Melanie Phillips Wants To Save The West
Melanie Phillips is a veteran journalist who while initially something of a liberal has lurched to the right over the past three decades or so. That isn’t necessarily a bad thing, especially for a Jewess, however, her latest claim, that the West is under threat from barbarians at the Gates of Vienna misses the point, because, as the saying goes, a nation can survive its overt enemies, but not the traitors within.
For Phillips, the barbarians are Moslems and Arabs, indeed at times she has said so openly. In 2011, she referred to the moral depravity of the Arabs following the massacre of a family of Jewish settlers in the West Bank. The youngest victim was just three months old.
People tend to use strong language in the wake of such outrages, and this was a genuine outrage. Before condemning Phillips, one should consider the response to far less outrageous incidents, like the 1992 acquittal of the assailants of Rodney King. Although King was badly beaten, he survived and recovered, yet the extreme left and black race-hustlers decided the courageous (but clearly unwarranted) jury verdict justified large scale rioting which resulted in over sixty deaths, twelve thousand arrests and over a billion dollars in damage. We have seen many such incidents since.
After the massacres of October 7 and the sick response of Western leftists to them, Phillips ramped up her outrage, now the West must indeed choose between civilisation and barbarism. That includes the barbarism that has been imported, but who was largely responsible for these imports and for the genesis of this barbarism?
Her beloved Israel exists precisely because of such barbarism. The Zionist entity was born out of terrorism, not as the result of some valiant war of independence but of a terror campaign by Zionist Jews against the British (who had just saved Jews from the gas chambers of the Nazi menace) and against helpless Arab villagers.
In Britain, the United States, and many other countries, Jewish organisations, pressure groups and individual activists fought a propaganda war against the native white populations. The evidence for this is overwhelming, so calling it an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory does not pass the smell test.
In Britain, any white person who objected to non-white immigration was smeared as a Nazi. That included the National Front, whose founder and many other leading members had actually fought against the Nazis. In America, they were smeared either as Nazis or white supremacists. The smear merchants included the Board of Deputies of British Jews, the Searchlight Organisation, and in the United States, the ADL.
White people were trashed. The Jewess Susan Sontag called the white race the cancer of history. The Jew Noel Ignatiev started a newspaper that called to abolish the white race.
Although they are far from the only ones, Jewish organisations such as the ADL have lobbied against immigration controls and have promoted not simply integration but miscegenation.
Does this mean there are no problems in the Islamic world? Of course not, there is the dangerous, toxic ideology of Islamism, but to judge Moslems by the Islamists is a bit like comparing all Christians to the Westboro Baptist Church or the Christian Identity movement. The country with the largest Moslem population by far is Indonesia. There have been Islamist terror attacks there, but the only one directed specifically against Westerners was the notorious Bali Bombing of 2002 which killed 88 Australians and 23 Britons among others. This suggests that the problem of Islamist terrorism is related more to geography than religion.
The idea that Islam will conquer the world by whatever means is part delusion, part fantasy. Although there is currently something of a religious revival, including of Catholicism, overall, religion is in retreat; that applies especially to Islam. Whether or not the Prophet actually existed, like Jesus, indeed like Robin Hood, Adolf Hitler, and Jimmy Savile, he has become a mythical figure because most of what has been written about him is either false or cannot be verified. This is something on which leading Islamic scholars are agreed; books have been written about fake hadith.
While Islamist clowns boast in public that Britain, America and eventually the entire world will be ruled by a Caliphate, in private they whine that people are leaving the religion. Even regular Moslems have moved with the times. For most of them, music is no longer haram, that and a few other things! So if Islam isn’t the problem, what is?
The main problem is socialism in its many forms, big government, collectivism, call it what you want, a political philosophy that claims to be the friend of the working class - the toiling and exploited masses - yet somehow, curiously, always seems to be funded by big money, as in the recent disturbances State-side. To this we may add modern technology, which has all but created a total surveillance state, certainly for those of us who live in even quite small towns.
Melanie Phillips isn’t entirely wrong when she speaks of Arab depravity, but neither are those who speak of Jewish depravity, or Western depravity, or male depravity, etc. To extricate ourselves from the problems of terrorism and repression, we need to work across barriers with those who like us want to put a stop to the madness that led to the atrocities of October 7 and the many similar atrocities before it.