This week on Return of Kings, I wrote about how European leaders are actively working to undermine their own populations by importing hordes of Islamic immigrants from the Arabian peninsula and Africa.
If you happen to live in the US, you might be thinking, “Those poor Europeans really have a problem on their hands. Sucks for them. Glad we don’t have unresponsive bureaucrats governing us.”
But adopting that attitude is a mistake because the Syrian refugee crisis is coming the US as well. And what Europe and the US are facing now is nothing in comparison to what is coming in the future.
President Obama has already agreed to take 10,000 refugees, but don’t think that it will stop there. Secretary of State John Kerry said that the US is willing to take up to 100,000 refugees, and the drumbeat to add more to that number is well underway.
Slate carried an article in June of 2015 stating that one out of every 122 people in the world (or about 60M) is displaced by violence. A very high percentage of these refugees come from predominantly Muslim countries:
The staggering numbers are caused by conflicts in a relatively small number of countries. Just three countries—Syria, Afghanistan, and Somalia—account for 53 percent of those displaced. The top 10—also including Sudan, South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Myanmar, the Central African Republic, Iraq, and Eritrea—account for 77 percent.
Slate appeals to our compassion to suggest that the US needs to do more than it is already doing: “Given the impossible-to-ignore images coming out of Europe, it’s getting harder to say the U.S. shouldn’t share some of the burden of the unprecedented crisis.”
Why does Islamic immigration pose a threat?
Islamic immigration poses a threat on two fronts.
The first is terrorism. While we can safely assume that most of the Muslim immigrants simply want a better lives for themselves, we can also safely assume that a small percentage of them are radicalized. By taking in more migrants, Europe and the US will undoubtedly need to monitor more people. As we saw with the Charlie Hebdo shooters, it is impossible to monitor everyone. Terrorists will slip through the cracks and lives will be lost. However, this is not the biggest threat.
The second threat is that Islamic immigration will destroy what remains of the Christian culture of the West. This is because Western nations have thrown away their Christian heritage.
The Europeans, to a large extent, have discarded Christianity in favor of overt atheism. It is not that they hate Christianity, it is just that they consider it irrelevant. An English co-worker told me that he regards a belief in God as something akin to a belief in fairies. It was just a silly thing his ancestors did.
For these post-Christian Europeans, the focus is on living a good life here and now. And the Europeans have generally done a good job. While “conservative” Americans may mock Europeans for their socialism, my opinion is that many middle class Europeans enjoy a much higher quality of life than middle class Americans.
Americans, on the other hand, still retain a semblance of Christianity. The majority of Americans are still Christian, and a surprisingly large number of them still attend church services. But the doctrine of “separation of church and state” has forced Americans to try to define themselves in strictly secular terms.
One illustration of this is some of the memes that were circulated after the attacks of September 11. Bloggers were fond of posting pictures of scantily clad women holding guns. The caption accompanying these photos was “Why we will win.”
There is something wrong with our culture if we think we are going to defeat Islamic radicalism because our women are more naked than theirs. That our women are “easy” is not a strength. Instead, it points out our spiritual poverty.
The other reason we are told that our culture will win is because of our embrace of democratic capitalism. However, this is also a cultural weakness because it causes us to think of people in merely economic terms. From the perspective of an economist’s model, a Muslim from Sudan and a Christian from Iowa are the same. They are both motivated by self-interest. That is why our elites are in favor of open borders—to them, humans are completely fungible.
If you want more proof of this, you only have to look at what the establishment Republican Party stands for. While they give lip service to conservative social issues, their ultimate message is simply that they are good for business. And when they say business, they mean large corporations, not mom & pop start ups.
Islamic culture is stronger than post-Christian culture
Islamic cultures may be poorer economically, but they are richer culturally because they have not jettisoned the idea that they constitute a people. Even moderate Muslims consider themselves as part of the Ummah—the Muslim nation.
Muslim women almost never marry non-Muslim men. When Muslim men marry non-Muslim women, the women usually convert to their husband’s faith demonstrating their own weak faith.
