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Minority Feelings and Violent Facts

The Following article By John T Bennett appeared yesterday on the American Thinker Website

Minority Feelings and Violent Facts

By John T Bennett

What is the most important thing about mobs of black teens attacking and seriously injuring innocent pedestrians and businesses?  The feelings of teenagers who share the race of the attackers, according to Chicago's local CBS affiliate.

That's right: Mobs of teenagers have unleashed terror in the streets of Chicago and other cities in "flash mobs," and the best thing CBS in Chicago has to say about that is that black teenagers are worried about racial profiling.

George Orwell would shudder after reading this headline: "Some Worry Mob Attacks Are Encouraging Racial Profiling."  In the story, a journalist interviews young black teens hanging out at North Avenue Beach, the scene of one of the mob attacks.  We learn that some in this group "feel targeted as potential troublemakers because of recent attack mobs in the city."  No one is alleging that profiling has occurred as a result of the flash mobs, just that it might, and that possibility bothers some teenagers.  That's the subject matter of an entire news story in our post-racial America.

The subjective opinions of black teens matter as much as those of all other teens.  But do those feelings matter enough to warrant a news story?  Compare the triviality of that story with the full scope of flash mob attacks in Chicago:

In early June, witnesses reported that "gangbangers" were pushing people off their bikes at a Chicago beach.  One witness told NBC local that "[t]hey were being rude and abusive and throwing trash around and defecating" and beating people.  Also, in just one weekend in early June, twelve attacks involving large groups of "young men" were reported.  These attacks in the normally placid North Side gained attention.  The chosen victims: a 68-year-old white doctor, a 34-year-old white insurance salesman, a Thai man, a Filipino nursing student, and a 42-year-old Japanese doctor.  All were either beaten, robbed, or both.  Those arrested: three young black men, a fact we only know because of mugshots since it is the official policy of the Chicago Tribune to censor the race of criminal mobs in its journalism, if not its commentary section. 

These attacks might just seem like fun and games, but now some of the attackers are armed.  In two incidents the first weekend in June, 8 to 15 teens boarded a bus without paying and "began hitting people," according to the Chicago Tribune.  Three of those teens are charged with armed robbery, one with unlawful use of a weapon.  A week later, a boy with no race was attacked by "a group of seven male teens," all "black," according to news reports, and one with a handgun.

There were also flash mob robberies in January 2011 when mobs of teens raided and robbed at least three stores.  In February, Loyola University Chicago warned students and staff about "flash mob offenders" stealing from retail stores near campus.  In April 2011, a group of 70 "youths" invaded a McDonald's and "created a disturbance" according to a news report.  So there is a troubling trend towards mob violence perpetrated by black teens.  Despite all of this, of all the topics CBS Chicago could have chosen, they chose to ruminate about the feelings of young black teens.

The problem with the CBS story is that there will be no corresponding story about victims' feelings.  There certainly will be no similar story about the subjective opinions of non-blacks regarding predominantly black mobs.  It's not just that there is a double standard; it's that there is a suffocating level of deception involved in these news stories.

How did we reach the point where the only group whose feelings need to be consulted are minorities?  Liberalism.  Part of liberalism is the notion that minorities need special help, attention, and heightened sensitivity.  Along with that, liberalism promotes white guilt and the peculiar desire to "help people" at any cost.  The result is that the media gives credence and coverage to mere feelings when real people are being attacked.  Of course, the worse the violence gets, the more sensitive we'll have to be.  The flash mobs and mob attacks will require the utmost sensitivity from us, as they are only going to increase.  They've already occurred in Atlanta, Kansas City, Boston, Nashville, Charlotte, St. Paul, Minnesota, Washington, D.C., Las Vegas, Columbia, South Carolina, and even in Iowa on what was called "beat whitey night."

We face the nightmarish reality of low-level ethnic conflict.  If these violent mob attacks worsen, they will be a precursor to severe racial tension.  These flash mobs already constitute the worst acts of racist violence in recent American history.  Now, how do we go from that reality to a story about black teens' feelings?  The answer is that society has twisted priorities about race and social responsibility.  Given the white guilt saturation that young people receive in our educational system, it's easy to see why the media would give such frivolous treatment to flash mobs.  One of the great successes of modern liberalism is that it has constrained our public debate about racial issues.  A sheep-like media, craven politicians, and thoughtless academics have all failed in their duty to grapple with this social problem.  With enough layers of guilt piled upon us, we can't even see the problem staring us in the face.  The media is creating an atmosphere of passive ignorance towards racial violence, and that ignorance places all of us at risk.

If there was this level of racial tension and violence in a situation where the races were reversed, there would be a nationwide clamor for healing, compensation, and awareness. Instead, we're treated to sappy stories about teenagers' feelings. "Some Worry Mob Attacks Are Encouraging Racial Profiling," says the news. One waits for the article entitled "Some Worry Mob Attacks Are Encouraging Anti-white Violence."

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Islam’s Contribution to Western Civilisation - Not Much

By Tim Heydon

The ‘Muslim Council of Great Britain’ Thinks it has been ‘Huge’

A representative of the ‘Muslim Council of Great Britain’ has suggested that the British Education Curriculum should devote an appropriate amount of space to ‘the contribution of Islam to Western Civilisation’ which, he claimed has been ‘huge.’ The left- liberal political elite talks about the ‘intellectual superiority’ of Islam over Christianity while its broadcasting arm, the BBC, in line with the Frankfurt School Neo-Marxist ‘Critical Theory,’ is ever ready to traduce and belittle the achievements of the West, Britain especially, in order to undermine it and make its transition into a multicultural, multiracial society easier. It therefore lauds other civilisations, Islam in particular, as conducive to this end.

Charles Murray and Human Accomplishment

So what has the contribution of Islam to Western Civilisation actually been? What have individual Moslem thinkers, artists and others given to Western Civilisation, taking (as T S Eliot did), Culture, meaning ‘everything that makes life worth living’, as being synonymous with Civilisation? In his book, ‘Human Accomplishment’ Charles Murray, co-author of ‘The Bell Curve,’ has identified those individuals in history who have been engaged in ‘the pursuit of excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 BC to 1950’ and have contributed the most, not just to Western Civilisation but to the World.

