[Grem] !!!! a must-read: The West's PC Dictatorship

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The West's Politically Correct Dictatorship It Has Blinded Us to the Real
Danger: Radical Islam


* by Giulio Meotti
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   The brave work of the artist Mimsy was removed from London's Mall
   Galleries after the British police defined it "inflammatory."
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   In France, schools teach children that Westerners are Crusaders,
   colonizers and "bad." In their efforts to justify the repudiation of France
   and its Judeo-Christian culture, schools have fertilized the soil in which
   Islamic extremism develops and flourishes unimpeded.
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   No one can deny that France is under Islamist siege. Last week, France's
   intelligence service discovered another terror plot. But what is the
   priority of the Socialist government? Restricting freedom of expression for
   pro-life "militants."
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   Under this politically correct dictatorship, Western culture has
   established two principles. First, freedom of speech can be restricted any
   time someone claims that an opinion is an "insult." Second, there is a
   vicious double standard: minorities, especially Muslims, can freely say
   whatever they want against Jews and Christians.
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   There is no better ally of Islamic extremism than this sanctimony of
   liberal censorship: both, in fact, want to suppress any criticism of Islam,
   as well as any proud defense of the Western Enlightenment or
   Judeo-Christian culture.
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   Twitter, one of the vehicles of this new intolerance, even formed a
   "Trust and Safety Council." It brings to mind Saudi Arabia's "Council for
   the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice."
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   Under this political correctness, the only "win-win" is for political
   Islam.

It might look like a golden age for free speech
<http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21699909-curbs-free-speech-are-growing-tighter-it-time-speak-out-under-attack>:
more than a billion tweets, Facebook posts and blogs every day. But beneath
this surface, freedom of expression is dramatically retreating.

Students at the City University of London
<https://www.theguardian.com/education/cityuniversity>, home to one of
Britain's most respected schools of journalism, voted to ban
<https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/nov/18/city-university-students-vote-for-campus-ban-sun-daily-mail-express>
three newspapers from its campus: *The Sun*, *Daily Mail* and *Express*.
Their "crime", according to the approved motion, is to have published
stories against migrants, "Islamophobic" articles, and "scapegoating the
working classes that they so proudly claim to represent." City University,
supposedly a place dedicated to openness and questioning, became the first
Western educational institution to vote for censorship, and ban "right wing
newspapers."

The filmmaker David Cronenberg called this self-censorship, after the
massacre at *Charlie Hebdo*: "a weird, serpentine political correctness
<http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/05/03/gaiman-bechdel-among-new-table-hosts-at-pen-gala-replacing-writers-protesting.html>."
It is one of the most lethal ideological poisons of the 21st century. It is
not only closed-minded and ridiculous, it makes us blind to the radical
Islam that is undermining our mental and cultural defenses.

The countless attacks by Muslim extremists testify that the multicultural
world to which we have been led is a fiction. Political correctness simply
encourages the Islamists to raise the stakes to win the war they are
advancing. The resulting tension has been fed by the Western elites with
their sense of guilt for "colonialism" in the Third World.

"ISIS Threaten Sylvania
<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2981584/MICE-threatening-Sylvania-Artist-mocks-terror-group-jihadists-cuddly-animals.html>"
-- an art exhibition featuring cute little stuffed animals picnicking on a
lawn, and unaware of other cute little stuffed animal terrorists carrying
assault rifles on a knoll just behind them -- is the work of the artist
known as Mimsy (she hides her identity). The protagonists of this series of
light box tableaux are a family of stuffed animal dolls that inhabits an
enchanted valley. Gunmen, dressed like the Islamic State henchmen, strike
the innocent inhabitants of the valley, at school and on the beach, at a
picnic or in a gay pride parade. It looks like an updated version of *Maus*
by Art Spiegelman, a graphic novel depicting Nazi cats and Jewish mice
during the Holocaust.

Those wishing to see this artistic panel at the Mall Galleries
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/11449584/ISIS-Are-you-brave-enough-to-laugh-at-Isil-You-should-be.html>,
in London, will now have to console themselves with the work of Jamie
McCartney, "The Great Wall Vagina," nine meters of female genitalia, less
important and less provocative.

The brave work of Mimsy, after the British police defined it "inflammatory
<http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/art-show-organisers-remove-work-satirising-isis-after-policing-costs-soar-a6668411.html>,"
has been eliminated from the program of this London cultural event. Its
organizers informed the gallery owners that if they wanted to put it on
display, they would have to shell out ÂŁ36,000 ($46,000) to "secure the
venue" for the six days of the exhibition.

