The Clash of Civilizations in 2. The West, Russia and Islam. In 1. 99. 2, the late conservative political scientist Samuel P. Huntington delivered a lecture on the developing . Developing his thoughts into a book in 1. Huntington provided the following breakdown of world civilizations: Source: Wikipedia. Huntington himself offered some explanations for why civilizations clash in the typically modern, Harvard style of over- explaining fairly banal concepts, i. More liberal- minded Westerners, especially ones who serve as functionaries of the American Empire overseas (what has been variously labelled the Cathedral, the Blue Empire or USG), tend to be unable to grasp these basic tenets of. Well- meaning progressive bureaucrats proselytizing on the ancient blood- soaked soil of the Balkans, for example, exit. Adored Western celebrities like Benedict Cumberbatch have to apologize. In 2015, the clash of civilizations between the West, Russia and Islam is in full swing. From Paris to Donetsk: enter the latest clash of civilizations. Online Library of Liberty. A collection of scholarly works about individual liberty and free markets. A project of Liberty Fund, Inc. Parade of Hypocrisy: Trump’s a Racist! By Richard Edmondson on April 15, 2016. Where does the well of hypocrisy come from? The US has a well deserved reputation as.But I digress — back to the clash of civilizations. In the years since the early 1. Huntington’s predictions of conflict have not been proven wrong, as a more extreme fan of Francis Fukuyama might have wished. Various conflicts — political, military, economic or otherwise — can be identified at. Conflicts can be identified within them too, but the bloodiest and most inflammatory ones inevitably occur at the eternally- disputed boundaries between civilizations. Take another gander at the map above. Between Orthodoxy and Islam we get wars in Bosnia, Kosovo and the Caucuses. Between Islam and Africa we get Boko Haram. Between Islam and the Hindu civilization we get perpetual. Between Orthodoxy and the West we get. Between the West and Latin America, we get quiet rumblings of future upheaval. And of course, between the West and Islam, we get. The clashes of civilizations which are. New York City, Washington, D. C., London, Paris, Madrid, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Brussels, Glasgow, Boston, Ottawa, Sydney, Stockholm — all have tasted the bitter brew of jihad. Granted, these attacks vary significantly in form, organization and casualties. The highly- coordinated attacks of 9/1. Yet, somehow, I am not comforted knowing that, when strolling through. Chechens as a group are a bit of a crack team for Islamic civilization. Not bad for an ethnic group barely 2 million strong. The Great Unspoken Truth in the West, that groups like PEGIDA are attempting to speak, is that the clash of civilizations between Islam and the West is not one that could be traditionally regarded as inevitable. Efforts of Europeans long gone have put firm geographical barriers between the West and Islam. The poorest, most rural, most fundamentalist Muslims find not high walls and sentries at Europe’s proverbial gates, but secular governments welcoming them with patronizing words and generous benefits. These Muslims follow the money, slowly accumulate in urban ghettos, and, sooner or later, the clash of civilizations occurs. A couple of left- wing cartoonists are riddled with bullets. Sooner or later, some armed and aggrieved (usually by the same Western powers) Mahometans come up with a way to strike back at the Great Satan. A couple of skyscrapers experience — ahem — “controlled demolition.”. The West, triumphant, sounded its own death knell with talk of the “end of history.”. Now the civilization of the West is contending with an Orthodox jihad and an Islamic one, neither of which it is adequately prepared to face, since it can’t even admit it has any opponents left to face. The Orthodox civilization, now a. The problem with progressivism is. President Barack Obama. The United States and NATO do not seek any conflict with Russia. This is a list of atheists. Living persons in this list are people whose atheism is relevant to their notable activities or public life, and who have publicly. Fukushima Radiation Has Contaminated The Entire Pacific Ocean – And It's Going To Get Worse By Whitney Webb Posted October 4, 2016. What was the most dangerous. The History of Sex in Cinema: Movie Title/Year and Film/Scene Description: Screenshots: Eadweard Muybridge's Primitive Motion Studies (from 1884-1887) - The Human. World War I had a devastating effect on German-Americans and their cultural heritage. Up until that point, German-Americans, as a group, had been spared much of the. In fact, for more than 6. NATO not to claim other lands but to keep nations free. Every great empire in history has tried to frame its own expansion as anything but temporary naked conquest. The American President’s words are in any case as disingenuous as can be. The ruling class of the United States, the Cathedral, the self- organizing consensus of academia, the media and the state bureaucracy (that, for far more complicated reasons, conveniently organizes around chauvinistic left- wing progressivism), viciously hates President Vladimir Putin, Russia, and the Russian people. Paavo-Kallio, Esa, 1858-1936 The politically correct descendants of America’s Puritans cannot stand the forthright, alcoholic Russians, who refuse to join the “international community” and don’t see why anyone would. For this transgression against progressivism, Russians deserve to burn