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Teddy Bears and Tears Are Not
Enough
In the wake of yet another deadly jihadist terror attack, this time in
Brussels, Belgium, we see the same political “cure" for these
devastating threats: Solidarity in the form of teddy bears, tears, and
social media profile changes. A lot of feel-good fluff — but
nothing that will get to the root of the problem.
The riveting and insightful article below explains these responses, and
offers suggestions of what we must do differently to start addressing the
root cause of this major problem. It’s about common sense solutions, not
political Band-Aids.
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Enough With the Teddy Bears and Tears: It’s Time to Take Our
Civilization Back
Raheem
Kassam – Breitbart London
 Teddy bears, tears, candles, cartoons, murals, mosaics,
flowers, flags, projections, hashtags, balloons, wreaths, lights, vigils,
scarves, and more. These are the best solutions the Western world seems
to come up with every few months when we are slammed by another Islamist
terrorist attack. We are our own sickness.
Since the world learned of the dozens dead, hundreds injured, and
hundreds of thousands affected by Monday’s attack on the NATO and
European Union capital, we have seen an outpouring of what is commonly
known as “solidarity”.
This word – most commonly associated with hard-left politics, trades
union activism, socialism, and poseur indie rock bands – has come to mean
very little in reality. In effect, “standing in solidarity” with someone
now means that you have observed the situation, changed your Facebook
profile picture accordingly, and patted yourself on the back.
And if like dead bodies Facebook profile pictures lost heat, it would be
accurate to say that the Tricolores that adorned the social media
profiles of many had hardly become cold before we were all changing the
colours of the bands on the flags. From blue to black. From white to
yellow. The blood red remains.
Because nowadays, teddy bears are the new resolve. They symbolise
everything we have become in response to our way of life being
threatened, and our people being slaughtered on our streets: inanimate,
squishy, and full of crap.
Our security services and our police, hamstrung by political correctness,
are just as interested (or more?) in rounding up Twitter “hate speech”
offenders than criminal, rapist, or terrorist migrants. Our borders are
as porous as our brains. We refuse to realise that there are now
literally millions of people amongst us who hate us. Who hate our way of
life, and who will, one day, dominate our public life.
But of course, such statements are dismissed as fear-mongering, alarmist,
or “out of touch with reality”. As if the data doesn’t exist, or the
demographics aren’t shifting quickly enough to notice.
As if vast parts of our towns and cities haven’t become ghettos, or no-go
zones, or hubs of child grooming activity, or terrorism.
As if mosques, schools, prisons, and universities aren’t used as
recruiting grounds for radicals.
As if the blood of our countrymen hasn’t even been spilled at all.
Instead, we will now think deeply about how we can “reach out” to these
populations. How we can “co-exist” and “be tolerant” of one another. As
if toleration – which is actually the permittance of what is not actually
approved or desired – is a healthy aspiration for a society.
It is as if we model our countries on the practice of bending over and
“taking one for the team”, chastising those who fail to “tolerate” the
most barbaric traditions of alien cultures. It is everything this cartoon
– obviously branded “racist” – suggests.
“But come on, Raheem, not all immigrants, or Muslims, are criminals, or
rapists…. you’re not!”
Yeah – and look at me. Excoriated daily by Islamists on Twitter. Why?
Because I’ve integrated and I love my country. Because I refuse to
believe that an Islamic caliphate is the best thing for Britain, or
anywhere, quite frankly. Where is my white (or brown) knight? Where are
the voices of the moderate Muslim world defending me?
Not that I need protection, or defence, but some people aren’t as hard
headed or resolved as I am.
Thusly, the albeit minority evil amongst British Muslims is thriving
because good Muslims are doing nothing. At some point, we have to
question why. I’m not sure most people are ready for the answers to that
one.
So continue to sit there with your head in your hands. Mourning only to
make yourself feel better. Missing people you never knew. Exclaiming, as
the most immature of minds does: “Why can’t we all just get along?”
Expressing sympathy is no bad thing. But to be truly sympathetic towards
someone under attack, one must be chivalrous, gallant, and unafraid.
Watching someone getting raped, and tweeting your solidarity with them is
not enough. Human nature and goodness calls upon us to intervene. To
assist. To free someone from their torture, and to save them from their
demise.
It is not enough to scrawl “no fear” on a post it note, and stick it onto
some £3 flowers.
We must be fearless in electing leaders who we feel will best keep us
safe. It is one of the few areas of our lives in which we should be able
to feel comfortable. We pay our taxes, you keep us safe.
If not, then we must arm ourselves. If our governments refuse to protect
us, or even begin to use the tools with which we empower them against us:
surveillance, counter-terror laws, detention, then we will need to take
the law back into our own hands. We cannot be afraid of doing so. It is
where our societies all sprung from.
The defence of ourselves as individuals. The defence of our families, our
properties, our means of production, our communities, and our neighbours.
It is why arms sales to individuals has shot up since the migrant crisis
in Europe. Many Germans are losing their faith in their elected leaders
to protect them. The same applies in Sweden, and in Austria. Some people
refuse to take being wiped out laying down. How quaint.
It is also time to start to make serious, wide-reaching demands of our
politicians on the subject of immigration and Islamism.
When U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump said what he said about a
temporary ban on Muslim immigration, the tolerance lobby went into
overdrive: full condemnations across the board from politicians –
including presidents and prime ministers, across the media sphere, and
you will recall the House of Commons debating a petition to ban the man
from the country.
Now even the most politically correct of Hollywood luvvies is asking: is
he really that wrong on this?
Because Mr. Trump has thought in a cycle longer than his potential
presidency: what does the Western world look like in 20, 30, 50 years?
What kind of societies do we leave to our children?
Do we leave cities with soldiers on patrol. With “peace” signs scrawled
onto bomb-struck buildings? Or do we leave them safe places, with real
promise for the future. Like our parents, or at least our parents’
parents, left us.
In order to confront this question, we have to get to the root cause of
the problem. There is too much immigration, or at least, not enough
hand-picked immigration, into the Western world today.
People of my age had no choice that our post-war leaders felt the heavy
hand of post-colonial guilt on their shoulders, and decided to open up
our countries, and flood us with “diversity”.
But we do have a choice to not make the same mistakes again. And we have
a duty to correct the ones that were made.
A Belgian flag, candles and a Teddy bear are pictured as people gather at
a makeshift memorial on the Place de la Bourse (Beursplein) in Brussels
on March 23, 2016, a day after a triple bomb attack, which responsibility
was claimed by the Islamic State group, left 31 dead and hundreds injured
in the Belgian capital. World leaders united in condemning the carnage in
Brussels and vowed to combat terrorism, after Islamic State bombers
killed 31 people in a strike at the symbolic heart of the EU.
And yes, that does mean exactly what you think it means. It means ending
mass migration. It means smashing apart ghettos and no go zones. It means
repealing laws that allow for Sharia councils. It means asserting what it
means to be British, or European, or American, without fearing a backlash
from the political left, or the media classes who scarcely see a face my
colour let alone darker.
Let them riot. Let them cry.
I would far rather be subjected to ceaseless “direct action” by the scourges
of my own society than import others.
At least if my fellow countrymen are deplorable, I won’t get called a
racist for pointing it out.
So put down the teddy bears, burst the balloons, and let’s start
demanding again that our countries are safe and civilised. And if we
can’t find people who’ll make that happen for us… let’s do it ourselves.
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