in Europe, to our American friends and helpers drawing ever closer in their might across the ocean, this is the message-lift up your hearts, all will come right. Out of depths of sorrow and sacrifice will be born again the glory of mankind. - Winston Churchill, 1941

"What kind of a people do they think we are? Is it possible that they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?" - Winston Churchill, 1941

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The Lion and the Eagle!

or if you prefer:
The Eagle and the Lion!

We shall prevail, because we are right and powerful!

(How about the Maple Leaf?)

Please stop posting non-news items as "breaking news"

A bump for FreeBritannia.

"What kind of a people do they think we are?

We on this side of the pond?
We are people who would elect to follow Bill Clinton, obviously . . . SIGH

NO SH!T! BUMP!

Islam as a whole has evolved into a religio-political movement that seeks to take humanity backwards and smother it in mystical, cryptic jargon, not achieve progress, advancement, or any meaningful, positive accomplishment for the human race outside of its own self-defeating myopia cloaked in the diatribe and doggerel of hypocritical spirituality. We cannot afford to allow slime like that to drag humanity into another dark age of misery, ignorance, and suffering.

catching up" is easy. A country, when poor, can enrich itself simply by copying its rich neighbours. Such catching up can be achieved by any regime - during the 1920s and 1930s even the Soviet Union grew swiftly. But once a country has caught up, it can further enrich itself only by innovation, entrepreneurism and risk-taking. Those activities flourish only within an individualistic culture where property is secure under the law. In his analysis, Huntington overlooked a simple historical principle: causes precede consequences. Western individualism and the rule of law preceded, and therefore did cause, its wealth.

Reducing as it does to "correlation = causation," that last line is unproven as it stands. It is however true because in a capitalist melieu with its constant creative destruction, attempting merely to "catch up" leaves you constantly building obsolescent equipment.

You have to run as fast as you can merely to stay in place, and to truly "catch up" you must run even faster. Faster, that is, than an authoritarian system can run--its speed being limited by its inability to manage risk properly. Authoritarian regimes may make grand mistakes, but cannot take small ones in stride as capitalism does (Not that the individual capitalist enjoys the experience!) because they tend to humble the arrogance of power.

..... divides humanity into seven "civilisations" [The West, Islam, Russian/Orthodox, Hindu/Indian, Chinese, Japanese and African]

His first mistake. There is only one Civilization -- the others are Cultures -- and any veneer of Civilization that adheres to them but a draped-over carbon copy of Western [Essentially Judeo-Christian] Civilization.

.... and he forecasts that they will fight one other indefinitely. To Huntington, these [Cultures] are ..... primitive tribes, will [Envy, hate, rage at and] attack [Western Civilization and] one other until the end of time.

Only poverty restrains super-tribal aggression, believes Huntington, but he assumes that all seven civilisations will grow rich without losing the cultural differences that provoke super-tribal war.

Big mistake number two, a wrong assumption -- and a false premise from which the rest of his theory descends. Poverty is the consequence of the denial to the creators and owners of Capital of the FReedom to choose what to do with it.

And it is the envy created by the ensuing poverty that is harnessed by the leaders of the uncivilized and turned into such hatred and rage as that we witnessed on September 11.

Huntington argues that there are many different types of capitalism .....

Absolute rubbish! There is only one and -- although something akin to it appeared momentarily in Great Britain at the time of the Industrial Revolution -- and was momentarily rampant in America in the early 19th century -- politicians soon inserted themselves and fellow-free-loading bureaucrats into the loop -- and capitalism is practised nowhere on Earth. Only various forms of Socialism. [Whose clichés are taught as "economics" in all but a couple of the world's colleges]

The West is unique in its individualism and its rule of law, and the West created capitalism. But because the West was individualistic and was ruled by law before it was rich, Huntington denies that those properties are important to the creation of wealth.

[In a vain attempt to support] his argument, Huntington pointed in 1996 to the "Tigers" of the Pacific Rim. Their cultures are collective and authoritarian, and they ignore the individual's rights under the law, yet they were growing so rich that, by 1996, they were beginning to ape the Muslims in their defiance of the West.

Yet where are the Tigers now? Japan is locked in economic stagnation, while Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia struggle with economic disaster.

Huntingdon completely overlooks that all but one of the much-vaunted "tigers" were the recipients both of the foundation of Western Rule of Law -- and all of them, of Trillions of Dollars of Western Capital -- and that when their rush to self-aggrandizement, their building of massive structures [Mostly underused and not viable -- Kuala Lumpur's "tallest building in the world (It is not!) -- only 25% occupied!] as witness to their own self-importance and their corruptly and criminally siphoning-off of every single penny they could get their grubby hands on -- became more than even the kick-back grubbing Western and European bankers could explain away to their investors -- Western investment dried up -- and with it the much-vaunted "tigers" became revealed as what they always were. Pussies.

