If Muslims want to stay in the Netherlands, they should tear out half the Koran and throw it away. And they shouldn’t listen to the imam. Faction leader of the Freedom Party (PVV) Geert Wilders said this in an interview with daily newspaper De Pers on Tuesday.It is odd that this kind of courage and clarity of mind is the exception in the West. Oriana, PBUH, must be smiling down at him.
Easier to escape a Klingon tractor beam than to 'splain the stupefaction that generally grips the West (Europe especially) when faced with a mortal threat.
We think that a dumb adulation of diversity as a positive good, if not the only good, builds into a society this anasthetic force.
Before, enemies were literally beyond the pale but, by a monumental political and cultural misjudgment, the enemy was invited into a society whose political institutions were designed to protect citizens and those otherwise peacefully within the border.
There just is nothing in those institutions that is a source of reference for dealing with massive amounts of foreigners inside. A few outsiders could benefit from some enlightened tolerance and the host cultural could feel good about itself for its virtuous tolerance. The response to a massive influx of rejectionists, however, has only been more of the same, i.e., automatic tolerance and smug satisfaction, instead of seeking mental clarity about serious differences and the devising of weapons of preservationist discrimination and rejection.
Liberals are another source of rejectionism and outright hostility to liberty and other aspects of the Western tradition.
But that's a subject for 10,000 other posts.
"My Man, Geert." Clarity & Resolve, 2/13/07.
2 comments:
Mark Steyn was at his brilliant best when he described the elevation of diversity to an unquestionable virtue as "societal Stockholm Syndrome."
Every successful, enduring society will have some group of norms that must be accepted by all who wish to be part of it. "Diversity uber alles" is an undisguised rejection of that premise -- and we can see how it's turning out in Europe and Britain. May they regain their senses before their countries fall.
Sorry to delay in replying Francis.
Exactly. I frequently think of the Yiddish proverb, "Send a fool to close a window and he'll close all the windows in town."
A decent respect for the problems that others face has led us to what Thomas Paine referred to as "a bastard kind of generosity":
"There is a bastard kind of generosity, which, by being extended to all men, is as fatal to society, on one hand, as the want of true generosity is on the other." The Crisis, Number III.
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