[Grem] Multiculturalism and the leftist-islamist threat around the globe / W. Kilpatrick (US)

[Emoke Greschik]

August 18, 2015 Multiculturalism and the Rise of Domestic Terrorism William
Kilpatrick <http://www.crisismagazine.com/author/william-kilpatrick>
http://www.crisismagazine.com/2015/multiculturalism-and-the-rise-of-domestic-terrorism
[image:
Abdulazeez Shooter CNN]

*In a speech launching a five-year plan* to combat homegrown terrorism, UK
Prime Minister David Cameron
<http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/07/19/uk-prime-minister-david-cameron-offers-plan-to-counter-attract-extremism-to/>
said that “*Many people born in Britain have little attachment to the
country and that makes them vulnerable to radicalization.”*

It’s not as though Muslims who live in Britain don’t eat fish and chips or
root for their local football club. But, apparently, *a not insignificant
number **can indulge in British pastimes and still feel unconnected to the
country they live in.* In her 2006 book *Londonistan*, Melanie Phillips
<http://www.amazon.com/Londonistan-Melanie-Phillips/dp/1594031975>
described how a separate and alien culture had developed in England as a
result of Britain’s experiment in multiculturalism—an experiment that had
been fostered by British elites in media, government, and even in churches.

The problem was, said Phillips, that *in order to make room for other
cultures, the elites had hollowed out their own culture so that “British
society presented a moral and philosophical vacuum that was ripe for
colonization by predatory Islamism*.” She laid much of the blame on
educators:

The British education system simply ceased transmitting either the values
or the story of the nation to successive generations, delivering instead
the message that truth was an illusion and that the nation and its values
were whatever anyone wanted them to be.

*A similar process has been underway for a long time in the U.S.* For many
years, *America has been deeply invested in the same multicultural
experiment of elevating other cultures by denigrating its own.* Our
educational, media, and entertainment establishments have subjected young
people to decades of anti-American, anti-Western, and anti-Christian
conditioning. As it turned out,* the flip side of “tolerance for diversity”
was intolerance for one’s own culture and the things that make it
distinctive.*

The result? As Robert Spencer
<http://www.amazon.com/Religion-Peace-Christianity-Islam-Isnt/dp/1596985151/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1425448110&sr=1-2&keywords=Religion+of+peace%3F>
observed, *“people who are ashamed of their culture will not defend it.*” *Such
people might even feel that attacks on our country are justified by our
history of slavery, racism, colonialism, and imperialism.* Still others
will feel justified in carrying out the attacks.* In England, the police
are now uncovering on average one jihadist plot per day.*

The situation is not yet as desperate* in America, *but we seem
nevertheless to be generating a steady supply of *homegrown terrorists*. On
the surface, they *blend in with the culture. *Major Nidal Hasan was an
Army psychiatrist, the Tsarnaev brothers in Boston were into sports and
school, and Mohammod Abdulazeez, the Chattanooga shooter, seemed in many
respects to be the all-American boy. On the outside, they appeared to be
ordinary Americans. *On the inside* *they were* more like the pod people
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pod_People_%28Invasion_of_the_Body_Snatchers%29#Invasion_of_the_Body_Snatchers_.281956_film.29>
in *Invasion of the Body Snatchers*—*aliens with alien ambitions*.

The worrisome thing is, our educational system, along with other
institutions of cultural formation, seems to be on course to *creating a
whole nation of *pod people—*people with little attachment to their country
or countrymen.*

*This detachment can take three forms.* In some cases, individuals turn
away from involvement in their culture to *self-absorption.* To assuage the
loneliness of the unconnected self, *they might turn to drugs or
pornography, or serial sex. * Except for the world of pop entertainment,
they are unconscious of the larger world. Like the clueless young people
interviewed on the Watters’ World segment of the *O’Reilly Factor*, *they
might be unsure who the first president was, in which century the Civil War
was fought, or who John Kerry is. None of that seems important to them*. If
a group of bearded men wearing long robes and speaking Arabic moved into
the apartment above, they’d probably think, “that’s cool” and light up
another joint.