Murray’s Empirical Approach

In order to do this, Murray adopts the refreshingly direct, empirical methods of a political scientist which minimise the opportunities for bias more possible in other approaches. He bases his assessment of human accomplishment on those individuals who have appeared in major reference books and studies, world –wide, rather than picking out individual Islamic achievements and arguing their importance. These works can be used, first, to identify those people who are worthy of study, and second, to calibrate their eminence. Murray does not include every single individual who is mentioned in all the reference books. That would include the merely excellent as opposed to the indispensable. He has a cut-off point of 50%: anyone who is mentioned in at least 50% of his qualified sources is designated a significant figure, and enters his samples for analysis.

Significant Figures in the Major Branches of Learning

Murray deals with such matters as whether importance equals excellence in scientific accomplishment and the question of taste in the judgement of excellence in Art. He heads off, in persuasive fashion, the anticipated accusations of various ‘isms’; ‘ Eurocentrism,’ ‘Sexism,’ ‘Racism’ ‘Chauvinism’ and ‘Elitism,’ by, for example, pointing out that Japanese studies give much the same results as his own. The result of all this is a series of lists, graphs ands bar-charts depicting the most influential figures in the various major branches of learning:-

Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Physics, Mathematics, Medicine, Technology, Combined Sciences, Chinese Philosophy, Indian Philosophy, Western Philosophy, Western Music, Chinese Painting, Japanese Art, Western Art, Arabic Literature, Chinese Literature, Indian Literature, Japanese Literature, Western Literature.

Murray lists 4002 significant figures in these lists, that is, individuals of whatever ethnicity/cultural background who are significant in world terms. Of these, just 568 or 14% are not Western, and 82, or a tiny 2% are Arabic/Moslem.

Significant Events in the History of Science

Murray also presents a list of significant events in the history of science since about 500 BC by combining events in nine chronologies such as that by Bernard Grun, ‘The Timetables of History.’ In astronomy there are 57 such events. Only one, the Chinese description of sunspots in 165 BC, is not Western. There are two significant events ascribed to the Islamic World in Chemistry among the 70 listed; Jabir ibn Hayyan’s preparation of acetic acid in AD 750, and the first production of concentrated alcohol by the distillation of wine in AD 900. There is no Moslem or non-Western contribution to the 47 significant events in the Earth Sciences, none in the 147 of Physics, none in the 64 of biology and none in the 68 of medicine.

Who did What ?

In mathematics, of the 102 central events, three are connected to Persia but are not necessarily Islamic. For example, Omar Khyayyam who was the first to solve some cubic equations, was hostile to Islam. Taking into account Chinese and Indian contributions, only six central events in total are not Western. The Chinese figure in the early history of technology: they are responsible for 9 of the 119 central events. The rest, apart from the first known use of glass blowing in the Levant in 245 BC and of parchment in Asia Minor in 200 BC are Western.

European White Males : Responsible for the Overwhelming Majority of Human Accomplishments in the Arts, Literature, Sciences and Technology

Murray points out that whether measured in terms of people or events, 97% of accomplishment in the scientific inventories occurred in Europe and North America. Speaking as an American, Murray comes to the conclusion that ‘not only does Europe dominate the narrative of human accomplishment, so does the minority that has become known in recent years as ‘white males.’ So we can conclude from Murray’s analysis that the influence of Islam on Western culture has not been very significant, while the influence of the West on the world has been overwhelming.

Islam’s Contribution is more than the Sum of its Parts?

But (it will be argued by those BBC self-haters and the other neo-marxists and progressives of every stamp in the political elites), Murray’s approach only describes the influence of Islamic individuals up to the recent past. It does not describe how Islam has collectively influenced the West in history as a religion and a culture. Wasn’t there a time (it will be said), when Islam, flushed with the confidence and conquest of the new faith, went through a period known as its ‘Golden Age’, when the aggregate of individual contributions (even if separately these were in Murray’s terms merely excellent rather than significant) together and because of the circumstances – the so-called European ‘Dark Ages,’ were indeed of the highest significance to the development of the West?

The Islamic Golden Age .......

Well, there was a period when Islamic civilisation flourished and it should be acknowledged that the West does owe something to Islam for helping to pass on Greek learning and for adding to it. But the case should not be overstated.Murray himself is generous. He writes, 'For a few centuries at the turn of the first millennium Islam presided over a burst of exuberant scientific and philosophical enquiry. It began with the translation of the Greek and Roman manuscripts which had lain forgotten for centuries. It then went beyond translation, producing a large body of original work in mathematics, chemistry, astronomy, optics and philosophy, among other fields.'

..............Was not so Golden

Others though, take a less rosy view. The Islamic 'Golden Age,' says Serge Trifkovic, (The Sword of the Prophet') was 'golden' only on its own terms.'that is, in comparison with the rest of Islamic history. But 'no self-respecting Western Islamophile would ever admit to this.' Trifkovic goes on, 'Whatever flourished, it was not by reason of Islam, it was in spite of Islam... In Islam's 'Golden Age' there was a lot of speculation and very little application; and for a thousand years, even speculation has stopped.' While 'a number of medieval thinkers and scientists living under Islamic rule, by no means all of them Muslims either nominally or substantially,...contributed in making Aristotle known to the Christian Europe ...they merely transmitted what they had received from Christian sources and moreover the Aristotle who finally gained recognition in Christian Europe was not the Arabian Aristotle but the Greek Aristotle, who came to Western Europe by way of Constantinople, largely by Byzantine Greeks fleeing the (Muslim) Ottoman onslaught.'

The Views of a New Labour ex- Minister

Further, in their book 'The Suicide of the West', Richard Koch and Chris Smith (the erstwhile New Labour Culture Minister), whilst acknowledging the beauty of Islamic cities like Granada with the exquisite courts, pools and paradisical gardens of the Alhambra and their roles as centres of learning, quote the 'devout' scholar Caesar E Farah, ' The early Muslim thinkers took up philosophy where the Greeks left off..in Aristotle the Muslim thinkers found the great guide..Muslim philosophy .. in subsequent centuries merely chose to continue in this vein rather than to innovate.'

