Our Israeli correspondent MC sends this essay about the larger context surrounding the European “migration crisis”.
You are welcome. Welcome in my country.
by MC
You are welcome as a participant in the new religious war, looting is encouraged, rape and pillage will be tolerated.
Welcome to a multi-factional religious war where many of the factions don’t even know they need to defend themselves.
Welcome soldiers of Islam, the gates are open, enter, and take all you desire. The people are defenceless.
“The government is with us, kill the Jews Christians.”
This is a religious war where many are deluded, and others are masquerading as something that they are not. There are three camps in this war, the Muslims, the ‘Secular Humanists’ and the Judeo-Christians, and the main problem is that the secular humanists are pitching the other two at each other whilst pretending to be the arbiters of ‘reason and science’.
There is also another unknowing faction which one might call a ‘free surface’. When a ship takes on a lot of water, after a fire or hull damage, one of the major problems is what is known as the ‘free surface effect’ where the excess water slops from side to side as the ship rolls in anything but a minor sea.
These days, few people have been to sea in a ship without stabilizers, and a ship full of water is usually not under power so the stabilizers don’t work. So the ship wallows and the slopping water can weigh hundreds of tons and is moving incessantly from side to side. The ship eventually capsizes as the centre of gravity moves over the centre of buoyancy and the ‘righting moment’ goes negative (it is always the fault of the math).
This is also why heavily overloaded migrant boats capsize, but for ‘water’ substitute ‘people’. And what works in Tripoli harbour does not work in the rolling swell of the Med.
Getting back to the religious war, this ‘free surface’ is akin to public opinion, which in normal circumstances causes mob hysteria and subsequent violence,. In a democracy, however, public opinion is vital to the ruling elite. The one thing that can bring down the elite is public opinion, and therefore, to stay in power, public opinion must be manipulated. The people must be lied to.
Once public opinion is clamped down tight, the religious factions can fight it out in peace earnest.
If we look at the Judeo-Christian camp, these are the people who have some semblance of adherence to the Bible, and particularly the Ten Commandments. This group comprises Bible believing Christians, Jews who adhere to Torah, the five books of Moses (there are Jewish cliques who adhere only to the teachings of wacky Rabbis), and atheists who have realized the importance of biblical ethics.
On the other side, that of secular humanism, there are ‘religious’ atheists, who mainly believe in the religion of Marxism and in consensus/political science (Lysenkoism), also, those sections of the ‘Church’ which have adopted humanist/communist values and, for some strange reason, many (but not all by any means) American Jews.
The above American Jews have fallen piecemeal into the ‘Nazis were Conservative/Republican’ meme and cannot get their heads around the idea that the world has moved beyond Auschwitz. The fact that Marxism and Nazism have effectively merged into one is beyond the reasoning of their victim mentality.
Question 22. Do Communists reject existing religions?
Answer: All religions which have existed hitherto were expressions of historical stages of development of individual peoples or groups of peoples. But communism is that stage of historical development which makes all existing religions superfluous and supersedes them.
(From The Communist Confession of Faith: Engels, June 9 1847)
The reality of Marxism has always has always been religious; it just shrouded its ritual behind the pseudo-sciences of ‘psychology’ and ‘sociology’. Lysenkoism — essentially politically-dictated science — evolved from the Lamarckian idea of teleology; that physical traits are ‘transmitted’ to subsequent generations in the subconscious strife for perfection. Lysenko took this idea and applied it to psychological traits as well, giving ‘scientific’ justification to both the Nazi and Communist belief that they could create a ‘new man’, a utopian being in harmony with the forces of the world.
The Unknown Citizen
By W.H. Auden(To JS/07/M/378 This Marble Monument Is Erected by the State)
He was found by the Bureau of Statistics to be
One against whom there was no official complaint,
And all the reports on his conduct agree
That, in the modern sense of an old-fashioned word,
he was a saint,
For in everything he did he served the Greater Community.
