The West is failing to defend its values in the face of Islamic terror

Anne Marie Waters talking perfect sense in Breitbart

It was the second major jihad attack on France inside of a year. This one was far bloodier than the last, but it was otherwise near-identical. The slaughter of cartoonists in January was an attack on the democratic notion of free speech. This time the strike was an assault on concert-goers and restaurant diners, on people enjoying the leisure and pleasure of a free society.

Both events denote an onslaught on Western civilisation, and both drew the same response from world leaders – the reinforcement and the propagation of The Big Lie. Here is the President of the United States:

“It’s an attack not just on the people of France. But this is an attack on all of humanity and the universal values we share.”

What universal values? There are no “universal values”, certainly not politically. . . What unified moral stance? Western nations do not share a moral stance with Saudi Arabia. Our morals are vastly different.

The similarity in the sentiment of statements from these two countries, who have enormously different value structures, are attributable to the most nefarious lie being voiced on the world stage today: “universal values” are supreme, we are fundamentally alike, and we all aspire to the same notions of justice and humanity.

We do not.

The Big Lie serves to advance the cause of internationalism and open borders and to eventually bring about the demise of the nation-state and accountable government. This is not a great conspiracy, but a powerful ideological and political aim. And it’s working

When the characteristics of The Big Lie become so apparent that they cannot be ignored, and the truth starts to seep through, our leaders respond with “multiculturalism”. The notion that we are all alike begins to fade away and is replaced by yet another untruth – “yes, we are culturally different, but it doesn’t matter, because all cultures are equally committed to liberty and are equally benign”.

But they’re not, and we all know it.

When Paris was attacked with the weapons of death, another far more perilous war was taking place. Its peril lies in the fact that it is what happens when we are busy focusing on bombings and shootings. The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) has begun demanding the right to legally persecute people who tell the truth about Islam.

The Sharia-endorsing MCB “and the UK’s independent reviewer of terrorism legislation” have both called for change, and a crackdown on dissent from the “religion-of-peace” hypothesis. Criticising Islam should effectively be constrained, and all opinions should be sanctioned by the likes of the MCB. 

Let’s start using our power, and standing up for our values. The West is failing to defend its values because this would mean an assertion that our values are superior to other values, and this is akin to colonialism. It’s the same reason we don’t prosecute horrible cultural practices which amount to crimes in Britain, because that would be imposing British-made laws on to non-British groups, and that might amount to colonialism, they’ll say.

The calls for “solidarity” are now spreading all over the internet, but my question is: solidarity with whom? With France? That is a given. But I will not stand in solidarity with the Muslim Council of Britain, or Saudi Arabia, or Muslim Brotherhood linked groups, or the OIC bullies at the UN, because I recognise that they are all committed to values that represent a danger to my own, and are a real threat to the free and democratic world.