<div dir="ltr"><span title="2015-08-18">August 18, 2015</span>
<h1>Multiculturalism and the Rise of Domestic Terrorism</h1>
<span><a href="http://www.crisismagazine.com/author/william-kilpatrick" target="_blank">William Kilpatrick</a><br><a href="http://www.crisismagazine.com/2015/multiculturalism-and-the-rise-of-domestic-terrorism" target="_blank">http://www.crisismagazine.com/2015/multiculturalism-and-the-rise-of-domestic-terrorism</a></span> <img src="http://3m7ajlsrzj92lfd1hu16hu7vc.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Abdulazeez-Shooter-CNN1-660x350-1439874231.jpg" alt="Abdulazeez Shooter CNN" height="350" width="660"> <div>
<p><b>In a speech launching a five-year plan</b> to combat homegrown terrorism, UK Prime Minister <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/07/19/uk-prime-minister-david-cameron-offers-plan-to-counter-attract-extremism-to/" target="_blank">David Cameron</a> said that “<span style="background-color:rgb(182,215,168)"><b>Many people born in Britain have little attachment to the country and that makes them vulnerable to radicalization.”</b></span></p>
<p>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, <span style="background-color:rgb(182,215,168)"><b>a not
insignificant number </b><b>can indulge in British pastimes and still feel
unconnected to the country they live in.</b></span> In her 2006 book <i>Londonistan</i>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Londonistan-Melanie-Phillips/dp/1594031975" target="_blank">Melanie Phillips</a>
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.</p>
<p>The problem was, said Phillips, that <b><span style="background-color:rgb(182,215,168)">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</span></b>.” She laid much of the blame on
educators:</p>
<p style="padding-left:30px">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.</p>
<p><span style="background-color:rgb(182,215,168)"><b>A similar process has been underway for a long time in the U.S.</b></span> For
many years, <span style="background-color:rgb(182,215,168)"><b>America has been deeply invested in the same multicultural
experiment of elevating other cultures by denigrating its own.</b></span> 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,<span style="background-color:rgb(182,215,168)"><b> the flip side of
“tolerance for diversity” was intolerance for one’s own culture and the
things that make it distinctive.</b></span></p>
<p>The result? As <a href="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" target="_blank">Robert Spencer</a>
observed, <span style="background-color:rgb(182,215,168)"><b>“people who are ashamed of their culture will not defend it.</b></span>”
<span style="background-color:rgb(182,215,168)"><b>Such people might even feel that attacks on our country are justified
by our history of slavery, racism, colonialism, and imperialism.</b></span> Still
others will feel justified in carrying out the attacks.<span style="background-color:rgb(182,215,168)"><b> In England, the
police are now uncovering on average one jihadist plot per day.</b></span></p>
<p>The situation is not yet as desperate<span style="background-color:rgb(182,215,168)"><b> in America, </b></span>but we seem
nevertheless to be generating a steady supply of <span style="background-color:rgb(182,215,168)"><b>homegrown terrorists</b></span>.
On the surface, they <span style="background-color:rgb(182,215,168)"><b>blend in with the culture. </b>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.<span style="background-color:rgb(182,215,168)"></span><b><span style="background-color:rgb(182,215,168)"> </span></b>On the outside, they appeared
to be ordinary Americans.</span> <span style="background-color:rgb(182,215,168)"><b>On the inside</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(182,215,168)"><b>they were</b></span> more like the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pod_People_%28Invasion_of_the_Body_Snatchers%29#Invasion_of_the_Body_Snatchers_.281956_film.29" target="_blank">pod people</a> in <i>Invasion of the Body Snatchers</i>—<span style="background-color:rgb(182,215,168)"><b>aliens with alien ambitions</b></span>.</p>
<p>The worrisome thing is, our educational system, along with other
institutions of cultural formation, seems to be on course to <span style="background-color:rgb(182,215,168)"><b>creating a
whole nation of </b></span>pod people—<span style="background-color:rgb(182,215,168)"><b>people with little attachment to their
country or countrymen.</b></span></p>
<p><span style="background-color:rgb(182,215,168)"><b>This detachment can take three forms.</b></span> In some cases, individuals turn
away from involvement in their culture to <span style="background-color:rgb(182,215,168)"><b>self-absorption.</b></span> To assuage
the loneliness of the unconnected self, <span style="background-color:rgb(182,215,168)"><b>they might turn to drugs or pornography, or serial sex. </b></span> Except for the world of pop entertainment,
they are unconscious of the larger world. Like the clueless young people
inte<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><span></span></span>rviewed on the Watters’ World segment of the <i>O’Reilly Factor</i>,
<span style="background-color:rgb(182,215,168)"><b>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</b></span>. 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.</p>
<p><span style="background-color:rgb(182,215,168)"><b>The second form that the detachment takes</b></span> is a transfer of allegiance
from one’s own history and culture to <span style="background-color:rgb(182,215,168)"><b>a neo-Marxist perspective.</b></span> Thanks
in large part to our educational system, a growing segment of our
population has c<span style="background-color:rgb(182,215,168)"><span></span></span>ome to <span style="background-color:rgb(182,215,168)"><b>look upon its own culture as the root of all the
world’s evils.</b></span> Unlike the self-absorbed detachers,<span style="background-color:rgb(182,215,168)"><b> they are politically
engaged, but their political aims have to do with undermining
traditional society and radically transforming it</b></span>. <span style="background-color:rgb(182,215,168)"><b>The “Occupy Wall
Street” movement is representative of this group.</b></span></p>
<p><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>The third group</b></span>, the one that Prime Minister Cameron is primarily
concerned about,<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b> is composed of those whose first loyalty is to the <i>ummah</i>—the
