My latest in PJ Media:
The savage Left is busy tearing down statues and repudiating American history, and with it America itself. In response, lovers of freedom are deploring the destruction and denouncing the barbarians, but few are mounting a robust and informed response to their hatred of American history itself. Yet if there is anything that this orgy of destruction should have taught us, it is that we must know, and know familiarly, and cherish, the history of our republic. Doing this will go a long way toward saving our free society.
The reason for this is clear: now is the time for all of us to study and become deeply familiar with American history, because if we do not know what made America great, we will not be able to make it great again. Yet it is safe to say that many, if not most, Americans who deplore what the Leftist savages are doing to our monuments only have the most glancing knowledge of how the United States became a beacon of freedom for the world, such that people from all over try to get here despite the Left’s relentless defamation of our country as a bastion of racial hatred and injustice.
Ahistorical myopia and ignorance of history is a significant cause of the current outpouring of hatred for America. To take just one of innumerable examples, Leftist rioters and destroyers are enraged at Americans who were memorialized despite being slave-owners. They’re heedless of the fact that slavery was not universally considered a moral evil at the time these men lived, and that there are very likely to be people in future ages who look at our times and scratch their heads and ask each other How could they not have known that was wrong?.
Even more importantly, the Leftists are heedless of the fact that the movement to abolish slavery arose in Britain and America because of Christian principles that they despise, while slavery persisted long into the twentieth century in several Muslim countries because of Islamic principles that they profess to respect. Saudi Arabia, a country based strictly upon Islamic law, only abolished slavery in 1962, and North African states including Mauritania and Niger only did so in the early twenty-first century, because of Islamic laws that the Leftists rioters would no doubt say it was “Islamophobic” to denounce.
Rating America’s Presidents: An America-First Look at Who Is Best, Who Is Overrated, and Who Was An Absolute Disaster is an attempt to correct this ignorance of our own history, and to arm Americans to defend the history and heritage of the United States, so as to incline people to defend our country itself. It introduces Americans to unknown heroes of our own history that everyone should know about, including Chester Arthur, who was president from September 1881 to March 1885….
There is much more. Read the rest here.
Marilyn Griffin says
So, to the leftists and radical blacks, the ONLY thing that matters about historical figures is that they owned slaves. No accomplishments, no matter how great count. If that is the standard to be held against all humans, that one wrong thing discounts all the good, then no one, including the leftists and radical blacks are safe. But, oddly, they do not apply this standard to anyone but whites, not muslims, not blacks, not Chinese, only whites. I don’t believe any of these people care a whit about slavery or blacks or any minorities. I think they care only about themselves and getting what they want, which seems to be the destruction of the USA and all it once stood for. I do not believe the BLM even represents most black citizens, not the ordinary citizens, like most whites, that just want to live our lives peacefully in safe surroundings, raise our children, take care of our families, etc.
gravenimage says
And in Boston a statue of Lincoln *freeing* the slaves–a statue commissioned by freed slaves and dedicated by Frederick Douglass–was taken down. What insanity is *this*?
Rob says
‘They’re heedless of the fact that slavery was not universally considered a moral evil at the time these men lived, and that there are very likely to be people in future ages who look at our times and scratch their heads and ask each other How could they not have known that was wrong?’.
Like opium. Those that castigate the West for selling addictive opium to China ignore thae fact that the same addictive substance (as laudanum) was widely used in Europe as pain relief.
People who consumed opium by mouth, considered themselves morally superior (as ‘opium eaters’) compared to degenerate Orientals, who smoked it.
gravenimage says
Not quite the point I was making, Rob. I meant that opposing slavery, even well after the fact, is not the real motivation for those pulling down statues–as their wanting to see a statue of Lincoln *freeing the slaves* pulled down.
Rob says
Thanks Gravenimage, but my quote is from the main Spencer article, which places it outside of your comment. Maybe I should have made my post a contribution rather than a ‘reply’.
gravenimage says
Thank you, Rob. I take your points.
mortimer says
Agree with Marilyn. They are Marxists. BLM = Blacks Loving Marxism.
Martin Luther King was a Republican because Lincoln was a Republican and due mostly to the determination of Lincoln, the 13th Amendment was passed. The Republican Party was founded with the intention of stopping the spread of slavery Westward.
