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By Olivia Pierson
[First published on Incite 20/6/19] Wellington Against Racism and Fascism (WARF), a little group which recently formed after the NZ Christchurch shootings, seems set on steadily pushing a very lop-sided narrative which is the group’s raison d’être: Racism is entrenched in this country. We need to know the history of this land since it was annexed by the British State. Christchurch didn’t happen in a vacuum. The British State? I think this two-bit group of revisionist historians mean the great British Empire. Aside from that ham-fisted phrasing, the group’s spokesperson, Ana Cocker, claims that “fascist ideology is widespread.” Cocker emphasised the group’s so-called anti-fascist credo with these words: The Christchurch attack needs to be understood as part of a global right-wing extremist movement. There are striking parallels between the ways these groups organise today and the rise of fascism in Europe in the ‘20s. WARF, judging by statements on its website and Twitter account (with its minuscule smattering of followers), resembles little more than another anti-white hate group. Under the ‘About Us’ label, its website states: We are a coalition formed in Poneke (Wellington) after the fascist attack in Christchurch. We oppose fascism, racism, Islamophobia and anti-Semitism, and call for the removal of all barriers for refugees and migrants. One cannot, and should not, let this mangled credo from WARF pass, not if they’ve written it without being blindly under the influence, hopefully only of alcohol - but I have my doubts. In the name of hating fascism, it’s worth pointing out to WARF that the term “Islamophobia” is an invention of the Islamofascists, who happen to be the most virulent anti-Semites on this planet. Pascal Bruckner, the French philosopher, quite accurately wrote: “At the end of the 1970s, Iranian fundamentalists invented the term ‘Islamophobia’ formed in analogy to ‘xenophobia’. The aim of this word was to declare Islam inviolate. Whoever crosses this border is deemed a racist. This term, which is worthy of totalitarian propaganda, is deliberately unspecific about whether it refers to a religion, a belief system or its faithful adherents around the world.” [Pascal Bruckner, 2011] Islam’s abiding anti-Semitism is so copiously documented that you’d have to be completely blind, deaf and dumb – or just a damn deceiver – to deny it. WARF urgently need a proper history lesson, especially as they embark on conducting upcoming talks to educate Kiwis on the rise of fascism in Europe pre-WWII. I never realised just how desperately in need of an outing some folks in Wellington must be; even so, I’ll spare them the bother of abandoning their tellies and heaters on a cold winter’s evening. Throughout the 1920s and 30s, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Amin al-Husseini, called for Muslim Arabs to “kill the Jews wherever you may find them”, which got the attention of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. They formed an unholy alliance, which saw al-Husseini live out the years of the Holocaust comfortably in Berlin, since he and the Nazis shared the same enemies, namely: the Jews, the British and the Russians. Al-Huisseini, shamefully installed by the British, later fell-out with the Empire because he deeply opposed Jewish immigration into what was then known as Palestine. He even asked for Hitler’s help to exterminate Jewish immigrants on his watch and within his lands. The Muslim world were enthralled by Nazi ideology, which took hold as al-Husseini vowed to Hitler that the Arabs, “Were prepared to cooperate with Germany with all their hearts and stood ready to participate in the war, not only negatively by the commission of acts of sabotage and the instigation of revolutions, but also positively by the formation of an Arab Legion”. As a favour to Hitler, al-Husseini then created the 13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS, made up almost entirely of Bosnian Muslims. Hitler’s famous chronicler, Albert Speer, who wrote his best-selling memoir Inside the Third Reich, said the Führer speculated to him personally: “You see, it’s been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn’t we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice for the Fatherland as the highest good? The Mohammedan religion too would have been much more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?” [Adolf Hitler to Albert Speer 1939] This alliance between the Nazis and the Muslims, Islam wedded to fascism (a natural union) – extended also into Syria and Iraq, forming the fascistic base of the Ba’ath Party in both countries, culminating in Iraq with that revoltingly evil tyrant Saddam Hussein, and in Syria with its current monstrosity of a president, Bashar al-Assad. One of the main founders of Baathism was Syrian al-Arsuzi, whose most illustrious student, Sami al-Jundi, wrote in 1968: “We were the first to think of translating Mein Kampf. Whoever has lived during this period in Damascus will appreciate the inclination of the Arab people to Nazism, for Nazism was the power which could serve as its champion, and he who is defeated will by nature love the victor.” Who the hell boasts about being the first to translate Mein Kampf into their own language? An Islamofascist, of course. These men are still hero-worshipped in the fundamentalist Islamic world as great thinkers, scholars and activists of pan-Arabic nationalism. So WARF should beware of the ideas they’re putting paid to here in New Zealand. If they truly are as anti-fascist as they lay claim to being, many of us who seriously love our country will be watching and listening to the words that they write and speak. If they want to gabble on about fascistic agendas and then use the loaded term “Islamophobe” in the same sentence – as if that term weren’t created by real fascists for the benefit of useful idiots like themselves – then they need to know that they are on notice and will be judged accordingly. And while we’re on the topic of Islam, it needs to outrightly condemn not only its highly visible and frequent terrorism in the West, but also its quiet, continual genocide of Christians in the Middle East and Africa. What are WARF’s great thoughts and initiatives about these unfolding atrocities committed by fascists? Are they going to also take a stand against “Christianophobia”? If they are not prepared to do so, then they deserve to be regarded as nothing more than the comic-strip flunkies that they already appear to be, anti-Western, anti-European, anti-colonialism, anti-white and pro the most racist and fascist collective of people on the planet – Islamofascists. Perhaps one of WARF’s three-and-a-half members can kindly let me know how many Kiwi Jews are members of their little squad? If you enjoyed this article, please buy my book "Western Values Defended: A Primer"
