The Western auto-immune disease.

The less control the authorities have with Muslims, the more control they want to exercise over non-Muslims. As problems in Europe get worse, which they will, the EU will move in an increasingly repressive direction until it either becomes a true, totalitarian entity or falls apart. This strange mix of powerful censorship of public debate, yet little control over public law and order, has by some been labelled anarcho-tyranny.

Multiculturalism is the active intellectual devaluation of the host Western culture, the elevation of foreign cultures, and/or the willful blindness respecting pervasive, sick practices of those cultures. The more retarded the foreign culture is, the more effort is expended to gloss over its specific deficiencies.

When citizens who have not lost their minds vocally oppose this devaluation of the civilized, this celebration of (or blindness respecting) the primitive, or the amplification of infuriating foreigner claims for special privilege, the modern Western state abandons its most cherished and hard-won liberties and attacks those citizens, the very people who have precisely the insight and understanding necessary to make the polity healthy again.

It's strange. In the past, societies grew soft and failed to maintain their institutions, but I know of no instance in history where the ruling elites actively turned against their own kind and embraced absurdities such as cultural parity with barbarians, at best, or that the dominant culture and race should be diluted or inundated by foreigners, at worst.

Some 19th-century Japanese men took to wearing top hats and tails in their zeal minutely to study the ways of Westerners who possessed superior technology, but never for a minute did they concede the superiority of Western culture. Today, the West grovels at the feet of those who have no technology and who cling to notions of female inferiority, a flat earth, and much worse. The present-day West, moreover, operates to deny what is loathsome in foreign cultures but kicks into overdrive to suppress those willing to discuss the cowardice that entails.

"In Praise of the First and Second Amendments." By Fjordman, Brussels Journal, 7/20/06