Excellent.

Loosely relevant, but very important is this article on the convergence of the far left, the far right and the Islamists around - yes, you've guessed it - Jew hatred.

http://www.axt.org.uk/HateMusic/essay_rich_barriers.htm

Posted by: Interestd at April 5, 2005 9:16 AM

Great post Mr. Spencer!

There's something going on in the world- maybe we can call it the Bodicea Effect- where the strongest proponents of the West, in Europe especially, are women for some reason.

Inspiring examples of courage like Bat Ye'Or, Hirsi Ali and Oriana Fallaci -who calls the Continent "a province of Islam" in her works like "The Rage and the Pride" and "The Force of Reason".

The majority of men in Europe -except for those who risk death like Pim Fortuyn and Theo Van Gogh, who WERE murdered, or Geert Wilders, who is alive but has now had to go in hiding in Holland- seem eerily silent, while there are valient and outspoken women leading the charge for the Human Rights against the Sharia onslaught.

If the men are too cowardly to speak, we can only hope that they may at least be good bodyguards to their ladies who will.

My honor goes out to all of these great women.

May they show the guys the way to remain free.

Posted by: BigSleep at April 5, 2005 11:31 AM

Interestd-

A telling link. I've noticed the same phenomenon online.

The right and left, both being too chickensh*t to oppose a real, dangerous and militant enemy- known popularly as radical Islamic jihadists- always kick the weak, small, civilized underdog. Those 'diabolically world-controlling Jews'.

And, of course, the Islamic fanatics love it. Since it not only plays into their same hatred, but helps undermine the West with its own internal lunatics, using 'divide and conquer', that most ancient of war stratagems.

What I could never figure is- what are they extremists in the West so worried about if 'the Jews' took over? Higher literacy rates? More violin virtuosos? Better scientists? Finer medical care because of an overdose of doctors? No spare room for all the extra Nobel prizes piling up? A glut of comedians? Movie makers?

Somehow the prospect of Islamic domination would appear to be a bit more worrisome.

But, for whatever 'ir-rationale', the anti-semites everywhere in the West - left and right- are willing to abet their own extinction by Islamic fanatics just to spite the mythical Z.O.G. (Zionist Occupation Goverment) elements they fear so much.

Or do they just resent that the Hebrews 'got monotheism first'? And, like resentful Cain, they hate ther Jewish Abel for being thus 'favored'?

Meanwhile, the Muslim extremists are laughing all the way to the (West) Bank.

I'll take my chances with Einstein, Freud, Jesus, Lenny Bruce and Yitzak Perlmann ---over Mohammad, Arafat, Khaddafi, Isi Amin and Khomeini ANY DAY.

Posted by: BigSleep at April 5, 2005 11:58 AM

Erratum-
"Idi Amin", of course. Not 'Isi'.

-- although for a deposed murderous dictator he sure had and "easy" end... living the high life in Sadui Arabia, where he finally became worm food in 2003.

Posted by: BigSleep at April 5, 2005 12:01 PM

BigSleep - good point, would a Jewish takeover be so bad? I'd miss the bacon though, but then you don't get that with Islam either.

At its best Jewish religion and culture seems to be about debate and questioning, often humorously, the contradictions that are part and parcel of the human condition. Perhaps that's why Islamists, Communists and Fascists hate Jews - they love certainty and can't stand being mocked.

You mention about the courage of women in standing up to Islam - I suppose women have more to lose. But where are the left-wing feminists admiring their fight against oppression? Where indeed?

Posted by: Interestd at April 5, 2005 12:11 PM

Big Sleep:

For a fair insight into the jihaddist psyche you might want to visit Phyllis Chessler's website and look at an article she posted last fall regarding Osama bin Laden's pre-US election video. Chessler -- a noted psychologist, academic scholar and author who was once married to an Afghan and lived in Afghanistan in the 1960s -- talks about OBL's status as one of 54 children born to one of his father's 10 wives and relates this and other middle eastern socio-cultural conditions to the words and deeds of this sociopath who originally denied responsibility for 9/11.

Posted by: waterdragon52 at April 5, 2005 12:46 PM

Conclusions for the United States

Americans need to take an assertive role in both combating Eurabia's dangers and preventing a similar merger from occurring within their own country, for this is a danger. For example, American Middle East studies specialists at universities are already predominantly pro-Arab/Islamic in orientation, dismissive of traditional standards of scholarship and not bashful about politicizing formal instruction.

