Face it, the fundamental truth is that civilization and savagery are innately at war with one another. Some of us were awakened to that war on 9/11 when planes crashed into skyscrapers. Others when we saw Islamic beheading videos spread across social media. What we saw in Israel this past week, Hamas terrorists raping, mutilating, and defiling corpses, should be another bloody wake-up call (but unfortunately, will do little to wake up those on the Left).
Daniel Greenfield Beyond the politics and the geopolitics, we still haven’t come to terms with what we’re fighting.
Cruelty, beheading, burning to death, torturing and mutilating are the essence of Islam. This is how Islamic warfare was practiced beginning with Mohammed for over a thousand years. It’s how it continues to be practiced, whether it’s ISIS fighting other Muslims, Azebajani troops killing Armenians, Hamas attacking Israelis, or Islamic terrorists plotting carnage in Western nations.
Islam was born out of a war by barbarians against the civilized societies of Persia and Byzantium. Despite academic mythmaking, its vision never extended beyond rape and slavery, its empires fell into power struggles, beginning with Sunnis and Shiites, and its cultural and scientific accomplishments were all looted from conquered peoples. When civilization finally toppled the Ottoman Empire with some help from its internal barbarians, the cycle began again.
Israel is just one front in a global war between savages and civilization. And not all of the savages bow to Allah. There are inner city gangs across the American hemisphere that behead and torture their victims. And there are children of civilization that turn into savages. Savagery is not a condition of birth: it is a choice. People born into savagery can become civilized and those born into the highest echelons of civilization can prey on us like the worst vicious animals.
The question is how do civilized societies confront savagery? Do we blame ourselves for having made the savages what they are through our capitalism and colonialism even though they have behaved this way long before modern western civilization amounted to anything? Or do we set forth to reeducate them, to build modern nations for them and teach them to become civilized?
We have sent forth our sons and daughters to make peace with them and to educate them. Our societies opened themselves to embrace and celebrate the virtues of the noble savage. When we realized that we could not coexist with savages, we tried to remake our societies to serve them. All of that has been tried and civilization is still drowning in the violence of the savages.
Savages are offended by the existence of civilization. When they see one, they want to destroy it. There can be no peace with savages because, contrary to Islam, peace is a condition of civilization. To have peace, you must be civilized. Savages don’t even view peace as a value apart from the conclusion of a successful conquest which then sets the stage for the next one.
Civilized people develop complex mechanisms of exchange, but savages see no reason why they shouldn’t take something or someone if they are too weak to defend themselves. No amount of lectures will ever convince a savage that anything other than clan relations should prevent him from stealing a car or raping a woman if there will be no clear consequences.
That’s because savages, unlike civilized people, have no conscience, and therefore no soul.
Islam, unlike Judaism and Christianity, is not a religion of the soul, but entirely of power. From its genocidal chant, “Allahu Akbar” that proclaims the physical supremacy of Allah to all other religions through the military victories of its followers, everything is reduced to conquest. The truth of Islam is validated through war. When Jihadists conquer and rape non-Muslims, they are proving that Islam is true and that the religions of the conquered are false. That’s why ISIS Jihadists would tell the Yazidi girls they were raping that rape brought them “closer to Allah.”
Civilizations have become too sophisticated and decadent to understand such concepts. When faced with barbarism, they go down a dialectic rabbit hole that explains the savages in terms of how civilized people interacted with them. Did they hurt their feelings, overthrow their governments or draw mean cartoons? Did capitalism leave them adrift in the world economy? How did we fail to integrate the newest generation of immigrants with all the welfare checks?
These sophomoric sessions are pointless. A hyena doesn’t eat your chickens because you failed to integrate it. That’s just what hyenas do. Man at the base state is a predator and savages strive to be the alpha predators. Civilizations become superior predators because they provide room for arts and sciences, because they think about something other than how they are superior to their neighbors and will prove it by killing their sons and raping their daughters.
But when civilizations spend too much time thinking, they forget that one reason they came into being was to build something better than a state of savagery. Decadent civilizations internalize all the criticism and their peoples endlessly quarrel and think that the worst possible things in the world are the ones that exist among their own people. Savages remind us otherwise.
Much like a hurricane reminds us of the alternative to houses and famine reminds us of the alternative to food, savages remind us of the alternative to civilization. Unfortunately truly decadent civilizations need constant reminders of all of these things. We have to be constantly told that food doesn’t magically emerge from a supermarket, that houses are not the natural state of being and that not being murdered by savages in your home is a new way of life.
Tolerate savages, give them enough rope and they will do all of these things to you. And more.
Savagery should not be confused with stupidity. Civilizations have been brought down by savages and civilizations were built by savages who became civilized. Savages are clever and cunning. They are alert to the weaknesses of civilized people and experts at finding ways around whatever walls and security systems that civilized people build to protect themselves.
Civilizations that spend enough time allowing savages to hang around will fall. Tolerating savages is actually a sign that a civilization has turned decadent. Welcoming and advocating for savages means that the end is nigh. Viable civilizations drive savages away. They do it not just to protect themselves but because banishing savages is what makes a civilization civilized.
