Civilization and savagery are fundamentally at war.
We’re in a war between savages and civilization. Everything else is a detail.
Some of us woke up to that war when planes crashed into skyscrapers. Others when we saw beheading videos spread across social media. What we saw in Israel, Hamas terrorists raping, mutilating and defiling corpses, is another bloody wake-up call. There will be many others.
Beyond the politics and the geopolitics, we still haven’t come to terms with what we’re fighting.
The barbarism of murdering women and children, taking them as hostages, and posting photos of their dead bodies to social media, is not a byproduct of Islamic warfare, it’s the whole point.
Cruelty, beheading, burning to death, torturing and mutilating are the essence of Islam. This is how Islamic warfare was practiced beginning with Mohammed for over a thousand years. It’s how it continues to be practiced, whether it’s ISIS fighting other Muslims, Azebajani troops killing Armenians, Hamas attacking Israelis, or Islamic terrorists plotting carnage in Western nations.
Islam was born out of a war by barbarians against the civilized societies of Persia and Byzantium. Despite academic mythmaking, its vision never extended beyond rape and slavery, its empires fell into power struggles, beginning with Sunnis and Shiites, and its cultural and scientific accomplishments were all looted from conquered peoples. When civilization finally toppled the Ottoman Empire with some help from its internal barbarians, the cycle began again.
Israel is just one front in a global war between savages and civilization. And not all of the savages bow to Allah. There are inner city gangs across the American hemisphere that behead and torture their victims. And there are children of civilization that turn into savages. Savagery is not a condition of birth: it is a choice. People born into savagery can become civilized and those born into the highest echelons of civilization can prey on us like the worst vicious animals.
The question is how do civilized societies confront savagery? Do we blame ourselves for having made the savages what they are through our capitalism and colonialism even though they have behaved this way long before modern western civilization amounted to anything? Or do we set forth to reeducate them, to build modern nations for them and teach them to become civilized?
We have sent forth our sons and daughters to make peace with them and to educate them. Our societies opened themselves to embrace and celebrate the virtues of the noble savage. When we realized that we could not coexist with savages, we tried to remake our societies to serve them. All of that has been tried and civilization is still drowning in the violence of the savages.
The fundamental truth is that civilization and savagery are innately at war with one another.
Savages are offended by the existence of civilization. When they see one, they want to destroy it. There can be no peace with savages because, contrary to Islam, peace is a condition of civilization. To have peace, you must be civilized. Savages don’t even view peace as a value apart from the conclusion of a successful conquest which then sets the stage for the next one.
Civilized people develop complex mechanisms of exchange, but savages see no reason why they shouldn’t take something or someone if they are too weak to defend themselves. No amount of lectures will ever convince a savage that anything other than clan relations should prevent him from stealing a car or raping a woman if there will be no clear consequences.
That’s because savages, unlike civilized people, have no conscience, and therefore no soul.
Islam, unlike Judaism and Christianity, is not a religion of the soul, but entirely of power. From its genocidal chant, “Allahu Akbar” that proclaims the physical supremacy of Allah to all other religions through the military victories of its followers, everything is reduced to conquest. The truth of Islam is validated through war. When Jihadists conquer and rape non-Muslims, they are proving that Islam is true and that the religions of the conquered are false. That’s why ISIS Jihadists would tell the Yazidi girls they were raping that rape brought them “closer to Allah”
Civilizations have become too sophisticated and decadent to understand such concepts. When faced with barbarism, they go down a dialectic rabbit hole that explains the savages in terms of how civilized people interacted with them. Did they hurt their feelings, overthrow their governments or draw mean cartoons? Did capitalism leave them adrift in the world economy? How did we fail to integrate the newest generation of immigrants with all the welfare checks?
These sophomoric sessions are pointless. A hyena doesn’t eat your chickens because you failed to integrate it. That’s just what hyenas do. Man at the base state is a predator and savages strive to be the alpha predators. Civilizations become superior predators because they provide room for arts and sciences, because they think about something other than how they are superior to their neighbors and will prove it by killing their sons and raping their daughters.
But when civilizations spend too much time thinking, they forget that one reason they came into being was to build something better than a state of savagery. Decadent civilizations internalize all the criticism and their peoples endlessly quarrel and think that the worst possible things in the world are the ones that exist among their own people. Savages remind us otherwise.
