The West in the 21st Century — Developed or Developing Nations?

Another excellent thought provoking piece by the Norwegian blogger Fjordman. Well worth a read.

The West in the 21st Century — Developed or Developing Nations?
Fjordman -
In the debate regarding how the relationship between the Old West, Europe, and the New West, the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, will be in the 21st century, many observers seem to take for granted that much of Europe will fall to Islam, and that native Europeans will flee and resettle in the New West. There is, however, another scenario that is theoretically possible, but little discussed. What if the opposite happens? There are Europeans emigrating/fleeing to these nations already now, but I think they will discover once there that the problems they are fleeing from are already present in their new homelands. Some of them are even worse there, especially since many of those fleeing will be white, and they will discover that whites are rapidly diminishing as a factor in these countries and that hostility towards whites is rising.

I gave serious thought to emigrating to the USA or some other English-speaking country a couple of years ago. I don’t blame Europeans who do so, but for me personally, this seems like a less attractive proposition now than it was then. First of all because I believe there is still work to be done in Europe, and second of all because so far I can’t see that the countries of the New West are standing up to Muslims in a forceful way, either, with the possible exception of Australia. And finally, because I’m white, and the more I read about the situation in the USA, Canada and New Zealand the less I feel like moving there. Frankly, I’m not sure whether I see any future in being white in the USA. Maybe there is no point in moving from the Old West to the New West because most of our problems are shared for all Western nations. Indeed one could claim that the West is now recognized not so much by a shared civilizational legacy as by shared problems.
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We are definitely witnessing the end of the Western world order, as I’ve said before. That doesn’t necessarily mean the end of the West itself, although some pessimists do believe this, too. According to the blogger Conservative Swede, people of European origins will become the global Jews of the 21st century, moving around to whatever country will take them in, while Germany, Italy and Britain will be populated by Nigerians and Kurds:

So what’s the future for people like me? Because even if I belong nowhere politically, I belong somewhere socially and ethnically. Well, the world is being homogenized. Tomorrow the whole world will be like the Third World. People like me, of European ethnicity, will have no home, no nation. We will live like the Jews as elites in other people’s nations (preferably a non-Muslim nation). This doesn’t scare me. The Jews have lived thusly for two thousand years. It’s a pity, but this is our destiny. This is what the Western Christians and liberals are working eagerly towards. This is what they are programmed to do. This is what they will achieve. I’ll let them have it. As an individual I cannot change this. The only thing I can do is to prepare myself for it. A good plan is to live as a ‘Jew’ in Catholic/Mestizo Latin America rather than a Muslim Europe, or the sinking Titanic of America. Even China looks like an option, in comparison.

There is some basis for claiming this, unfortunately. Our left-wing intellectuals love developing countries so much that they want us to become developing countries, too, a new form of rehashed global Communism. I recently read a column in Al-Guardian by Timothy Garton Ash, who also loves the European Union, hailing Brazil as the model for the future, where we are all merged into just one race, the human race. Multinational corporations want to erase borders to create one big world of capital, goods and consumers, and I’m pretty sure some members of our political elites are envious of the corrupt plutocrats ruling many Third Word nations.

Still, I think it’s a tad too pessimistic to resign to the inevitability of this scenario. Some countries will resist, perhaps successfully, and I’m not necessarily sure the English-speaking countries will come out on top. It has become custom in segments of the English-speaking blogosphere to bash the countries of continental Europe. Some of this is justified. France has led the creation of the EU, Eurabia and the European appeasement of Arabs, and they deserved to be bashed for it. However, if you look closely at the ideology of Multiculturalism, as I have done for some time now, you will notice that it wasn’t spread by France, where the ideal was never Multiculturalism but the assimilation of all groups equally into the secular French Republic. Not that that alternative worked out too well, either.

On the contrary, some writers such as Paul Gottfried have convincingly argued that Multiculturalism and identity politics, which are now eating away at the body of what once was Western civilization, were spread from the English-speaking countries, especially from the United States. This makes sense once you notice that the much-vaunted Anglosphere in fact leads the West in self-destruction. Canada is a Multicultural basket case, as is New Zealand. Britain, in particular England, the cradle of the Anglosphere, is one of the worst — some say the worst — countries in Western Europe, which leaves Australia and segments within the USA resisting their demise. Frankly, I wouldn’t be surprised to see Canada and New Zealand cease being recognizably Western within this century, and the USA being divided into several countries, including perhaps one predominantly white nation incorporating parts of Canada. Australia could stand a better chance of pulling through, but we should remember that it is a demographically vulnerable nation that is geographically merely an extension of Asia.

I’m not sure whether most of Europe, even all of Western Europe, will fall to Islam in the end. Worst case scenario: Muslims will create several smaller Pakistans or Kosovos, for instance one stretching from parts of France via Belgium to the Netherlands, one in regions of England and another one in southern Sweden. The situation in France and England is difficult to predict. France does seem set to become a Muslim country by now, but it is also a nation with an unpredictable revolutionary legacy. England sometimes appears lost, but my gut feeling tells me that there is still some residue left of the old warrior spirit there, which means that they will put up a fight at some point. France and Britain now both face the choice between becoming Islamic or engage in devastating civil wars. This could, ironically, lead to the rise of Germany as the pre-eminent European power. The Germans have significant problems with immigration, too, as do pretty much all Western countries these days, but they are nowhere near as bad as those of the French and the British.

If the Anglosphere implodes in this century due to the Multicultural ideology that it has been promoting and championing, this leaves the possibility that some people of European origins in the New West will flee back to the newly liberated nations of Free Europe. On the global scale, the Sino-American rivalry predicted by many now could fail to materialize. Not necessarily because China won’t be strong enough to rival the US, but because the US — or whatever remains of the US at that point — won’t be strong enough to rival China.