worldwide community of Muslim believers.</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>They may live in the UK,
France, or the U.S., but their allegiance lies elsewhere.</b></span> 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, <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>the sea in which the jihadis
swim. </b></span>The radical Muslims themselves are in some ways similar to the
anti-Western Westerners who repudiate the Western tradition. <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>The
radicals not only reject Western culture, they see it as evil and they
want to bring it down.</b></span></span></p><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
</span><div style="text-align:left"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Because they have the same goals—the destruction of Western and
Christian civilization—<span style="background-color:rgb(182,215,168)"><b>the members of the second group </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>often act as
enablers of Muslim radicals.</b></span> I’ve written before about <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>the <a href="http://www.crisismagazine.com/2014/double-trouble-the-leftist-threat-and-the-islamist-threat" target="_blank">leftist-Islamist alliance</a>—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.</b></span> But
sometimes the alliance goes beyond moral and financial support and
manifests itself in actual violence. The best example of this are<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b> the
antifa or “<a href="http://www.crisismagazine.com/2015/new-jews-new-nazis-new-communists-old-hatreds" target="_blank">antifascist” gangs</a>
</b></span> in Europe <span style="background-color:rgb(246,178,107)"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">who use brownshirt tactics to</span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b> suppress any protest against
Islamization or the leftist policies—such as mass immigration—which
promote Islamization</b></span></span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">.</span> 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.</span></blockquote></div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
</span><p><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">As befits two movements with global ambitions,<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b> the leftist-Islamist
alliances are cropping up all over the planet</b>.</span> 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 <a href="http://gatesofvienna.net/2015/07/who-rules-melbourne/#more-36865" target="_blank">Melbourne</a>:</span></p><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
</span><p style="padding-left:30px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">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.</span></p><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
</span><p><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">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<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"> <b>all those college grads who
majored in Marxism and Peace Studies, and are dead set on ridding the
world of “racists” and “fascists.”</b></span></span></p><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
</span><p><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">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 <a href="http://therightscoop.com/revealed-read-the-full-blog-entries-of-muslim-terrorist-muhammad-youssef-abdulazeez/" target="_blank">blog posts</a>,
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.</span></p><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
</span><p><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">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<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b> the twin
threat posed by leftism and Islamism. </b></span>The same can be said to a lesser
degree of those we might call <span style="background-color:rgb(182,215,168)"><b>the semi-detached </b></span>(or semi-attached, if
you prefer). <span style="background-color:rgb(182,215,168)"><b>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</b></span>. Thanks
to years of relentless indoctrination from the schools and the media,
their links to core cultural principles are tenuous. <span style="background-color:rgb(182,215,168)"><b>The result is a
certain passivity</b></span> 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.”</span></p><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
</span><p><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">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.<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b> If the current attacks on <span style="background-color:rgb(255,229,153)">marriage, family,
religion, and patriotism—up until recently the main glue of society</span>—are
as successful as the social engineers hope, there will soon be nothing
left worth fighting for.</b></span></span></p><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
</span><p><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">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”?</span></p><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
</span><p><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">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.</span></p><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
</span><p><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">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.</span></p><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
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<p>William Kilpatrick taught for many years at Boston College. He is the
author of several books about cultural and religious issues, including <i>Psychological Seduction; Why Johnny Can’t Tell Right From Wrong;</i> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Christianity-Islam-Atheism-Struggle-Soul/dp/158617696X" target="_blank">Christianity, Islam and Atheism: The Struggle for the Soul of the West</a>. His articles have appeared in numerous publications, including <i>Catholic World Report, National Catholic Register, Aleteia, Saint Austin Review, Investor’s Business Daily,</i> and <i>First Things</i>. His work is supported in part by the Shillman Foundation. For more on his work and writings, visit his website, <a href="http://turningpointproject.com/" target="_blank">turningpointproject.com</a></p></div>