Godless And Free (13 page)

37.
Take a Cruise, Tom

February 22, 2008

One religion, if you’ll pardon the expression, which has been in the news lately is Scientology, which I have to say I don’t know very much about. It’s not nearly as high profile here in Britain as it is in America. I don’t think any celebrities are involved, at least not yet.

From what I can gather it was founded by a science fiction writer, which might help to explain why they believe that human beings are burdened by entities who are part of the fallout from some ancient intergalactic genocide, and that practising Scientology is a way to rid yourself of the influence of these entities.

So pretty much your standard religious bullshit, then. You’re contaminated and need to be cleansed by experts, for a price. The original sin common to most religions, it seems. There’s something wrong with being human. Well, well, who would have thought it?

Some people consider Scientology to be a sinister cult, and, well, even if it is, we’ve never had a problem with sinister cults in the past. We’ve positively nurtured them and allowed them to grow into the monstrous dogmas that currently plague every aspect of life on this planet, so why are we so upset about this particular bunch of lunatics?

And shouldn’t people have a choice? Let’s say you’ve got a taste for religious insanity, but not the mainstream kind, and you’re casting around for something a little different, because you don’t want to follow the crowd. What are you, a sheep? Of course not. Now you’ve got a cool alternative. You’ve got your Scientology.

And although people do talk about it in a negative terms, it does have positive aspects which I think we should acknowledge. For example, they haven’t initiated any mass suicides or mass murders as far as I’m aware, and I think that’s a very positive thing.

However, as with all fanatical religious cults, it does have its negative side. For example, they’re notoriously litigious by all accounts, which means they probably do have something to hide. And they also have a reputation for harassing people who criticise them, which is very negative if it’s true, and I’m not saying it is – not yet, anyway.

Also, I have to say that if a member of my family were to join any organisation that urged them to reject their family and friends and turn their back on the life they knew, I’d say that would be a very negative thing. And I think anyone prepared to do something that unnatural would be operating under a powerful negative influence.

However, having said all this, I still find myself attracted to Scientology because it ends in “…ology”, and it contains most of the word “science”, which gives it a vague air of authority to gullible uneducated people like myself.

And if you want to know the secrets you have to join the gang. I mean, what would it cost me anyway? A few hundred, a few thousand? OK, maybe a few hundred thousand, plus my sanity, but everything in life has risks.

I’m certainly not worried about being brainwashed. Are you kidding? I’m a Catholic. I’ve been done. I’ve been through the full rinse cycle. Fluff dried, ironed and folded. So don’t talk to me about being brainwashed.

So yes, I’m keen to find out more about this religion, but unfortunately there is one small obstacle, and that is the poster boy himself, Mr Tom Cruise. I just have such a serious problem with his movies, because he always seems to be playing somebody who’s taller than he really is, and this just doesn’t work for me. In the back of my mind I’m thinking: “This guy’s acting tall. Why is he pretending? What is he ashamed of?”

Being small is fine. There’s nothing wrong with being small. I know lots of small people, and they’re all wonderful.

If Tom Cruise played small movie heroes it would do small people’s image a lot of good on this planet, but no, instead he chooses to perpetuate the illusion and reinforce the stereoty that tall is good and small is bad.

If he’s capable of this kind of moral dishonesty in observable life, what’s he going to be like when it comes to the mysteries of life?

And if he’s literally not prepared to stand up for the little guy, I have to ask myself: Is this the kind of person I want to be associated with, and how much can his religion really offer me?

So yes, although I’d like to find out more about Scientology, I’m afraid this guy is just in the way, and I really don’t see a way past this.

If he were to jump into a little space pod and disappear off this planet to pastures new, taking his ridiculous movies with him of course, well then I might be inclined to examine Scientology a bit more closely, but until then I’m afraid it will have to remain a big fat mystery to me. Oh well, you can’t win them all. Nanu nanu.

