IN HIS 1922 tome Decline of the West, Oswald Spengler opined that the West had entered its final, declining ‘civilisation’ phase. Maybe he was right and this did indeed mark the beginning of the end. A hundred to two hundred years is about right historically. My guess is we have 50 years left at most unless we start winning more battles.
It’s been a week of them, raging all around us. And the enemy – that progressive left-wing beast – in this great culture war was up to all its old tricks.
Take yesterday’s ‘Together Alliance March’ in London, sold by Amnesty International as a ‘historic moment of hope in the face of division’. Sounds so nice! That’s been the clever way of making us feel bad if we don’t all express our love for each other, holding candles, after yet another terrorist attack. Making sure any righteous anger about our country opening its doors to such violence is – you’ve guessed it – wrong, aka far right. It is a successful means of ensuring conformity and control.
Now it is deployed to shut up anyone who objects to or is in any way concerned about uncontrolled immigration, young male asylum seekers from Muslim countries being installed next door to them, aggressive Palestinian activists taking over our streets. Anyone to the right of the woke and naive Fraser Nelson, who excused the Islamic takeover of Trafalgar Square as a lovely multi-faith event! The politically correct or acceptable way of seeing things. Like endorsing Christian cathedrals hosting Eid celebrations. No, I am not making it up. Bristol, Manchester and St Paul’s cathedrals have all done it.
How long before they are turned into mosques, I wonder? It has happened before. Take the Christian cathedrals in Sicily which were converted into mosques during the period of Arab rule (the Emirate of Sicily, roughly 831–1091).
And what are the chances today that they would ever be converted back? Zero?
Have any mosques ever opened their doors to Christian prayer and celebration of Christmas and Easter? Of course they haven’t. It has never been a two-way process, as John Cleese, I notice, has been pointing out on X.
Nor with regard to the law!
This psychological propaganda attack never stops. But more people are seeing through it. Yasmin Alibhai-Brown (who surely has to thank this country for the huge opportunities it’s given her to diss it!) complained in her i Paper column last week that ‘racism is flooding the lives of Muslims like me’. It didn’t go down well.
Clearly imputing malintent, Yasmin wrote: ‘Arousing anti-Muslim fervour is an easy way to gain influence and status.’ No, Yasmin. This is not what Nick Timothy, the guilty party she names, is doing. Nor is he ‘nasty’. He is a Christian alerting people to the anti-democratic and illegal sectarian Islamic influence. And yes, an act of domination. That woke Christians took part in the Trafalgar Square takeover to me simply indicated their subservience. Because it doesn’t work two ways. Timothy is nothing if not courageous. He has put his neck on the line, though I pray not his life. Remember what happened to David Amess.
Yes, it’s just too easy to sling accusations of racism around. As Dave Atherton asked Alibhai-Brown in a tweet, what about hers?
‘Well Yasmin did you not say in 2006 on BBC World’s Dateline of white men: “I don’t like them. I want them to be a lost species in a hundred years”.’
I agree with him: the British are not racist but quite remarkably tolerant of all-comers. A toleration that has been stretched to breaking point.
That aside, Alibhai-Brown’s exculpatory postscript criticism of ‘clueless Muslims’ (a euphemism if ever there was one) conveniently, as Atherton also points out, ignores the thousands of working-class British girls groomed by mainly Muslim men, and the 98 per cent of all terrorist deaths of Britons since 2000 perpetrated by Islamists.
No, ‘clueless’ doesn’t cut it.
Criticism voiced by sites like ours is directed at everyone, regardless of colour of skin, faith or no faith, who has turned a blind eye to closed-off and unpoliced Islamic communities. The Government, the local authorities, the police, the medical profession, and the Muslim Council of Great Britain who have given only ‘qualified support’ for a national inquiry into child sexual exploitation gangs, ‘provided it follows evidence rather than prejudice’.
There was another attack on the moral foundation of the West and its fundamental Christian values last week. Unbelievably, holding a Christian-based belief became a war crime. As we reported, the Finnish Supreme Court found Päivi Räsänen MP guilty of ‘hate speech’ for expressing her beliefs on marriage and sexual ethics under a section of the Finnish criminal code titled ‘war crimes and crimes against humanity’. For holding to her view that homosexuality is a developmental disorder and that marriage can only be between a man and a woman. There was no harassment, no incitement to violence, no targeted abuse. This was just for the 2004 publication of a theological argument, rooted in scripture and Christian teaching, that the court decided insulted homosexuals.
This Premier Christian News article sets out better than we did the enormity of this ruling for our civilisation: it ‘collapses an essential distinction between the dignity of the individual and the moral evaluation of behaviour’. In effect it disqualifies ‘a vast swathe of Christian teaching from public life’, most importantly ‘leaving us no ability to comment on the morality of any behavioural choice whatsoever’. This is the religion, as John Cleese pointed out last week, that is not trying to impose itself on anyone.
We have to pray that Räsänen will win her appeal.
Maybe she can take heart from the moral breakthrough that the International Olympics Committee re-statement of the foundational biological truth of two sexes represented. Finally, they banned trans athletes from women’s sports. Thanks to Sebastian Coe, Kirsty Coventry, J K Rowling and Sharron Davies. And, not least, as I tweeted, Donald Trump.
It shows what a few good people can do.
This is the no-nonsense attitude we need. Because, just as with the so-called ‘marchers against the far right’, the battle for truth, sanity and justice, so essential to civilisation, is far from over.
Thanks to many very generous readers I am happy to say we will continue the fight in these pages in coming months. I am so grateful for the many donations which I hope will carry us through the summer as well for the wonderful words of encouragement and support you sent. I continue seeking help to put us on a secure longer-term foundation. I pray it comes because, like the great David Starkey, ‘I don’t want to be at the dying fall of our civilisation’ predicted by Spengler so many years ago. I will leave you with Starkey to watch here.
He speaks for so many of us.