Philippe Nemo and 'What is the West?'

And Philippe Nemo, Professor of Philosophy and the History of Ideas at the ESCP-EAP European School of Management and a leader in this field tells us ('What is the West?') that the West's debt to Islam is not great, at least with regard to values. He writes, 'Undeniably, Islamic philosophy received stimulating nourishment from Greek philosophy, but its interest was more for metaphysics and mysticism, neither of which in my view played a very important part in the shaping of modern Western values.'

The Dark Ages were not so Dark after all.  

Nor were the Dark Ages from which Islam is claimed to have rescued the West as dark as they have been painted. Whilst leading Scholars were not familiar with the Classical authors,  they were not barbarians. Learning in Europe was kept alive by the Church and especially by Irish Monks.

The Venerable Bede relates that many Pilgrim scholars came to Ireland from Britain and the Continent of Europe to study and learn during the early Dark Ages. (450-750). The Celtic Monks spread out across England and Europe bringing Christianity and learning with them.

The Glories of the ‘Incomparable’ ‘Book of Kells’ 

 

In his renowned TV series ‘Civilisation’, Lord Clarke gave his opinion that there is nothing in Islamic art to compare with the glories of illustration  of the ‘ Book of Kells’ (c 800), produced by Irish monks..

Alcuin and the Carolingian Renaissance

The English monk Alcuin (c. 735 – 804) brought to his court by Charlemagne, oversaw many of the intellectual and educational reforms of the Carolingian  Renaissance.  The students at Alcuin’s Palace School went on to become some of the most important figures of the Carolingian  era.  All of this was inspired primarily by Christian learning, not Islam  either directly or indirectly.

Christian Europe rejected Slavery - Islam embraced it

Thanks to Christianity ‘Dark Age’ Europeans rejected slavery, which in the circumstances of the time meant universally.  Feudal Serfs were not slaves: they had rights and we have records of their being asserted against the Lords. The rejection of slavery could not independently occur to Islam, then or later, since Mohammed, the ‘perfect man’ and model for Moslems, himself captured, owned, bought and sold slaves and enjoyed them sexually. Notoriously he took as a concubine a Jewish woman whose husband and close relatives he had  beheaded that same day.  

The ‘Dark Ages’ – A Great World Era of Invention 
 

Rodney Stark, at the time Professor of Social Sciences and Comparative Religion at the University of Washington, tells us (‘For the Glory of God’) that in the ‘Dark Ages’, ‘Machinery was developed and put into use on a scale no civilisation has Previously known’.

One such invention was the proper harnessing of horses where a rigid, well-padded collar puts the weight on a horse’s shoulders rather than the neck, enabling a horse to pull as much as an ox and twice as fast, greatly increasing   productivity. The harnessing of horses in teams enabled them to pull great loads.

Inventive Europeans also improved the Inventions of Others
 

According to Stark, ‘Dark Age’ Europeans also developed iron shoes for horses, effective Watermills, camshafts, mechanical clocks, the compass and so on .Many of these were original inventions, but what was remarkable, he says, was the way in which Europeans realised the full potential of inventions even when they were imported.

Gunpowder, for example, first seen in Europe in 1300 or so was Chinese, but where the Chinese for a long period used it for only fireworks and as an incendiary, the Europeans immediately saw its application in gunnery. By 1325 gunsexisted all over Europe. Another example is the compass, invented simultaneously in China and Europe. Where the Chinese merely floated a magnetic needle on fluid, and used it mainly for purposes of magic, the Europeans added a card and sight which enabled them not only to identify North, but their precise heading. This, along with numerous other innovations such as the rear-mounted ship's rudder, greatly assisted the great European era of sea- borne discoveries.

European Inventiveness saved us from Islam

European inventiveness helped save Europe from Islam in the end. In 732, Charles Martel led a Frankish army in the battle of Tours (or Poitiers) which decisively defeated the Moslem Saracens. His army was better armed and armoured than any the Greeks or Romans had fielded. The lightly armed Saracens could only dent the chain-mailed Frankish infantry square and were put to the rout with 'the first ever appearance on a major battlefield of knights in full armour' made the more formidable with stirrups, and the Norman saddle with its very high pommel and curved cantle. These inventions enabled the knight to brace against the shock when his lance struck home and to withstand it.

The 'Islamic Golden Age' withered because of the West?.....

Why did the intellectual activity of the Islamic 'Golden Age' wither? The BBC and the rest of the political class who are extremely embarrassed by the overwhelming success and influence of the West because it is a standing denial of their fatuous, nihilistic idea of 'equality,' are disposed, yes, to blame the West, the fount of all evil in comparison to the rest of the world, one would think from their attitudes. Ignoring the fact that, led by Mohammed, Islam expanded from the first by aggression and conquest, the glorious Islamic civilisation was, they say, brought to decline by the oppression of the West whose aggressiveness stultified it. But this idea, like much else in leftist thought, is pure ignorant, biased fantasy.

......No, because it was not Islamic

While explanations for the decline of Arts and Learning in Islam differ, the core of them is the faith itself. Islam had access to Greek learning, but it was unable because of its nature to make full use of it in the way the West did. The Turkish Historian Aydin Sayili (The Causes of the Decline in Scientific Work in Islam) says that Islam was unable to reconcile itself with the Greek philosophical heritage in the way that Christianity achieved.

Islam looked upon that heritage with suspicion from the beginning. Robert Spencer (Islam Unveiled) acknowledges the debt of the West to the philosophers Averroes, Avicenna and others, but remarks that Avicenna's views according to the Historian of Philosophy Wilhelm Windelband, were 'regarded with jealous eyes by Mohammedan orthodoxy and the scientific movement experienced such violent persecutions in the tenth century that it took refuge in the secret league of 'Pure Brothers''. Avicenna himself was also persecuted.