The brave work of the artist Mimsy, satirizing the brutality of ISIS, was
removed from London's Mall Galleries after the British police defined it
"inflammatory." (Image source: Mimsy)

Under this politically correct dictatorship, Western culture has
established two principles. First, freedom of speech can be restricted any
time someone claims that an opinion is an "insult." Second, there is a
vicious double standard: minorities, especially Muslims, can freely say
whatever they want against Jews and Christians.

And so it came to pass that the most famous Spanish football team, Real
Madrid
<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/article-2853930/Real-Madrid-remove-Christian-cross-official-crest-UAE-sponsorship-deal.html>,
removed the cross from its crest after a commercial deal with Gulf emirate
of Abu Dhabi. The Christian symbol was quickly ditched to please
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/11/28/spains-real-madrid-drops-cross-from-logo-to-appease-gulf-sponsors/>
the Islamic Gulf sponsors.

Perhaps soon the West will be soon asked to change the flag of the European
Union -- twelve yellow stars on a blue background -- because it contains a
Christian message in code. Arsène Heitz, who designed it in 1955, was
inspired by the Christian iconography of the Virgin Mary with a crown and
twelve stars on her head: what a heartless "Western Christian supremacist"
message!

Political correctness is also having a huge impact on big business:
Kellogg's
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/11/30/kellogg-citing-values-joins-growing-list-of-companies-that-pledged-to-stop-advertising-in-breitbart-news/>
withdrew advertising from Breitbart for being "not aligned with our values"
and Lego
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/11/12/lego-criticised-after-dropping-commercial-deal-with-daily-mail/>
dropped advertising with *Daily Mail*, to mention just two recent cases.

It should not cause alarm if companies want to decide where to advertise
their products, but it is very alarming when it happens due to "ideology."
We have never read about companies abandoning a newspaper or website
because it was too liberal or "leftist." If the Arab-Islamic regimes were
follow these views, why should they not ask their companies to stop
advertising in Western newspapers that publish articles critical of Islam,
or which publish pictures of half-naked women?

Libraries on US campuses are now putting "trigger warnings" on works of
literature: students are advised, for example, that Ovid's sublime
*Metamorphosis* "justifies" rape. Stanford University
<http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1988/1/22/stanford-faculty-debates-teaching-of-western/>
even managed to exclude Dante, Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Shakespeare and
other giants of Western culture from the academic curricula in 1988:
supposedly many of their masterpieces are "racist, sexist, reactionary,
repressive." This is the vocabulary of Western surrender before
totalitarian Islamic fundamentalism.

France has removed great figures, such as Charlemagne, Henry IV, Louis XIV
and Napoleon, from schools, to replace them, for instance, with studying
the history of Mali and other African kingdoms. At school, children are
taught that Westerners are Crusaders, colonizers and "bad." In purportedly
justifying the repudiation of France and its Judeo-Christian culture,
schools have fertilized the soil in which Islamic extremism develops and
flourishes unimpeded.

It is a question of priorities: no one can deny that France is under
Islamist siege. Last week, France's intelligence service discovered another
terror plot. But what is the priority of the Socialist government?
Restricting freedom of expression for pro-life "militants." The *Wall
Street Journal* called it "France's War on Anti-Abortion Speech
<http://www.wsj.com/articles/frances-war-on-anti-abortion-speech-1480552815>."
France already has one of the most permissive and liberal bodies of
legislation on abortion. But political correctness makes one blind and
ideological. "In four and a half years, the Socialists have reduced our
freedom of expression and attacked public freedoms," commented Riposte
LaĂŻque
<http://ripostelaique.com/loi-rossignol-les-socialistes-aux-abois-revent-dune-france-big-brother.html>
.

In the US, academia is rapidly closing its doors to any debate. At Yale,
professors and students these days are very busy with a new cultural
emergency: "renaming
<http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/02/arts/design/yale-calhoun-college-slavery-debate-policy.html>."
They are changing the name of buildings to erase all traces of slavery and
colonialism -- a revisionism out of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia.

Everywhere in the US and in the UK, an air of hostility is spreading
against opinions and ideas that could cause even a hint of distress in
students. The result is the rise of what a writer such as Bret Easton Ellis
called "Generation Wuss
<http://www.vanityfair.fr/culture/livre/articles/generation-wuss-by-bret-easton-ellis/15837>
".

The jihadists surely grin at this Western political correctness, since the
result of this ideology will be the abolition of the Western critical
spirit and a surreal reeducation of the masses through the annihilation of
our history and a hatred of our truly liberal past.