The Democrats are the party that retained slavery, promoted the Jim Crow laws after losing the war and resisted integration in the South.
Marxism ignores the law of supply and demand and causes general shortages of almost everything. Marxism was tried 70 years and it was seen by Marxists to be a failure. These Afro-American Marxists should go to a Marxist country and try it for 4 or 5 years.
Michelle Post says
I totally agree. Ever since all this has been happening, it’s just an excuse to destroy. Well, no one is ever going to manipulate me, I will think what I want and none of their views matter to me. They act like communists, telling people how to think, and what to read and watch on tv.Our veterans of any war didn’t die for BLM ideals.
william carr says
I have a lot of reservations about the USA but one thing we can be eternally grateful for, is its steadfast opposition to communism throughout the world. At one point communism under the direction of the USSR was in charge of one third of the world and dedicating itself to increasing that hegemony. But for the enormous expenditure of blood and treasure by the USA many of us would be speaking Russian today. Communism was more successful than the fascist regimes in that it established strong communist parties in many countries and still today there are many communist parties in existence and paradoxically multitudes in USA itself are bent on bringimg communism to power in the very country that fought it so bravely
R Thomasson says
@Marilyn Griffin. Not only Americans need to learn the history of their country. The advice is certainly hard needed for Europeans too. In divers European countries the most bizarre statues were smeared with paint or pulled down BECAUSE THEY SYMBOLIZE RACISM. Take for example the lovely statue of the Little Mermaid in the harbour of Copenhagen. She was smeared with the stupid words “Racist Fish”. In Britain, France and Germany idiots had tried to pull statues down of people who had nothing to do with slavery. People belonging to BLM, ANTIFA and other so called far left are the useful idiots of invisible villains who are in fact the most extreme cruel form of Capitalism. They aim to replace white people by mix hybrids whom they can put under totalitarian regime as the one of North Korea and use them as loan slaves.
wpm says
They try to bring down a Statue of Charles Dickens!What in holy hell does Charles Dickens have to do with slavery in any part of the world?What does Charles Dickens have to do with glorifying” rich capitalize overlords”?He wrote stories about poor lower class white people who work themselves to death in the 19th century England before labor laws were written ,he was against child labor.He was against work houses for the poor,against child labor,put a human face to the working class poor in his time in his stories.
gravenimage says
The museum dedicated to him had slurs daubed on it.
As you note, Charles Dickens crusaded against many wrongs like child labor and evinced sympathy for the poor.
Zaheer Hasan says
Wa `alaykum As-Salamu Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuh.
In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) owned SLAVES; He took slaves, traded in slaves. (“that which your right hands own”). Nobody can point finger at him. There is no statue of him, so it cannot be brought down or torn down. That was his genius. He is the Perfect Man – al-Insān al-Kāmil (Arabic: الإنسان الكامل), also rendered as Insān-i Kāmil – the greatest of all; unique figure in history, past, present and future. Owning slaves, making slaves of defeated nations is part of his order/religion — ISLAM — and you cannot slam it. Islam prohibits statues and three-dimensional figures of the living creatures. (Note: Mā malakat aymānukum (“what your right hands possess”, Arabic: ما ملكت أيمانکم) is a Quranic expression referring to slaves.)
. ‘Islam made it lawful for a master to have a number of slave-women captured in wars and enjoined that he alone may have sexual relations with them.’ All white slave-owner will be forced out of memory and torn down but Islamic slave owners and those who encouraged Qatl-e-aam will be remembered forever as promoters of the great faith. It will reign supreme; all statues of black slave owners will be brought down. . (Note: Qatl-e-aam meaning Genocide, Race Murder, Racial Extermination : قتل عام Qatl E Aam, نسل کشی Nasal Kushi : (noun) systematic killing of a racial or cultural group.) These BLM iconoclasts are true Islamists. (Arabic term is: But Shikan بت شک i.e., destroyer of images used in religious worship. or for cultural/historical adoration)
پرستی Idolatry is not permitted. Bringing statues down is one way of humiliating a people, instilling fear in their minds.
