You all know what happened on Friday the 13th, for the second time this year, Islamofascists (a bit more descriptive than the "neutral" term Islamist) murdered their way across Paris. This time instead of "just" being offended by cartoons or people being Jewish, they were "offended" by people at a concert, at a football match, at a restaurant.
France has responded by bombing Raqqa, capital of "Islamic State", because as the Socialist President of France, Francois Hollande pointed out, France is at war. The attacks were claimed by ISIS, and for now it appears they were at least incited by, if not funded and armed (and partly manned) by ISIS. It is war, against Western civilisation, against the modern, tolerant, diverse society of people who simply LOVE LIFE. For that is what Islamofascists (and indeed all totalitarians) despise for the people they enslave.
However, the West is fundamentally weakened in response. Because the dominant philosophical influence in the West is one of self-hatred, guilt and identity politics driven cowardice of the left, and the opposition to this is dominated by "conservatives" who are so tied-up in philosophical contradictions and embrace of the guilt and self-loathing expounded by the left, that they are impotent, and the only other discourse that occasionally emerges is kneejerk racism - i.e. those who just want to deport all Muslims.
Brendan O'Neill in Spiked has written about the hand-wringing apologists. The whole article is worth a read, he are excerpts:
It’s in the already emerging handwringing about a possible Islamophobic response
to the attacks, with observers fretting that ‘there could be a
backlash, largely driven by confusion and anxiety’. This has become
routine after every terror attack: the first response of concerned
observers is not with the actual victims of actual terrorism but with possible
victims of a moronic mob uprising that exists entirely in their
imaginations. This, too, speaks to a profound self-loathing in the West,
where the media and political elite’s fear is always how their own
societies, and what they see as their inscrutable fellow citizens, a
‘confused and anxious’ mass, will behave. They condemn the terrorism,
yes — but they fundamentally fear and loathe the societies they live in,
the people they live among.
it is precisely this response, this moral disarray in the modern West,
which acts as a green light to terrorist groups or individuals to punish
us. It’s an invitation to assault. The interplay between the
self-loathing of the modern West and the nihilism of Islamist outfits is
striking. They are a brutal, violent expression of a disgust for the
modern world that has its origins in the universities, political circles
and media elites of the West itself as much as in volatile, unstable
territories in the Islamic world. Indeed, many of the attacks in the
West over the past 15 years have been carried out by people either born
in or educated in the West.