Death for those who cast Doubt on the Tenets of Mohammed's Revelation

When the Islamic religious reaction set in, articulated by Al Gazali's 'Incoherence of the Philosophers' in which he recommends death for those who argue against the tenets of Islamic theology, it was directed primarily against Greek philosophy, not science, but the linkage was strong, and science was dragged down as well. H. Floris Cohen says of Islamic science (The Scientific Revolution), 'the root cause of (Islam's) decline is to be found in the faith and in the ability of its orthodox upholders to stifle once-flowering science.'

To Islamic Scholar G E von Grunebaum (Islam: Essays in the Nature and Growth of a Cultural Tradition), Islam, unlike Christianity, was never able to accept that scientific research was a means of glorifying God. 'Islamic' achievements occurred in periods and in places where orthodox Islam was relaxed. The misgivings of the scientific elites that their researches were impious led them to acquiesce in Islamic objections.

Again, Philippe Nemo says (What is the West ?) that ' the scientific tradition never took firm hold on Islamic societies. The reason must be sought in religion and the strong grip it has on the muslim mind and muslim presentations of the world.'

Islamic Literalism Closed off Islam

Islam took the view of philosophy and science that it did because of the literalism demanded of its adherents. The Qur'an is claimed to be the literal word of God as dictated to Mohammed. The second verse of Surah 2 declares, 

#2:2 'This is the Book; in it is guidance sure, without doubt, to those who fear Allah'.

 There could therefore be no doubting the Qur'an. Everything worth knowing, it was, and is thought, is to be found in it. As noted above, the period of the flourishing of Islam occurred after a period of huge Islamic territorial gains which brought together learning from a wide variety of non-Islamic sources, including that of the Greeks. It also allowed or forced a temporary relaxation of Islamic attitudes. When this vast area ruled by Islam, stretching from the Atlantic to China began to consolidate to Islam, there was a reversion to the explicit dictates of the religion and the arts and learning withered. Thus, the so –called 'Golden Age' of Islam was the product, not of Islam, but of its absence. Islam's only real contribution was its aggressive expansionism which has characterised it since Mohammed.

Christianity : the Foundation and Core of Western Civilisation

The absence of any significant Islamic contribution to the Civilisationof the West is underlined by the actual, overwhelming nature of the contribution of Christianity, without which indeed there would have been no 'Western Civilisation'.

Unlike Allah in Islam, Jesus wrote nothing. His message as to who he was lies in his Words, his Actions and his Death and Resurrection,not in his Writings. The ChristianScriptures are not the writings of Jesus but an anthology of his remembered sayings and doings. St Paul was the first to state what this meant when he said, 'For our knowledge is imperfect and our prophesy is imperfect.'

So from the first, the church fathers were forced to mull over the implications of the Scriptures, as indeed the writers of the Gospels themselves had done, about who Jesus was in the light of his Resurrection.


Christianity's First great Gift to Western Civilisation: Faith in Reason.

This led to a theology of inference and deduction – of Reason. 'While the other world religions emphasised mystery, from the first, Christianity alone embraced reason and logic as the primary guide to religious truth. Christian faith in reason was influenced by Greek philosophy. But the more important fact is that Greek philosophy had little impact on Greek religions. These remained typical mystery cults.

Similar assumptions concerning the fundamental inexplicability of the gods and the intellectual superiority of introspection dominated all the other world religions. But from early days, the church fathers taught that reason was the supreme gift from God and the means to progressively increase their understanding of scripture and revelation.....Encouraged by the Scholastics and embodied in the great medieval universities founded by the Church, faith in the power of reason infused Western culture..' - Rodney Stark,  'The Victory of Reason'

The Christian Belief in the Rationality of a Personal God and the Goodness of his Creation led to Modern Science in Europe


The Christian faith in reason has led to many intellectual undertakings, not least the rise of Science. 'It is indisputable that modern science emerged in the seventeenth century in Western Europe and nowhere else '– Edward Grant 1996:168.

Why was this? 'My answer to this question is as brief as it is unoriginal:

Christianity depicted God as a rational , responsive dependable and omnipotent being and the universe as his personal creation, thus having a rational, lawful and stable structure, awaiting human comprehension'.- Stark, 'For the Glory of God'.

Alfred North Whitehead, co-author with Bertrand Russell of Principia Mathematica said in a Harvard Lowell lecture in 1922 that shocked Western Intellectuals that the modern scientific method arose in Europe 

'because of the widespread faith in the possibility of science..derivative from medieval theology....To search into Nature could only result in the vindication of the faith in rationality.'

 Whitehead grasped that Christian theology was essential to the rise of science in the West, just as surely as non-Christian theologies had stifled the scientific quest elsewhere. As he explained,

'The greatest contribution of medievalism to the formation of the scientific movement was the inexpugnable belief that... there is a secret, a secret which can be revealed. How has this conviction been so vividly implanted in the European mind? ...it must come from the medieval insistence on the rationality of God, conceived as the personal energy of Jehovah and with the rationality of a Greek philosopher. Every detail was supervised and ordered: the search into nature could only result in the vindication of the faith in rationality.'

 Further, Non- conformist Christian attitudes in Britain to manual labour as a noble calling from God in contrast to the disdain for it elsewhere by educated people greatly assisted the transformation of science into hands-on technology. Christian attitudes to money and to freedom provided the capital without which the Industrial Revolution would have been impossible. Christianity's Second Great Gift to Western Civilisation: The Assumption of Progress

After faith in reason, which Stark calls 'the most significant feature of Western civilisation,' a second great gift of Christianity to the West is its assumption of Progress, which Stark says 'may be the most critical difference between Christianity and all other Religions.

For Islam, the World is in Decline, not Progressing

With exception of Judaism and Christianity, all religions and systems of belief have held the world to be subject to eternally recurring cycles or to a state of sameness. The Greeks thought of the world as at a point in a cycle where it was in decline from a long ago Golden Age. Mohammed is reported to have said, The best generation is my generation, then the one that follows that, then the ones that follow that.'

In contrast Judaism and Christianity conceived of history as culminating in the Millennium. However the Jewish idea of history stresses not progress, but procession, while the idea of progress is profoundly and uniquely manifest in Christianity. That we think of progress at all shows the extent of the influence of Christianity upon us.