For each and every statue brought down, a mosque will be raised nearby from where adhan – the Islamic call to prayer – will be recited by the muezzin at prescribed times of the day so that the whole nearby world knows the presence of Islam since the whole world belongs to allah العالم كله ينتمي إلى الله alealam kuluh yantami ‘iilaa allah; “All the World’s a Mosque” as Abu Sa’id al-Khudri reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “The entire earth has been made a place of prayer, except for graveyards and washrooms.” Source: Sunan al-Tirmidhī 317. “Whatever is in the heavens and whatever is in the earth declares the glory of Allah; and He is the Mighty, the Wise.” (Saff, 61:1). In that case, the whole earth is a place of worship, i.e., a mosque, where every being – except for some humans and jinn — endlessly glorifies and prostrates in submission to its Creator and Master, Allah.
All blacks and some white UIs (useful idiots) are makers of the New Order. Only BLM is the permissible slogan. WLs do not matter. All faiths that will not submit to Allah/ Islam or who are not slaves (abad/abeed) of Allah will not survive. Allah, the owner of slaves, lives forever, It is ok to pull down the statues of white slave-owners and raise the banner of rasul Allah in their place. Submit now and live in peace. inshallah.
BTW: Just came to my attention … For an alternate point of view, countering my opinion. see Slavery Rampant in Africa, Middle East; The West Wrongly Accuses Itself by Giulio Meotti • July 5, 2020 at 5:00 am but you shall not raise a finger at the beautiful ways of Africa. Africa is honorable and the West, especially America (USofA) is evil. Quote: Real slave traders and racists — those who believe Western societies and values should not exist at all — most likely look at the current Western self-flagellation and cheer their approval.” This is the way of the world. White folks have committed sins, so goes the theory, and they shall pay jizyah, or reparation, for their fathers’ sins. The time has come; so BLM orders all statues of white slave-owners be brought down, black slave-owners not included. Fair deal, don’t you think? zh Abd+Allah (Abdullah) mon ami. RiP. (23:1) The believers have indeed attained true success:
قَدۡ اَفۡلَحَ الۡمُؤۡمِنُوۡنَۙ
gravenimage says
The repulsive Zaheer Hasan wrote:
Wa `alaykum As-Salamu Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuh.
In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) owned SLAVES; He took slaves, traded in slaves. (“that which your right hands own”). Nobody can point finger at him.
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What the sickening Zaheer Hasan means is that no pious Muslims can point a finger at him, because they also believe that Muslims have the right to enslave and rape their victims. *Ugh*.
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There is no statue of him, so it cannot be brought down or torn down. That was his genius.
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What crap. Muhammed didn’t condemn statues because they might be torn down, but because he was interested in destroying art and other freedom of expression. Muslims regularly destroy artwork and–even worse–murder artists.
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He is the Perfect Man – al-Insān al-Kāmil (Arabic: الإنسان الكامل), also rendered as Insān-i Kāmil – the greatest of all; unique figure in history, past, present and future. Owning slaves, making slaves of defeated nations is part of his order/religion — ISLAM — and you cannot slam it. Islam prohibits statues and three-dimensional figures of the living creatures. (Note: Mā malakat aymānukum (“what your right hands possess”, Arabic: ما ملكت أيمانکم) is a Quranic expression referring to slaves.)
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Well, Zaheeer Hasan is right about this–if Muslims cannot enslave their victims and destroy art, then it is not real Islam–this is damning, of course, but pious Muslims cannot grasp this.
That they consider this brutal barbarian to be the “perfect man”–he was also a caravan-raider, a kidnapper, a pedophile, a rapist, and a mass murderer–shows just how sick Islam is.
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‘Islam made it lawful for a master to have a number of slave-women captured in wars and enjoined that he alone may have sexual relations with them.’ All white slave-owner will be forced out of memory and torn down but Islamic slave owners and those who encouraged Qatl-e-aam will be remembered forever as promoters of the great faith. It will reign supreme; all statues of black slave owners will be brought down. . (Note: Qatl-e-aam meaning Genocide, Race Murder, Racial Extermination : قتل عام Qatl E Aam, نسل کشی Nasal Kushi : (noun) systematic killing of a racial or cultural group.)
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We have already seen Muslims reinstate slavery–most notably this was the case with the Islamic State. One of the first things they did was to enslave Christian and Yezidi girls and women for use as sex slaves.