Muslims, whatever their other faults, have a historical memory. They remember the glory of the Islamic empire. They remember that Islam had once ruled Spain, which they call al-Andalus to this day. They remember that they were encroaching on the rest of Europe. They remember when they ruled Jerusalem—and they look forward to the day when all of these territories are restored to Muslim rule.
Modern day people in the West, even most Christians, lack this historical memory. At best, we can hold up the Enlightenment ideals of liberty and equality. However, even our concept of liberty has been reduced to mere sexual license.
Muslims are proud of their faith and they are quick to assert themselves even as the minority population. Christians and post-Christians end up in the position of doing their very best not to offend, and sometimes even change their customs to better suit the Muslim minority.
The extreme weakness of Western civilization is exemplified by the horrible scandal at Rotherham England. Over the course of 16 years, at least 1,400 white girls were raped and sexually abused by 300 Muslim men. The British authorities turned a blind eye to this shocking activity—for fears of being labeled racist. If that does not speak to the utter cowardice of Westerners, I do not know what does.
Because Western culture lacks any root, it will be completely overwhelmed by Islam if enough Muslims are allowed to settle in Western countries.
It is only going to get worse
While the refugee crisis of today is bad, it is going to get much worse in the coming decades. Jean Raspail, the French author of the prophetic novel, The Camp of the Saints, was asked in an interview about what he thought of the Syrian refugee crisis. Raspail responded:
What’s happening today isn’t important, it’s anecdotal, for we are only at the beginning. Right now, the whole world is talking about this, there are thousands of specialists on the issue of migrants, it’s a chaos of commentary. Not one looks at the thirty-five years that lie ahead. The situation we are living through today is nothing compared to what awaits us in 2050. There will be nine billion people on the earth. Africa has gone from one hundred million to one billion inhabitants in a century, and perhaps twice that in 2050. Will the world be livable? The overpopulation and the wars of religion will make the situation fragile. That’s when the invasion will occur, it is ineluctable. The migrants will come in great part from Africa, the Middle East and the borders of Asia… [Source]
What does this have to do with masculinity?
In the comments to my ROK article, some men expressed the idea that there is nothing to be done. The best thing to do is to improve yourself and embrace masculine virtues. By doing so, we will improve these situations.
There is some truth to this approach, but it doesn’t go far enough. Unless we restore the spiritual foundation of the West, all other efforts will be futile. The ideals of the Enlightenment and liberal democracy will not be enough to stop the onslaught. Only when we are united by a true spirituality will we be able to say ‘no’ to being overrun by Islam.
Restoring spiritual foundation of the West means strengthening the Catholic Church.
But I don’t mean just strengthening the Church as it exists today. The Catholic Church is suffering from an overemphasis on mercy and immanence to the exclusion of justice and transcendence.
Pope Francis’ teaching on immigration is so one-sided that it only exacerbates the problem. He recognizes no limit to the burden than Christians can assume. He doesn’t recognize that excessive mercy can result in cultural suicide and even physically endanger the Christian population.
To truly strengthen the Church we will need to restore the whole deposit of faith, including the parts that might be offensive to modern ears. We need to return to the masculine faith that won over the warlike tribes of Europe—the Christian synthesis of the Middle Ages.
In future posts, I’ll discuss some things we can do to make this happen.
Update: I came across this brief video of Peter Hitchens discussing the migrant crisis. He says essentially what I say here: This crisis will have profound impacts on European society, and that it is fostered by Europe’s leaders only being able to think in economic terms.
Syrian Refugee Crisis Is Just The Tip Of The Iceberg
The United States Military Industrial Complex is responsible for virtually all the unrest in the Middle East. I won’t say “all” of it, but certainly for most, and it has its tentacles in all of it in one way or another. Those responsible should take in those its displaced.
Islam poses the same threat to European cultures that Christianity did. Christianity wiped out Europe’s indigenous religions and traditions to the point we Europeans don’t even know or recall anything about them. Now Islam plans on doing same thing in the latest round?
I respect everyone’s legal right to practice the faith of their choosing, but monotheism is a dangerous ideology.