Finally, one comment from Mikhail Paul:

I have a mix of extreme pessimism and cautious optimism about the West. North America and England are already gone, as is New Zealand and pockets of Scandinavia— well in the process of demographic race replacement that’s irreversible at this point. But part of Europe is holding its own, especially the German lands, Finland, Denmark and Iceland, and (to my surprise) France, Spain, Portugal and Italy also coming through this. Belgium and the Netherlands could go either way, but seem now to be inclining more toward the self-preservationist tendencies of Finland and Germany rather than the PC self-destruction plan of North America and England. An independent Scotland and Wales may also join in, as will Ireland— Celtic languages like Irish Gaelic, Welsh and Scottish Gaelic, all but moribund today, will likely rebound, as these will be all that’s left of Britain as a Western nation. We do live in interesting times to say the very least.

We certainly do. Whatever the end result will be of this process, with Iraqis moving to Sweden and Swedes to Latin America, Chinese moving to Britain and Britons to Australia, Turks moving to Germany and Germans to the Unites States it is bound to be unsettling for a long time to come. Maybe I should move somewhere quiet to watch the whole mess from a distance, somewhere the masses won’t follow. What about Antarctica? Fjordman is a noted Norwegian blogger who has written for many conservative web sites. He used to have his own Fjordman Blog in the past, but it is no longer active.

November Bank Holiday?

Apparently Labour 'insiders' are considering another Bank holiday intended for November on the Monday after Remembrance Sunday to honour community 'heroes'.
Kath Stanley of the 'Public Policy Research' a Marxist think tank which advises the Government says:
'We need a day when people give something back to their communities and celebrate the diversity and pluralism of modern Britain'.
In other words a day off to allow them to ram 'multi culturalism' and 'diversity' and other unwelcome additions and dilutions of our once great nation down our throats.
You can imagine the BBC TV programming schedule for the day.
It'd be all about what terrible, nasty people whites are and would be dominated by programs about slavery, how black crime and failure is white people's fault, Steven Lawrence, how we're all wrong about Islam and how it's such a cuddly, touchy feely type religion that would be favoured by kittens. Then they'd wheel on the obligatory white apologist such as Ken Livingstone, blubbing for white people's sins and begging some black such as Jessie Jackson (who used to spit in white people hamburgers when he worked in a fast food take away) for forgiveness.
You get the picture, the BBC execs would be orgasmic at the very thought of it.

Well no thank you, you can stick your bank holiday where the sun doesn't shine (and it never does especially in November). We and millions of other fellow Brits don't need a bank holiday to remind us what it means to be British, we live and breath it every day. It's New Labour traitors who appear to have forgot or rather are trying to forget what it means to be British by doing their utmost to turn our once great nation into a third world slum, such is their contempt for us and all things British.
And why put it on the day after Remembrance Sunday? Is it some attempt to overshadow the sacrifices given by British soldiers around the globe?
What do you think?
Obviously remembering the nations war dead who died so that the likes of New Labour would have the freedoms they so abuse today, is far too hideously white for their sensibilities so they attempt to sweep it under the carpet with the rest of Britain's history that they seem to be so ashamed of.
Another Bank Holiday would be nice but not to celebrate something that the British people never asked for and never wanted. No way.
Read the story here.

Anti-Islamist Rally Banned in Brussels

By Vasko Kohlmayer
FrontPageMagazine.com
An eagerly awaited public rally was to take place in Brussels – the capital of the European Union – on September 11 of this year. Called ‘Against Islamisation of Europe,’ its intent was to protest the spreading of Islamic sharia law across the European continent and honour by a minute of silence the victims of the 9/11 terror attacks.

The event was being organized by SIOE (Stop the Islamisation of Europe), an alliance of people from across Europe whose objective is to prevent Islam from ‘becoming a dominant political force in Europe.’ Concerned about the Muslim subversion of the continent’s cultures and institutions, SIOE’s has this to say about Islam:

No other religion demands more from those who do not adhere to its doctrine. This would not be a problem if our leaders actually stood up for Western values and insisted that Muslims live within our laws and accepted our cultures and social systems. Instead, it is we who are told we must abandon our values, cultures and societies in order not to offend Muslims. It is Islam that is being rammed down our throats and the throats of our children. It is not only in the West that Islam is causing misery and mayhem. All around the world Islam is battling the “infidels”.

In a clear sign of public support for the planned demonstration, 20,000 people from across Europe have pledged their participation.

But now it looks the event will not be allowed to proceed. On August 13, Brussels’ Mayor Freddy Thielemans, a socialist, made the decision not to issue a permit for the march.

The Mayor’s decision is a very unusual one, because Brussels is known as a demonstration friendly city. In fact, it is the demonstration capital of the world with two or three events taking place on average every day. In the last six years alone, the Mayor’s office has received 3,600 requests for public protest permits of which only 6 have been denied.

But the Mayor is trying to do more than just stop people from voicing their concerns about the ongoing Islamization of their culture. This is what he wrote on August 20 in an op-ed piece in the Belgian newspaper De Standaard:

First and foremost the organizers have chosen the symbolic date of 9/11. The intention is obviously to confound the terrorist activities of Muslim extremists on the one hand and Islam as a religion and all Muslims on the other hand. […] Such incitement to discrimination and hatred, which we usually call racism and xenophobia, is forbidden by a considerable number of international treaties and is punished by our penal laws and by European legislation. The European Court of Human Rights has repeatedly pronounced judgments condemning this type of acts.

In what is a truly surreal development, a European public official calls those concerned about the encroachment of Islam on their life extremists and threatens criminal prosecution if they don’t desist.

The Mayor’s concern about extremism is very selective, however. In December of 2004, for example, he allowed a demonstration to proceed where more than 20,000 Iranians protested against the inclusion of People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran in EU's list of terrorist organizations. This is how this group was once described by the US Department of State:

The Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK), a leftist revolutionary group, was formed in 1963. Its founding principles included the creation of a Marxist-oriented Islamic government in Iran; opposition to 'imperialism' as supposedly embodied by the United States; opposition to Zionism and Israel; and a close affinity to Third World radical movements. […] To achieve its political objectives, the MEK almost from its inception has engaged in acts of terrorism and violence; the organization was responsible for fatal attacks on several Americans in Iran in the 1970s.