Except for the War till the day he retired
He worked in a factory and never got fired,
But satisfied his employers, Fudge Motors Inc.
Yet he wasn’t a scab or odd in his views,
For his Union reports that he paid his dues,
(Our report on his Union shows it was sound)
And our Social Psychology workers found
That he was popular with his mates and liked a drink.
The Press are convinced that he bought a paper every day
And that his reactions to advertisements were
normal in every way.
Policies taken out in his name prove that
he was fully insured,
And his Health-card shows he was once in hospital
but left it cured.
Both Producers Research and High-Grade Living declare
He was fully sensible to the advantages
of the Installment Plan
And had everything necessary to the Modern Man,
A phonograph, a radio, a car and a frigidaire.
Our researchers into Public Opinion are content
That he held the proper opinions for he time of year;
When there was peace, he was for peace; when there
was war, he went.
He was married and added five children to the population,
Which our Eugenist says was the right number for
a parent of his generation.
And our teachers report that he never interfered
with their education.
Was he free? Was he happy? The question is absurd:
Had anything been wrong, we should certainly have heard.1939
Marxism has been the de facto ruling meme of the West since the late 1960s, and whilst the people were diverted by fear of nuclear war, the real war was happening in education, the media and politics. Real Conservatives were being quietly displaced by well-funded and politically nubile Marxists posing as nice, kind, caring people. People who would open the sea-cocks and let the water into the ship.
And with the ship thus sinking, so the media orchestra plays on deck, and the nice people promenade. Meanwhile the steerage people, those with accommodation below the water line, are locked in, no platform for them as the cold harsh water envelopes them.
If you had not guessed by now, Islam is the water that will finally causes the ship to capsize. The elites think that they will be able to launch the lifeboats just before the ship turns turtle. But the water is cold and there are just not enough of them, women and children Democrats and liberals first…
Judeo-Christianity has proven very difficult to eradicate. Violent Stalinism failed, and so did enforced Neo-Darwinist education. Islam, however, totally eradicated early Christianity in North Africa and the Levant. Early Christianity is different from modern Christianity, as can be seen by reading the Acts of the Apostles. We were left with the Roman versions of Christianity, which included much of the culture from ancient pagan Rome as a compromise, and which, whilst not totally rejecting the Bible, regard it as flexible at the whim of the Pope.
Islam has its roots in the early Arabian version of Baal (Sun) worship and of stones and rocks, and the Kaaba (stone) is alleged to have come from Moab, a centre of Baal worship. This tradition was radically modified by Mohammed who, much like some modern figures, found that a new religion was a real money-spinner. Especially when you could make up the rules as you go along. So if Islam did it once, it can do it again. “Stop the (economic) engines; open the doors and let ’em in”.
Islam is a religion of looting. It is totally geared to the ravaging of unprotected communities. While the West was strong, Islam was weak and nearly extinct. However, the West caught an ague.
This religious war started in 1917 when the Czar of all the Russians abdicated and left a political vacuum. That vacuum was filled, first by moderate socialists (Mensheviks) and then in a coup d’état, by the extremist Bolsheviks.
Stalin, who inherited the high priestship of the religion, had, since the age of ten, practised deceit and infiltration. As a young man he played the revolutionaries against the Okhrana (Czarist secret police), using one or the other to eliminate anyone who got in the way of his overarching ambition.
By the time he was made General Secretary of the party, he knew how to gain and keep power by careful proselytizing and/or elimination — much like the Muslim ‘convert, become a slave or die’. Many were just eliminated anyway. Stalin liked ritual killing, and Trotsky was carefully murdered according to a ritual laid down by Stalin, using an ice axe (see “The Secret File of Joseph Stalin” by Roman Brackman). This was possibly as a narcissistic re-enactment of the murder of his own father.