I agree that much of current instability in the Middle East is a result of US interventions. It does not appear that the US government has learned its lesson as the Obama Administration is beating the drum to remove Assad to yet further destabilize the region.
Christianity spread in Rome without the use of force and it was not through immigration. Rather, the Romans were converted to Christianity through the witness of the lives of the early Christian.
To my knowledge, this is the only time in history that a people has willing invited its own destruction without putting up any sort of a fight.
“While they give lip service to conservative social issues, their ultimate message is simply that they are good for business. ”
I’m continuously baffled by what and who passes as “conservative” in this country. They appear to be conserving nothing at all but merely indulging every impulse and ruining the environment while they’re at it.
“Pope Francis’ teaching on immigration is so one-sided that it only exacerbates the problem. He recognizes no limit to the burden than Christians can assume. He doesn’t recognize that excessive mercy can result in cultural suicide and even physically endanger the Christian population.”
Don’t be fooled. Every time the Church makes a bid to help others of other faiths, it’s solely with a view to convert them and establish one world religion – Christianity.
“Christians and post-Christians end up in the position of doing their very best not to offend, and sometimes even change their customs to better suit the Muslim minority.”
Perhaps you should travel throughout South Asia where foreign Christian missionaries are openly offending, not respecting other religions, particularly non-Abrahmic ones, and doing all they can to break what they perceive to be “heathen” or “idolatrous cultures, families, and traditions. They are not happy to live and let live or to have their right to their religion respected while they respect the same right in others. No. They want you to convert to their religion lock, stock and barrel and will stop at nothing to bring it about.
Even when they appear to “acculturate”, its merely a ploy to break down defenses so as to prepare the locals for conversion.
If Christians want to be respected and not have their cultures encroached upon – stop The Joshua Project and other missions like it.
You say,
Don’t be fooled. Every time the Church makes a bid to help others of other faiths, it’s solely with a view to convert them and establish one world religion – Christianity.
Isn’t that also true of Islam?? Isn’t their ultimate goal conversion of infidels, of non-believers? Let’s not just pick on Christianity here. Go sharpen your anti-Christianity axe somewhere else. Whatever you say about Christianity can ALSO be applied to Islam or any other aggressive religion.
The notion of “all religious beliefs are equally valid (or invalid) and thus we should respect the cultures and indigenous superstition” of, for instance, Southeast Asian animists. is itself a bold worldview to be taken by faith, and I would argue lacks any logical, historical or experiential basis(but I won’t argue it because it’s not the point). But it is the beating heart of our culture at this time.
And the two religions cannot be compared as parallel: one has produced cultures which split the atom, invented cars, airplanes, internal combustion engines, modern medicine, space travel, the best literature ever (e.g. Shakespeare) and so on. I haven’t even touched on the Bible(which is unparalleled in any literary category or measurement, and upon which the Quran is derived) or the truthfulness of the message within. The other produced rumi, some good architecture, and now oil.
I think the US has been very foolish in thinking that tribal warlords want western democracy, and we bear the blame and consequences for further antagonizing these regions, but the violence is not “our fault” in such an absolute sense.
I am not Catholic but protestant, however I agree that some major thinking needs to take place among Christians. It blows my mind that the cc is anti-death penalty, that is a strange aberration it seems to me.
I would take your statement and go even farther “He doesn’t recognize that excessive mercy can result in cultural suicide and even physically endanger the Christian population.”
Paul says to the galatians:
Gal 6:9 — Gal 6:10
And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and **especially to those who are of the household of faith.**
Especially to the house of God. In fact, as the church is strengthened, it can provide more and more in terms of doing good to others. And the best good is to free people from superstition to know their creator. Conversion by convincing, not by the sword.
“The notion of “all religious beliefs are equally valid”
Who said that?! I converted to Shaiva Siddhanta precisely because it is the most valid, sound and unparalled.
“… and thus we should respect the cultures and indigenous superstition” of, for instance, Southeast Asian animists.