Not only was the demonstration allowed to go on – it took place in front of the EU’s headquarters – it received extensive official backing. Numerous speeches were made by European parliamentarians and various public personalities seeking to remove the group’s terror designation.

This makes for a remarkable situation: In the EU capital, Iranian Muslims are allowed to show their solidarity with a questionable organization while native citizens are being turned into criminals for seeking to voice their concerns about the unfolding Islamic takeover of their lands.

To add insult to injury, on the very day the organizers of the 9/11 rally were protesting the decision to block the event, Mayor Thielemans approved a permit for another demonstration to take place on September 9. Organized by an alliance of ‘various truth, peace and human right movements in Europe’ calling themselves United for Truth, they claim that the 9/11 attacks were staged by the Bush administration with possible support from some European governments. A message posted on their website on July 30 reads in part:

Recently the French Minister for Housing and the City Mme Christine Boutin expressed her doubts about the official 9/11 report. Before, Michael Meacher, secretary of state in Britain and Andreas Von Bulow, ex Minister from Germany, stated clearly that 9/11 and the war on terror are orchestrated by the Bush administration. Prof. David Ray Griffin held on September 14th, 2006 a lecture ('Should the truth be revealed or concealed') in Copenhagen. In this lecture he asked for a European investigation to the facts of September 11, 2001. To make this demand stronger, the United for truth organization in Belgium is organizing a European protest rally through Brussels. […] They [protesters] agree the 9/11 attacks and other terrorist acts, no matter if they were carried out by some so-called Afghan cavemen or by the governments themselves, inflicted the current policy of fear.

It is hard to believe that in Europe Muslims and far-left radicals are allowed to march in support of their causes and inane theories while those concerned about the ongoing disintegration of their societies are not only being silenced but threatened with legal action.

The controversy surrounding the planned 9/11 rally in Brussels is emblematic of Europe’s rapid descent into madness. Today Europe is a place where things are turned upside down and where common sense is not only commonly disregarded but actively suppressed.

Having lost both its sense of identity and sanity, Europe stands on the brink of being overtaken by Muslims who may well be able to claim their prize without so much as a fight. Brussels’ socialist Mayor Freddy Thielemans is only one of many among Europe’s leftist elites who are not only willing to capitulate to the barbarian invaders of our age but are actively facilitating their progress. America better take heed, for these are the very people its own liberals admire and in whose steps they would like to follow.

The truth behind Marks and Spencers move from Dewsbury

As anyone who lives locally will be aware Marks and Spencer are to close their Dewsbury store after 100 years of trading. Here we print in full an excellent piece submitted by a regular contributor to this blog that analyses the reasons behind Marks and Spencer's 'relocation' and the deterioration of a once proud town. Thanks to JP.

A phoney war of words has erupted between two establishment politicians, Dewsbury's Labour MP Shahid Malik and Kirklees Conservative Council Leader Robert Light (pictured)

Prompted by the news that after 100 years Marks and Spencer is to close its Dewsbury store, MP Malik has implied that the fault lies with Kirklees Council for its failure to invest in the town. Eager to shore up his rapidly diminishing support, Malik has jumped on the 'Dewsbury is going to the dogs' bandwagon that blames Kirklees for favouring Huddersfield over Dewsbury.

Leader Light has reacted with feigned outrage: "What has he (i.e. Malik) ever done for the town?" he shrieked. Light went on to say that the Council had secured over £80 million investment for Dewsbury and he urged everyone to "...talk up Dewsbury" rather than criticise it.

In typical politician's self-congratulatory style, Light shamelessly blows his own trumpet, "We are supporting investments in a children's centre, playground improvements, road and traffic programmes - all aimed at rejuvenating, regenerating, and transforming the fortunes of Dewsbury."

Oh really? And where is this children's centre to be situated, and which children will benefit from it? And which schools will benefit from improved playground facilities, and which roads will benefit from the new traffic programmes? Of course Light doesn't specify - but then he wouldn't, would he?

Let's cut to the quick. Dewsbury is a dump - and its most fitting monument is the clock tower on the Pioneer building where trees take root in the mortar and where the weather vane sits at an appropriately drunken angle.

What's that Councillor Light, we should be talking Dewsbury up? Isn't that like expecting passengers on a sinking ship to say what a wonderful sea voyage they're having?

Light boasts, "The council's continued investment in Dewsbury market resulted in it being judged the best in the UK this year." Out of curiosity, does anyone know who was doing the judging? It certainly wasn't the woman who wrote to the Press recently (17/08/07): "Dewsbury was such a lovely town; now we have a market resembling Bangladesh, women in burkhas and men in pyjamas."

Yes, Dewsbury was a lovely town - past tense. But it's not lovely now, certainly not for its original inhabitants who are in the process of being ethnically cleansed: Dewsbury is being Asianised with the connivance of the likes of Malik and Light. How long before the Minster is converted into a mosque? How long before the mill lass iron sculpture under the railway arches is dressed in a burkha? Surely it's only a matter of time.

Malik blames Kirklees Council for its indifference; Light blames those who aren't talking Dewsbury up.

Both are more concerned with their seats on the gravy train than they are with the truth of what is happening to Dewsbury.

Light is a selfish coward who has no qualms about betraying his fellow ethnic Britons to further his pathetic political 'career'. A better man wouldn't shy away from the real problems of Dewsbury and pretend it can all be made better by 'investment'. But Light isn't a better man, he's afraid of the truth and he hates the BNP because we stand by the truth.

And as you'd expect, Malik has his own agenda.

But no matter how much the politicians wriggle and squirm, there's no getting away from it - Britain's plight is a direct result of the insane immigration policies that Labour and Conservative governments have been employing these past fifty years or so. And they can invest in Dewsbury all they like but they won't put a halt to its deterioration. Labour wants immigrants as voters and the Tories want them as cheap labour. It's called treachery, and when the BNP eventually takes power as it inevitably will, these traitors in parliament and in the council chambers will be introduced to the business end of the rope - after a fair trial of course.