Americans need to embrace their own genuinely pluralist culture. They should not renounce their identity and Judeo-Christian values to appease the current assertive intolerance emanating from the Arab/Muslim world.

The danger is all around us. The military and universities are infested, the State Department is non-coherent, and churches and the government at local, state, and federal levels are being lulled by the promise of religious tolerance. The public schools are being used to indoctrinate the young. Why don't people see that America is only a step or two behind Europe in the Islamification process?

Posted by: epg at April 5, 2005 1:35 PM

BigSleep:

Don't forget Margaret Thatcher and Golda Meir.

Posted by: johnb at April 5, 2005 2:13 PM

Interestd: You missed Indira Ghandi (who had Pakistan as her neighbour during some very tense times)

Posted by: waterdragon52 at April 5, 2005 3:34 PM

Hah! Margaret Thatcher and the feminists!

I was too young to vote when Margaret Thatcher came to power, and had barely thought about politics at all, but one question that would not go away was, 'Why aren't the women's libbers (for such they were called) pleased about this?'

As I got older, other such questions would pop into my head, eg 'The lefties are always going on about how great the third world is and how wonderful ethnic minorities are, but women in these cultures are treated like shit.'

And another one (won't mean much outside the UK):'If the socialists cared about poor people, why the **** did they abolish the grammar schools, which gave clever poor people the same chances as rich people.'

Don't know much about Golda Meir apart from the classic thing about Palestinians hating Jews more than they love their children, but the same stupidity applies as with Condoleeza Rice. Black woman in power - they should love her - but she's on the wrong side.

The elephant in the room is that the Left does not actually believe in empowerment, in meritocracy. It wants to keep people in their ghettos where they can be patronised. Of course they hate the Jews - they're an ethnic minority who won't be patronised. But if the Blacks get uppity, they'll be hated too. Watch this space.

Posted by: Interestd at April 5, 2005 3:37 PM

How many Europeans (and especially French) would have imagined de Gaulle to be a traitor to their own civilization?

He was.

Sad. But at least we know.

Posted by: pythagoras at April 5, 2005 7:07 PM

Eventually it is indeed women on whom we will place our hope to stop the rise of fundamentalist Islam. Hey, for men it isn't so bad to live under Islam: you can have several wives and even unlimited sex.. too bad you can't have beer though. But for women it will be much less fun, since they will simply become slaves of their male masters. So, let us hope this will be the Age of Women. Beautiful women, that is.

Posted by: Nordthiad at April 5, 2005 7:15 PM

Nazi Persecution of Jews Helped America Lead the World in Science and Math after WWII

Many brilliant European Jewish mathematicians, physicists and other scientists fled Europe for America just prior to WWII. Once here in America they contributed to a high level of science scholarship in leading American Universities such as Princeton, Stanford and many others. These brilliant scientists taught an entire generation of new scientists much to the benefit of American society in general.

Studies of group IQ have always ranked Jews quite very high among ethnic groups no matter what country they live in. American Universities were not without anti-semitic bias in the WWII era. Some Universities had quotas for Jews, the quotas limited the number of Jews admitted to the Universities. After the anti-semetic quotas were lifted Jewish enrollment climbed quite quickly. I recently saw a nasty reference on some political website in which someone claimed that Jews were "over-represented" in American Universities and that this must be the result of something nefarious on the part of Jews. Creeps me out. American Universities have a lot of problems these days but this isn't one of them as far as I know.

You know Genesis says that God will bless those that bless the Jews and curse those that curse the Jews.

Posted by: Athena at April 5, 2005 8:07 PM

The elephant in the room is that the Left does not actually believe in empowerment, in meritocracy. It wants to keep people in their ghettos where they can be patronised. Of course they hate the Jews - they're an ethnic minority who won't be patronised. But if the Blacks get uppity, they'll be hated too. Watch this space. Posted by: Interestd

Interesting viewpoints. I have intimate knowledge of the antisemitic right, and the Christian Right as well, seems that it is part of their liturgy and lexicon that "leftism" aka Marxism is a Jewish plot. It is also part of their liturgy that Communism is Jewish, to prove it they quote the Jews who were the leaders of various communist parties and movements, as well as the Atomic Spies.