And the two religions cannot be compared as parallel: one has produced cultures which split the atom, invented cars, airplanes, internal combustion engines, modern medicine, space travel, the best literature ever (e.g. Shakespeare) and so on. I haven’t even touched on the Bible(which is unparalleled in any literary category or measurement, and upon which the Quran is derived) or the truthfulness of the message within. The other produced rumi, some good architecture, and now oil. ”
Um, you do realize don’t you that the Quran did not spring out of “Southeast Asia”. And I mentioned “South Asia” in my comment, not Southeast Asia.
Invest in a globe.
I am just curious, as a convert to Hinduism, which caste are you and how was that determined?
My varna is vaisya.
@Yoga Matt
“Perhaps you should travel throughout South Asia where foreign Christian missionaries are openly offending, not respecting other religions, particularly non-Abrahmic ones, and doing all they can to break what they perceive to be “heathen” or “idolatrous cultures, families, and traditions. ”
Not a good reason to assist passivly to what is happening in the West, We need walls to protect ourselves from the herds pushing at our borders.
“Don’t be fooled. Every time the Church makes a bid to help others of other faiths, it’s solely with a view to convert them and establish one world religion – Christianity.”
You are aware aren’t you that this is the main mission of the Church and of all christians. Mark 16:15-16 “And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation. He who has believed and has been baptized shall be saved; but he who has disbelieved shall be condemned.…”
That is much more true for whoever lives in the West. The West derives from Christianity and whoever decides to live in the West must also accept its religion and not dictate his own. I am well aware that, as Michael mentions, the secularism in the West does not help us to protect ourselves and our religion from the foreginers. But that’s again another reason to underline who we are and what we do not want in our home.
“You are aware aren’t you that this is the main mission of the Church and of all christians.”
– Having once been a Christian I am more than aware of that. Look, I am all for everyone’s right to convert to whatever religion they want and to teach it. I myself converted to Shaiva Siddhanta and I also share it with others.
I am speaking as to the deception the Church uses in South Asia, specifically “acculturation” (look it up if you have to, its a missionary tactic), as well as to its mission to break up families in strong family oriented cultures. I realize the western missionaries in South Asia do not come from family oriented cultures so they don’t understand or value the importance of large intact families, but that’s no excuse to try and take their degradation to South Asia and other family oriented regions of the world.
“whoever decides to live in the West must also accept its religion and not dictate his own.”
– Bull. We have freedom of religion. Whoever decides to live here is free to practice whatever religion they want. I do not have to accept (for my personal practice) any religion other than the one I chose. That being said, I do not “dictate” that others must accept mine, but when asked I’m happy to share about it, and I’m happy to back off when they say “not interested”. Something many Christians still need to learn.
” I am well aware that, as Michael mentions, the secularism in the West does not help us to protect ourselves and our religion from the foreginers.”
– More bull. You are free to practice whatever religion you choose. You are not free to compel me to practice it.
“But that’s again another reason to underline who we are and what we do not want in our home.”
– Yeah well many people around the world feel the same way about foreign Christian missionaries.
@Yoga Matt I am still not clear on what you mean by Catholic missionaries separating families. If Catholic converts are ostracized because of their conversion, that is not the fault of the converts or the missionaries. Please elaborate.
“Bull. We have freedom of religion. Whoever decides to live here is free to practice whatever religion they want.I do not have to accept (for my personal practice) any religion other than the one I chose.”
Who spoke about freedom of religion? With “accepting the religion” I do no mean converting, instead accepting all that is linked to that religion: the culture, the tradition, the history, of the hosting country. This would mean to renounce partially at your own culture, tradition etc. And would be the only way to avoid going Charlie Hebdo. I do not see the willingness to do so of the herds pushing in the West borders (or already within those borders), therefore they should stay out.
“More bull. You are free to practice whatever religion you choose. You are not free to compel me to practice it”
You miss once more the point here: freedom of religion is not the issue. Tradition and realizing that tradition is directly linked to the religion and to the surviving of the West is the issue
“Yeah well many people around the world feel the same way about foreign Christian missionaries.”