Story here

The Deep Crisis of the West

The piece I've cut and pasted below is from a website called honestthinking.org which is dedicated to the art of thinking honestly and is an excellent analysis of the state of European society, what is required for a society to work and the present state of European society which is far from being the nirvana the ruling class would have us believe and is more likely a society on the brink.
Although a bit long winded it's well worth the read

This article was published by HonestThinking on 19 May 2007.

For the record: What follows is a translated and considerably expanded version (approximately double size) of an article that was originally published in the Norwegian daily Klassekampen on 5 December 2006 (see Europas dype krise). It has caused a bit of debate among Norwegian intellectuals, but no one has yet challenged the basic assumptions upon which it rests.

The deep crisis of the West

By Ole Jørgen Anfindsen, Oslo, Norway

editor, HonestThinking (ole at honestThinking.org)

Sometimes we make things too complicated. This article is an attempt at explaining, using as few words as possible, why Europe in particular, and the entire Western world in general, is in a deep crisis. This explanation will be followed by a brief discussion of some possible objections, after which several sobering facts and quotes are provided. The article is wrapped up with some concluding thoughts and remarks.

My pessimism on behalf of the Western civilization rests on the following simple observation: Somewhere, somehow, there has to be a limit to the amount of diversity a society can handle without becoming dysfunctional.

I am not pretending to know exactly where this limit is; I am merely claiming that such a limit must necessarily exist. With this as our basic assumption, we may reason as follows.

Theory and discussion

First, it is indeed possible to list the most important factors that could potentially make a society dysfunctional. At the very least they include language, culture, religion, and ethnicity. Carefully note the qualification in the first sentence of this paragraph; the just mentioned factors will not necessarily create problems, but they all have the potential to do so. Differences in these four areas are examples of what we may call essential differences, i.e., differences that cannot be allowed to grow without bounds if society is to remain healthy. This is so because these factors are strongly connected with our sense of identity, belonging, and loyalty; the kind of stuff without which no society can function.

Second, any society’s ability to handle essential differences will vary with time. For example, a society with an expanding economy will temporarily have larger tolerance in these areas. Given that economic growth cannot continue indefinitely, Western societies’ ability to deal with essential differences is sooner or later bound to be reduced.

Third, whenever a society exceeds its limits concerning the amount of essential differences it is able to handle, some kinds of forces will – necessarily – come into play in that society and restore a sufficient degree of unity (*).

How is this going to affect Europe in the coming decades? The options appear to be pretty draconian:

· Some groups of people will have foreign languages, cultures, and/or religions forced upon them.

· People from different groups will move away from each other.

· People from different groups will kill each other.

The end result of this process is likely to fall into three main categories, although hybrid scenarios are also possible:

· Europe could be split up along dividing lines of language, culture, ethnicity or religion, not unlike what happened when Yugoslavia disintegrated.

· Europe could be taken over or become dominated by immigrants.

· Immigrants could be forced to leave Europe or in other ways lose their influence.

It can hardly be denied that the level of diversity is steadily increasing in all nations currently taking part in the multicultural project. I have yet to see any suggestion by anyone as to how we are going to avoid reaching the above mentioned critical limit.

One possible objection to the above line of reasoning is that diversity is a strength, not a liability. Such an objection misses a crucial point, however. Granted, too little diversity can certainly be problem, but so can too much. There are virtually infinite numbers of real life phenomena that have this kind of property; you need a certain amount of the stuff in question, but hardly ever is it simply a matter of having as much as possible.

Diversity within human societies is no exception to this rule. As soon as such diversity grows above the limit of that which is useful and healthy, one is going to see symptoms such as the development of parallel societies within the larger society, lack of communication and mutual understanding due to different languages, incompatible worldviews, conflicting values, and so on and so forth.

A few steps further down the line the proper functioning of democracy will be hindered by citizens voting for candidates who represent their particular religion, ethnic group, or language, rather than voting for candidates with the better political program. If diversity continues to grow without bounds, sooner or later the society in question will become dysfunctional.

Tragically, these things are occurring before our very eyes here in Europe. Still, academia and the media are only moderately concerned, and the vast majority of our politicians appear to be pretty much clueless as to what could or should be done about this.

Interestingly enough, while the public is regularly brainwashed with slogans like “diversity is our strength”, diversity of opinion on issues related to multiculturalism is not always appreciated, to put it mildly. On the contrary, the ruling elite is still putting serious effort into preventing true, profound, rational, and informed discussion of these painful issues.

The result is an intellectually numbing consensus culture that makes sure we all march to the same tune of diversity. Diversity, that is, in those areas where our elites have decided that diversity is A Good Thing, but uniformity, conformity, and political correctness elsewhere. Europe is, simply put, in deep intellectual trouble, which in turn is bound to cause political trouble.

Current trends in Europe

Let’s elaborate on these issues by having a look at some sobering facts from the Netherlands, Great Britain, and France.

According to statistics published in November 2006 by the Norwegian daily Klassekampen, 119.275 people chose to leave the Netherlands in 2005 while 92.297 entered the country that year. The majority of those who left were ethnic Dutch, while the majority of the newcomers were non-Westerners entering through family reunion. This process has been going on for several years now and is expected to grow stronger in the future.

In March 2006 the Dutch intelligence organization AIVD published a report called Violent Jihad in the Netherlands. The report addressed the fact that in spite of formidable attempts to stem the developments, the radicalization of young Muslims continued unimpeded. AIVD warns that if the current trends continue, the Dutch society might be headed for disintegration.

In June 2006 The Sunday Times reported that one of Great Britain’s most experienced military strategists, Rear Admiral Chris Parry, warned that the currently ongoing demographic development represents a threat to the West comparable to what made the Roman Empire collapse. We are simply unable to integrate, much less assimilate, the increasing flow of immigrants that are coming to Europe.

