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What, in fact, is replacing assimilation? Anyone who doesn’t want to
assimilate, French culture assimilates into his identity. Children
aren’t speaking French, but rather a jargon composed of Arabic words and
meager French. “There is always a culture that emerges victorious. In no
society is there a vacuum.” Another thinker, Pascal Bruckner,
agrees that Europe has made repentance for old sins, perceived or real,
the central point of its identity, and something close to an obsession.
And this is unhealthy, according to him. “If somebody hits you, you will
think: This is for something I have done.” “Never again” and the
belief that dialogue will take care of all problems are the guiding
principles. We are filled with regret, but cannot fill Europe with
anything positive.
This idea that Auschwitz has defined the modern identity of Europe is
reflected by Spanish journalist Sebastian Villar Rodriguez in his piece
“Europe
died in Auschwitz:”
I was walking along Raval (Barcelona) when all of a sudden I understood
that Europe died with Auschwitz.
We assassinated 6 million Jews in order to end up bringing in 20 million
Muslims!
We burnt in Auschwitz the culture, intelligence and power to
create.(...) Because it is the people who gave to humanity the symbolic
figures who were capable of changing history (Christ, Marx, Einstein,
Freud...) and who is the origin of progress and wellbeing.
We must admit that Europe, by relaxing its borders (…) opened its
doors to 20 million Muslims, often illiterates and fanatics(…), the
poorest of the nations and of the ghettos, and who are preparing the
worst, such as the 9/11 and the Madrid bombing and who are lodged in
apartment blocs provided by the social welfare.
We also have exchanged culture with fanaticism, the capacity to create
with the will to destroy, the wisdom with the superstition. We have
exchanged the transcendental instinct of the Jews, who even under the
worst possible conditions have always looked for a better peaceful
world, for the suicide bomber. We have exchanged the pride of life for
the fanatic obsession of death. Our death and that of our children.
But why does this guilt complex also apply to Britain, which defeated the
Nazis, or Denmark, which saved most of its Jews? Why do we detect some of
the same currents even in the United States? And why on earth can’t
Europeans give stronger support to the survivors of the Holocaust in
Israel?
Yes, we have been sold out by our elites through the creation of Eurabia
and the wiping out of our own cultures through Multiculturalism. But this
is only half of the story. In democratic societies, even if sometimes
flawed ones, this would never have been possible if there wasn’t a
profound undercurrent of self-loathing present in the general public
already. The trauma caused by the events of 70 years ago is clouding our
judgment this time, since any talk at all about the threat posed by Muslim
immigration or about preserving our own culture is being dismissed as
“the same rhetoric as the Nazis used against the Jews.” Europeans have
been taught to be so scared of our own shadow that we are incapable of
seeing that darkness can come from the outside, too. Maybe Europe will
burn again, in part as a belated reaction to the horrors of Auschwitz.
V.S. Naipaul has called India “a wounded civilization.” But maybe
it’s really Europe that is the wounded civilization, the difference
being that India’s wounds were inflicted from the outside, whereas
Europe’s wounds are largely self-inflicted. Islam
isn’t destroying Europe, Europe is destroying itself. Just as a
patient with AIDS may formally die from flu or even a common cold, the
real cause is the long, slow decay of his immune system. It resembles
euthanasia on an entire civilization: Europe is tired of living. Islam
just puts it out of its misery.
It is almost fascinating to see how self-loathing and West-bashing make
scores of people in the media and the academia misunderstand and
misrepresent the threat we are facing. The good guys become the bad guys
and vice versa, or alternatively, we’re all equally good and bad, since
all cultures are equal. Some would say that I am reading too much into a
few simple movies. Perhaps. But these are the same people that claim that
popular culture will destroy Islam.
Pop culture matters. It both reflects and shapes the values of a
civilization. Judging from the message in too many films, almost five
years after 9/11 we have hardly even begun to understand the scale of the
Islamic challenge. On the contrary, many Westerners are busy demonstrating
“understanding,” even sympathy, towards the enemies of civilization.
Britain in “V for Vendetta” is a totalitarian state where the
authorities promise peace in return for total submission. Peace for
submission, where have we heard this mantra before? I know: Islam.
“Islam” means submission, and comes from the same root as
“salaam,” which means “peace”. It is curious to notice that in the
previous movie by the Wachowski brothers, “The Matrix,” people are
turned into slaves and passive tools by living in a make-belief reality
designed to pacify them and keep them in chains. In the real world, one
fifth of humanity are proud to proclaim themselves “the slaves of
Allah,” and consider it their mission in life to make the rest of
mankind share their mental bondage.
Islam is the Matrix. Somebody better give the Wachowski brothers their red
pills.
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