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17-year-old
Sohane Benziane rolled in agony as she vainly tried to extinguish her
burning
flesh. Moments before, she cowered, drenched in gasoline as a teenaged
boy advanced, menacing her with a lighter. As she was set ablaze, the
boy’s
friends only watched. She died in a nearby hospital shortly thereafter.
Young Sohane bore the consequences a woman can expect for saying no to
a man who wants to possess her.
This
did not happen in the
Third World or the Balkan War. It happened in Vitry-sur-Seine, France
in
Oct. 2002. Neither was this an isolated occurrence. Taliban-like
subjugation
of women has become commonplace in this 1960’s-era housing project,
which
has become a crime-ridden North African ghetto. Any young female who
dares
to so much as show her face in this Parisian suburb risks taunts,
threats
and worse.
“It's
everywhere, all the
time. Beatings, rapes, the lot - the worst is the names they call you,
especially if you're dressed in a girly way which [in the eyes of these
boys] makes you a slut,” Amel, 21, told the AP. Muslim women are
finding
their lives in the West increasingly resembling what they or their
mothers
left behind in the Middle East. Although the men may appear in Western
garb, women are increasingly expected to be veiled. College educations
and careers are also being forcibly truncated in favor of ‘arranged’
marriages.
While
this and worse occurred
wholesale in Taliban Afghanistan, the West paid scant attention.
Indeed,
in today’s Middle East, women are still widely considered to be little
more than livestock. During the 1991 Gulf war, uniformed female US
military
were beaten by Saudi police if caught driving. While married men in
that
region are allowed to have ‘temporary marriages’ to mistresses and
prostitutes,
their wives are subject to death by stoning if declared unfaithful.
Such
phenomena remain neither
interesting to our media, the educational elites nor to the
self-appointed
women’s advocates here. Now that such victimization is happening in the
West proper, there is still a sense of insulation that allows it to be
virtually ignored. After all, it’s only happening in ‘their’
neighborhoods,
right? Instead, legitimate advocacy for women is typified by the likes
of keeping ‘pro-life’ jurists off the Supreme Court, finding
‘gender-neutral’
appellations for manhole covers and ensuring that “Heather’s two
Mommies”
finds its way into every elementary school classroom.
This
torching of young
girl for asserting her will did provoke some reaction in France,
however.
A March 8 International Women’s Day demonstration included women
wearing
t-shirts bearing the slogan: “Ni
Putes, Ni Soumises” – [Neither Whores
nor Submissive]. Joining the march was a boy whose t-shirt read, “Not
Judgmental,
not Superior.” Discreet counseling has been offered to the victims
while
the search for causes and solutions proceeds. Joblessness,
discrimination
and the artificial ghettos that emerged in the government housing
projects
are cited as the major contributing factors.
These
are valid considerations,
but the most fundamental causes are not being explored because many of
them are rooted in the most cherished of Leftist ideological sacred
cows:
Abortion on
Demand
and Contraception – We in the Western world have been
applying
our
most advanced technology to the facilitation of sex with as many
partners
as possible while at the same time being relieved of the natural
consequences:
sexually transmitted disease and babies. Success has eluded us in
eradicating
the former effect; we seem to be on the ropes in that regard. However
in
the latter category, victory is ours to enjoy. As Patrick Buchanan
points
out in “The
Death of the West”, we are seeing “more coffins than cradles.”
Our youth
now accepts as a
given that bearing and raising children in a family setting is merely
one
among many equally valid ‘alternate lifestyles.’ Further, abortion is
now
widely regarded as the moral equivalent of a tonsillectomy. In
contrast,
our newest immigrants come from places where such a mentality is
inconceivable.
We are thus being bred out, which raises the next issue:
Unlimited
Immigration
– Illegal immigration in unprecedented numbers has continued for more
than
a generation. The resultant demographic shift increasingly erodes the
political
will to resist it. Similar phenomena exist throughout the West. Because
of the drop in fertility, our median age has shifted upward, which
necessitates
more immigration to make up the difference.
Certainly
there have been waves
of poor uneducated immigrants in America’s past. Their numbers were at
that time controlled to allow for assimilation. That is no longer the
case.
Additionally, the concept of newcomers contributing their cultural
attributes
to the whole and joining a further-enriched American society is now
considered
quaint at best. Consequently, there are now foreign-speaking enclaves
in
this country wherein an American is compelled to learn their language
and
customs in order to function. This is also a result of another academic
theory put into practice:
Cultural
Relativism/Multiculturalism
– Since the 1960’s it has been drummed into Western society that each
culture
is equally valid. This is one reason why we see few reports on how
women
actually live in the Middle East. Merely exposing the brutality of
another
culture is now widely regarded as the purview of white supremacists.
There are
essential differences
between cultures [not races] that are palpably expressed in terms of
political
freedom and economic prosperity. The Western world is the singular
birthplace
of liberty as we know it. Academia will hear none of these historically
demonstrable facts, let alone teach them.
Western
inquiry and experimentation
with limited representative government traces its roots as far back as
ancient Greece. The Protestant Reformation then provided the impetus
for
true democracy to be made real. Martin Luther’s 95 Theses had
unintentionally
led to a fundamental reconsideration of all authority structures,
religious
and political. Once the genie was out of the bottle, it was only a
matter
of time before kings found themselves confronted with subjects
demanding
their God-given rights. Landed aristocracy soon gave way to market
economies.
There
is simply no equivalent
of this in any other culture. Even in the West, those nations that did
not embrace the Reformation were left politically and economically
behind.
The Philosopher Kings who
brought us abortion-on-demand, unlimited immigration and cultural
relativism
have once again ignored the Law of Unforeseen Consequences. A
population
that was not raised to believe in peaceful coexistence with other
cultures
or ‘alternate lifestyles’ is demographically supplanting us. They
despise
our freedom and yet come to reap its economic fruits. The likely
outcome
of a continuation on this path is predictable.
Perhaps
it is possible for
us to recover. We would need to abandon all of the above and other
fraudulent
social theories that serve to weaken liberty. The existing legal
immigrant
population urgently requires acculturation. The illegals should be
found
and deported. Mr. Buchanan also points out that young people would need
to be convinced to raise families sized similarly to two generations
ago.
The odds are against us in all regards, but it is not yet hopeless.
If we
fail, the Illuminati
who facilitated the West’s transition from freedom to the ‘lifestyle’
of
the Third World will be the first to go.
In “1984,”
George Orwell depicted a society mired in a combination of every form
of
absolutism favored by his contemporaries. In “Anthem,”
Ayn Rand demonstrated the complete societal degeneration that
inevitably
occurs when the state is truly supreme. Neither of them could have
anticipated
that civilization’s demise could have been facilitated by the
deliberate
abandonment of freedom by the minority of the world’s population who
tenuously
enjoys it.
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