In France the situation is already particularly serious. Suburban violence and rioting is so common that it is no longer considered news, and therefore largely ignored by the media. But whoever looks into the general situation concerning integration of non-Western immigrants in Europe, will find that the situation is quite scary in other places too. Pertinent issues include lack of discipline and associated learning-problems in schools, growing levels of violence and crime in large cities, more and more ethnic Europeans finding it difficult to live in a huge numbers of suburbs and other areas, and also an increase in the assaults and harassment of Jews.

Refusing to face reality

On the international scene there is a steady flow of articles and books predicting the downfall of Europe, which creates a rather interesting situation. On the one hand a number of experts and intellectuals do their best to warn of impending catastrophes. On the other hand the ruling elite insist that all is well. Reference Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg who in March 2006 wrote the following in the periodical Samtiden: “The last twenty years have probably been the most successful in the history of mankind. The world is making progress, and the pessimists are wrong.”

It’s about time we replaced cheap propaganda with serious analysis. Is it the case or not that the above mentioned essential differences are growing out of control in Europe these days? What, if anything, is going to stop this growth? As far as I can tell, this can only come about if we rethink our entire immigration regime, but most of our politicians, as well as large portions of media and academia, seem to vehemently reject any such proposition.

The adherents of the multicultural project seem determined to ensure that their political Titanic continues full steam ahead, no matter what the future cost in terms of human lives and societal breakdown. These people deserve to be labeled multicynical.

Europe has not been in such dire straits since Hitler’s madness covered our continent in darkness. Whose fault is that? The primary responsibility rests upon naïve, cowardly, power-hungry, and/or arrogant politicians. And in no small part it rests upon media and academia, large portions of which continue to idealize the situation and quench democratic debate.

Every now and then some of the top politicians in Europe, for example Tony Blair, will utter tough words about immigration, integration, Western values, the death of the multicultural ideology, or something like that. However, unless and until they demonstrate in practice that they are prepared to follow through with measures that could actually make a difference, I suspect these are just empty words from incompetents with no real plan of action. Less likely, but not entirely unthinkable, these are words from cynical people trying to hide their real intentions.

We are, at increasing speed, headed for problems of unprecedented magnitude. Closing our eyes and hoping for the best until it is too late, is probably the worst possible strategy. Unless the problems are soon acknowledged, and serious efforts made to find viable solutions, it is probably just a matter of time before untold numbers of Europeans will follow the Dutch example, and look for an emergency exit. Indeed, more and more of Germans and Britons are already doing so. Such a migration pattern can only continue for a certain period of time before it becomes self enforcing, in which case Europe’s fate will be sealed. Any morally responsible person owes it both to immigrants and Europeans to try to prevent such a scenario.

Conclusions

This article is obviously written from a European perspective. However, the wishful thinking, the utopian visions, and the intellectual dishonesty that is well on its way to destroy Europe, is rampant in the rest of the Western world as well, not least in academia and media, the influences of which should not be underestimated. The situation in the USA and the rest of the Western world may not be as bad as in Europe, but the same processes that are eroding the foundations of civilized society here, seem to be busily at work there as well. In particular there is reason to be concerned that the USA will become seriously weakened or even torn apart by internal tensions that are already visible for the whole world to see.

Islamists are very much aware of this. They understand perfectly well that our diversity is their strength. Even so, many conservatives still see Islamism as our only enemy, failing to see the even larger threat coming from within.

Unless we strengthen our efforts to wake up the general public to the challenges we are facing; unless we manage to break the yoke of politically correct thinking; unless we honestly confront reality in all areas that are crucial for a well-functioning society (no matter how painful the truth may be); the entire Western world could crumble before the end of this century. Actually, I think it might possibly happen within our lifetimes. With the added qualification, of course, that many of us will cease to be alive once these processes really get going.

(*) Footnote: This sentence is not meant to preclude the possibility that a "sufficient degree of unity" could be restored through the breaking up of the society in question into smaller units.

Postscript

Different versions of the above article were in April and May of 2007 submitted to four well-known publications in the UK and USA (three primarily paper-based, one web-based). None of them accepted the article. This surprised me somewhat, because they all regularly publish material that is critical of the currently ongoing multicultural developments.

Why was this article rejected? Not having received any feedback, I can only speculate. My guess is that the publications in question are uncomfortable with the mere mention of the words ethnic or ethnicity in the context of serious problems. It should however be quite clear from my article that I am not advocating any extreme points of view on these kinds of topics. On the contrary, I am stating that a certain amount of diversity, including ethnic diversity, is good for a healthy society. However, unless we start dealing in a frank, honest, and respectful way with the challenges posed to us by ethnic diversity, I fear that our chances of winning the war against global jihad and radical Islamism will be slim indeed. Moreover, failing to deal with this topic is going to pave the way for people who will certainly be frank, who may perhaps try to be honest, but who will probably have little or no intention of being respectful in these matters. What we need here is free, open, and proper intellectual discussion in the spirit of John Stuart Mill’s classic essay On Liberty. See in particular Chapter II – of the liberty of thought and discussion; the essence of which is captured by Mill as follows:

· First, if any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to assume our own infallibility.

· Secondly, though the silenced opinion be an error, it may, and very commonly does, contain a portion of truth; and since the general or prevailing opinion on any object is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinions that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied.

· Thirdly, even if the received opinion be not only true, but the whole truth; unless it is suffered to be, and actually is, vigorously and earnestly contested, it will, by most of those who receive it, be held in the manner of a prejudice, with little comprehension or feeling of its rational grounds.

· And not only this, but, fourthly, the meaning of the doctrine itself will be in danger of being lost, or enfeebled, and deprived of its vital effect on the character and conduct: the dogma becoming a mere formal profession, inefficacious for good, but cumbering the ground, and preventing the growth of any real and heartfelt conviction, from reason or personal experience.

If only intellectuals had been willing to heed the admonitions of Mill during the past 60 years or so, the West would have been in an entirely different situation today (and the world would almost certainly have been a better place).