Bristol University in the UK just came under fire for attempting to
"no-platform" Roger Scruton
<http://www.independent.co.uk/student/no-platform-bristol-student-union-roger-scruton-nus-freedom-of-speech-philosopher-a7404646.html>
for his views on same-gender marriage. Meanwhile, British universities are
giving a platform to radical Islamic preachers
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/universityeducation/11870429/British-universities-that-give-the-floor-to-extremist-speakers-are-named-and-shamed.html>.
In the politically correct universe, conservative thinkers are more
dangerous than ISIS supporters. London's former mayor, Boris Johnson,
called this dystopia "the Boko Haram of political correctness
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/nigeria/10823670/In-our-own-modest-way-were-living-in-a-Boko-Haram-world.html>
."

Students and faculty at the Rutgers University in New Jersey cancelled a
speech by former US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice
<http://edition.cnn.com/2014/05/04/us/condoleeza-rice-rutgers-protests/>.
Students and professors at Scripps College in California protested the
presence of another former Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright
<http://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-scripps-madeleine-albright-20160509-story.html>,
who, according to the protesters, is a "war criminal."

A New York University professor, Michael Rectenwald, who attacked political
correctness and the coddling of students, was recently booted from the
classroom after his colleagues complained about his "incivility". The
liberal studies professor was forced to go on paid leave. "It's an alarming
curtailment of free expression to the point where you can't even pretend to
be something without authorities coming down on you in the
universities," Rectenwald
told
<http://nypost.com/2016/10/30/nyu-professor-who-opposed-pc-culture-gets-booted-from-classroom/>
the *New York Post*.

There is no better ally of Islamic extremism than this sanctimony of
liberal censorship: both, in fact, want to suppress any criticism of Islam,
as well as any proud defense of the Western Enlightenment or
Judeo-Christian culture.

Censorship is happening not only in the liberal enclaves on the coasts of
the United States, but also in France. The Eagles of Death Metal -- the
American band that was performing at Paris' Bataclan Theater when ISIS
terrorists murdered 89 people there on November 13, 2015 -- were banned by
two music festivals
<http://www.lefigaro.fr/musique/2016/05/20/03006-20160520ARTFIG00200-eagles-of-death-metal-rock-en-seine-annule-leur-concert.php>:
*Rock en Seine* and *Cabaret Vert*. The reason? Jesse Hughes, the band's
frontman, gave a very politically incorrect interview
<http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/eagles-of-death-metal-jesse-hughes-paris-attacks-gun-control-a6876751.html>
:

"Did your French gun control stop a single f*cking person from dying? I
think the only thing that stopped it was some of the bravest men that I've
ever seen charging head-first into the face of death with their firearms. I
think the only way that my mind has been changed is that maybe until nobody
has guns everybody has to have them. Because I've never seen anyone that's
ever had one dead, and I want everyone to have access to them, and I saw
people die that maybe could have lived, I don't know."

After the jihadist massacre at Orlando's Pulse gay nightclub, Facebook
enforced the pro-Islamic injunction and banned a page of the magazine
*Gaystream*
<https://jungefreiheit.de/kultur/medien/2016/facebook-sperrt-schwulenportal-nach-islamkritik/>,
after it had published an article critical of Islam in the wake of the
bloodbath. *Gaystream*'s director, David Berger, had heavily criticized the
director of the Gay Museum in Cologne, Birgit Bosold, who had told German
media that gays should be more frightened of white bigoted men than of
Islamic extremists.

Jim Hoft
<http://www.dailywire.com/news/6527/after-orlando-attack-famous-conservative-blogger-james-barrett>,
a gay journalist who is the creator of the popular Gateway Pundit blog, was
suspended from YouTube. Twitter, one of the vehicles of this new
intolerance, suspended the account of Milo Yiannopoulos
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/07/21/what-it-takes-to-get-banned-from-twitter/>,
a prominent gay critic of Islamic fundamentalism -- but probably not the
accounts of Islamic fundamentalists who criticize gays. Twitter even formed
a "Trust and Safety Council
<http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/02/twitters-new-safety-council-makes-a-mockery-of-free-speech/>."
It brings to mind Saudi Arabia's "Council for the Promotion of Virtue and
Prevention of Vice." Could it be an inspiration for the liberal mullahs?

Yes, it might have looked like a golden age for free speech. But under this
dictatorship of political correctness, the only "win-win" is for political
Islam.

*Giulio Meotti, Cultural Editor for* Il Foglio,* is an Italian journalist
and author.*

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