When civilizations forget what the difference between themselves and the savages are, they lose their sense of right and wrong, and they can no longer explain why savagery is wrong. When faced with the worst imaginable crimes, they can still equivocate a case for the criminals.
Hamas terrorists can rape and kill their victims, and defenders will rally to explain why the issue is actually more complicated than it seems. This happens with Islamic terrorists all the time.
Savages and decadent civilizations have no firm concept of right and wrong. Everything is subjectively opportunistic and there can be scenarios in which raping a woman, killing her and then posting a photo of her body to social media so her family can see is actually right.
That is why civilization has to defeat savagery, without equivocation, apologies or sympathy, not only to win, but to revive its own soul. Negotiations and laws of war are for peer civilization. Savages offer nothing and so are owed nothing. They keep no agreements except when it suits them. Their word is worthless and their morality is non-existent.
A civilization that does not understand all this will learn it the hard way.
Civilizations are built on the suppression of savagery: both internally and externally.. When civilizations defeat savages, learning, art, science and ideas thrive. And when civilizations allow savages to ravage them, they lose their people, their morality and eventually their existence.
No form of war is more sacred than that of civilization against savagery. It is these wars that made Christianity and Judaism, not to mention all the ideas of western civilization, as well as those of Asia and India, possible. This is once again the defining struggle of our age.
Either civilization or the savages will prevail. Any attempt at a middle ground is suicide.
Our grandchildren will either make great things or they will be hunted by roaming savages like the teenage girls at a concert in Israel or those similarly hunted in venues in Europe.
All the hopes of mankind depend on the utter and total defeat of the savages, not just in Israel, but in America, in Europe, in India and Asia, and around the world. This is not the struggle of any single nation, but the crisis of mankind. Either humanity will rise or we will fall.
Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center’s Front Page Magazine.
Reader says
IDF Gaza Operation Disrupts Celebratory Palestinian Candy-Distribution
“Once again, the world stands idly as Israel wantonly ignores all international norms.”
http://www.preoccupiedterritory.com/idf-gaza-operation-disrupts-celebratory-palestinian-candy-distribution/
Anthony S says
The world is divided into two groups:
Those that LOVE AND CREATE.
Those that HATE AND DESTROY.
— José Martí, Cuban Poet and Leader
(in the original Spanish)
“Los hombres van en dos bandos:
los que aman y fundan,
los que odian y deshacen”.
The Quran instructs Muslims to lie and cheat all infidels, to tax infidels a dhimmi to convert infidels to Islam. If they refuse to convert, they’re instructed to kill the infidel.
They don’t want to be a part of this world. They’re among the Accelerationists around the world. For different reasons they all want to speed the demise of modern liberal society.
They have been handled too lightly for too long. Thomas Jefferson even had to deal with Muslim murderers and pirates. Just look at the US Marines hymn, Battle Hymn of the Republic. It’s all there.
We must eliminate Islam by any and all means necessary.
Victor says
I agree with all of you. I have never been more anxious and depressed. I came across an absolutely disgusting channel on YouTube called “Democracy Now”. The title of their podcast is “How western nations are justifying Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people”. I did not open it, of course. They are a bunch of extreme left-wing nut jobs. I believe that Israel should be proactive and take out Hizbollah the next time it fires rockets into Israel or sends terrorists into Israel. Some Americans shamefully cry about the USA fighting Israel’s battles, but if Iran is not stopped, it will become nuclear (if it isn’t already), and the myth of American invincibility will be shattered when God forbid, another 911 style attack happens in New York, L.A., or any other major American city. Israel’s battle is Good vs. Evil, pure and simple. I hope that our government is smart enough to realize that the Muslim mantra of “first the Saturday people, then the Sunday people” is a Muslim war cry akin to Allah Akbar that directly threatens all of us here in the USA and what is left of the civilized world.
BareNakedIslam says
Yes, DN is about as far left as it gets.
Daniel Erbstoesser says
Wrong this is not warfare but outright terror and violence. I learned the art of war and this shit was no part of it, never ever. We learned to fight and to look into the face of the enemy and we never learned to kill inocent civilians or to use them as shield. This is what the invader or muslim does then he is not comming to live with us , no he comes to take our nations and freedom. We the civilized world need to take off our toleranz coat and stand up to fight or our children will have nothing to laugh about.
Jerven says
I disagree (Oh, I agree with the sentiment but) it ‘is’ war, just not between ‘equals’.
I too learnt the ‘laws of war’(in the idealistic classroom and basic training), the moral construct based on ‘honourable’ behaviour between civilised combatants. My personal experience around the globe was soon to ‘disabuse’ me as to the notion that it was even vaguely applicable to anyone ‘not’ from a western, white, Christian nation (and not even in all of those). Not only do other ‘tribes’, races, religions and cultures view these notions as sheer stupidity, but as weaknesses to be exploited against us (honour, chivalry, even the basics of not abusing innocents or the vanquished are … entirely and ‘only’ Christian concepts and values).
