tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7486692856642304444.post5492934361561997198..comments2024-03-04T16:15:23.048-08:00Comments on Stop Islamic Conquest: The Counterjihad in SpainYankee Doodlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10359740268842861707noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7486692856642304444.post-66453669205906049742007-08-26T22:47:00.000-07:002007-08-26T22:47:00.000-07:00Europe refuses to learn from its own history, the ...Europe refuses to learn from its own history, the failure and danger of appeasement.LELhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14973177230144550659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7486692856642304444.post-76449545789036154442007-08-26T05:32:00.000-07:002007-08-26T05:32:00.000-07:00Very interesting story you tell, Aurora, and most ...Very interesting story you tell, Aurora, and most excellent analysis.<BR/><BR/>There have been issues here in the West that have needed to be addressed. There exists racism and sexism, although the situation is better now than it was say, 40 years ago.<BR/><BR/>However, the "counterculture" that got its firm foundation during the 1960's protesting the Vietnam War, protesting racial and gender discrimination, and so on, morphed into something that was just plain "against" -- it defined itself as against whatever traditional culture had to offer, often spinning and misinterpreting traditional culture to demonize it.<BR/><BR/>The result is that these people stand for nothing, other than that they agree with whoever our society's current enemies may be.<BR/><BR/>One result of that is that legitimate concerns about racial and gender discrimination get drowned out in the cacophony of idiocy.<BR/><BR/>Another result is that the West's moral and spiritual foundation is shaken, and, as you point out, cracked in places, and we are vulnerable to anyone with a firm agenda that is absent self-doubts -- i.e., jihadist ideology.<BR/><BR/>The situation is in <EM>some</EM> ways parallel to Germany after the First World War; Germany first became somewhat hedonistic, then disorganized and chaotic. Traditional culture, especially in Germany, appreciates order, and was vulnerable to the ordered goose-stepping of a militarizied political party that promised to restore order and glory to Germany.<BR/><BR/>Such parallels do not bode well for the West, especially Europe: Europeans stand before two doors, one labeled "Damned if you do" and the other "Damned if you don't" and behind them is the devil with a pitchfork, saying: "Come on, come on, it's one or the other."<BR/><BR/>An excellent comment, Aurora.Yankee Doodlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10359740268842861707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7486692856642304444.post-71790002139295119472007-08-26T04:06:00.000-07:002007-08-26T04:06:00.000-07:00Interesting post and very true. I've had some Spa...Interesting post and very true. I've had some Spanish students over the past month or two and got into some interesting discussions with them. The young woman is a rabid feminist. She dislikes Hollywood movies (who can blame her) but she prefers the movies of a Spanish filmmaker who promotes all men as garbage. His latest movie has only women except for one man who gets killed by the women in the movie. I asked her why all men were bad and she paused and was at a loss for words (as several of the boys were sitting around listening in). There is an extreme anti-male/strident feminist feeling in the culture apparently (which may account for the feminized appeasement approach). One of the boys told me that Spain is riven with huge cracks to its very foundation. Its morals are completely out of control and it is vacuous and desperate but has no idea how to fix itself. No wonder they are so open to the more 'masculine' incursion of dynamic (if diabolical) Islam.Aurorahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11509304394298391648noreply@blogger.com