Without the idea of progress, it is hard to see how it can exist in any fundamental way.

Further, the Christian commitment to rationality made progress possible, and not only spiritual progress through an increasing knowledge of God either. St Augustine celebrated not only theological progress but earthly, material Progress too. 

Christianity's Third Great Gift: Individualism

A third great gift of Christianity to the West was the rise of individualism. Individuals have of course, always thought about themselves and had their hopes, their fears and everything else that goes to make up an individual. What Christianity gave is the Western sense of individualism, based on the concept that an individual has free will to make choices, including moral choices.

Educated Greeks and Romans were not unfamiliar with the concept of free will but freedom of the will is uniquely fundamental to the Christian faith. Yes, some Protestant sects accepted predestination - that God has foreordained what we do- but for the most part, in Christianity every person is responsible for his or her own soul. St Augustine stressed again and again that while God knows what we freely decide to do, he does not interfere. It is up to the individual freely to accept or reject Jesus' injunction to 'Go and sin no more.'

The Christian idea of the Freedom of the Will is Incompatible with Islamic Fatalism Freedom of the will is a concept which is incompatible with fatalism of the kind to be found in Islam, where everything, including whether or not an individual sins and is doomed to hell or to paradise, or is afflicted, is decreed by God in advance. This fatalism is a source of the dreadful inertia to be found in Islamic societies.

On the other hand, the Christian faith in progress through reason towards the better world of the Kingdom of God activated by love for one's fellows as equally loved by God, underlies the drive belief in a better future of the West and uniquely Christian activism evident in the social and political spheres. This has been responsible for innumerable social and political advances now taken for granted. These include Western Democracy itself, based on respect for individuals and their freedom of conscience. It has been responsible for the fast disappearing particular flavour of social interaction in Britain and elsewhere in the West, where love of neighbour and forgiveness are ideals which have been prized, though often forgotten or ignored.

Allah is Loveless

Despite Qur'anic statements to the contrary, the Book of Islam and the example of Mohammed make it clear that Allah is effectively loveless. There is little that is genuinely 'compassionate' or 'merciful' about Allah 'the compassionate, 'the merciful, 'the wise' as he is described in the Qur'an.

Summing up the Development of Western Civilisation.

Western Civilisation may be summarised making use of the scheme adopted by Philippe Nemo
in his 'What is the West ?', ie an evolutionary unfolding based on its key historical
periods or elements:-

1) The ancient Greek invention of the Polis - the City; liberty under the rule of law, critical enquiry, education. Islam of course could contribute nothing to this.

2) The Roman invention of law, private property, the individual, humanism. Again, Islam could contribute nothing to this.

3) The revolution of the Bible in ethics and its founding role in the idea of History and Progress. Islam's contribution was of course again nil.

4) The achievement of the Middle Ages in synthesising Greece, Rome and Christianity. Scholars in areas ruled by Islam had a role, but not an essential one, in transmitting Classical Learning to the West. While it developed some individual points of philosophical, scientific and mathematical advance it added very little that was fundamentally innovative. Further as has been shown, it was not Islam which was responsible for the 'Golden Age' in territories ruled by Islam, but its absence.

5) The great revolutions fostering liberal democracy which liberated the domains of science, politics and economics, allowing the West gradually to achieve the unrivalled development which gave birth to modernity. These achievements were of and belong to the West and to nobody else.

Islam has contributed nothing of Significance to the West except its Aggression

As we can see from the above, with one exception Islam has contributed little of real significance to the evolution of the West and therefore of the world. That exception is the aggressive expansionism which is written in the teachings of the Qur'an. Islam's role as the perpetual aggressor and rival of the West has helped the West to define itself. Other than that, like other civilisations which are supposed to 'enrich us', Islam has contributed little of real importance because it had and has little to contribute.

What we can learn from Islam?

Is there anything at all that the West can learn from Islam? Yes, there is. While Islam is advancing on all fronts including in Europe, the heartland of its ancient rival and enemy, Western Civilisation is in plain decline. The lesson is that Islam's focus on the spiritual gives it a determination not just to survive but to overcome and dominate – it believes in itself, notwithstanding its utter failure socially, politically, economically, intellectually and artistically..

Stripping the West of its spiritual Core

The West seems set to disappear as a civilisation, notwithstanding its incredible success. Essentially this is because it has lost faith in itself and this in turn is because it has lost faith in its Religion. The very success of Christianity in bringing about material blessings to the West has, at least for the foreseeable future encouraged a materialist attitude which has stripped it of its spiritual foundation.

This is in remarkable contrast to the growth of Christianity in the 'New Christendom' outside the West. Islam, because it has lagged behind the West so much in the evolution to the 'Modern' (in Western terms) has undergone no such stripping but it fears it. This is part of the reason for Islam's schizophrenic attitude to the West. It wants the material benefits of Western Civilisation but fears that they will bring Western secularism with them.

Secular Extreme Liberalism: Cancerous Cells

In the West, the great gifts of Christianity from which Christianity has been removed; Faith in Reason, the idea of Progress in History and Individualism, are called Liberalism. Unrestrained by religion and tradition, these are in the process of destroying Western Civilisation. It is disintegrating before our eyes like a once vital body whose organs are being eaten away by now cancerous cells.

A Materialist Nightmare

Unrestrained Reason and Individualism in the service of 'Progress' are producing a materialist nightmare, denying people the sanctity and dignity of their humanness and their special dignity as being loved by God as his children.This dehumanising is evidenced by for example in the way abortion on demand, is encouraged; by the use of humans as raw material for the genetics industry and in the destruction of the communities and nations in which individuals feel rooted, comfortable and at home.

The Way to Totalitarianism and Emptiness

That way lies totalitarianism and human beings as expendable slaves of the state. Unfettered individualism has transmuted into deep self – centredness, and selfishness which has helped to produce sordid amorality and social alienation. The moral and spiritual vacuity of modern secular Westerns is 'filled' by guzzling Consumerism which dulls but does not extinguishthe aching void of nothingness which lies in the hearts of these people.

They disguise their self-obsession with a nauseating show of shallow sentimentalism which outsources compassion to the state and to charities and is designed only to make them feel good about themselves. No wonder Islam, while tempted by the Western goodies on offer, is afraid.

