Lawrence Auster gets it. Today he describes why he will not observe the 9/11 commemorations, and he has a point.
Why I will tune out the 9/11 commemorations - by Lawrence AusterI recently wrote about this same reign of fear, though it incorporates more than Islam, so this post really speaks to me. Read it all here.
The September 11th attack on America, in which devout Muslim believers carried out the greatest single jihad raid in history, and Muslims around the world cheered and danced in joy over this great blow to the infidel, should have awakened America and the West to the nature of the 1,400 year old warrior religion of Islam. Instead, while triggering a “war against terrorism,” the 9/11 attack inspired liberal America to embrace and approve of Islam much more than it had done before. This unexpected and devastating outcome is perhaps the greatest single illustration of Auster’s First Law, which says that the more alien or dangerous a nonwhite or non-Western group reveals itself to be, the more our liberal society approves of it, accommodates itself to it, and prohibits any criticism of it. To speak the truth about the unchangeable Islamic command to wage eternal war by violence and stealth against non-Muslims and about Muslims’ 1,400 year long obedience to that command, is to place oneself outside the respectable mainstream. In America you don’t get put in jail for speaking the forbidden truth, you just lose your career. This is the reign of fear under which we live.
In sum, the result of 9/11 has not been Western self-defense against Islam, but the prohibition of Western self-defense against Islam. And all the official 9/11 commemorations, notwithstanding their patriotic appearance, will carry that message of American and Western surrender. And that is why they should be avoided.
Here is a second law of minority majority relations that I have experienced being a migrant on 2 different continents.
ReplyDeleteThe minority will see the majority as inferior, lazy and spoon fed. Aslo as racist towards migrants despite numerous government programs etc. The minority will also feel themselves as culturally superior to the country they have migrated to. The minority due to being immigrants will think of themselves as more dynamic and harder working than the locals. This is plain rubbish but is bought by liberals who state "immigrants are hard workers" and "who will do the jobs?" etc.