Geert and Me Nearly Fully Agree

It is interesting to note that Geert Wilders and I agree on the bipartite nature of the twin pincers attacking elements of western civilization.

Our enemies should know: we will never apologize for being free men, we will never bow for the combined forces of Mecca and the left. And we will never surrender. We stand on the shoulders of giants. There is no stronger power than the force of free men fighting for the great cause of liberty. Because freedom is the birthright of all man.

What Mr. Wilders calls 'Mecca and the left,' I call the Scimitar and neo-paganism. He sees their goal as the destruction of freedom and liberty; I see it as a deeper source of freedom and liberty, namely, the Christian faith in general and the Catholic Church in particular.

From a mimetic theory point of view, these twin pincers structurally are expressions of the primitive sacred, regardless of the themes touted by them. What I mean is that both depend upon, finally, the sacrificial scapegoating mechanism so well explicated by René Girard. The former would deny any such affiliation with the paganism of the primitive sacred, the latter would deny any religious aspects in its nature at all. But both cannot hide their structural dependencies on sacrifice, and I don't mean self-sacrifice.

In rejecting the Christian faith, they reject the sole source of lucidity and release from the same old eternal returns embedded in conventional human cultures since their foundations.