T S Eliot and what makes a Culture / Civilisation

The dazzling rise of the West under the influence of Christianity, and its decline as its grip has been loosened, points to a highly significant truth seen by T S Eliot (Notes Towards the Definition of a Culture), who identified a Culture (or Civilisation) with its religion. Eliot said, 'No Culture can appear or develop except in relation to a religion... One cannot be preserved without the other'. For that reason, he added, secularism and 'cosmopolitanism' are doomed to failure. 

Jurgen Habermas, the leftist guru, stunned an audience quite recently when he said; 

'Christianity and nothing else, is the ultimate foundation of liberty, conscience, human rights and democracy, the benchmark of Western Civilisation. To this day we have no other options. We continue to nourish ourselves from this source. Everything else is Post-Modern chatter'.

Let us pray that Islam is not our Future

There has never been a successful, lasting, exclusively secular civilisation of any significance, not excluding Confucian China, since Confucianism is the working out in moral terms of ancestor worship. Nor can there be one worthy of the name. So what religion or spiritual course will the civilisation of Britain and the West be based on in the future?

Let us fervently hope (and pray) that, notwithstanding the deep stupidity, ignorance and treachery of our self-hating rulers, it is not as it promises to be, Islam.

(Tim Heydon is the holder of a First Degree in Humanities and Social Science, post graduate degrees in the History of Ideas and Religion / Philosophy, and a post-graduate Diploma in Theology).

Frank Ellis - Reply to Amaka Okechukwu

 

A commentator by the name of Amaka Okechukwu left a comment beneath Fran Ellis's recent open letter "Dr Satoshi Kanazawa, his Research and the Call for his Dismissal" Amaka's comment can be read here

Here is Dr. Ellis's reply to Amaka Okechukwu

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From: Dr Frank Ellis

To: Amaka Okechukwu

Date: 5^th July 2011 A.D.

Re: Your Post to My Open letter to LSE regarding Dr Satoshi Kanazawa

Dear Amaka Okechukwu

Thank you so kindly for taking the time to respond to my open letter to the LSE. Before I address the contents of your post I would like to clarify just who you are. You end your post with ‘Amaka Okechukwu (LSE Alumni)’. I note the use of ‘alumni’, the nominative plural, so does ‘Amaka Okechukwu’ refer to more than one person? Is it the name of some African tribe? If ‘Amaka Okechukwu’ refers to one person, a former student of LSE, then one requires the appropriate nominative singular, alumnus (male) or alumna (female) not the nominative plural (alumni). Or do you claim to be speaking on behalf of others?

You write: ‘Indeed for someone who claims intellectual superiority your open letter simply exposes your ignorance of Dr. Kanazawa’s research and of race issues in general’. You should read what I have written again. As a general consideration when responding to a point that another person makes you need to make sure what that person has written. I make no claims of personal intellectual superiority. Your claim is a straw man. What I do claim - and history and evidence are on my side – is that the achievements of white culture and civilization are vastly superior to anything that has emerged from Sub-Saharan Africa. I have a horrible feeling that in another 100 years time blacks will still be citing white racism and the legacy of colonialism as reasons for their perpetual failure. Nor do I claim to have read and studied all Dr Kanazawa’s research.

You write: ‘no one is against academic freedom regardless of the outcome of the research’. To consider the outcomes you have to have the research and that means that not being ‘against academic freedom’ is insufficient. One has to be actively for academic freedom. This is the great conceptual leap that the white man has made. He realises that he might find certain research outcomes unpleasant or horrible; that they upset what he has always believed to be true but he also realises that truth trumps his being offended or psychologically dislocated. And in any case, the reality is that there are people in universities – administrators, faculty and students – who are against certain research precisely because they fear the outcomes (the truth). In the case of race and IQ research these people see their multicultural utopia fatally undermined. So they hate the people who have destroyed their dream, people like Arthur Jensen, J. Philippe Rushton, Linda Gottfredson, Richard Lynn, Charles Murray and, most recently, Satoshi Kanazawa.

If you believe that researchers and investigators are free to pursue research in race and IQ without their being attacked, denied tenure, bullied, ostracised and being subjected to legal and administrative sanctions, you are pitifully ignorant of what has been happening in, for example, British and American universities over the last forty years; or you have deliberately decided to ignore this persecution. When I drew attention to the low mean IQ of Sub-Saharan Africa – a staggeringly low 70 – the same sort of lumpen student-proletariat and Neo-Marxist faculty who want to see Dr Kanazawa reprimanded or dismissed tried to have me removed from my post at Leeds University. Fortunately, these people failed.

Nor, with regard to Dr Kanazawa, is the issue one of ‘dubious and simply unacceptable scientific methods’, though, as I predicted, that will be the line adopted against Dr Kanazawa in the attempt to remove any accusation that he is being attacked for saying things which some find offensive (or claim to find offensive) and thus that his rights to free speech are being violated. What do you mean by ‘his seemingly racist agenda’? Is his agenda racist, or does it just seem to be racist? To whom does this agenda seem racist, to you? And what exactly is a racist agenda? If a specific policy meets your definition of racism but is based on the truth, is the truth racist?

You refer to a paper published by Dr Kanazawa in 2006. First, if the research was flawed as you claim, do you have any explanation for why the article was published? Why did the editor of the journal and referees not identify the flaws which you claim to have identified in this and the most recent article? Second, even allowing for your assertion that Dr Kanazawa’s research was flawed the basic link between low IQ and poor health outcomes has been replicated many times. One reason why blacks get AIDS at much higher rates than whites and North East Asians is because far too many blacks put the imperatives of immediate sexual gratification before sexual safety. The pursuit of immediate sexual gratification also explains why the incidence of black on white rape is so high. Exercising restraint requires the ability to think ahead, to consider the consequences of having sex with an HIV-infected person. This ability to think ahead, to consider the future is related to IQ: the lower the IQ the greater the present-time orientation; the less planning and thinking ahead. The link between low IQ and poor health outcomes is something found in all racial groups but given the considerably lower mean black IQ, the negative health outcomes are much greater among blacks. This pattern can be observed worldwide.