Further evidence of the religious nature of Stalinist Marxism comes with the veneration of Lenin’s Tomb. If Lenin was indeed poisoned, Stalin had both the opportunity and the motivation. Brackman posits that Stalin led a life full of guilt which he was always trying to project onto others. Modern Marxism has perpetuated the cultish/fetishist nature of Stalin. It has projected power ruthlessly, not through armies of violence, but through infiltration and political assassination, both corporal and psychological, effectively silencing any opposition by rendering certain key topics beyond ‘polite’ conversation.
So whilst East and West were supposedly at loggerheads during the cold war period, Western Stalin-Marxism was slowly penetrating and annihilating the West. Resistance was futile.
Thus we have the present day scenario. The water is flooding in, the ship is about to capsize, those who understand the problems are locked below, and their cries are drowned out as the orchestra plays on. The more wealthy passengers are content. They promenade the decks and play quoits. The stewards continue to pander to their wants and desires. and nobody notices that the motion of the ship has changed
By not thinking the unthinkable does not the ship become unsinkable?
Religious war? What a ridiculous idea! We gave that up before the French Revolution.
MC lives in the southern Israeli city of Sderot. For his previous essays, see the MC Archives.
Great article, very accurate, quite depressing. Mark my post – this month El Pope and BHO will “announce” their new plan to send the great unwashed to the U.S.
Mark my word: Explain the legislative or executive power Pope Francis has to control the EU, which is run by Marxists. Explain the same machinations he has with respect to the USA when he has no power to rule on anything Caesar decides. Like Christ instructs though, he can give drink to the thirsty and food to the hungry. You curse him for that?
The Pope should give his own food and drink to the hungry and thirsty. It is immoral to confiscate what belongs to another person and use it for your own agenda, however “noble.”
What food has the Pope taken from anybody? The Marxists of the EU do that with their taxing powers. Don’t try to blame Roman Catholics because it sounds dumb.
The current pope is a South American Jesuit, paddy.
You are aware what that means? He is a Liberation Theologist. Communism writ small ‘c’ catholicism.
This is not a good outcome for the church.
Where is the Polish pope when we kneed him.
An excellent post.
I don’t so much see the wide awakes as locked below deck but rather as being unable to rouse their brothers and sisters, who are wedded to hedonism, a debased liberty, and an indifference to learning. Juvenile values and weakness infest our young. It’s almost as though they are not affected by Marxism or anything except a devotion to trifles.
Even on the cusp of The Great Flood of 2015, the moronic voters in Britain handed the sword back to the treasonous Cameron and hung what is a nationalist party out to dry. They refuse to be roused. I can’t see that Marxism has much to do with it. They would be as ignorant of that as they would of basic math or history.
The infection if the elites is terribly real though. Has any human society ever faced such a mass of its own citizens, quite homegrown who possessed such disdain and malevolence toward their own land? This is utterly strange.
A very good analogy of what is now in progress within the Camp of the Saints. With the anti-Pope leading the charge and some Europeans actually facilitating their own demise by providing clothing, food, drink, money and transport, while the choirs sing welcome to our country, who could be worried?
Communism got tis first victory by financing the Japanese Navy against the Russians in 1905. Those were not Catholic bankers! Nor does the Pope whimsically change the Bible. A cite proving this libel would be nice. Jewish-Americans vote Left; European Jews vote Left. See a pattern dating back to Rosa Luxemburg, when they were called “anarchists” and murdered an American president? Perhaps Freud can best explain their destructive needs?
“Communism got tis first victory by financing the Japanese Navy against the Russians in 1905. ”
Can you explain that? Clearly?
Sure, it was American bankers, recently arrived from Germany, who loaned the Japanese money to build their fleet. They whipped the czar’s navy as communists revolted inside Europe. they didn’t murder the czar and his family for a dozen more years, but they succeeded. They made japan a naval power that we’d see, eventually, on Dec. 7, 19141.
This is an excellent article.
Love the poem by W.H. Auden. Thank you.
Islam is a religion of looting. It is totally geared to the ravaging of unprotected communities. While the West was strong, Islam was weak and nearly extinct. However, the West caught an ague.
