We’re in a war between savages and civilization. Everything else is a detail.
Some
of us woke up to that war when planes crashed into skyscrapers. Others
when we saw beheading videos spread across social media. What we saw in
Israel, Hamas terrorists raping, mutilating and defiling corpses, is
another bloody wake-up call. There will be many others.
Beyond the politics and the geopolitics, we still haven’t come to terms with what we’re fighting.
The
barbarism of murdering women and children, taking them as hostages, and
posting photos of their dead bodies to social media, is not a byproduct
of Islamic warfare, it’s the whole point.
Cruelty, beheading,
burning to death, torturing and mutilating are the essence of Islam.
This is how Islamic warfare was practiced beginning with Mohammed for
over a thousand years. It’s how it continues to be practiced, whether
it’s ISIS fighting other Muslims, Azebajani troops killing Armenians,
Hamas attacking Israelis, or Islamic terrorists plotting carnage in
Western nations.
Islam was born out of a war by barbarians
against the civilized societies of Persia and Byzantium. Despite
academic mythmaking, its vision never extended beyond rape and slavery,
its empires fell into power struggles, beginning with Sunnis and
Shiites, and its cultural and scientific accomplishments were all looted
from conquered peoples. When civilization finally toppled the Ottoman
Empire with some help from its internal barbarians, the cycle began
again.
Israel is just one front in a global war between savages
and civilization. And not all of the savages bow to Allah. There are
inner city gangs across the American hemisphere that behead and torture
their victims. And there are children of civilization that turn into
savages. Savagery is not a condition of birth: it is a choice. People
born into savagery can become civilized and those born into the highest
echelons of civilization can prey on us like the worst vicious animals.
The
question is how do civilized societies confront savagery? Do we blame
ourselves for having made the savages what they are through our
capitalism and colonialism even though they have behaved this way long
before modern western civilization amounted to anything? Or do we set
forth to reeducate them, to build modern nations for them and teach them
to become civilized?
We have sent forth our sons and daughters
to make peace with them and to educate them. Our societies opened
themselves to embrace and celebrate the virtues of the noble savage.
When we realized that we could not coexist with savages, we tried to
remake our societies to serve them. All of that has been tried and
civilization is still drowning in the violence of the savages.
The fundamental truth is that civilization and savagery are innately at war with one another.
Savages
are offended by the existence of civilization. When they see one, they
want to destroy it. There can be no peace with savages because, contrary
to Islam, peace is a condition of civilization. To have peace, you must
be civilized. Savages don’t even view peace as a value apart from the
conclusion of a successful conquest which then sets the stage for the
next one.
Civilized people develop complex mechanisms of
exchange, but savages see no reason why they shouldn’t take something or
someone if they are too weak to defend themselves. No amount of
lectures will ever convince a savage that anything other than clan
relations should prevent him from stealing a car or raping a woman if
there will be no clear consequences.
That’s because savages, unlike civilized people, have no conscience, and therefore no soul.
Islam,
unlike Judaism and Christianity, is not a religion of the soul, but
entirely of power. From its genocidal chant, “Allahu Akbar” that
proclaims the physical supremacy of Allah to all other religions through
the military victories of its followers, everything is reduced to
conquest. The truth of Islam is validated through war. When Jihadists
conquer and rape non-Muslims, they are proving that Islam is true and
that the religions of the conquered are false. That’s why ISIS Jihadists
would tell the Yazidi girls they were raping that rape brought them “closer to Allah”
Civilizations
have become too sophisticated and decadent to understand such concepts.
When faced with barbarism, they go down a dialectic rabbit hole that
explains the savages in terms of how civilized people interacted with
them. Did they hurt their feelings, overthrow their governments or draw
mean cartoons? Did capitalism leave them adrift in the world economy?
How did we fail to integrate the newest generation of immigrants with
all the welfare checks?
These sophomoric sessions are pointless. A
hyena doesn’t eat your chickens because you failed to integrate it.
That’s just what hyenas do. Man at the base state is a predator and
savages strive to be the alpha predators. Civilizations become superior
predators because they provide room for arts and sciences, because they
think about something other than how they are superior to their
neighbors and will prove it by killing their sons and raping their
daughters.
But when civilizations spend too much time thinking,
they forget that one reason they came into being was to build something
better than a state of savagery. Decadent civilizations internalize all
the criticism and their peoples endlessly quarrel and think that the
worst possible things in the world are the ones that exist among their
own people. Savages remind us otherwise.
Much like a hurricane
reminds us of the alternative to houses and famine reminds us of the
alternative to food, savages remind us of the alternative to
civilization. Unfortunately truly decadent civilizations need constant
reminders of all of these things. We have to be constantly told that
food doesn’t magically emerge from a supermarket, that houses are not
the natural state of being and that not being murdered by savages in
your home is a new way of life.
Tolerate savages, give them enough rope and they will do all of these things to you. And more.
Savagery
should not be confused with stupidity. Civilizations have been brought
down by savages and civilizations were built by savages who became
civilized. Savages are clever and cunning. They are alert to the
weaknesses of civilized people and experts at finding ways around
whatever walls and security systems that civilized people build to
protect themselves.
Civilizations that spend enough time allowing
savages to hang around will fall. Tolerating savages is actually a sign
that a civilization has turned decadent. Welcoming and advocating for
savages means that the end is nigh. Viable civilizations drive savages
away. They do it not just to protect themselves but because banishing
savages is what makes a civilization civilized.
When
civilizations forget what the difference between themselves and the
savages are, they lose their sense of right and wrong, and they can no
longer explain why savagery is wrong. When faced with the worst
imaginable crimes, they can still equivocate a case for the criminals.
Hamas
terrorists can rape and kill their victims, and defenders will rally to
explain why the issue is actually more complicated than it seems. This
happens with Islamic terrorists all the time.
Savages and
decadent civilizations have no firm concept of right and wrong.
Everything is subjectively opportunistic and there can be scenarios in
which raping a woman, killing her and then posting a photo of her body
to social media so her family can see is actually right.
That is
why civilization has to defeat savagery, without equivocation, apologies
or sympathy, not only to win, but to revive its own soul. Negotiations
and laws of war are for peer civilization. Savages offer nothing and so
are owed nothing. They keep no agreements except when it suits them.
Their word is worthless and their morality is non-existent.
A civilization that does not understand all this will learn it the hard way.
Civilizations
are built on the suppression of savagery: both internally and
externally.. When civilizations defeat savages, learning, art, science
and ideas thrive. And when civilizations allow savages to ravage them,
they lose their people, their morality and eventually their existence.
No
form of war is more sacred than that of civilization against savagery.
It is these wars that made Christianity and Judaism, not to mention all
the ideas of western civilization, as well as those of Asia and India,
possible. This is once again the defining struggle of our age.
Either civilization or the savages will prevail. Any attempt at a middle ground is suicide.
Our
grandchildren will either make great things or they will be hunted by
roaming savages like the teenage girls at a concert in Israel or those
similarly hunted in venues in Europe.
All the hopes of mankind
depend on the utter and total defeat of the savages, not just in Israel,
but in America, in Europe, in India and Asia, and around the world.
This is not the struggle of any single nation, but the crisis of
mankind. Either humanity will rise or we will fall.
Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation. Thank you for reading.
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