38.
Appeasing Islam

March 8, 2008

According to a recent opinion poll many Muslims say that the way for the West to have better relations with Islam is to show it more respect. And who said Muslims don’t have a sense of humour?

Given that Islam is officially above criticism in the West, it’s hard to imagine how we could give it any more respect short of closing down all the pubs, growing beards, and beating up women who don’t want to dress like nuns…

Ah yes, of course. Silly me.

I think many people in the West are now realising that Islam has already been given far too much respect, especially here in Europe, where according to another poll, people now see it as a threat to their culture.

They carry on accommodating its every demand of course, but this not because Islam is welcome in Europe – far from it. It’s because people have been conditioned by the lie of multiculturalism to believe that what they should think is more important than what they do think.

So, although people will criticise Islam in private, they know that to do so publicly, in other words to be honest about their feelings, would instantly make them racists and Islamophobes and Nazis and disgusting imperialist ethnocentric fascist bastards grinding their jackboots into the faces of the innocent and the weak. So best not make a fuss. You want to beat your wife and mutilate your daughter? Be our guest. We’ll even subsidise it, because we want to be your friend. What’s that? You want to destroy our corrupt society? Well, that’s our fault, not yours. Here, have some more money.

This film* that’s coming out in Holland shortly which has got the whole country in a state of heightened terrorist alert is yet more proof that everything in Europe now needs to be measured against the possibility of Muslim violence. Every play, every film, every art exhibition, every magazine article – in fact our whole culture is now subject to Muslim approval.

But then this is Europe, and we have a history of appeasement and caving in to threats. Radical Islam knows this, and is playing us like a violin. They know that Islam will never get blamed for anything in Europe, no matter what happens. So that, for example, when the Danish press reprinted the cartoons recently, which was followed by a week of rioting by Muslim youths, Copenhagen’s chief of police refused to admit that it had anything to do with the cartoons. He said it was because they were bored. Yes, that’s right, they all rushed out and set fire to the city every night for a week for something to do. If only they’d had a table tennis club.

The whole thing happened because three Islamic fanatics were caught planning to murder the cartoonist. Imagine how bored they must have been.

Oh yes, also, a newsflash for European journalists. An anti-Semitic attack by Muslims on Jews is not a conflict between communities. In case you hadn’t noticed, Islam hates Jews. Even if Israel didn’t exist Islam would still hate Jews. Their holy book tells Muslims that they should hate Jews.

So I think you’ll find what’s happening is not a conflict between communities at all, but a violent unprovoked racist attack by Muslims on Jews, because they’re Jews. Just thought I’d clear that one up for you so that you can report it accurately next time, if you bother to report it at all.

If we were serious about respecting Islam we would give it an honest reality check. Islam needs to adapt to Europe, not the other way round. I know a lot of Muslims agree with this and they make the effort to adapt and to rub along with everybody else, which is great and it’s very welcome, but we all know that a lot of others don’t, which is why many European cities have large Muslim ghettos controlled by religious bigots where indigenous laws and values are increasingly unwelcome; places full of people who have no intention of integrating and who want nothing less than the end of our civilisation, while we pander and defer to them thanks to a biased press, a complacent judiciary, and the kind of politicians you wouldn’t wish on your worst enemy. Actually, you probably would.

And this situation is as much a threat to the freedom of ordinary Muslims as it is to everybody else. And it’s a clear indication that what we need in Europe now is not more respect for Islam. It’s less respect for Islam, and more respect for ourselves.

We need to stop pretending (because that’s what we’re doing pretending) that all cultures are equal, when we can clearly see that they’re not.

Islamic culture is not equal to western culture. It encourages violence against women, against Jews and homosexuals. It sanctions polygamy and marrying old men to young children in a disgusting travesty of human relations. Anyone in the West advocating these kinds of values would very quickly find themselves in jail.