Much like a hurricane reminds us of the alternative to houses and famine reminds us of the alternative to food, savages remind us of the alternative to civilization. Unfortunately truly decadent civilizations need constant reminders of all of these things. We have to be constantly told that food doesn’t magically emerge from a supermarket, that houses are not the natural state of being and that not being murdered by savages in your home is a new way of life.
Tolerate savages, give them enough rope and they will do all of these things to you. And more.
Savagery should not be confused with stupidity. Civilizations have been brought down by savages and civilizations were built by savages who became civilized. Savages are clever and cunning. They are alert to the weaknesses of civilized people and experts at finding ways around whatever walls and security systems that civilized people build to protect themselves.
Civilizations that spend enough time allowing savages to hang around will fall. Tolerating savages is actually a sign that a civilization has turned decadent. Welcoming and advocating for savages means that the end is nigh. Viable civilizations drive savages away. They do it not just to protect themselves but because banishing savages is what makes a civilization civilized.
When civilizations forget what the difference between themselves and the savages are, they lose their sense of right and wrong, and they can no longer explain why savagery is wrong. When faced with the worst imaginable crimes, they can still equivocate a case for the criminals.
Hamas terrorists can rape and kill their victims, and defenders will rally to explain why the issue is actually more complicated than it seems. This happens with Islamic terrorists all the time.
Savages and decadent civilizations have no firm concept of right and wrong. Everything is subjectively opportunistic and there can be scenarios in which raping a woman, killing her and then posting a photo of her body to social media so her family can see is actually right.
That is why civilization has to defeat savagery, without equivocation, apologies or sympathy, not only to win, but to revive its own soul. Negotiations and laws of war are for peer civilization. Savages offer nothing and so are owed nothing. They keep no agreements except when it suits them. Their word is worthless and their morality is non-existent.
A civilization that does not understand all this will learn it the hard way.
Civilizations are built on the suppression of savagery: both internally and externally.. When civilizations defeat savages, learning, art, science and ideas thrive. And when civilizations allow savages to ravage them, they lose their people, their morality and eventually their existence.
No form of war is more sacred than that of civilization against savagery. It is these wars that made Christianity and Judaism, not to mention all the ideas of western civilization, as well as those of Asia and India, possible. This is once again the defining struggle of our age.
Either civilization or the savages will prevail. Any attempt at a middle ground is suicide.
Our grandchildren will either make great things or they will be hunted by roaming savages like the teenage girls at a concert in Israel or those similarly hunted in venues in Europe.
All the hopes of mankind depend on the utter and total defeat of the savages, not just in Israel, but in America, in Europe, in India and Asia, and around the world. This is not the struggle of any single nation, but the crisis of mankind. Either humanity will rise or we will fall.
Charles Stephan says
Hamas are actual Nazis. The tactics are identical . The only difference is Hamas speaks Arabic rather than German. The goal is identical; to kill every last Jew
bagsgroove says
Damn right and damn the savages. Deport them all to some hell hole where they can disappear from the world.
JackNMeovslo says
Thank you eloquently stating what I have always known to be true but have never been able to verbalize. I’m an old man. I’ve come to accept that I have very little time left on this earth. I am committed to using what little time I have left to making a difference in this world. I am no longer waiting for everything evil to show up at my rural door step. They seem to be in no hurry. It’s time to put an end to the socialist shit-show we have been forced to watch for too long now. I look forward to taking one for the team.
Christopher Watson says
The Christian religion was built on the philosophy of kindness, love and friendship to all including our worst enemies. The role of the Christian in any society was to bring the non-Christian into the fold by acts of kindness and love. Unfortunately, this hasn’t really worked. The muslims have a different philosophy of killing anyone who doesn’t agree with their peculiar ideas by killing that person in the cruellest way possible. There have been periods in history when Christians have behaved in a ‘muslim’ fashion but these have been rare. During the middle-ages some Popes led armies and fought their enemies with great cruelty: muslim and Christian.
After the atrocities committed in Israel last week it is time to re-assess our response to not only muslim behaviour in their violence towards their ‘enemies’ but also in their behaviour towards their supporters in western countries who have welcomed them. Many Christian, western countries have received muslim ‘migrants with open arms. They have welcomed them, given them money, housing, education, medical care and any aid they have needed. How have they thanked their supporters? By murder, rape, theft, violence and criminal damage. The people of Sweden, France, Germany, Norway, Britain and Italy have opened their ports and their countries to help these ‘migrants’.