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By Olivia Pierson
[First published on Incite 13/5/19] I have a lot of friends in the Baby Boomer generational set even though I’m from Generation X. Well into a pretty comfortable retirement, many Boomers now often talk about the world as if the political/cultural battles of their youth had never been victorious, i.e, civil rights, women’s lib, gender equity, gay rights and the consciousness revolution. These battles that once defined the Boomer generation were soundly won and the institutions they managed to influence over the last 30 years incorporated their value systems hook, line and sinker. From schools, universities, politics and media outlets to aid organisations, medicine and corporate boardrooms, for good or for ill, Boomer liberalism became the new establishment. Andy Warhol’s scribblings were elevated to the status of “art.” Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen were seen as “prophetic poets.” Deepak Chopra earned immense wealth from writing about alternative “medicine” as well as “philosophy.” James Redfield’s The Celestine Prophesy was celebrated as “metaphysics.” Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth became accepted “science” (earning him a Nobel Peace Prize). But someone has to tell the liberal Boomers that they won, for they seem not to have noticed that by every single measure, their cultural values became the current status quo. In American politics, 1992 saw the defeat of President George Bush Senior and the election of Governor Bill Clinton, delivering a Boomer power-couple into the mightiest institution of the world, the White House. This was a crystal clear slice of realism which proved just how potently liberal Boomer values had been absorbed into mainstream American culture. The Greatest Generation (Generation G.I), who had courageously fought and won the war against the Nazis and Japanese imperialism, lost the White House via war-hero Bush Senior – who flew 58 combat missions against the Japanese – to a grinning, pot-smoking, slick-talking, misogynistic serial philanderer, Clinton. The in-between generation, known as the Silent Generation (born 1925 – 1940) were the children who were commanded to 'be quiet and obey' whilst their parents and grandparents were busy surviving the largest war in history. Though many grew up to become bureaucrats and career diplomats, they never managed to produce a president; their childhood lessons were well learned… “don’t mind me, don’t complain, be good, be obedient, don’t be any trouble, follow the rules, behave!” Behave they did, to the point of being entirely swept aside by two competing and confident generations on either side of their generational years. Boomers did not follow suit. They threw themselves aggressively against the establishment that homecoming G.Is built and ruled. Boomers were here, goddammit! They were going to be heard – and they were. Woodstock and Vietnam were practically their coming-of-age creation myths, their good versus evil in the Garden of America. Saigon fell. The counter-culture won. Liberalism has been the norm ever since: abortion on demand, children of divorce more common than children from homes with two biological parents together, gay marriage, women in military combat and in every boardroom, stay-at-home-Dads, burgeoning welfare states, medical care for the poor, paid maternity leave, #MeToo movements, moral relativism, the decline of Christianity and decency, climate change policies, voluntary euthanasia from Europe to Australia and multiculturalism’s widespread scorn for any pride in a Western identity. Yet, I still talk to Baby Boomers who blank out the last 30 years of this dramatic cultural shift: those who are seemingly unaware that the current swing back to the right-of-centre in American, European and Australian voting trends is a resounding backlash against their own deeply entrenched liberalism – which, brooking no opposition, has run amok through all the institutions of the Western world. These Boomers consider the term “fake news” to be just a quirk of Trumpism that has no meaning in the real world of journalism. It has not yet dawned on them that leftist media bias is actually a thing, which makes conservatives so justifiably indignant that, from sheer necessity, they have to fight with ever-increasing tenacity just to get their intended points of view across the liberal barrier and out to the folks at home. Liberal Boomers continue to speak and act as if they are still engaged in a cultural war with the establishment that the now moribund G.I Generation set up. This is delusional; that war has been over for decades, which has wrought its own havoc. This attitude of theirs reminds me of Hiroo Onoda, the Japanese army intelligence officer who, for 29 years, never realised that WWII was over. He was found still holding his post in the jungles of Lubang Island in 1974. Onoda had read the leaflets dropped by air onto the island announcing the Japanese surrender of 1945, but he judged it to be propaganda from the Allied Forces. Though his judgment happened to be somewhat off on that occasion, at least he was aware that fake news was actually a thing. If you enjoyed this article, please buy my book "Western Values Defended: A Primer" |
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