The West no longer believes in itself or its values. The world has taken notice and is walking on the formerly great countries that brought humanity philosophy, science, art, and modernity.
Picture coming home and God forbid finding some stranger attacking your daughter. I think that the vast majority of parents would do everything to subdue the intruder and immediately save their beloved offspring. I think it would be rare for the parent to excuse himself and pardon his interruption. Such a person would be considered a coward and a loser. It’s your daughter! You wouldn’t do everything—even at the risk of danger and death—to save her?
The above response seems normal. A person feels responsibility and love for his offspring. He also feels completely in the right to ward off an attacker against his own child in his own home. I think that most good people would do the same even if it was not their daughter. They go over to check on a friend’s house and see the same scene. They would also do their all to remove the attacker and save the girl in question.
Yet, when England was faced with the mass rape and trafficking of its own daughters, it looked the other way. Over a decade and hundreds of thousands of young girls, and the authorities did nothing to protect or save the children. Why? Much has been written about the police and social services not wanting to be called racists. Most of the perpetrators were Pakistani Muslims, and it would look unseemly to have lily white policemen calling them rapists. Yet, the fellow saving his daughter in his own house does not seem to have this problem. He doesn’t look at the attacker, make some social calculation as to his ethnic profile and then decide how to act. Seeing his daughter in peril overrides all other considerations. But why didn’t the young girls in danger not move police, social services and politicians to act? One of the reasons is that they no longer believe in themselves.
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When England ruled lands throughout the world, the British did not shy from installing their laws in the distant places that they controlled. To this day, here in Israel, British law is mixed with Ottoman, Israeli, and Jewish law for consideration in front of the courts. The British brought their language, laws and customs to India, the Levant, Hong Kong and beyond. They felt that they were conquerors and to the victors, the spoils. No one doubted that the British had the right to establish rules according to their custom. That’s how things went.
But today, in the highly destructive multicultural world, who says that British laws and customs are any better or correct than those in Pakistan? If Sharia allows for the sexual assault of non-Muslim women, who can stand up and unequivocally state that British law controls and that officials must act according to British law that explicitly prohibits the forced sexual coercion of children? The officials who grew up on the self-hatred of their religion and their past cannot conclude that they would be in the right to arrest the Pakistani men. In the end, they often arrest the girls and/or their parents, as they can definitely dig something out of the law over which the latter are guilty. In England, it’s easier to arrest a 70-year-old who complained online about Palestinian flags everywhere than five Pakistanis who have pimped out a bunch of white 12-year-old girls from Oxford. Part of hating one’s own culture involves attacking and arresting those who actively support it. That’s why Tommy Robinson is in jail. How dare he want England to be English? Who said that English law is better than Sharia? Maybe it’s the other way around?
The same self-loathing exists in the U.S. and is the basis for DEI and the open border. Who are we as Americans to believe in meritocracy or a good fence to keep our wonderful country to those who have a legal right to it? When the great authors of the past are replaced in curricula by others whose main advantage is simply not being white men, then we are raising the white flag on Western civilization and its values. Whereas the father saving his daughter from a dangerous intruder has no doubt as to the righteousness of his actions, the professor teaching history is not so sure that the U.S. was any better than Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan. “They killed millions, and they killed millions. Anyone going to the football game this Saturday?”
Where we see a collision of those who have lost confidence and those who have not is in Israel. Israel believes in the righteousness of its cause. 1,200 people were murdered by Hamas and its friends. Numerous women were raped and murdered. Families were killed together. Parents were slaughtered in front of their children and vice versa. Israel has no doubts as to the rightness of its actions in Gaza, Lebanon or elsewhere. Not so in the Biden White House or in other places in the West. 60 Minutes, the dinosaur that it is today, just ran a hit piece against Israel. Genocide! Murder of children! These are from the people who would find someone attacking their daughters and apologize for walking in unannounced. As they let their countries die under the weight of uncontrolled immigration and the intellectual rigidity of political correctness, they want to teleport onto Israel their losing ways. Make peace with Hamas! Stop the bombing! They don’t care that the same attack will happen again in a decade. They don’t believe that a Western nation state has the right to protect itself from Islamic murderers. Submit like we do! We let them rape our daughters—so you should let them kill yours.
Winners in all fields have confidence. There is always a fine line between confidence, overconfidence and hubris. But if you look at champions in any field, they always show the confidence that they will succeed. Today, there are 2.3 billion iPhones in the world. When Steve Jobs introduced the first one in conjunction with AT&T, he said that he hoped to get an initial 1 percent penetration of the market. Look where it has gone since. Elon Musk created a car company worth more than all of the legacy U.S. car manufacturers combined. It took a lot of confidence to enter that market, when everyone said that he had no chance against GM and Ford. Ditto for his rocket efforts.
If the West wants to succeed, it must believe in its religious and cultural heritage. It must not shy away from its values and beliefs. It must look Sharia law straight in the eye and say, “Not here.” What you do in your countries is your business, but here we do things the American or the British or the Dutch way. But until there is a return to confidence and belief in the good of the West and all that it has contributed to mankind, expect more no-go zones and more sad stories of girls whose leaders have thoroughly abandoned them. The left hates MAGA because in its modern view, the U.S. was never great and thus cannot be great again. But America is a great country and has contributed enormously to this world. The belief in its goodness will be the underpinning of its renaissance.
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