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This article was originally published at the Fleming Foundation.
When the Islamic State blows up the Temple of Bel in Palmyra, the
UNESCO (the cultural arm of the United Nations) condemns the act as a
war crime. UNESCO’s director-general declared that in destroying
ancient monuments, IS was “seeking to deprive the Syrian people of its
knowledge, its identity and history.”
In America, when political activists and legislators call for the
removal of Confederate flags and symbols from public places, the
destruction of Confederate monuments, and the desecration of the graves
of Confederate officers, we do not hear a peep out of UNESCO.
Indeed,
the entire world of right-thinking men and women applauds the attempt to
deprive the Southern people of its knowledge, its identity and history.
The hypocrisy of America’s ruling class would seem to be gagging,
were it not for the fact that they are both too stupid and too
malevolent to be capable of thinking straight on any issue that can be
connected, no matter how implausibly, with the rights of blacks, women,
homosexuals, or adorable lions in a Zimbabwean game preserve.
Over the centuries Christendom has endured attacks from many
dangerous and pernicious external enemies: from Mongols and Huns to Nazi
Germany and the Soviet Union, but none is so persistent, so alien, and
so malevolent as Islam. They rape our wives and daughters—and our sons;
they burn our churches and dynamite our graves; they destroy what they
could never create by themselves, namely, a high civilization. They
were doing it a thousand years ago, and they are doing it today in Iraq,
in Kosovo and even in Greece.
Although it has received little attention, Christian sites are also
under attack in Syria. Just a few days ago, according to the Catholic
News Agency, IS forces bulldozed the ancient Catholic monastery of Mar
Elian:
“The
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based monitoring group,
on Aug. 20 said that the Islamic State had destroyed the monastery using
bulldozers. Photos of the destruction were soon released online by the
militant Sunni Islamist group.”
But even the worst of our external enemies are minor threats when
compared with the threat posed by the great internal enemy, which is the
liberal revolution, which, since the Renaissance, has been devouring
its own children in every generation. Today, so-called American
conservatives speak the language of Robespierre, and self-described
liberals, on moral and cultural issues, are well to the left of Marx and
Lenin. They will not rest until every public manifestation of
Christianity has been eliminated, until all the children of USA are
taught nothing but the religion of anti-Christ and the history of
Anti-West and Anti-America.
On the surface, no two groups could be more opposed than the Muslim
punks who have flocked to join the IS and the effete secular liberals of
the American ruling class, but they are joined at their hip in their
hatred of the Incarnation and all its symbols and in their contempt for
the cultural and intellectual traditions of the West, from Homer to T.S.
Eliot.
Western liberals may wear suits—at least they used to—and sit
in legislatures and preside over courts and classrooms, but they are no
less vandals than the rapist-thugs of the IS.
They too destroy what
they cannot create; they too have subjugated our women to the
Playboy philosophy;
they, too, enslave our children’s minds. In the short run, our vandals
are safer to deal with than IS punks, but in the long run, the outcome
is the same.