There are multiple reasons why Islamists will gain by ethnic diversity growing uncontrollably in the West, and I will briefly mention two. First, this will in itself weaken our societies, destroying the foundation for well-functioning democracies and creating a need for a totalitarian ideology that can clean up the multicultural mess by bringing the sum total of essential differences below the critical threshold. Second, some ethnic groups are very likely to become fertile ground for Islamic revivals. I encourage people with access to pertinent information to further elaborate on these topics.

In any case, refusing to face reality has hardly ever been a good strategy. If it is true, as claimed above, that ethnicity is one of the central factors (not the only one) when it comes to people’s loyalty, identity, and sense of belonging, then we ignore this topic at our own peril.

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Employers should bear cost of immigration

Still not working!

Comment in the Telegraph written by Irwin Stelzer who makes the point that as employers are the only people to benefit from mass immigration then they should bear the cost.
Although it's a bit of a confused piece in parts the sentiment is good and it's something that the BNP have argued for for years.
While the owners of capital trouser the increased profits from paying low wages to immigrants the taxpayer get lumped with paying the cost of settling them here, housing them, schooling their kids, paying for their wives to sit at home while they breed more of them and all out of their wages which are artificially depressed due to the vast amount of ready labour brought about by immigration.
Add this to the overcrowding in the country, the lack of housing, the increased hospital waiting lists, increased traffic, increased crime etc. etc. And it's no wonder we get pissed off.
We need to stop all immigration now and if we have any labour shortages then we need to train the 10 million people on various benefits to do the jobs that we need.
Read the story here.

More concessions

In a further example of the continuing Dhimmification of Britain another example from north of the border in Scotland.
Following the attempted Glasgow airport bombings hospital staff in the Lothians region of Scotland have been advised not to have working lunches during Ramadan - which is a 30 day fast- to avoid offending Muslims.
Managers have also been advised that Muslim staff are also to be allowed breaks to pray and time off to celebrate eid.
Why is it whenever Muslim terrorists blow us up or attempt to blow us up it leads to more concessions for their backward beliefs? Shouldn't it be the other way round?
Rather than encouraging them we should be looking at ways of discouraging the Muslim faith with a view to eventually banning it altogether.
Read the story here

How the Government has declared war on the English

A piece in the Daily Express here by Leo McKinstry tells of how the indigenous population of these islands and especially the English are discriminated against by the state whilst at the same time paying for the privilege. It's a ridiculous state of affairs where non-whites are seen by the state as unable to make it on their own two feet and therefore need a leg up.
Like I've said many times in this blog the race industry is not based on wanting equality it wants preferential treatment for non-whites based on nothing more than the distorted Marxist view of looking at things. In their muddled thinking 2 plus 2 doesn't equal 4 it equals racism.
Fortunately more and more people are waking up to the fact and voting for the only party that will make a change.
Vote BNP!
Read the story here.

More 'Asian' grooming of white girls

Another report here (this time in the Times newspaper) looking at the problem of the racist paedophile grooming of white girls by 'Asian' males. Although the word Asian is a bit of a misnomer bearing in mind the people that are doing the grooming are defined by their religion not their nationality and are overwhelming Muslim and not Hindu or Japanese or Buddhists or Nepalese.
Suppose they're only following in the footsteps of the founder of their religion - the paedophile Mohammed.
The report highlights something the BNP have warned about for years although as usual when we raised the matter we were called racist, liars etc.
It looks at what the BNP have been saying for years - that the grooming of white girls by Muslims is a huge problem and one that is ignored by the liberal establishment and the police for fear of being labelled racist. And is nothing less than the sacrifice of our children in the name of political correctness.
Even Ann Cryer who relies on the Muslim vote to get elected has spoken out and said; "I think there is a problem with the view Asian men generally have about white women. Their view about white women is generally fairly low. They do not seem to understand that there are white girls as moral and as good as Asian girls."
Read the report here.

Why are we so scared of offending Muslims?

A good piece here written by Christopher Hitchens, the lefty half of the Hitchens brothers.
He asks the question in the title and gives the answer which as we all know is; 'because they react with violence to anyone who dares question their beliefs'.
When even deluded lefties like Christopher Hitchens are finally facing reality and slagging off the Islamic religion you know there's a problem.
Read the piece here.

Another racist attack

With monotonous regularity the local papers, once again this week reports, on a Asian on White racist attack in the local area. This time the attack took place on Transvaal terrace in Batley in the early hours of Tuesday when the man in his early 20's was walking home whilst talking on his mobile.
Four Asian men pulled up in a Vauxhall Corsa punched the man to the ground and stabbed him before fleeing in the car.

There hardly seems to be a week goes by when the local papers aren't reporting on a Asian on White racist attack in this area. In fact for at least the last five weeks the local paper -the Press- newspaper has reported on separate attacks on white people and it's been a similar tale for years.
All the attacks seem to take the format, where a lone white person is usually ambushed by a gang of them either in a car or on foot.
But where are the police on this? Predictably silent as always. Although if the attacks were the other way round you could guarantee the Police would be stepping up their patrols and bending over backwards to 'reassure' 'the Community'.
Read the report here

Jihad Will Destroy Us If We Don't Act Now

Robert Spencer

"Fascism lasted 25 years, Communism for 75; Islam is 1,400 years old, the imperative to make war against unbelievers is 1,400 years old and they believe they are fighting a 1,400-year-old struggle. And jihad will destroy us if we don't do anything about it."

An interview here with Robert Spencer America's leading Catholic scholar of Islam that first appeared in the Catholic Herald.
He paints a fascinating yet disturbing insight into the reality of Islam and warns that Europe faces eventual civil war unless we act now.
Spencer subscribes to the growing view -- expressed in books such as While Europe Slept, Eurabia and Mark Steyn's America Alone -- that the contrasting birth rates between Muslim immigrants and secular Europeans will lead to catastrophe.

