Suicide of the West

National Review Online Melanie Phillips August 18, 2006

When America was attacked on 9/11 by Islamic jihadis, it was said that this was a doomsday wake-up call for the West. Within a short while, however, much of Britain decided that 9/11 was actually America’s fault and that Israel was at the core of the problem.

When Britain was attacked last year on 7/7 by Islamic jihadis, it was said that this was a doomsday wake-up call for the U.K. Within a short time, however, much of the country decided that it was Britain’s own fault on account of “Islamophobia” and the war in Iraq.

Now 25 British Muslims have been arrested for an alleged plot to blast up to ten trans-Atlantic airliners out of the sky. This vast alleged conspiracy, thought to encompass many dozens more plotters from Germany to Pakistan, bears all the monstrous hallmarks of a classic al Qaeda operation. In addition, security sources say that dozens more al Qaeda-linked terrorist cells are at large in the U.K.

From the evidence of one opinion poll this week, the British public has at least woken up to the fact that we are in the throes of a world war. Not so, however, the British establishment and chattering classes. Denial is no longer a river in Egypt but a British pathology.
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3 thoughts on “Suicide of the West”

  1. Phillips uses the term apocalyptic messianism to describe Islamic fanaticism

    I don’t think of the movement though as looking for that messianic leader to establish paradise. It is more millenarian in nature, that the followers seek to establish the utopia by their acts.

  2. “followers seek to establish the utopia by their acts.”

    Indeed, it is their duty to do so, and only their sin keeps the utopia (or more accurately divine paradise) from coming in to being – if I am interpreting the theology of Islam correctly…

  3. A wonderful gem from this article:

    Many of these young people live in a kind of cultural limbo, stranded between the repressive culture of the Asian subcontinent and the debauched and degraded culture of Britain. And the terrible message of the jihad is a siren song for those who have been abandoned in a psychic desert and who search for a meaning to their lives.

    It gives them an identity which provides self respect because it casts them in a heroic mould: fighting to ‘defend’ the kingdom of God. It is an identity built on undiluted hatred, on lies, on paranoia, on mass murder and even attempted genocide.

    These are ideas that kill. And because they are ideas, some of the most significant recruiting grounds are not the backstreet mosques and madrassahs but those seats of intellectual inquiry, the universities. Britain’s campuses are now the prime hunting grounds of the jihad.

    A recent Pew opinion poll across Europe revealed that, while Britain was the most respectful country of all towards its Muslim citizens, they repaid the compliment by hating their home country, the west and the Jews more than Muslims anywhere else. Why? The answer is inescapable. British Muslims are being radicalised by Britain itself.

    I am much less worried about these radicalized Muslims blowing stuff up than I am about them voting. In an advanced, industrial democracy, 51% wins outright, and any minority that votes as a disciplined block (blacks in the U.S., for example) will be catered too even if it can’t win.

    The numbers of Muslims, there power at the ballot box, and their cultural cohesion in the face of assimilative pressures are far more dangerous than a few downed airliners or even a few bombs on the subway.

    The UK survived this at the hands of the IRA. What the UK won’t survive is when the Sharia has been implemented at the ballot box. Writers like this one focus on terrorism, even while the real story is that the UK is in danger of simply going out of existance.

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