Indeed. And Islam is particularly bad for Jews. Which is why all Jewish organizations and Jewish journalists in Europe are loudly pointing out the folly of what Europe is doing. For example:
Jewish WWII refugees to UK: Let in fleeing Syrians
The Times of Israel-17 hours ago
Italy’s Jewish Leadership Calls for Aid for Refugees
Forward-17 hours ago
Jews Contrast Refugee’s European Experience With Their Own
Arutz Sheva-17 hours ago
One country that won’t be taking Syrian refugees: Israel
Los Angeles Times-11 hours ago
It’s particularly bad for women too. And men too. And Christians of all denominations. And atheists and secularists who would probably be among the first to be killed if Islam gets its way.
And members of all these groups are publicly calling for “compassion” and for the West’s taking in refugees.
So why do you only point to Jews?
I smell an agenda here.
P.S. I’ll grant you that Jews should be smart enough to figure it out. But they are still fighting the last war (WWII) and its traumatic impact. It’s easy to forget–if one every knew it–that before and during WWII most countries, including the U.S., would not permit Jews to come in. So many more of them died. That’s probably what these Jews are thinking about.
This Jewish writer is not.
MC for Sec-Gen of the United Nations!
Sorry, too honest……
With all the marine related analogies in MC’s excellent essay, the following quote from above. . . :
. . .reminded me of an article I recently read in an online archive of a nineteenth century paper via New York State Historic Newspapers:
A very interesting article
“Aylan Kurdi’s family had FREE housing in Turkey, while father’s story is full of holes”
https://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/2015/09/04/family-of-drowned-toddler-aylan-kurdi-had-been-given-free-housing-in-turkey-while-fathers-story-is-full-of-holes/
This reminds me so much of South Africa and the author reminds me of a typical, concerned white South African in the early 90s. Clever enough to see what’s really happening but not quite clever enough to work out who is responsible. Who could blame him? After all, there’s nothing worse than being labeled an anti-semite.
You are most welcome to label me an anti-Semite 😉
I am also a racist, I have many times been called a fascist, and I am often called a damned Joo too.
If you would like to read some of my other articles, you will learn that, on the whole, I refer to Israel and/or Judaism in some way in most of them.
Moses. Your reference to South Africa displays to me a complete lack of understanding for why apartheid had to be instigated. Perhaps you could avail yourself of some real South African history and stop parroting what you believe to be true rather than confirm your own opinion by doing your own historical checks.
Here’s a great video by Ann Barnhart about the demise of Western Civilization, the USA and Christianity, all being brought on by the desire to “be nice.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnjQ3tmVO18
She lost me a few seconds in, at “satanic altar”. Some of us are grownups, RKae.
MC, there is a connection in all of what is occurring to the Dark Side. For instance : Check out what goes on at ‘Bohemian Grove’.
My error! That comment was meant for Mark H.
I’ve checked out some references, Nemesis. Looks to me like an excuse for a bunch of overprivileged men- with, to be fair, a lot of responsibility- to let off steam in vulgar and immature ways.
Unless, of course, you believe that Satan is real, ie a benign and perfect God made an imperfect, and ultimately malign, “angel”. I daresay you may also believe that that this same benevolent Creator made his other major creation, ourselves, so weak that said “angel” was able to corrupt us while His attention was apparently elsewhere, yet holds us responsible for our “failure”.
As I said to RKae, and without meaning you any ill-will, grow up.
Could hedonism explain the march to cultural mass-suicide that the people of Europe have embarked on? Or maybe it’s not hedonism that is the problem, but an inability or incapacity to pursue their own self-interest? And if the people do not recognize their self-interest, should they be made to, and if so, how? I may think of someone who is doing something that I can see is going to result in harm coming to him. I realize that he does not see the impending harm that will come to him as a consequence to his action. What should I do? Should I tell him of the consequences of his action, with the hope that he will change his behavior? And what if he is so incapacitated that he is unable to see that it will bring him harm, despite my instruction? What can and should be done?