In fact most of the names that pop up in the public view when "leftists" are mentioned,be it intellectuals, human rights activists, human rights lawyers, just happen to be Jewish (Chomsky for example).

Jews played a major role in the Civil Rights movement, a just movement by the way, and one that was necessitated because of the intransigence of the (threatened)conservative white Christian American.

On the other hand fundamentalism (right wingerism) be it Jewish, Christian, Hindu or Muslim (which is by default fundamentalistic) fascist (Hitler, Mussolini and yes communism) all share common ground, they are moral absolutists, "family values", misogynistic, homopobic, etc.

Ex: What did Hitler and Stalin have in common?
Patriarchialism, women in their "place", and the criminalization of abortion and homosexuality, as well as an obsessive concern about "morality".

Gees, I just described Islam,Orthodox Judaism, the Christian Coalition and the Catholic Church.

Posted by: Giaour at April 5, 2005 9:46 PM

Giaour-

As it says in "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion": nobody's perfect.

The Jews were suckered into communism in England and the U.S. by resentment at the social inequalities of those countries at that time, when newspapers ran ads for rooms to rent that specified "christian gentleman wanted", which meant "No Jews allowed". So, the Leninists and Stalinists played on their idealistic naivete and rancor, as they did as well with blacks like Paul Robeson and Patrice Lumumba, pretending that all would be welcome in the classless and raceless Potemkin Villages of the future soviet paradise.

But, compared to the Muslim fanatics, who can NEVER change their 'political affiliation' to Islam, every other creed or people CAN learn.

Even the children of the atom spy Julius Rosenberg and his wife Ethel are acknowledging that their wish-myth of 'innocent' parents is no longer tenable. Especially now that secret documents from the former soviet bloc have leaked out confirming the Rosenbergs' spywork. A hard thing to face about your parents- that they sold out their own country to a totalitarian maniac for some dimwit, anti-natural vision of an ever-receding workers' utopian Happyville.

The Muslims think they are making the same kind of tempting promise -of their own earthly Paradise- to current cultural misfits.

And, if you are an ego-damaged, resentful, despotic, woman-hating and congenitally-gullible guy, their Vision of the posthumous Virgins has some juvenile cachet.

The orthodox of every stripe tend toward the same golden road that goes over a cliff.

And the most orthodox in history are what we are now facing. With armageddon's arsenal almost in their grasp.

ALL of the rest of us have to fight them together.

Or their will surely hang us seperately.

(If not worse. Like have us star in one of their 'sharp' instructional videos.)

I only wish Bat Ye'Or or Hirsi Ali or Oriana Fallaci could run for president of the U.S., because none of the current or looming crop of politicians have what these ladies possess-
an instinct of self-preservation.

I look at all of the present politicos and they seem like androids who have be programmed by Denial, Inc. What border problems? What Islamic Invasion? What cultural suicide? What Eurabia?

Only a disaster will hose the deck clean of these cataclysmic idiots.

The pressure is building...

Posted by: BigSleep at April 6, 2005 1:19 AM

Interested

[[The elephant in the room is that the Left does not actually believe in empowerment, in meritocracy. It wants to keep people in their ghettos where they can be patronised. Of course they hate the Jews - they're an ethnic minority who won't be patronised. But if the Blacks get uppity, they'll be hated too. Watch this space.]]

It is already happening in Britain. hindus are beginning to be despised on the left for being successful, not blaming everyone else for their woes in the world, outperforming the national average in exams at school and universities, setting up businesses and becoming millionaires, becoming academics and intellectuals rather than sit and whinge and whine. Thats why newspapers like the Guardian marginalise them and (metaphorically) masturbate every time they can get a pompous self righteous scapegoating Muslim to rant and foam at the mouth at all the 'injustices' in the world. Hindus are no longer neccessary, discard and marginalise them like the Jews. The same thing is happening to the Sikhs, they are starting to do very well in business. In the recent Sunday Times rich list, it was phenomenal to see the number of Hindus and Sikhs in there. Pakistanis were almost nowhere.

The left have become rotten. Licking the backside of fanatical Islam has made them rancid.

Posted by: Zico at April 6, 2005 6:07 PM