Leftist theoreticians who brought us abortion-on-demand, unlimited immigration and cultural relativism have once again ignored the Law of Unforeseen Consequences.
Taliban France By William R Alford

17 year-old Sohane Benziane rolled in agony as she vainly tried to extinguish her burning flesh. Moments before, she cowered, drenched in gasoline as a teenaged boy advanced, menacing her with a lighter. As she was set ablaze, the boy’s friends only watched. She died in a nearby hospital shortly thereafter. Young Sohane bore the consequences a woman can expect for saying no to a man who wants to possess her.

This did not happen in the Third World or the Balkan War. It happened in Vitry-sur-Seine, France in Oct. 2002. Neither was this an isolated occurrence. Taliban-like subjugation of women has become increasingly commonplace in this 1960’s-era housing project, which has degenerated into a crime-ridden North African ghetto. Any young female who dares to so much as show her face in this Parisian suburb risks taunts, threats and worse.

“It's everywhere, all the time. Beatings, rapes, the lot - the worst is the names they call you, especially if you're dressed in a girly way which [in the eyes of these boys] makes you a slut,” says Amel, 21. Muslim women are finding their lives in the West increasingly resembling that of the world they or their mothers hoped to leave behind. Although the men may appear in Western garb, women are expected to be veiled. College educations and careers are also being forcibly truncated in favor of ‘arranged’ marriages.

While this and worse occurred wholesale in Taliban Afghanistan, the West paid scant attention. Indeed, in today’s Middle East, women are still generally considered to be little more than livestock. US military women are still subject to beatings and arrest if they drive or appear in uniform while serving in Saudi Arabia. While married men in that region are allowed to have ‘temporary marriages’ to mistresses and prostitutes, their wives are subject to death by stoning if declared unfaithful.

Such phenomena remain neither interesting to our media, the educational elites nor to the self-appointed women’s advocates here. Now that such victimization is happening in the West proper, there is still a sense of insulation that allows it to be virtually ignored. After all, it’s only happening in ‘their’ neighborhoods, right? Instead, legitimate advocacy for women is typified by the likes of keeping ‘pro-life’ jurists off the Supreme Court, finding ‘gender-neutral’ appellations for manhole covers and ensuring that “Heather’s two Mommies” finds its way into every elementary school classroom.

This torching of young girl for asserting her will did provoke some reaction in France, however. A March 8 International Women’s Day demonstration included women wearing t-shirts bearing the slogan: “Ni Putes, Ni Soumises” – “Neither Whores nor Submissive.” Joining the march was a boy whose t-shirt read, “Not Judgmental, not Superior.” Discreet counseling has been offered to the victims while the search for causes and solutions proceeds. Joblessness, discrimination and the artificial ghettos that emerged in the government housing projects are cited as the major contributing factors.

Certainly these are valid considerations, but the most fundamental causes are not being explored because many of them are rooted in the most cherished of Leftist ideological sacred cows:

· Abortion on Demand and Contraception – We in the Western world have been applying our most advanced technology to the facilitation of sex with as many partners as possible while at the same time being relieved of the natural consequences: sexually transmitted disease and babies. Success has eluded us in eradicating the former effect; we seem to be on the ropes in that regard. However in the latter category, victory is ours to enjoy. As Patrick Buchanan points out in “The Death of the West”, we are seeing “more coffins than cradles.”

Our youth now accepts as a given that bearing and raising children in a family setting is merely one among many equally valid ‘alternate lifestyles.’ Further, abortion is now commonly considered to be the moral equivalent of a tonsillectomy. In contrast, our newest immigrants come from places where such a mentality is inconceivable. We are thus being bred out, which raises the next issue:

· Unlimited Immigration – Illegal immigration in unprecedented numbers has continued for more than a generation. The resultant demographic shift increasingly erodes the political will to resist it. Similar phenomena exist throughout the West. Because of the drop in fertility, our median age has shifted upward, which necessitates more immigration to make up the difference.

Certainly there have been waves of poor uneducated immigrants in America’s past. Their numbers were then controlled to allow for assimilation. That is no longer the case. Additionally, the concept of newcomers contributing their cultural attributes to the whole and joining a further-enriched American society is now considered quaint at best. Consequently, there are now foreign-speaking enclaves in this country wherein an American is compelled to learn their language and customs in order to function. This is also a result of another academic theory put into practice:

· Cultural Relativism/Multiculturalism – Since the 1960’s it has been drummed into Western society that each culture is equally valid. This is one reason why we are provided few reports on how women actually live in the Middle East. Merely exposing the brutality of another culture is now widely regarded as the purview of white supremacists.

There are indeed essential differences between cultures [not races] that are palpably expressed in terms of political freedom and economic prosperity. The Western world is the singular birthplace of liberty as we know it. Academia will hear none of these historically demonstrable facts, let alone teach them:

Western inquiry and experimentation with limited representative government traces its roots as far back as ancient Greece. The Protestant Reformation then provided the impetus for true democracy to be made real for the first time in human history. Martin Luther’s 95 Theses had unintentionally led to a fundamental reconsideration of all authority structures, religious and political. Once the genie was out of the bottle, it was only a matter of time before kings found themselves confronted with subjects demanding their God-given rights.

Wherein the attainment of wealth and political influence had previously been determined by birth, democratization heralded the advent of market economies, which opened the doors to anyone with the talent and drive to succeed. An unprecedented explosion of innovation and prosperity ensued as landed aristocracy gave way to industrialization. There is simply no equivalent of this in any other culture. Even in the West, those nations that did not embrace the Reformation were left politically and economically behind.

Those who parrot the Marxist slander that Western prosperity was achieved on the backs of subject populations ignore the fact that a colony’s prosperity was in inverse proportion to the amount of centralized control. If it was the extent of exploitation and hegemony that determined wealth, it would have been the Spanish colonies that would have achieved and continued to retain affluence. Instead it was the British colonial legacy of self-reliance that led to the riches of freedom.

Leftist theoreticians who brought us abortion-on-demand, unlimited immigration and cultural relativism have once again ignored the Law of Unforeseen Consequences. A population that was not raised to believe in peaceful coexistence with other cultures or ‘alternate lifestyles’ is demographically supplanting us. They either despise or otherwise don’t appreciate our freedom and yet come to reap its economic fruits. The likely outcome of a continuation on this path is predictable.

Perhaps it is possible for us to recover. We would need to abandon all of the above and other fraudulent social theories that serve to weaken liberty. The existing legal immigrant population urgently requires acculturation. The illegals should be found and deported. Mr. Buchanan also points out that young people would need to be convinced to raise families sized similarly to two generations ago. The odds are against us in all regards, but it is not yet hopeless.

If we fail, the Illuminati who facilitated the West’s transition from freedom to the ‘lifestyle’ of the Third World will be the first to go. The burning of a teenaged girl in France offers a glimpse of what is to come.

In “1984,” George Orwell depicted a society mired in a combination of every form of absolutism favored by his contemporaries. In “Anthem,” Ayn Rand demonstrated the complete societal degeneration that inevitably occurs when the state is truly supreme. Neither of them could have anticipated that civilization’s demise could have been facilitated by the deliberate abandonment of freedom by the minority of the world’s population who tenuously enjoys it.

About the Author

A middle-aged undergraduate student at George Mason University. Also a published intern at Accuracy In Media/Academia. Pursuing a third career change, writing and thinking have been consistent interests since childhood. Focusing upon the Big Picture has been useful in keeping things in perspective, personally. Things have not always been easy, but there has been plenty of fodder for thought.