*The second form that the detachment takes* is a transfer of allegiance
from one’s own history and culture to *a neo-Marxist perspective.* Thanks
in large part to our educational system, a growing segment of our
population has come to *look upon its own culture as the root of all the
world’s evils.* Unlike the self-absorbed detachers,* they are politically
engaged, but their political aims have to do with undermining traditional
society and radically transforming it*. *The “Occupy Wall Street” movement
is representative of this group.*

*The third group*, the one that Prime Minister Cameron is primarily
concerned about,* is composed of those whose first loyalty is to the
ummah—the worldwide community of Muslim believers.* *They may live in the
UK, France, or the U.S., but their allegiance lies elsewhere.* They may
have always felt this way, or they may have undergone a conversion. The
majority in this category pose no direct threat to the larger society; they
simply prefer to lead their lives separate from it. These separate
communities do, however, provide the soil in which the radicals take root.
They are, to use another metaphor, *the sea in which the jihadis swim. *The
radical Muslims themselves are in some ways similar to the anti-Western
Westerners who repudiate the Western tradition. *The radicals not only
reject Western culture, they see it as evil and they want to bring it down.*

> Because they have the same goals—the destruction of Western and Christian
> civilization—*the members of the second group **often act as enablers of
> Muslim radicals.* I’ve written before about *the leftist-Islamist
> alliance
> <http://www.crisismagazine.com/2014/double-trouble-the-leftist-threat-and-the-islamist-threat>—the
> leftist professors who support the cause of Hamas, the left-leaning
> foundations which finance the “Islamophobia” campaign, and the left-leaning
> politicians who support the Muslim Brotherhood.* But sometimes the
> alliance goes beyond moral and financial support and manifests itself in
> actual violence. The best example of this are* the antifa or
> “antifascist” gangs
> <http://www.crisismagazine.com/2015/new-jews-new-nazis-new-communists-old-hatreds>
> * in Europe who use brownshirt tactics to* suppress any protest against
> Islamization or the leftist policies—such as mass immigration—which promote
> Islamization*. Numerous anti-Islamization rallies and marches in Europe
> have been broken up by much larger groups of young antifas throwing punches
> and sometimes bricks and bottles.

As befits two movements with global ambitions,* the leftist-Islamist
alliances are cropping up all over the planet*. In Australia recently, an
organization called Reclaim Australia held a series of rallies to protest
Islamization. They were met by violent “anti-racist” counter-demonstrators,
some of them wearing face coverings. Here’s an account of one such
encounter in Melbourne
<http://gatesofvienna.net/2015/07/who-rules-melbourne/#more-36865>:

I made my way onto Spring Street, where there was an even larger mob, maybe
500 or 600 people, some with megaphones… There were a few late comers or
stragglers attempting to get through to the ‘Reclaim Australia’ section. It
was futile. As soon as anyone in the mob identified a person as a
Reclaimer, a large horde of 20 or 40 of the mob would rush to them, and in
many incidents I witnessed, assault them, knock them to the ground, and
kick them on the ground. It became a mob mentality. Anyone with an
Australian flag had it stolen from them and was assaulted. Almost every
assault I witnessed was by twenty or more on one.

So if you’re worried about the advance of global jihad, it’s not just the
young Muslim browsing radical sites on the Internet that you need to worry
about. You also have to worry about *all those college grads who majored in
Marxism and Peace Studies, and are dead set on ridding the world of
“racists” and “fascists.”*

By comparison, the first group of detachers—those who are mainly into
themselves—seems the least dangerous of the three. That’s generally true.
On the other hand, the self-absorbed sometimes become disenchanted with the
pursuit of self and seek to find their identity in a larger cause.
Sometimes they end up in church, sometimes in the radical left, and
sometimes in radical Islam. Judging by his blog posts
<http://therightscoop.com/revealed-read-the-full-blog-entries-of-muslim-terrorist-muhammad-youssef-abdulazeez/>,
the Chattanooga jihadist, Mohammod Youssuf Abdulazeez seems to have
traveled this route. Having tried out drugs, drink, fast cars, and other
vain pursuits, he finally found a purpose in jihad.