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These BLM iconoclasts are true Islamists. (Arabic term is: But Shikan بت شک i.e., destroyer of images used in religious worship. or for cultural/historical adoration)
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Not really. No one worships these statues, as Zaheer Hasan pretends. Then, as appalling as these BLM vandals are, it is unlikely that most of them actually want to see all images destroyed as pious Muslims do.
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پرستی Idolatry is not permitted. Bringing statues down is one way of humiliating a people, instilling fear in their minds.
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We, he’s right in this case–both these vandals and Muslims want to see the free West humiliated.
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For each and every statue brought down, a mosque will be raised nearby from where adhan…
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More Islamic supremacism. Do most in the BLM want this? Likely not–but they will have no choice if those like Zaheeer Hasan get their way. And what about when these Muslim start enslaving them–something that of course would not happen in the free West? Too bad for them, I suppose…
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All blacks and some white UIs (useful idiots) are makers of the New Order. Only BLM is the permissible slogan. WLs do not matter. All faiths that will not submit to Allah/ Islam or who are not slaves (abad/abeed) of Allah will not survive. Allah, the owner of slaves, lives forever, It is ok to pull down the statues of white slave-owners and raise the banner of rasul Allah in their place. Submit now and live in peace. inshallah.
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Yep…
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BTW: Just came to my attention … For an alternate point of view, countering my opinion. see Slavery Rampant in Africa, Middle East; The West Wrongly Accuses Itself by Giulio Meotti • July 5, 2020 at 5:00 am but you shall not raise a finger at the beautiful ways of Africa. Africa is honorable and the West, especially America (USofA) is evil. Quote: Real slave traders and racists — those who believe Western societies and values should not exist at all — most likely look at the current Western self-flagellation and cheer their approval.” This is the way of the world. White folks have committed sins, so goes the theory, and they shall pay jizyah, or reparation, for their fathers’ sins. The time has come; so BLM orders all statues of white slave-owners be brought down, black slave-owners not included. Fair deal, don’t you think? zh Abd+Allah (Abdullah) mon ami. RiP. (23:1) The believers have indeed attained true success:
قَدۡ اَفۡلَحَ الۡمُؤۡمِنُوۡنَۙ
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Muslims will use any fools to impose the horrors of Islam on us.
Maemae77 says
My response was to the deceitful Muslim. I forgot to add that.
gravenimage says
Thank you, Maemae–I understood that, and great response.
This repellent Mohammedan reveals just how hideous Islam really is.
Maemae77 says
It’s best to show and expose the public the deceitful tactics so they can See it for themselves and not fall under the cloud of Islamic deception.
Many Americans need to wipe the Islamic propaganda and deception soap suds from their eyes.
I see “Moderate Muslims“ actively controlling the image of Islam online. So many targeting pages and infiltrated groups, pages and virtually everywhere in society.
That’s where they have their biggest power over the willfully ignorant so they can use them against the truth tellers and in their movements.
Ticks me off. ?
Maemae77 says
No, I disagree and I refuse to take any advice from someone that warships and ideology that still sanctions slavery today among many other human rights atrocities, let alone who puts a false prophet Muhammad (hint:pain in the aorta) upon a pedestal.
You wasted your time on a person that you assumed knew nothing about Islam.
I recognized all of your Deceitful tactics.
There’s nothing you can say to a Pragmatic person such as myself that sees Islam for what it truly is and it’s dirty history along with it’s present sinister and diabolical intentions for the world. You can’t use religion or play on my emotions either.
Some others may not see your deceitful tactics but I know them very well.
You promote a way of life of oppression by definition. I believe in a free world with good moral.
Unfortunately, our two worlds are in a battle (good verses evil)
You’re ideologies bond with the unholy alliance is being exposed worldwide.
Nothing good would ever come about with your ideology’s allegiance with the unholy alliance.
Your political totalitarian ideology is responsible for more genocides worldwide than most people want to realize and under the guise of other ideologies as well as your own.
I make it my life’s work to deeply expose every aspect of Islam the poses a threat to the western world and the history including the verses from the Qur’an that even highly educated ex-Muslims from around the globe back.
I also, make it my life’s work to expose Muslims deceitful tactics when they try to deceive me to educate non-Muslims on social media in 30+ large Face groups as well as other social media platforms.
Good for me, when they can see Muslims using those tactics for themselves, rather than just telling them.