Who the hell cares? Maybe you not me. Not now. I care about what happens in my home. The practice of caring too much about the others (btw in normal times a perfectly and commendable christian legacy) is stupid when your home is burning.
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“Who spoke about freedom of religion? With “accepting the religion” I do no mean converting, instead accepting all that is linked to that religion: the culture, the tradition, the history, of the hosting country. ”
– What “tradition” are you talking about?
I’m closely linked to immigrant families and their descendents here in the US who practice the non-Christian religion I converted to and they have totally assimilated; speak better and more proper English than I do, have a great work ethic, pay their taxes, volunteer with the local neighborhood/community, donate lavishly to local programs and hospitals, are very friendly people and set a great civic example.
“Tradition and realizing that tradition is directly linked to the religion and to the surviving of the West is the issue”
– Again, what exactly do you mean by “tradition”?
I have seen other immigrants from other countries (than the ones I’m referring to above) who although CHRISTIAN do not even bother to learn English, so what specific tradition is it that you want immigrants to partake in, regardless of their religion ?
Webster definition
: a way of thinking, behaving, or doing something that has been used by the people in a particular group, family, society, etc., for a long time
: the stories, beliefs, etc., that have been part of the culture of a group of people for a long time
: cultural continuity in social attitudes, customs, and institutions
Therefore the immigrant families you are close to seem to be on the right track. Becoming socially and culturally assimilated, or quite so is the first step. The second step is to understand that the major drivers of that tradition, even though you do not realize this at a first sight, are defined from the religion of the country in which you live. At least it is so in the West . You can still live a happy life by skipping this second step though. The first step is enough to be welcome in the West.
Understood. But there are also a lot of dysfunctional and unhealthy things in “the west” that many of the immigrants I know do not want to assimilate to and actually forbid their kids from assimilating, as long as they are living under their roof and have a say about it. These are the things that I have also rejected despite not being an immigrant. Would you say the driver of these unhealthy traditions are also derived from Christianity?
Not from the Christianity but from the a certain response of mankind to the message of Christ. That message puts the mankind history (especially the West) to a test: you can fail that test and that will prove you were not up to it. Or you can embrace the message: that will mean salvation. The latter is very difficult. The former seems more likely to happen currently and could finally win bringing to a catastrophe. One thing is sure though: there is no way back – tertium non datur: that message changes for ever the history of the mankind.
The above sounds apocalyptic and theological and therefore far away from what we experience in our lives, it is instead very concrete and affects us directly. Nonetheless not everything is lost yet.
You still haven’t answered my question or specified what “traditions” exactly the West has that are derived from Christianity that immigrants need to assimilate.
All of the good stuff (or just plain normal, like paying taxes) I listed my immigrant friends as doing here, they were doing in their country of origin as well, and most likely attributing it to their Hindu and Jain values.
Again, what specific traditions are you thinking of?
All that is preached from the Catholic Church i.e. everything that is taught in the Bible. Tooshort time to summarize this for you here. But you can start with the ten commandments.
Again the degeneracy you currently encounter in the western society is an aberration that has its “priests” in that terminal desease that are the progressists and leftists. That is not the Western Tradition au contraire the worst threat of that tradition.
Btw the law, the science, the art and literature, everything that has made the West desirable to your friends derives from the Christianity. Also the economic prosperity which very likely is what mainly atracted your friends is a derivation of the Christianity.
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“Btw the law, the science, the art and literature, everything that has made the West desirable to your friends”
The come from a civilization with the oldest and largest body of literature, specifically philosophical literature in the world so no, the West’s offering in that regard did not draw them. Nor did its art, seeing as their civilization was one of the first to create not only art, architecture, drama, music, and dance, but also a vast body of literature describing how to create those very things in a cohesive, wholistic way. Same with science, their civilization invented math, astronomy, etc. Law, perhaps that was a draw, I don’t know, I’ll ask.
Some of them came here in fact at the request of Americans like me to share all of the above with us. Others came because their jobs sent them here. Others came to do business but have since returned because their mother land is currently better for business than the USA. And a few came to engage in American debauchery that they can’t get away with under the thumb of their intact families in South Asia. I generally avoid those types.