It’s not equal. It’s inferior. And given radical Islam’s openness about its totalitarian agenda, this is not something that should be encouraged in any way. It should be discouraged by firm legislation, and by rigorous enforcement of the law. Remember the law?

Now I know that I’m going to be accused of racism and Islamophobia by the usual self-righteous pinheads, but I don’t mind, because those words have no value in this context. One has been neutralised by repeated dishonest misuse, and the other is just a barefaced lie concocted by the political left in tandem with the religious right in a marriage of convence which is quite simply beneath contempt.

A phobia is an irrational fear. Resisting Islam is not irrational. Pandering to it is irrational. Indulging the lie that Islamic culture is somehow equal to western culture while ignoring the victims of that culture is more than irrational. It’s downright criminal.

And if you really want to talk about racism, then look no further than the poisonous fiction of multiculturalism, a divisive and patronising racist ideology.

And the governments of Europe who promote it are racist governments. The civil servants who pander to it are racists. The university lecturers who encourage it are racists. The journalists who lie about it are racists. And the ordinary people who say one thing in private and another in public are cowardly racist hypocrites.

If we can’t bring ourselves to say what’s in our hearts when it truly matters then we’ve already given up our freedom, and with it the freedom of future generations, which is something that we’ve got no right to do.

We didn’t earn this freedom. It was handed to us on a plate by people who did earn it with their lives. We don’t own it. We’re custodians of it. It’s not ours to give away.

So it’s time to speak up, Europe. It’s time to stop whining and bellyaching about the Americans for five minutes and show a little backbone for once, just once.

Or do we want to spend the rest of our lives cowering like frightened mice from a handful of violent bigots who think they have a right to poke a finger into our chest and tell us how we’re allowed to live, what we can and can’t do, say and think?

Well, I don’t know about you, but anyone who asks me that question is going to get a very short answer, and I’ll give you a clue, it won’t contain the words “Allah” or “akbar”.

Peace. Wouldn’t that be nice?

* Geert Wilders’ film
Fitna
.

39.
The Religion of Fear

March 31, 2008

Hi everyone. Well, now that the
Fitna
furore has died down somewhat it’s interesting to see how many people are condemning the film, and how few people are condemning the thuggish intimidation that forced LiveLeak* to remove it.

What happened to all those people who keep telling us: “I don’t agree with what you say, but I’ll defend your right to say it?”

Where have they all gone? Maybe they’re on vacation.

No shortage of politicians, however, lining up to accuse the film of falsely equating Islam with violence, which is a bit like falsely equating Walt Disney with Mickey Mouse.

I’sure anyone who follows the news would also equate Islam with violence. I know I certainly do, because any time anybody criticises Islam they’re usually threatened with violence. Islam without violence is like an egg-free omelette. The religion is predicated on violence and the threat of violence. It’s a religion of peace in the same way that North Korea is a people’s democratic republic. But we’re not allowed to say that, because if we do we’ll be threatened with violence.

When the film was actually removed, under threat of violence, some Muslims actually had the nerve to congratulate LiveLeak for promoting tolerance on the internet. I tell you, whenever I think about this stuff now I feel like I’m in a hall of mirrors, don’t you?

To be fair, Dutch Muslims do deserve some praise, because they could have reacted violently and probably got away with it, we all know that, so all credit to them for not exploiting the situation. But the very fact that we are grateful to them pretty much proves the point of the film, because let’s be clear about this, it was the threat of Muslim violence that caused the Dutch government to grovel in such abject dhimmitude and to run around apologising like headless chickens before and after the event, a spectacle which I’m sure many Muslims enjoyed, and why shouldn’t they enjoy it? After all, it sends out a clear message to the entire Muslim world that in Europe we won’t stand up for what we believe in (or what we say we believe in) and we will be intimidated into silence. All you’ve got to do is shake your fist, and we’ll do exactly as we’re told.