America ‘should’ have learnt that lesson in Vietnam (Britain had learnt it centuries before in every African, Asian and Middle eastern sh*thole we fought the barbarians in – for which we have been demonised, by those who choose to ignore the barbarity of the enemy, most especially America) or at least in Iraq and Afghanistan. The fact that “if history doesn’t repeat itself, it at least rhymes”, that ‘we’ as nations and cultures need to relearn that lesson is now sadly apparent.
‘We’ are ‘better’. I have never once raped, abused or mutilated a foe, or (though tempted a time or two) tortured them. I have, on the other hand, tracked down ‘many’ abusers, rapists, mutilators and torturers (murderous savages masquerading as ‘soldiers’) and … cleanly and humanely (well mostly, I ‘do’ have a penchant for ‘things that go boom’) ‘exterminated’ them.
“As you sow …”.
It is the height of folly (suicidal even) to treat those who have no conception of honour, or even basic humanity, as you would a civilised enemy. ‘That’ is the lesson (one you and I learnt long ago) our countries and cultures need to relearn and … act accordingly. Maybe, if any ‘good’ can be thought to come from this latest atrocity, ‘this’ will be an ‘educational’ event for some.
Psalm 144
2 Samuel 22:38
Daniel Erbstoesser says
Jerven, when i read your commend and think about it then you are right here. We the west have made laws concerning war that we should not have made. Like the weapons laws here in my country germany, the only one who dont carry a gun is the german but the import, well they shit on our gunlaws or any law. Your right with anything goes and all is legal in war, this we must learn then war is not a eight hour job as the german thinks. Fazit we need to learn to fight like men and be brutal and dirty then they are. Thanks for these words.I allways give what i get and that double so you can think of what i do but im only one from millions.
Jerven says
The Jewish people have always been the … “canary in the coal-mine” (the first ‘warning’ of what is planned for … everyone else, the rest of us, wherever and whenever attacks against them have occurred – Martin Niemöller said it best).
The real question isn’t the predictable, known, cheerfully bragged about and openly, explicitly stated aims of the muslims, the real question is … why do supposedly ‘caring’ leftists ‘always’ side with them. Always!
The vast majority of (the foot soldiers of) ‘the left’ are merely “useful idiots” (examples of the truth of Chesterton’s “When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.” – the majority of women on the left are simply doing what women, unconsciously always do, submitting to what/who they see as ‘the strong-man’), but the ‘true believers’ are all “good socialists”.
The mistake most people make is in ‘not’ seeing socialism (of whatever stripe, national, international or the new rebranded caring-sharing-eco-globalist type) for what it really is … a religion (socialism – a religion masquerading as a political movement; islam – a political movement masquerading as a religion. No wonder they love each other). And … a religion that shares ‘every’ tenet ‘of faith’ with islam. [Hint: the left view gays, trans, blacks, etc. as ‘tools’, to be used against the normals, to inflame them, to be their “Reichstag fire”, prior to being loaded in those box-cars and sent to the camps – once they’ve enabled the ‘rise’ of their ‘strong-man’ on the back of the rising backlash. View the lefts support of gays/trans/blacks in that light, and more importantly … view the attacks they enabled against Israel in that light too (9/11=Patriot Act + War on Terror, cough!)].
The real ‘problem’ we in The West face isn’t, surprisingly (even now), islam it’s … the fifth-columnist (true-believer) leftists. Until ‘they’ are dealt with (scourged, root and branch from every place of power) everything else is (ineffectual) talk.
The mentally ill and the perverts haven’t figured out that they are being used and set-up, but … they will soon enough (but just like the naive ‘peace ravers’ it will be too late).
The Tasmanian Devil says
And yet, despite the civilized world knowing full well what these barbarians are, protests in SUPPORT of the terror and murder continue.
The supporters are worse than the disease.
Lynda H says
Thank you so much, BNI: Daniel Greenfield’s article is simply put and breathtakingly wise, and I wish it could be read by everyone. Even if – or particularly if – they don’t understand it yet. When they do, will it be too late?
BareNakedIslam says
Everyone needs to share this in social media/email. The MSM never will.
sixlittlerabbits says
Daniel Greenfield has it right. Muslimes want to wipe out ALL who differ from them. They will start with the Jews, then go on to destroy Christians, Chinese (Uyghur terrorists), Buddhists (Myanmar), Hindus, US Americans (9/11), Sufis, Zoroasterians, etc., etc.
Reader says
As BNI posted long ago
https://www.barenakedislam.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/violent-koran-verses.jpg
I know there are a lot more, but it seems that Google, Bing(Microsoft), Yahoo and DuckDuckGo have all censored the images from BNI from their indexes.
BareNakedIslam says
Actually, Duck Duck Go has a lot of BNI images.
Reader says
And don’t forget all those charities who fundraise to help “palestinians”.
Yes, this is a parody, but they have acted as shields for Hamas in the past and continue to work closely with them.
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Ozgaza says
Do world citizens with an open mind think Muslim Vermin will stop if they managed to liquidate Israel and Jews? Next on the menu are Christians,Hindus,Buddhists etc The hate filled pages of toilet paper known as the Koran direct these inbred monsters to do what they do..That will never change….Where ever they go Muslims and their perfect child molester and mass murder Mo go they bring the worst of mankind.