Pursuing one’s own interest purely for obtaining pleasure may be the behavior of an hedonist. But in the case of the Europeans, it does not seem that they are acting in their own interest, but contrary to it, or one may actually believe they are acting unselfishly. As such, and on the surface, I would not at first glance consider their action hedonistic. Actually, it appears to me that they are acting due to an obligation, and, in the process, over-ride their own interest. They appear possessed by an obligation to serving the interests of others, even to the detriment of their own. It seems to me that their feeling of obligation must have been implanted in them, willfully by others, to circumvent their own best interests. I can think of Marxism, as one example of such indoctrination. And being hedonists, and not unselfish souls as one may be tempted to believe, they perform the obligation because they get pleasure from fulfilling the obligation, an obligation which is in pursuit of a good, alleged to be greater than their own personal, egotistical self-interest.
William, if European governments were not predisposed to persecuting their own citizens for speaking the Truth about Islam and what Islam brings to their countries, do you believe the citizenry would still be remaining quiet?
You can fool some of the people some of the time, not all of the people all of the time, but by golly you can bring in legislation that will keep the majority quiet all of the time.
Nemesis,
There may be a silent majority who oppose the infiltration and destruction of their country, but they are not the ones who are influencing events. The silent majority, if they exist, are silent and not seen. I see many German and French people openly welcoming the migrants and thumbing their noses at the rest as if they are morally superior due to their purported altruism and unselfishness. Are these cultural relativists the minority, who are afflicted with the delusion that multiculturalism is a great thing and all cultures are equal, except theirs is not worth defending? I hope they are the minority, and the majority need to stop being silent.
Another point: the invaders are not moral relativists like those welcoming them. In fact the migrants are moral absolutists, that is, they are super proud of their culture, that their culture is the best, and they have no intention of changing it, especially those parts related to their Mohammedanism belief system. It will the cultural relativists who will have to change and adapt, not the absolutists. We can see it happening already. The relativists eventually will either be assimilated or be ghettoized.
Yes William, the silent majority are not the ones influencing events because their own government no longer listens to them and will legally persecute them while the government’s thugs will physically assault them wherever and whenever they peacefully protest – such as the Pegida demos – while the media demonizes their German patriotism.
Very difficult trying to win against those odds!
On the other hand there are those who are openly receptive to being over run by a culture that will spare them no mercy at all, and they have chosen to do this of their own free will so they are welcome, as far as I am concerned, to what is in store for them in the very near future.
Peaceful protests are all that the silent majority have at this time while the cards are stacked against them, but when those who are at this time fence sitters, and who are still comfortable in their lives begin to feel the hot breath of Islam on the back of their necks, then things will begin to change.
Incredibly embarrassing. Dangerously so.
You’re not Jewish, but certainly a convert to christianity. Why would you be allowed to [insulting word for the verb ‘utter’] the ‘judeo-christianity’ oxymoronic [epithet] here?
No Jew would ever defile his lips with such language, you can take it from me.
Missed…….
Try again
I cannot deny that both before and during my forty years’ collaboration with Marx I had a certain independent share in laying the foundations of the theory, but the greater part of its leading basic principles belongs to Marx … Marx was a genius; we others were at best talented. Without him the theory would not be by far what it is today. It therefore rightly bears his name.[3]
Engels a most modest man and friend of Karl Marx
Despite Engels’s modesty in this quotation, he made major contributions to the Manifesto, starting with the suggestion to abandon “the form of a catechism and entitle it the Communist Manifesto.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Communist_Manifesto
A series of fixed questions, answers, or precepts used for instruction: the preventive health catechism ‘more exercise, less tobacco and alcohol, and better diet’
Oxford dictionary
No religious connotation except perhaps in your minds.