Now, the senseless welcomes must come to an end. All muslims must be expelled from western countries. The politicians who instigated these policies must be ousted and new, more realistic politicians must be put into power wherever possible. We are facing the end of the most successful civilisation ever to exist on this planet. Starting with the Egyptians through the Greeks, Romans, Italians, British and on to the Americans we have built the wealthiest and industrially advanced civilisation on the planet.
We are seeing that civilisation facing an eclipse if not an end. This primitive religion which is at the heart of Islamism is forcing us to reject modernity and education. It does not have a future; it only has a past. It has a life of prayer and a death leading to a paradise of 72 virgins. That is for males. The female of the human race has no present and no future. They are encased in a black bag, both politically and in reality. They will not become more like us, they will not take on our more civilised habits of how we treat other people. They will change us to be like them. To say they will not succeed is mere conjecture; they have always succeeded before.
Their lives have no hope, no pleasure, no love. They have only prayer and the bullying of those who are weaker. And we have, everyday, proved ourselves to be weaker. We thought we were being kind and Christian. They believed we were weak and would give up our ways of life.
Ralph says
A superb analysis, Christopher
The civilized world has been idiotically slow to recognize the inherent danger in Islam to our culture and founding principles. The West has lived in a papier mâché dream world for many decades. Time to accept the reality of Islam as a lethal enemy or be decimated.
tim gallagher says
An excellent summary of the situation, Christopher. What a terrible situation it is. There is no getting along with islam and its followers. It is long past time for the civilised, non-Muslims to wake up to that fact and get really tough with the barbaric Muslim savages. There are still far too many sleepwalking idiots around in our western societies.
James Lincoln says
Excellent post, Christopher.
tim gallagher says
Absolutely spot on, Daniel. If only almost everyone in our societies was as clear sighted as you on this issue then the civilised people of the world would deal with the barbaric, evil savages of the world in an appropriate way instead of fiddle farting around in the idiotic way that they do. The tardiness of so many fools in our societies to wake up to reality when it comes to the savages amazes me. Not the way to win the war with the vicious savages, a war which has to be won or there is a nightmare future awaiting civilised human beings everywhere in the world..
Hudders. says
What a passionate & well informed article Daniel, thank you for writing it at this juncture sir.
Indeed civilization & savagery are at war with each other.
They are indeed by their very nature at eternal emnity.
The sad & extremely worrying truth is that, the more soldier age young muslim males are
allowed into civilized countries of the west, such as the UK for example;
Then the more manifestations of this ultra emnity we shall see, with all the absolute horrors & classic murderous mayhem islam always brings.
Civilization & islam can not exist together peacefully.
It is utterly impossible; physically, politically, emotionally & of course spiritually to believe otherwise.
The continued forced migration/immigration of these most base & barbaric villians, ivites unthinkable disaster.
-The end of civilization as we know it & the ascendance of certain satanic savagery.
History is being ignored at our peril & to the doom of future generations.
Enough is enough.
‘NEVER THE TWAIN SHALL MEET…’
Yogi says
And this garbage this freaking politicians and globalist rats importing to Europe!!, lord o lord have mercy on Us !!, what they did to this continent is despicable crime against European people, Christian people, how evil is that !!, this EU. Mafia should be wiped out from Earth with this horrific traitors !!!, get them out from Europe!! Right now ! Otherwise it will be second Israel massacre, I guarantee that …
Burnaby Lad says
ravens make sounds not in our audible range
Westman says
After watching a discussion between Judge Napolitano and Scott Ritter, I was very surprised that Ritter was trying to make some moral equivalence between Hamas and Israel due to the intentional(Hamas) and unintentional-collateral(Israel) death of civilians. It became obvious that Ritter though seeing clearly the structures of the Ukraine-Russia War does not know the doctrines of Islam concerning war nor the built-in Quran pogrom to annihilate all Jews.
Ritter was going on about war crimes without mentioning his own nation and England fire-bombed European and Japan cities and only admit to 830,000 civilians killed, puposefully bombed(likely more than a million), while there was no religious mandate to kill Germans and Japanese. In Islam there is an unmistakable, undeniable, mandate to annihilate the Jews and that is why Islamic nations were compatible with the NAZI regime.