It is not clear to me that I have claimed LSE operates a policy of affirmative action. I suggest you reread the relevant paragraph again. I encountered comments attacking Dr Kanazawa’s article on American as well as UK blogs. Now, American universities, businesses and the entire sector of federal employment most certainly do pursue a policy of denying employment to, and otherwise persecuting, high-IQ whites so as to make room for low-IQ and incompetent blacks and other non-whites. Incidentally, this is not a ‘seemingly racist agenda’: it is an explicit, public, federally-mandated, well documented, vicious, anti-white racist agenda. We have no such official policy in my country but one does see examples of blacks resident in this country – my country - rewarded and fêted because some of my misguided fellow countrymen seem to think that blacks and other non-whites are the bearers of some great gift (diversity). These blacks are beneficiaries of what I would call psychological and cultural affirmative action. They are always given the benefit of the doubt in politically correct circles such as the BBC and the universities no matter what they say or write.

You are so kind to recommend books about the state of the African economy. The sole exception to sub-Saharan squalor and savagery was, of course, white-run South Africa. Unfortunately, now that the terrorist Mandela and his communist-terrorist gang are in power, South Africa will eventually join the ranks of Third-World squalor and savagery. Indeed, that process started in 1994 and is now irreversible. As for economic success in Africa one can, of course, look to Nigeria, that bastion of fiscal and economic prudence; a country so rich in oil that its citizens enjoy a standard of living way beyond the dreams of wretched whites; a country famed for its honesty and its lack of corruption; a country whose leader has brought peace and contentment to his people merely by the simple expedient of calling himself “Good Luck Jonathan”, thereby demonstrating to the white man that black magic really does work. Africa abounds in natural resources. If Africans were half-decent economists they would not need to beg and demand money and other resources from the white man. I thought Africans were every bit as competent as the white man. Is it not about time then that Africans stopped snivelling and whining about racism and started to deliver the goods instead of thrusting a begging bowl in the white man’s face?

As for ‘a different perspective to the savagery’ then savagery undoubtedly comes in different forms in Africa: Mugabe murders and plunders the white farmers and in the process creates famine; ANC-sponsored savagery and genocide leads to the torture, rape, mutilation and murder of white farmers; and in Liberia General “Butt Naked” and his boy thugs kill babies, eat their body parts, drink their blood, snort cocaine and slaughter their fellow blacks and so it goes on and on, and on. Rwanda, the Congo, Sudan, Somalia, Uganda, Kenya, Swaziland, Botswana, Ghana, Chad and, of course, Nigeria are also beacons of learning and enlightenment, models to be emulated.

The great German philosopher, Immanuel Kant, one of the founding fathers of the Enlightenment, called on his fellow Europeans to have the courage to know, to see things as they were. With this in mind, it is time for the white man - or at least a certain type of white - to stop lying about Africa; time to stop trying to destroy people like Satoshi Kanazawa; time for both honest and honourable blacks and whites to face the truth about what Africa is, about what it can never be. Then and only then, will it be possible to save Africans from themselves – if the white man can be bothered to expend any more effort on this task – and above all to stop and to reverse, in the first instance, the racial, physical and cultural dispossession of my country by mass, non-white immigration.

Yours sincerely

Frank Ellis 

Irania Food worker jailed for abusing 18 under aged girls

Homayon Narouzzad and fast food shop where he worked

A fast food shop worker who sexually abused 18 girls was today jailed for four years.

Iranian national Homayon Narouzzad preyed on the girls, all aged between 12 and 15, while working at the Family Guy takeaway shop in Whitefield, Bury, Greater Manchester.

The 34-year-old lived in a flat above the shop and after befriending one girl, 13, got her to act as his ‘pimp’ by inviting other schoolgirls to his address, Bolton Crown Court heard.

One of the girls abused by Narouzzad said she wanted to kill herself

News report

UPDATE

Three Asian men and a white thing accused of conspiracy to rape teenaged girls -  News Report
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Hat Tip: Runic

Son finds parents dead at their farm

An elderly South African couple were murdered on their Heidelberg farm on Saturday morning, police report that a towing service called the couple's son after their car was found overturned on a roadside near Vereeniging.

The son went to his parent's Houtpoort farm and found the body of his 60-year-old mother.  The elderly lady had been tied up and subjected to multiple stab wounds.

He found his father, also with multiple stab wounds, dead on the bedroom floor.

Although the house appeared to have been ransacked only a rifle and some electrical appliances were stolen.

Source

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Hat Tip: Jenny W

A worse truth hidden in the figures

The headlines in Today's papers and on TV announced that the results of a recent investigation had revealed that 28% of those involved in the sexual grooming of young, and predominantly white children, on our streets are Asian, more than “one in four”.  The report was widely accompanied by predictable urgings from politicians, police and media multicultural advocates that we should not place too much significance on the ethnicity of those involved.

However, are the headlines themselves actively under reporting the true scale of Asian involvement in this crime?

The report identified a total of 1,217 suspects, however, in the case of a significant number of those (464) the ethnicity of the perpetrator is recorded as "unknown", therefore they can not be included in any meaningful assessment of the composition of offenders. Every media outlet had attempted to pretend that those of "unknown race" must all be white, but the figures do not support that assumption.

The ethnicity is known in the case of 758 offenders and of these 346 are Asian (just under 46% of the total).

Given that those whose ethnicity is known is the only sample upon which the racial make up of offenders can be assessed, and as a further 40 of those who’s race was identified were either black or Chinese, the headlines could, with even greater accuracy have announced that "Less than half of all child sexual grooming suspects are white" (On the basis that whites who make up just under 90% of the population, amount for only 48.5% of those who’s ethnicity has been established)      

Even if all those whose race is currently unknown turned out to be white, Asians, who according to official figures make up less than 6% of the population, would be massively over represented in the figures.  However, as whites make up less than half of the known offenders, how likely is it they make up 100%, or even the majority, of the unknowns?