Thank you for providing me with more educational materials that you purposely cherry-picked from the Qur’an, meanwhile ignoring 100s of other verses That call for violence and slaughter of non-Muslims globally still today.
Nice try though ?
Cynthia in California says
This total removal of “offensive” statues is why I personally would like to see such statues surrounded on four sides by placards/plaques readable at a minimum of 30 feet, each with a historical perspective on why the subject was originally thought worthy of this statue, when it was erected and by whom (e.g., the “Lost Cause” movement in the 1890s), and why others find it objectionable.
But that would be–oh God–educational, wouldn’t it? *sigh*
roberta says
The 4th of July, our Independence Day to me represents a compact our founders made with our creator. I honor that contract, I love our founders. But my mind always goes back to those that fought and died for no name or glory, but for our independence. Starving, yet fighting on for the greater good, completely unknown, nothing to gain but their and our freedom. They went to war poor, and left war poor (but free.) These guys make me ashamed of myself. I could never live up to their legacy.
Some people want to go to heaven when they die, heaven can wait, I love this place, send me right back to the United State of America. I’ll give how many ever lives it takes.
I’ll take how many ever lives it takes as well. Just saying.
gravenimage says
Why We Need History
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Important article, Mr. Spencer.
mortimer says
History is needed to teach young people about human nature. Recent history shows that the young have not been reading history and their conduct shows they have an unrealistic estimate of their own morality and infallibility!
This presumption of infallibility is typical in Marxism.
Alice W says
Great post!
gravenimage says
+1
Michael Copeland says
Marx provides an embarrassing role model for Marxists. Living on inherited means in London, and using his maid for sex, he did not put his Utopian model into effect for himself.
Miguel Ángel says
It makes me both sick & angry watching from afar, slavery is alive and well in Glasgow and throughout the UK, never mind the Islamic countries. The beasts take wee girls and abuse them at 9 years old. Why is no one ranting about this!!! FGM is commonplace and even through hard work and hours sacrificed by undercover police in the UK, they have still not been able to secure even 1 conviction!! Even though FGM is happening in the United kingdom. American brothers & sisters stay strong against these evil, dangerous communist and islamists.
Eric Smith. says
You are 100% Correct Miguel.
david morrison says
For more Understanding of Islam ,— GOOGLE -, Taqyyaa ,Tawryia Kitman , Muruna , read the koran , Google Political islam , Google Armenia under islam ! There is much to learn about islam !
Maemae77 says
I agree. The average person doesn’t have the faintest clue Islamic deception exists nor even how to defeat it.
They just hope that someone else would do it for them.
What they don’t understand is that when Muslims infiltrate your country deep and wide, the rules of the war change because it’s ideological not like a war where Japan hit Pearl Harbor.
Islam is a much different ideology as it used other ideologies as a disguise to hide it’s really them (the caliphate) that indoctrinated and changed the American culture with the help of the unholy alliance. They both work together to destroy America from within.
I think Americans need to realize that all followers of Islam have duties and what those duties are.
I believe that dealing and defeating Islam, we must have a pragmatic approach with facts because Muslims will try to project, deflect deceive, lie by omission etc in order to defend Islam and keep it’s sinister and diabolical fouls and intentions secret which aids in the spread of Islam itself.
If you extract Sharia Law from Islam, it would crumble.
Miguel Ángel says
Thank you for your advice. I will research this . I also watch soco films on YouTube, where bob a christian, debates with these parasites at speakers corner in london. They fail time & time again to give answers in these debates. I know very little about islam compared to most people, but the knowledge that I do have sickens me. I have had bad experiences with muslims during my life. And predict it will go on that way
OLD GUY says
Our school systems are part of the problem these young individuals have no knowledge of the history of the world or their own country. Why is that? Could it be that the leftest colleges and universities that receive government tax dollars don’t feel fit to teach our children the history of the country they live in. When 20 somethings can’t tell you who the first President of the United States was, or what country Americans won their independence from something is wrong. Yes I’am old but we were taught history starting in the 3rd grade and through high school. What happened to civics classes required to graduate high school, who decided to stop teaching this to our children?
Yes America has made mistakes, I’ve seen a lot of this world in the military and as a civilian, there is no place I’d rather be.