Even today, 87% of Singapore's new investment is from the West -- and Singapores much-vaunted "success" is cloaked in draconian secrecy to cover up its government-controlled companies massive squanderings and losses of much of the confiscated wealth of its taxpayers and citizens in moronic overseas ventures.

Such is its "success," for example, that it can no longer return to its citizens the thirty-seven per cent it has, for decades, compulsoraly confiscated from their every pay packet into a "pension fund" -- the money from which having been blown by incompetent technocrats on "vip" terminals at airports, on first-class and five star representation at every major international junket and bureaucracy, on obscene "salaries" for "judges," bureaucrats and MPs -- and on massively-failed overseas ventures. In China; Thailand; Indonesia; Malaysia; Hong Kong -- and lately into several of the world's airlines, in a way which had, even before September 11 2001, to all intents and purposes brought several of them [Air New Zealand and Australia's Ansett] down -- and doomed others -- quite possibly to include Branson's Virgin Atlantic and the always wildly over-rated Singapore Airlines itself!

And as Mr Huntington [Correctly] states -- and despite that much of its mismanaged and/or confiscated wealth continues to be massively mis-directed toward the East's ceaselessly swirling plug holes:

Only the West continues to grow.

And now that Osama has given us all a look at what the other half really thinks of us?

Please God we will allow the scum that own operate control and rule the Beautiful Peoples who are trapped in all of the other cultures the benefit of the consequences of their own actions; that they might all perish -- and that we, by our example, can rescue their long-suffering Peoples -- and show them FReedom's Way!

(((BTTT!)!!!!

MadIvan, You rock! Such a cool article. A couple of points I think the article missed.

First, the heavy socialism in Europe and Japan, which prevents them from growing as fast as the US. Despite defense budgets 1/2 to 1/3 the size of the US's, their working populations are more heavily taxed. This is to support a parasitic government funded sector. It is the US's support of private property rights, and the view that taxes are an infringement on those rights, that has kept growth alive in the US.

Second, as we have seen the decline, of the authoritarian capitalist asian tigers. So shall we see, the decline of China. The secretiveness and corruption, of authoritarian regimes, isn't compatible with the transparency and stability, capitalism requires. Let me expand on that, to make a profit, a capitalist must calculate the costs and the risks. Without transparency and stability calculating the costs and risks can become impossible.

Third, if so many of the Islamic countries weren't sitting on a ocean of oil. Their culture, would have no more clout, than African culture. They are like Spain was with new world gold, when the oil's gone, the power is gone. Most OPEC countries are in hock, if a new economical source of portable power were found(cold fusion), they would all go bankrupt.

Thanks for the read.

We are fighting to protect individualism. Let us not forget how our enemies call upon the individual to surrender themselves to "the will of Allah" (the mullahs really

THe will of Allah forces Arabs to rely on the will, on the violence of Islam. While Islam relies on violence, the West is truly self sufficient and relies on itself, on the individual - or G_d in a good part of the US and Israel. Violence, the will of Allah, is indeed a poor substitute for self sufficiency. It actually is a dependence on violence and manhood, dependence that the West has been getting rid of, with our women in combat (a bad thing save for the jobs women can be useful for, such as control of tight and small space or subterranean vehicles as well as spy missions).

While Islam has women depending on men for war, the West has proven time and again that women can be making the bombs as well fight for special missions. True total war, in a clash of civilization, can only be waged from a stance of self reliance. While terrorism is often called the total war because it uses all means available (civilian, military, economic, mediatic, political and technological), Islam'S propensity to use terrorism does not mean Islam is best adapted at waging such total war. The west, on the other hand, while alienating lately the resort to violence in ways that are absurd, is a world best adapted and best capable to wage total war.

A huge problem with Huntington's thesis is that in fact the ONLY way to "civilize" is to adopt Western ideas and ways. There can be no such thing as "civilized" Japanese culture until became westernized---voting rights, property rights, women's equality (to an extent). Likewise, the Muslim states face just this: how do you have property rights without political rights? One normally leads to another, despite religious sanction.

A FreeRepublic bump for FreeBritannia.

In this age of affirmative action and multiculturalism, I'm not aware that America cherishes the individual. But it's always great to read Churchill quotes from the Battle of Britain.

Great post. I agree: Western Judeo-Christian civilization is innately superior to all others.

(But be careful; there are certain people here on FR who will accuse you of being a white supremacist for saying so.)

Very well-written, Ivan! There is one issue that isn't addressed, however, and that is population growth. Mulsims breed like bunnies. I read that they average 6 births per woman. Meanwhile, the rest of us are shrinking in population, and our populations are aging as well. Muslims could eventually outnumber us. What about that?