I came across this Post at the Gates of Vienna and it is long…..really lllooooonnnnggg. But keeping up with his other posts dealing is Islamism, Fjordman has a number of interesting (and scary) points. I urge you to go and read it, as I am only going to abstract out some of the high points (at least, those that popped out at me).
I got many comments on my posts about Muslim anti-female violence in Scandinavia. Several of my readers asked what Scandinavian men are doing about this. What happened to those Vikings, anyway? Did they drink too much mead in Valhalla? Despite the romantic mystique surrounding them today, the Vikings were for the most part savage barbarians. However, I doubt they would have looked the other way while their daughters were harassed by Muslims. In some ways, this makes present-day Scandinavians worse barbarians than the Vikings ever were.
No, here we have to follow rules by calling the police who may or may not arrive in time. In Sweden, it is well known that there are no-go areas in most of the major cities as the Muslim immigrants have declared them to be "their" areas (sound familiar – that’s what’s happening here in the US with the Latino illegal immigrants).
One of the reasons for this lack of response is a deliberate and pervasive censorship in the mainstream media, to conceal the full scale of the problem from the general public.
Political correctness run amok! We can’t criticize their culture – it is the same as ours!
However, I suspect that the most important reason has to do with the extreme anti-masculine strand of feminism that has permeated Scandinavia for decades. The male protective instinct doesn’t take action because Scandinavian women have worked tirelessly to eradicate it, together with everything else that smacks of traditional masculinity. Because of this, feminism has greatly weakened Scandinavia, and perhaps
The money quote, and the whole thrust of the article. The feminism movement has effectively emasculated the male ego in many ways here in the West, and now the chickens have come home to roost (pun intended).
The standard explanation in my country [men voting for anti-immigration parties and women for "multicultural" ones -Skip] for this gender gap in voting patterns is that men are more “xenophobic and selfish” than women, who are more open-minded and possess a greater ability to show solidarity with outsiders. That’s one possibility. Another one is that men traditionally have had the responsibility for protecting the “tribe” and spotting an enemy, a necessity in a dog-eat-dog world. Women are more naïve, and less willing to rationally think through the long-term consequences of avoiding confrontation or dealing with unpleasant realities now.
I think that part of his argument implies, but does not explicitly state, that this neutering was done with current Western society in mind. Who knew that it might be a part of the reason that Western culture might be brought down – from the inside? Killing off the psychological parts that would protect society is OK if ALL of the world’s culture is the same. Now we see a culture (Islam) that has retained that "killer dog" mentality – and from this onslaught of political correctness and emasculation, is our culture able to defend it self?
Western feminists have cultivated a culture of victimhood in the West, where you gain political power through your status in the victim hierarchy. In many ways, this is what Political Correctness is all about. They have also demanded, and largely got, a re-writing of the history books to address an alleged historic bias; their world view has entered the school curriculum, gained a virtual hegemony in the media and managed to portray their critics as “bigots.” They have even succeeded in changing the very language we use, to make it less offensive. Radical feminists are the vanguard of PC.
We have turned the normal power hierarchy upside down – the "weak" are on top. However, when one is under attack, is this a great position to be in, where the weak have effectively muzzled the strong, even when "you can see the whites of their eyes"?
When Muslims, who above all else like to present themselves as victims, enter Western nations, they find that much of their work has already been done for them. They can use a pre-established tradition of claiming to be victims, demanding state intervention and maybe quotas to address this, as well as a complete re-writing of history and public campaigns against bigotry and hate speech.
I have already posted multiple times that our enemies are using our own tools against us. I agree with Fjordman, they have no compunction as to how they win – they are laughing as they see the West literally open the gates to the city to allow ourselves to be conquered.
Let me string a couple of quotes together…..
Schyman’s battle cry is “Death to the nuclear family!” I have heard the same slogan repeated by young Norwegian feminists in recent years. Schyman seethed that today’s family unit is “built on a foundation of traditional gender roles in which women are subordinate to men. The hierarchy of gender, for which violence against women is the ultimate expression, has been cemented.” …….
….“All sex, even consensual sex between a married couple, is an act of violence perpetrated against a woman,” according to Catherine MacKinnon , prominent feminist scholar at the University of Michigan and Yale. “All men are rapists and that’s all they are,” said Marilyn French, Author and advisor to Al Gore’s Presidential Campaign. “I feel that ‘man-hating’ is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them,” stated Robin Morgan, Ms. Magazine Editor.
If all oppression comes from Western men, it becomes logical to try weakening them as much as possible. … Well congratulations to Western European women. You’ve succeeded in harassing and ridiculing your own sons into suppressing many of their masculine instincts. To your surprise, you didn’t enter a feminist Nirvana, but paved the way for an unfolding Islamic hell.
…The catch with a too soft society is that it is unsustainable. It will get squashed as soon as it is confronted by more traditional, aggressive ones. … What are liberal feminists going to do when faced with aggressive gang of Muslim youngsters? Burn their bras and throw the pocket edition of the Vagina Monologues at them?
This idea has been running around for a while, and I don’t think that the West is grappling well with this at all. Again, if this was a monoculture world, it might make sense to "tone down" mens’ collective spirit of violence. But the world isn’t that way, as we are finding out.
The other thing to notice, that if the above quotes were coming from men (along with others that I have not reprinted), it would be considered hate speech. Don’t you just love the dichotomy of this – if I am a victim, I can safely say what I want and if you disagree, you are just a bigot (even if you are right). Thus, not only do we emasculate men and their sense of "protecting (think way back to Michael Dukakis’s 1988 Presidential debate and Bernard Shaw’s infamous question of "Governor, if [his wife] were raped and murdered, would you favor an irrevocable death penalty for the killer?") we can slander them too.
And now that we need that "feature"….
Anyways, the Post goes on to why the West’s birthrate has plummeted, and the gist of what I think he has to say is partly because of the Nanny / husband State (why bother with a husband when the Government will get me what I need), and if women and culture are always making fun of men, why should men bother marrying those that are always poking at them?
To sum it up, it must be said that radical feminism has been one of the most important causes of the current weakness of Western civilization, both culturally and demographically. Feminists, often with a Marxist world view, have been a crucial component in establishing the suffocating public censorship of Political Correctness in Western nations. They have also severely weakened the Western family structure, and contributed to making the West too soft and self-loathing to deal with aggression from Muslims.
These are just a few ruminations – I urge you to read the whole thing!