And this is the crux: The Palestinians voted in Hamas by 51% after many tit-for- tat confrontations. They knew, like the German people supporting NAZIs,, exactly who they were supporting. The goal of Hamas is not any land sharing with Israel, rather, the total annihilation of Jews, “from the river to the sea!”
And that makes all the difference.
Islam is a doctrinal mess with no authority to clean up mandates that belong in the barbaric past. There are perhaps 49% of Palestinian Muslims who understand some of the Islamic mandates of the 7-8th Century are repugnant and have no place in their lives. However, like the 1942 Germans, the majority supports an organization that seeks the annihilation of the Jews. They are therefore, complicit.
Israel is in an existential war in which it must eliminate Hamas and perhaps Hezbollah even if that means the end of Gaza and Lebanon. Egypt can take care of the Palestinians, who we can be certain, will treat the Egyptians with respect.
Other Muslim nations might think this is their chance to take credit for destroying the Jews and Israel. This would mean WW3 is West vs Islam because the military arm of the West is firmly behind Israel. We have some noisy minority demonstrations for Palestine, yet, the rest of the population had their eyes opened to the vulgar, barbaric, side of Islam.
James Lincoln says
Westerman,
If the so-called Palestinians support Hamas, how are they different from Hamas?
Sam says
I am utterly shocked at the support that Hamas appears to have here in the UK. Pro-Palestinians on our streets. An Israeli flag was torn down from Sheffield Town Hall and replaced with a Palestinian one. The level of ignorance astounds me: conspiracy theories abound. I feel like I’m living in Nazi Germany in the 1930s. People saying the Jews run the world, hate the West, are responsible for immigration into Europe and all that rubbish. I can’t believe what I’m seeing and hearing.
Richard James says
Not just the UK, all around Europe. Goes to show how many have infiltrated the west.
Westman says
It is ignorance. As the world becomes about power, influence and money, leaders, universities, corporate interests, and media have indoctrinated the youth away from their own historical roots and into hedonism that has no time for real education nor appreciation for the past struggles and sacrifices on which our crumbling platform rests. Our society makes judgements reminiscent of Roman citizens cheering for a gladiator.
As their own lives become at risk they will sober up.
Sam says
I am utterly shocked at the support that Hamas appears to have here in the UK. Pro-Palestinians on our streets. An Israeli flag was torn down from Sheffield Town Hall and replaced with a Palestinian one. The level of ignorance astounds me: conspiracy theories abound. I feel like I’m living in Nazi Germany in the 1930s. People saying the Jews run the world, hate the West, are responsible for immigration into Europe and all that rubbish. I can’t believe what I’m seeing and hearing.
Westman says
Hatikvah (The Hope) Israel’s National Anthem, English Translation:
As long as within our hearts
The Jewish soul sings,
As long as forward to the East
To Zion, looks the eye –
Our hope is not yet lost,
It is two thousand years old,
To be a free people in our land
The land of Zion and Jerusalem
_____________
Quite a contrast to nasheeds
Jim says
I like the way the article gets down to the basics. However, I would like to read a long article or book to go into the complexities of the issue. Remember the Clash of Civilizations by Huntington. Here it is almost oversimiplified. If I submitted this as a topic for an oral exam, the professor might complain that it oversimplifies a complicated topic. So, come out with a book length version and answer all the objections.
Tyrone says
You don’t oversimplify murder, beheading. You’re drinking some of the Kool aid.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
This article should be posted on the front page of The New York Times, but it won’t and never could or would be. The fix was in when President George W. ‘Fredo’ Bush announced after 9/11 that Islam was a religion of peace.
It was clear then as it is now that any honest accounting of Islam’s history and beliefs were and are to be squelched going forward. It is such a shame that the western media is predictably shifting the focus from the horrors visited upon the Israeli people to an almost exclusive look at the consequences of Hamas’s actions. It is couched in the tried and true narrative of the ‘poor misunderstood muzzie,’ rather than the message that actions have consequences, however brutal those consequences may be. Civilization is like a fragile china shop needing careful and constant attention. The last thing it needs is to be visited upon by wild bulls recklessly destroying anything in its path. “The price of freedom is constant vigilance.” Thomas Jefferson
PRCS says
“This article should be posted on the front page of The New York Times, but it won’t and never could or would be. The fix was in when President George W. ‘Fredo’ Bush announced after 9/11 that Islam was a religion of peace.”
Having been told that by the Muslims (Nihad Awad, in particular) standing behind him.