He also points out that his greatest critics come from that element of the Left supportive of Islam against "the West", a marriage seen by renegade liberals and socialists as the most ill-conceived alliance since a distinctly non-Aryan Japan sided with Nazi Germany.
To Spencer it makes perfect sense. "There is a deep ideological affinity between the Left and the jihadists. Whenever the hard Left gained power they instituted a reign of terror in order to create what they envisage as a just society, brought about by force. Islamic law works in much the same way: utopia created by force."
Sound familiar?
Read the article here.

The lies they tell

Why do stories about alleged 'corruption' within the BNP surface with such monotonous regularity on the Internet? Well, there are two possible reasons:

First, that they are true, with BNP leader Nick Griffin leading a gang of about a dozen crooks who conspire relentless to rip off the party and live the life of Riley.

Second, that they are untrue, but that the powerful and fanatical interet groups, which routinely spend vast amounts of money and energy trying to halt the rise of the British National Party openly, also run covert black propaganda operations designed to hit the party's donations and so hamper its progess.

Which is more likely? To work this out we need to look at half a dozen key FACTS:

FACT 1) Nick Griffin has a Cambridge Law degree, has run rings around the best barristers that the Crown Prosecution Service have thrown at him in three free speech trials, and has demolished every Establishment 'big gun' radio and TV interviewer he has ever faced. If the man was in it for the money, he certainly wouldn't be in the BNP!

FACT 2) Land Registry records confirm that Nick's wife brought their home in Wales on a mortgage for £25,000 in the early 1990s. Obviously prices have gone up since then, but it's hardly the price of a palace.

FACT 3) When travelling on speaking tours, Mr. Griffin invariably stays at the homes of BNP members and never even claims travelling expenses. All other political leaders use plush hotels. Who's on the gravy train and who isn't?

FACT 4) The finances and financial records of the BNP, which the Electoral Commission classifies as a 'major party', are therefore by law closely monitored not only by internal staff but also by an independent auditor who is bound by his professional code to ensure that everything is handled properly. His complete audit is in turn gone through with a fine toothed comb by officials from the Electoral Commission. The chances of money being illictly raised, spent or stolen under such a system are effectively zero. The fiances of the modern BNP are the most open and transparent of any party in the history of British nationalism.

FACT 5) Let's face it: Far from being a passport to luxury, high living and privilege, running the BNP - in a country with Islamic terror cells, endemic violence among certain immigrant communities, left-wing thugs and a Politically Correct legal system operated by a totalitarian government - is a dangerous as well as a thankless task.

FACT 6) The BNP is the only household name party in the UK which is 'in the black'. Alll the others are mired in massive debt, because running a political party's central machine is a very costly exercise.

So why do a handful of people tell lies about the BNP's finances, and a slightly bigger group constantly recycle them? There are four KEY POINTS:

POINT 1) Any head of any organisation will at times have to discipline individuals within that organisation, and to defend the interests of the organisation against rivals. Both the punished guilty and jealous rivals have clear motives for lying about the man who has put them in their place, or the successful organisation that blocks their own personal or group ambitions.

POINT 2) Liberal-left journalists and editors are always looking for ways to damage the party, and recycling black propaganda lies is an obvious way to try to scare off potential donors and members.

POINT 3) Well-financed organisations like Searchlight have been shown over and over again to run 'moles' in nationalist organisations, and to use them to spread lies and rumours intended to destablise their targets and set genuine nationalists against each other.

POINT 4) Under English law, political parties cannot sue for libel, and a libel action by an individual about whom lies have been told costs somewhere between £50,000 and half a million pounds. And who is a London (multi-racial) jury going to say it believes - Nick Griffin or some bitter old has-been or opposition 'grass'? The only people who benefit from libel actions are the lawyers, and the only people who can afford them are the mega rich. So the lies will keep coming, and the only sensible thing to do is to ignore them.

So don't do the enemy's work for them. As we all know no-one joins the BNP to make money, we're not career politicians like the majority of the main three parties who will say anything to get themselves elected. So the next time you come across tales about the BNP or its leadership, don't pass them on as gossip, delete them for the baseless lies they are. And tell whoever is spreading them to get off the back of the people who have done more than anyone else to throw a whole bag of spanners into the evil workings of multi-culturalism in Britain - the British National Party, as built and led by Nick Griffin.

Red White and Blue will go ahead

Despite what people like Balbir Singh Sandhu- who apparently is a leading 'racial equality campaigner'- have to say, the Red White and Blue festival of the BNP will take place on the weekend of the 4th and 5th of August in Denby as planned.
Mr Sandhu has called on Amber Valley Borough Council to block the festival- unfortunately for them they don't have that power.

Mr Sandhu claims that the BNP incites racial hatred and ruins the work of organisations like the Race Equality Council, which tries to build links between cultures in the community.
Yeah it must be a real bummer when you spend your life milking the taxpayer to come up with more and more ingenious ways of pulling the wool over peoples eyes and then someone like the BNP has the temerity to come along an tell the truth!
He also claims that his organisation fights for equal opportunities and the BNP doesn't believe in that.
But that's where you're wrong Mr Singh we want equal opportunity for everyone, not preferential treatment for some. And if you really do believe in equal opportunities you wouldn't be acting like a fascist by trying to prevent law abiding people holding a festival simply because you don't agree with their lawful politics.

Unfortunately for the followers of the anti- racist religion and the best efforts of New Labour and the Marxist scum who pull their strings, we still do have some freedoms in this country, one of them being the option of holding a private party on private land and that's exactly what we will be doing come rain or shine.
Read the story here

More New Labour social engineering

In the truth spirit of the New Labour thought police a new measure to be announced today aims to force majority white schools to mix with ethnic minorities or face the possibility of closure.
The measure is supposedly aimed at promoting 'community' relations.
It's just another example of New Labours attempt to force on a long suffering public the folly of their immigration policy and can only increase BNP support.
Previously all white communities will realise what the rest of us have had to put up with for years.
I say bring it on.
Read the story here

Old Lady mugged by Asians in Heckmondwike

A 74 year old lady was mugged in Morrissons supermarket in Heckmondwike by two Asian girls. She was followed round the store and punched twice before having her mobile phone stolen.
Read the full story here.