alive. Russians, surprisingly, aren’t too fond of the choice the “end of history” has offered them — your ass or your life! Most Russians view their war in Ukraine as a legitimate defense of Russians and Russian interests, certainly nothing like America. It emphasized Russia’s right to respond to conventional threats with both nuclear and conventional weapons. Schindler does not see good things in the future of Poroshenko’s Ukraine. Huntington’s Orthodox civilization advances consciously on the West. Serbia — on your feet, win many battles against . The problem for the West is that it seems to be the only participant unaware that a contest is underway. The Islamic terrorist attacks in Paris occurred. God apparently has a sense of humor, if only a sick one. Houellebecq’s fictional (or are they really?) Islamists take power over the nationalist opposition with the crucial support of France’s left- wing establishment, dutifully following its progressive directives all the way to the graveyard of civilizations. If you’re a progressive leftist or liberal, especially one in Europe, you’re going to be targeted by both Islamists and Islamophobes. Anders Behring Breivik, Europe’s only notable right- wing terrorist in recent memory, bombed Norwegian government offices then shot up 6. Norway’s Labour Party. He did this because the Labour Party was supporting Islamic immigration to Norway, a typically leftist thing to do. Breivik did not bomb a mosque and he did not shoot up a madrasa. The motley Islamists who perpetrated Paris’ most recent attacks targeted Charlie Hebdo, a police officer, some random passersby, and a Jewish grocery store. They did this because. The Islamists did not target: Front National, neo- Nazis, Varg Vikernes, Catholic churches, far- right- wing bloggers. None other than Michel Houellebecq examines this increasingly incongruous situation in the novel. Still only available in French and German (an English translation is scheduled for September 2. Steve Sailer for enlightenment (yours truly was not about to spend upwards of 2. EUR on the German version. I will assume you read the linked compilation of reviews, and I will highlight only the most important parts, which are substantial nonetheless: The new university President, Muslim convert, and rising political star Robert Rediger is revealed as a former identitarian . There were already questions during the . Since they were almost always hooded, it was hard to tell who exactly was attacking whom and there were debates over which side had more of an interest to disrupt the elections. But slowly it is revealed just how much ideological influence Roger Rediger has on the new Muslim government. The clincher is that next door in Belgium, a new Islamic regime comes to power headed by an ethnic European who has well- known roots in the identitaire movement. Jacques searches the internet and finds a very interesting article written by none other than Roger Rediger: The whole article was an appeal to his former identitaire and traditionalist comrades. On the rejection of atheism and humanism, on the need for the subordination of women, on the return to patriarchy: their struggles from any point of view were exactly the same. But this fight to establish a new and natural phase of civilization could not now be conducted in the name of Christianity. Because of all the dainty rhetoric, cajoling, and shameful stroking by progressives, the Catholic Church could no longer resist moral decadence. It was now unable to clearly and vigorously resist gay marriage, abortion rights and women moving into the workforce. We had to face the facts: the church had reached a repugnant degree of decline. Western Europe was no longer in any condition to save itself . The influx of massive numbers of immigrants . In fact this opened the prospect for a new golden age on the old continent. While these new immigrant populations were sometimes Christian; but we must admit they were mostly Muslim. Roger Rediger was the first to admit that medieval Christianity was a great civilization whose artistic achievements remain forever alive in the memory of men. But little by little it lost ground, medieval Christianity was forced to compromise with rationalism and submit to secular power, and by degrees, was doomed. Basically, according to Rediger, it was a mystery; God had simply decided it would be so. Deus vult? Houellebecq’s identitarians use the mantle of Islam to finally subvert and defeat the decadent Western order. Western civilization, decrepit but poisonous, is finally replaced by Islamic civilization, with the twist that Islam’s existing adherents from the warmer climes only do half the job of replacement — the other half enthusiastically accomplished by native rightists! Whereas today Leftists use the Muslims to buttress their electoral margins contra. Instead of fighting the Left head- on as the elitist progressive’s low- status, hated country bumpkin, Houellebecq’s rightist simply converts to Islam and enjoys his role as the. It is lucky, then, that. For Houellebecq’s insightful prophecy is not that Islam will inevitably replace Western civilization, but that Western civilization will be necessarily replaced soon, by. Islam provides just one convenient path to explore for a writer of fiction. I will now point out that in the same way that France’s rightists, nationalists and identitarians share some uncomfortably similar interests with jihadists, they — crucially — share just as many, if not more, with the other. This year it was a gift from the Russian government.
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