But nope, none came for America’s art, literature or even science. I can’t even imagine anyone in the world doing that. Science/tech maybe. But American art and literature?!
“The come from a civilization with the oldest and largest body of literature, specifically philosophical literature in the world so no, the West’s offering in that regard did not draw them”
I’m curious. None is better than the Western civilization.
“Nor did its art, seeing as their civilization was one of the first to create not only art, architecture, drama, music, and dance, but also a vast body of literature describing how to create those very things in a cohesive, wholistic way. Same with science, their civilization invented math, astronomy, etc”
Even more curious so far that we speak about earthly experience and the current concept of culture.
“Some of them came here in fact at the request of Americans like me to share all of the above with us. ”
Why did not you or those Americans reach them in their countries? Would have made the process much more reasonable and less complicated from all viewpoints.
“But nope, none came for America’s art, literature or even science. I can’t even imagine anyone in the world doing that. Science/tech maybe. But American art and literature?!”
You can look at US as the outpost of the Western culture in the Far West. Therefore I meant the entire Western culture, which again is the most prolific and quintessential in the world when one speaks about literature (the one started with the ancient Greece and passing through Shakespeare, exploded with best examples of what the world calls “novel” during 19th and 20th century in France and Russia)
But to keep it limited to US:
Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, John Steibeck. Do those names mean something to you? Because they do so to the Western culture.
“I’m curious. None is better than the Western civilization.”
– That’s your personal opinion, many disagree with it. But before I made any such opinion I actually traveled the world and discovered for my self what various cultures offered, compared and contrasted, then came to conclusion based on my empirical evidence. I did not draw any conclusion based on personal bias.
“Even more curious so far that we speak about earthly experience and the current concept of culture.”
– Curious? Travel and discover for yourself. Or at least research, learn Sanskrit and other Indian languages and study India’s great works of literature, ancient, medieval and modern.
“Why did not you or those Americans reach them in their countries?”
I did! And I invited them to my country to share with my fellow Americans their wisdom.
“Would have made the process much more reasonable and less complicated from all viewpoints.”
– How would getting my family and friends, all with jobs, families and busy lives of their own, to all spend tons of money and time traveling to India been “much more reasonable and less complicated” than inviting a few scholars to the USA?
“Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, John Steibeck. Do those names mean something to you?”
– Not much. I prefer Indian classical literature.
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“I’m curious. None is better than the Western civilization.”
– That’s your personal opinion, many disagree with it. But before I made any such opinion I actually traveled the world and discovered for my self what various cultures offered, compared and contrasted, then came to conclusion based on my empirical evidence. I did not draw any conclusion based on personal bias.
“Even more curious so far that we speak about earthly experience and the current concept of culture.”
– Curious? Travel and discover for yourself. Or at least research, learn Sanskrit and other Indian languages and study India’s great works of literature, ancient, medieval and modern.
“Why did not you or those Americans reach them in their countries?”
I did! And I invited them to my country to share with my fellow Americans their wisdom.
“Would have made the process much more reasonable and less complicated from all viewpoints.”
– How would getting my family and friends, all with jobs, families and busy lives of their own, to all spend tons of money and time traveling to India been “much more reasonable and less complicated” than inviting a few scholars to the USA?
“Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, John Steibeck. Do those names mean something to you?”
– Not much. I prefer Indian classical literature.
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I know that Yoga Matt is talking about India here, but another ancient civilization, the Chinese, definitely recognizes the superiority of the West in music (classical and opera, not rock), literature, law, and science. That is not to say that they do not value their own culture, which I think is very rich.
“but another ancient civilization, the Chinese, definitely recognizes the superiority of the West in music (classical and opera, not rock), literature, law, and science. ”
Individual Chinese people can’t speak for an entire civilization. There will certainly be many Chinese who do not share that opinion.
Of course there are Chinese people who think little of Beethoven. I am not saying that there is nothing of value in non-Western cultures, only that large segments of East Asian societies put a very high value on the things I mentioned.