Raids in Dewsbury

Police this week raided another 2 houses in Dewsbury linked to the 'war on terror'.
The two houses in the Thornhill Lees area of the town were linked to an alleged plot to break Muslim terrorists out of Woodhill prison in Buckinghamshire.
Whats remarkable about this story is not the fact that police are raiding Muslim homes in Dewsbury, in fact there's hardly a week goes by when they don't do just that. But the fact that the police had contacted people in the 'community' - likely to be local Mullahs- to discuss the raids prior to them happening and the fact that these people had accompanied the 'Neighbourhood Policing Team Officers' (or Police as they're known when its none Muslim homes they're raiding) on the raids.
And it's not the first time. And it's happening all over the country.
Since when have white people been afforded the same luxury? The answer as we all know is never.
They're so terrified of upsetting the 'community' they basically do anything the Muslims ask of them.
No-one will be surprised to learn that no arrests were made in the 'raids'. And no wonder when the police are letting them know what they're doing in advance. It's just a joke.
The mind boggles - no wonder they think they're above the law, most of them are!
Read the story here

Another 3 million homes?

Gordon Brown yesterday pledged to build 3 million more homes by 2020.
Excellent news you might say! Now what little green space we have left in this already overcrowded country is about to be tarmacked over to accommodate the third world population boom.
Despite the fact that the white indigenous population of Britain is falling, the overall population in the country as a whole is growing rapidly thanks to the unwelcome guests from abroad which is in turn leading to a shortage of homes. Not long now before we're the ethnic minority.
Yet still the idiots continue to vote for them!
Read the story here.

Fanatics working for Police force as well as NHS!

A story in today's Daily Mail tells of 8 Al Qaeda sympathisers who are currently working for the Metropolitan Police in London and the fact that the Police 'claim' that they are unable to sack them because they haven't the 'legal powers' to do so.
This is the same police force who barred BNP members from joining up despite not having the 'legal power' to enforce such a ban, but enforce it they do!
It would appear that it's ok for potential terrorists to work for the Police force but not members of a legitimate, legal, democratic political party who in common with 75+ per cent of the British population happen to disagree with mass immigration and have the bottle to speak about the fact.
Its thought that the Met's eagerness to fulfil Governement quotas for the number of ethnic minorities that work for them is allowing extremists to take advantage of the fact by joining up relatively unchecked.
The fact that the BNP happens to be the only party that would treat everyone equally regardless of colour or ethnic background by picking the best person for the job, rather than discriminating against the indigenous population which, trying to fulfill some pie in the sky Government imposed quota certainly does, would seem irrelevant. The same old double standard is alive and kicking.
Read the story here

What excuses now for the Doctors of Death?

The liberal-left apologists for Islamic violence have had their flawed arguments well and truly shattered in the wake of the failed trio of attempts to bring death and carnage to the streets of Britain. Every single daily national newspaper is today carrying headlines which the BNP have been using for years, every paper headline will give the BNP another batch of votes and another batch of membership enquiries.

Claims by liberals that poverty, discrimination and “exclusion” fuels young Muslims living in Britain and around the Islamic world to extremist clerics who radicalize them to become terrorists and suicide bombers, have any shred of credibility they may have had totally destroyed as the backgrounds of the individuals behind the thwarted Glasgow Airport attack are revealed.

Security sources believe 12 individuals were involved in the attempt to detonate gas cylinders in the main hall of Glasgow Airport on Saturday (30th June) afternoon.

Eight people have so far been arrested in the hunt for the car bombers who tried to cause carnage in London and Glasgow. Six of them are NHS doctors.

The eight arrested are:

• Dr. Mohammed Asha, 26 year old from Staffordshire, arrested by police in swoop at Sandbach on the M6.

• Marwah Asha, 27 year old wife of above. Lab technician at Shrewsbury Hospital.

• Dr. Bilal Abdullah, originally from Iraq, worked at Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley. He was the driver of the Jeep which ploughed into the main airport hall on Saturday.

• The other unnamed man in the Jeep, in intensive care in Paisley with life-threatening burns.

• An unnamed 26 year old Indian doctor working at Halton Hospital in Cheshire.

• A unnamed Saudi junior doctor, aged 25 who worked at the Royal Alexandra.

• A unnamed Saudi junior doctor, aged 28 who worked at the Royal Alexandra.

• Mohammed Haneef, 27 year old medical registrar, arrested in Queensland, Australia.

Deliverers of death

There is little evidence of poverty, social exclusion or disadvantage amongst those who plan to kill, maim and destroy, quite the opposite; the alleged terror bombers and their accomplices are well educated, privileged and were viewed as respectable pillars of the community. It might appear ironic that the men and women who worked to give their lives to saving others should be the architects and practitioners of death, but the very foundation of the faith practiced by those arrested, those on the run and those who are today working on the terror plots of tomorrow is one of violence, deceit and warfare.

“Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds of war, to strike terror into the hearts of the enemies, of Allah and your enemies, and others besides, whom ye may not know, but whom Allah doth know.” (Qu’an 8:60).

There may be passages in the Christian Bible particularly in the Old Testament which make blood curdling reading (Numbers 31:17-18) for example but the enemies are specific and unambiguous – in this case the tribe of Midianites. The Qu’an (Koran) seems to command the war against all unbelievers is open-ended and universal.

Further most Britons who tick the box “Christian” on census returns or other forms of identification have probably never read, or had read to them the entire contents of the Bible, let alone pay its content any regard in the running of their daily lives. Muslims on the other hand have the contents of their holy book rammed home not just weekly like many Church-going Christians but five times a day.

Islam is at odds with everything we in the west stand for. It is diametrically opposed to our enlightened forms of social governance, democracy, free thinking, scientific enquiry and common justice. The BNP remains the only political party which stands firm, speaks the truth and says that there is no place for Islam in Britain.

Reproduced in full from the BNP website.