However, the main threat posed by those who seek constant diversion is that
they are too distracted to notice the larger world and the dangers lurking
in it. They are oblivious to anything outside their own pleasure zone.
Thus, they can be of little help in resisting* the twin threat posed by
leftism and Islamism. *The same can be said to a lesser degree of those we
might call *the semi-detached *(or semi-attached, if you prefer). *Such
people don’t reject Western and Christian values, but they are not actively
engaged in promoting or defending them. They don’t hate America, but they
are too busy earning a living or raising a family to think much about
existential threats to their society*. Thanks to years of relentless
indoctrination from the schools and the media, their links to core cultural
principles are tenuous. *The result is a certain passivity* concerning
events over which they supposedly have no control: “Ho-hum, I see there’s
been another jihad attack. I hope the authorities will do something about
it.”

An individual’s will to resist tyranny, whether of the leftist or Islamic
variety, depends to a large extent on the strength of his
attachments—particularly attachments to family, church, and country. But
the liberal state does everything it can to weaken those ties. And once the
ties that bind are slackened sufficiently, it’s difficult to care strongly
about anything.* If the current attacks on marriage, family, religion, and
patriotism—up until recently the main glue of society—are as successful as
the social engineers hope, there will soon be nothing left worth fighting
for.*

Which raises a question: What happens when the leaders of a society are
themselves detached from that society? What happens, for instance, when the
leaders of the U.S. government begin to see themselves not as
representatives of the American people but as members of a worldwide order
of global elites—a sort of non-religious “ummah”?

There was a brief controversy a while back when former New York mayor Rudy
Giuliani raised the question by suggesting that President Obama did not
love America. That line of inquiry didn’t go very far because it was
quickly put beyond the pale by those who control the levers of media. Yet
there is very little evidence that Obama does love his country, and the
same could be said for many others in government. Like the pod people, they
know what they are supposed to say in order to assuage people’s suspicions.
But in pod-people fashion, they have been busy hollowing out the old
culture and replacing it with alien institutions and strange new
“traditions”: gender-neutral schools, a transgendered military, a social
justice warrior class, and a radical reconstruction of marriage. At the
same time, the governing classes both in Europe and the U.S. have been
introducing actual aliens (in the technical sense of the word) into their
nations. In some places, especially those that favor Muslim refugees and
turn away Christians, this movement of peoples is beginning to look less
like immigration and more like colonization. But, of course, colonization
is what the pod people are all about.

If some of our leaders seem strangely detached from concerns over the
safety, security, and integrity of our society, it may be a sign that the
pod people are already in our midst.

Tagged as Islamization <http://www.crisismagazine.com/tags/islamization>,
Multiculturalism <http://www.crisismagazine.com/tags/multiculturalism>, Radical
Islam <http://www.crisismagazine.com/tags/radical-islam>, Terrorism
<http://www.crisismagazine.com/tags/terrorism>
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[image: William Kilpatrick]By William Kilpatrick
<http://www.crisismagazine.com/author/william-kilpatrick>

William Kilpatrick taught for many years at Boston College. He is the
author of several books about cultural and religious issues, including
*Psychological
Seduction; Why Johnny Can’t Tell Right From Wrong;* and Christianity, Islam
and Atheism: The Struggle for the Soul of the West
<http://www.amazon.com/Christianity-Islam-Atheism-Struggle-Soul/dp/158617696X>.
His articles have appeared in numerous publications, including *Catholic
World Report, National Catholic Register, Aleteia, Saint Austin Review,
Investor’s Business Daily,* and *First Things*. His work is supported in
part by the Shillman Foundation. For more on his work and writings, visit
his website, turningpointproject.com
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