Now deal with what Marx says in the Communist Manifesto if you are able to read or are not too [insulting modifiers] to read a text. Read it and criticise it.
In the above MS goes back to before the English Revolution and before rationalism
Otherwise how write the following:
“Question 22. Do Communists reject existing religions?
Answer: All religions which have existed hitherto were expressions of historical stages of development of individual peoples or groups of peoples. But communism is that stage of historical development which makes all existing religions superfluous and supersedes them.
(From The Communist Confession of Faith: Engels, June 9 1847)
and from this answer MS [presumably means MC] concludes that Marxism is a religion!
It does not follow and cannot follow except in the mind of [an insulting phrase concerning lack of sanity]. And rthere are quite enough of those heading into Europe today and yesterday and tomorrow as well. Join the [insulting noun phrase] MS!!!!
“methinks the lady doth protest too much”
I am still mystified by the MC assertions and a mystery not explained remains that. Engles wrote above ” All religions which have existed hitherto were expressions of historical stages of development of individual peoples or groups of peoples.”
You may disagree with that but you have to say and show WHY you do so. Simple as that. Those are the rules.
This assertion which as far as MY studies have gone is the truth but which MC makes into what he calls a “religion”.
So there is no confusión that he is calling it a “religión” see this paragraph and perhaps he will be prepared to explain it but I expect he will not nbecause he has turned down all requests for clarification before. Which means what? (that he does not explain)
“The reality of Marxism has always has always been religious; it just shrouded its ritual behind the pseudo-sciences of ‘psychology’ and ‘sociology’. Lysenkoism — essentially politically-dictated science — evolved from the Lamarckian idea of teleology; that physical traits are ‘transmitted’ to subsequent generations in the subconscious strife for perfection. Lysenko took this idea and applied it to psychological traits as well, giving ‘scientific’ justification to both the Nazi and Communist belief that they could create a ‘new man’, a utopian being in harmony with the forces of the world.” END QUOTE OF MC
MC says Marx(ism) has always been religious
Well not according to the above quotation from Engels. What Engels writes above is not at all what you will get from any religion. At the very least it is an attempt to begin to explain the phenomenon of religion in a general sense.
I cannot even say it is against religion. It is an attempt to explain it.
It is the opposite of a religious dogma – otherwise words stop having any meaning.
But logic and reasoned argument seem to have no place with people like MC. In my opinion Wikipedia is a very dicey operation completely but still consider this:
“Lysenkoism (Russian: Лысе́нковщина), or Lysenko-Michurinism was the centralized political control exercised over genetics and agriculture by Trofim Lysenko and his followers. Lysenko was the director of the Soviet Union’s Lenin All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Lysenkoism began in the late 1920s and formally ended in 1964.
Lysenkoism was built on Lamarckan heritability of acquired characteristics that Lysenko named “Michurinism”.[1] Lysenko’s theory departed from Darwinian evolutionary theory by rejecting natural selection and genetics and the concept of the “gene”.[2] Research and teaching of hormones, neurophysiology, cell theory, genetics and many other biological disciplines were banned.[3]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism
MC drags in Lysenkoism which Wikipedia claims (probably or since it is wikipedia possibly correctly) was opposed to Darwin. What was it anyhow? It came in the period of Stalin and Stalinism (THE LATE 1920S).
What is the connection between Stalin and Stalinism and Marxism? It is the opposite – at any rate the most serious revisiOn of Marxism possible.
What is the connection between Lysenkoism and Marx or Marxism? None at all Marx was a huge supporter of Darwin and “Darwinism”. Not just decades separated them but everything separated them, that is if one supported Darwin the other did not.
I cannot take a person seriously at all who just says whatever he feels like saying not backed up by rationality. That is why I asserted that MC uses a method that is BEFORE rationalism, before the great English rationalists like Bacon and Raleigh that laid the basis for the great Cromwellian Revolution, which itself laid the basis for the Great American and Great French Revolutions.
It is as serious as that.
again – Yawn