Multicultural advocates argue that the research is "poor and incomplete" and, therefore, misleading, but this is only true in that the manner in which it is being presented significantly under represents the disproportionate levels of offending on the part of non-white (primarily south Asian) offenders, whilst at the same time dishonestly over-represent the numbers of white offenders.

Another factor of note is the absence of any figures relating to Arabs, Turks, Albanians and East Europeans amongst the offenders. In view of the degree to which such groups feature amongst sex criminals, this inevitably leads one to speculate whether the researchers have followed the example of the FBI and included them under the single category “white”, so as to inflate the number they can pass off as native Britons.

The media will lie and lie and twist and squirm, however, the glaring fact is the research suggests that native white Britons are at least twenty times less likely to be involved in the disgusting crime of child sexual grooming than are the mass ranks of newcomers to our country.

Who will notice?

In advance of tomorrow's mass strike by Public servants, apparently immigration workers will be the first to walk out, do you really think it will make much difference?

Poll - 60% of Jamaicans believe Jamaica would be better off as a British colony

and this is supposed to be a "shock result"

The end of an era for Zimbabwe's last white farmers?

Click here for the Telegraph report

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Hat Tip: Bryan K

Disrespecting the Dead Kafir

A disturbing video at the Gates of Vienna - click here

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Hat Tip Runic

Biggest trial since Nuremberg completely ignored by MSM

Nationalists over 50 will I am sure remember the atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge in Cambogia during the 1970′s.

It’s a shame that school children are being kept in the dark about this heinous crime against humanity, but maybe not so surprising as the Marxists who run the education system are in denial about any atrocities committed by communists.

Continue reading at the London Patriot

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Thanks to Runic

The Duke Lacrosse Three

There have been some recent comments to two linked articles I posted in 2009 Balancing Prosecutions- Rape, Lies  and Academia and Balancing Prosecutions - revisiting Duke Lacrosse, which most readers may have missed unless they subscribed to those threads, but which I felt deserved a wider readership. The Duke Lacrosse case was a very important event because the forces ranged against the white race, and in particular white males, exposed their true agenda.  They bared their teeth and, albeit only briefly were forced into the open, we saw their nakedness, we saw their hate, and it was an ugly sight.

The media, the law and academia attempted the blood sacrifice of three innocent young men on the alter of their genocidal agenda, they almost succeeded, but for once they were caught in the act.  

It happened in America, but it could have happened anywhere in the besieged western world.  We should remember the Duke Lacrosse case, because it shows us how much they hate us, and what we are really up against.  This is the reason I return to it so often:

The following comments were received earlier this week

Anonymous: June 24 16:23

Mangum, the hoaxer, was charged with attempted murder in 2010.

In 2011 she did manage to murder someone.

"It's Crystal Magnum. THE Crystal Magnum," he told the emergency operator. "I told him she was trouble from the damn beginning."

Much of the media still cannot be bothered to get her name right.

She'd been involved with the courts before. One night in 2002, she lifted a taxi driver's keys while giving him a lap dance. With a blood alcohol level twice the legal limit, Mangum then stole the cab. Police chased her through the city; she was eventually arrested, but not before nearly running over a cop as he approached her car.

 At 17, she told police that three men had raped her when she was 14, but the case was dropped when she didn't follow through with the authorities. Her father later told reporters that he didn't believe that she'd been raped then.

Also of interest is Tara Levicy.

Tara Levicy, the nurse who reported on the condition of Crystal Mangum after the alleged rape, shrugged off the absence of physical evidence of assault and the lack of lacrosse-player DNA with a feminist slogan: "Rape is about power, not passion."

She was also a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner in training. She was not qualified to do the job she was asked to do.

For example she could not explain why if the perpetrators had not used condoms she had none of their semen in her but she had semen from other men.

False rape claims are not about justice but power.

Michael Nifong, whose parents had gone to Duke, was known for his hatred of Duke University and its students. According to Patsy McDonald, a law school classmate, he also had a "deep-seated antipathy to lacrosse players."

The Lacrosse season was cancelled and the coach was sacked before being reinstated.

Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann are indicted for the sexual assault and kidnapping of Crystal Mangum. They turn themselves into authorities at the back of the Durham County Jail. They were handcuffed and driven 15 yards to the front of the jail, where they were then paraded in front of waiting camera crews.

Richard Brodhead makes an appearance at the Durham Chamber of Commerce meeting, two days after Reade Seligmann and Collin Finnerty are arrested. WRAL-TV quotes Brodhead as saying, “If our students did what is alleged, it is appalling to the worst degree. If they didn’t do it, whatever they did is bad enough." So not committing a crime is .. a crime?

A black guy sacked from a TV programme (was it because he did not toe the line?) and Selena Roberts (who was part of the misleaders) got his job.

How many of these rentamob protesters had heard of Rakheem Bolton?

Where were the slutwalkers, the sloganeers, the group of 88, and other "concerned citizens" complaining that someone said that his victim "made him rape her"?

"Rape is about power, not passion." (But will be ignored when white devil woman is the victim?)

Anonymous: June 25th 11:18 

"so called feminists, for whom the protection of women was clearly not a priority."

As we see in the Hilaire S. case in Texas where nobody has criticised a school for kicking a cheerleader off the squad who refused to cheer for her rapist.

Selena Roberts et al must have been very busy not to notice this.

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The three part Balancing Prosecutions series can be read here.

TRYING TO PULL IT ALL TOGETHER. - By Mike Wilson

I have posted regular blog contributor Mike Wilson's latest article at Sarah Maid of Albion II, where it can be read by clicking here.

The reason I have decided to publish it on the second site is due to the controversial and sensitive nature of the subject matter, which readers will appreciate when they see the image accompanying the essay.

Mike sent me the article earlier in the week, and I have taken some time to think about it before I decided to publish it.  However, it is an interesting article, and in the interests of free speech I think it deserves to be published.

By publishing Mike Wilson's article I do not endorse the views he has expressed, neither do I reject them by putting them on the second site.

I have not taken a view on the issues in question and do not know whether the documents Mike refers to are genuine or not.  This is why I felt it necessary to place the article in context.

Please click here to read Mike Wilsons essay "Trying to Pull it All Together".