The Weeds of Multiculturalism

Yellow starthistle, a thistle native to southern Europe and the Middle East that is an invasive weed in parts of North America.

Winston Churchill is purported to have said, "Why should we Anglo-Saxons apologize for being superior? We are superior."

Arthur Herman points out, 'A student of history, Churchill came to feel that Judaism was the bedrock of traditional Western moral and political principles--and Churchill was of a generation that preferred to talk about principles instead of "values." For Europeans to turn against the Jew, he argued, was for them to strike at their own roots and reject an essential part of their civilization--"that corporate strength, that personal and special driving power" that Jews had brought for hundreds of years to Europe's arts, sciences and institutions.'

Not as a "racist" or "ethnocentrist" scree, but in terms of religion, anthropologically understood, Churchill -- Winston, not Ward -- intuited spot on. The biblical faiths of Judaism and Christianity were and still are guided by a spirit that is utterly unique on the stage of world history.

What pious multiculturalist dogma will seemingly never understand is that merely dreaming about wanting "to teach the world to sing ... in perfect harmony" results in the importation of tribal expressions of what R. Girard calls the "primitive Sacred" writ large into a West weakened by this un-thematized neo-paganism (multiculturalism). So the once beautiful structures of a crumbling West becomes a staging ground for global jihad, as Pastorius notes.

The tribal rivalries, domains of petty warlords, urban ghetto-ization, and stagnation of productivity, individuality, and freedom begin to predominate and promulgate like weeds growing in ruined choirs of a dormant and enervated Christendom. This is the product of multiculturalism and the importation of the culture of the primitive Sacred.

The only hope for old Europe is that the biblical faiths of Judaism and Christianity will not be scapegoated, routed, and driven into near extinction. It will take extraordinary courage, chivalry, and virtue in order for this not to happen in the face of the two-front battle with Islam, on the one hand, and neo-pagan multiculturalism on the other.