The War on the West

by Douglas Murray

But no greater threat exists than that which comes from people inside the West intent on pulling apart the fabric of our societies, piece by piece. By assaulting the majority populations in these countries. By saying that our histories are entirely reprehensible and have nothing good to be said about them. By claiming that everything in our past that has led up to our present is irredeemably riddled with sin and that while these same sins have beset every society in history, the debtor should knock at only one door. And most importantly by those who pretend that a civilization that has given more to the world in knowledge, understanding, and culture than any other in history somehow has nothing whatsoever to be said for it. What is anyone to say or do in the face of such myopic, omnipresent hatred? We have, it seems to me, only a couple of options. They are options that remain the same today as they have always been. One is to fight and defend our own history along clear but exclusionary lines. The steam building for this backlash is already starting to become visible. It would consist of a brutal but logical calibration. If people decide that they have contempt for our ancestors, then we will have contempt for theirs. There is, after all, no reason why everybody in the West should agree to remain stuck forever in the position of a masochist with no safe word. More likely is that a growing number of people will come to reject the whole game. They might reply with the follo...