So Islam in Europe now enjoys the best of all possible worlds. It’s a religion when it wants to be, it’s a culture when it wants to be, and it’s a race when it wants to be. It gets full rights on all three counts, demanding and getting respect wherever it goes, while giving absolutely none.

Hence we were treated recently to the spectacle of the Swiss foreign minister degrading herself and her country by putting on a headscarf before she was allowed to meet the homicidal leadership of Iran, in a cheap betrayal of all the brave women who have been murdered by these violent criminals in the name of Islam.

The Iranian government were among the first to criticise the film, too, taking time out from executing children, again in the name of Islam, to denounce it roundly. But I’m sure most people realise that this fake outrage is in no way genuine. It’s all part of a cynical campaign of intimidation by the Islamic world to force unwanted Islamic values into western society.

And that’s why in every free country there are now aggressive Islamist pressure groups, usually funded by the Saudis, who claim to speak for all Muslims, but who actually speak only for a small band of fanatical bigots like themselves, and who are very quick to insult our culture and our values as degenerate and immoral, while being themselves ultra sensitive to any perceived criticism, portraying themselves as victims, as oppressed, rather than the oppressors they are, knowing that if you repeat the lie often enough people will start to believe it. Mr Goebbels taught us that little nugget of wisdom, and the would-be authors of the next Holocaust have learned the lesson well.

Luckily for me I don’t get insulted easily on a personal level, not even at being called a racist kuffar, as some idiot called me recently, but when somebody attacks my culture, well, that’s a little different because that’s an assault on my values. It diminishes my sense of self-worth, I believe it violates my human rights and I think it should be prosecuted as a hate crime. It’s irrational, it’s paranoid, and really I think there’s only one word to describe it, and that is civilisationphobia. This is a word I like to use as a kind of umbrella word for a host of different phobias that manifest themselves in Islam, including:

Eleutherophobia – Fear of freedom.

Epistemophobia – Fear of knowledge.

Prosophobia – Fear of progress.

Peccatophobia – Fear of sinning, or imaginary crime.

Catagelophobia – Fear of being ridiculed.

Cenophobia – Fear of new things and ideas.

Cherophobia – Fear of gaiety (big fear of gaiety).

And the biggest fear of all, of course:

Gynophobia – Fear of women.

Islam is terrified of women, and that’s why all over the internet you’ll find clips from Arab television where, along with all the rampant Jew-hating and other propaganda aimed at turning children into murderers, you’ll find clerics calmly explaining under what circumstances a man may beat his wife in the religion of peace. That’s right, a man may beat his wife. And they wonder why we don’t want this stuff in Europe.

If you lay a violent hand on a woman you’re not a man, you’re an animal, and I don’t care how many so-called scholars tell you that cowardly brutality is the will of God. Chances are you’ve never been on the receiving end of the kind of punishment you like to dish out so freely. So I hope the Hindus have it right, because, if there’s any justice, you will be reincarnated as a female homosexual Jew, and then you’ll find out what a pain it is having to deal with violent primitive dickheads like you.

You know, when I was growing up I never thought I’d be ashamed to live in the twenty-first century. I thought it was going to be a new golden age, the space age, an age of knowledge and discovery. We’d have shaken off the shackles of superstition by now, surely. We’d have the technology to reach for the stars, maybe even create paradise right here on earth. I remember looking forward to it.

Well, here we are, and what have we got? We’ve got Islam, a violent seventh-century desert dogma that wants to take over the world, remove our freedom, subjugate women, brainwash children, persecute Jews and homosexuals, and drag us all back a thousand years. And all we can do is make excuses for it, for fear of causing offence. We really are pathetic, aren’t we?

I think people living five hundred years from now will look back on this period of history and they’ll laugh at us. Well, wouldn’t you?

Peace.

* LiveLeak was the only video website brave enough to host the film. Death threats towards their staff forced them to remove it temporarily while security was improved, but they subsequently reinstated it. As far as I know, you can still see the film on the LiveLeak site.