June 26th, 2009 by admin

by D. L. Adams

The adherents of multiculturalism, the doyens of political correctness, are anti-intellectual. They reside in a self-referential world outside of reality and  devoid of common sense; they are the soldiers of anti-knowledge.

PC people are constantly mentally busy because they are always doing self-checks to be sure that they are adhering to their doctrine of wishful thinking.

There is a mental gymnastic that the followers of this modern religion perform often many times every day. It is a kind of self-check to make sure that they are within the orthodoxy, within the mainstream of wishful, positive thinking upon which their belief system is founded.

The ongoing jihad against the west (and against multiculturalists, of course) is a case in point. When critics, analysts, and historians of Islam speak negatively about Islam the mutliculturalists always are ready with a contrarian reply. Their response is not based on knowledge of the subject, nor historical understanding, appreciation of current events, understanding of Islamic doctrine, or even lending credence to terrorists who say they are doing terror and murder because of the doctrine of Islam. Rather,  multiculturalists perform a mental protocol which allows them to respond with a self-identified authority but without knowledge or understanding. This is anti-knowledge.

The politically correct response to an intellectual challenge is an anti-intellectual negation of the learning of those who hold opinions that are considered unpleasant and outside their orthodoxy.

Alan Bloom in “Closing of the American Mind” discussed this phenomenon during the 1980s in the elite universities of the United States, but he did not go far enough. The adherents of Political correctness are the vanguard of an anti-intellectualism that negates knowledge and learning and fundamentally undermines the purpose of the academy itself. If only Bloom could have seen further along into the future than he did, perhaps his book would have been titled something like “The Failure of the American Intellectual Elite and its Discontents”.

When a critic of Islam says, “Islam is a cruel political system masquerading as a religion” the multiculturalists are deeply offended. They are not upset because Islam is so cruel but rather that Islam is being criticized.

Criticism of any belief system is contrary to the concepts of total acceptance, total tolerance that multiculturalists espouse but  most importantly criticism of Islam is considered entirely outre. Perhaps this is because Islam is now under scrutiny because of 9/11, Beslan, Mumbai, London, Madrid, Bali, Pakistan, Iraq, Israel, etc. Islam must not be scrutinized because something unpleasant might be found. Unpleasantness anywhere, especially in Islam is not part of this world view of multiculturalists.

This is their foundation because they believe that every belief system is of inherent value (particularly Islam) and is of equal import. This is why President Obama said in Cairo recently to  the so-called “Muslim World” that Islam was important in the development of the United States. The truth is this: Islam was not important in the development of the United States except in the development of American military (naval) power.

American naval power was developed specifically to fight jihadist Barbary Coast Islamic piracy in the early 1800s. This is not an issue open for debate it is simply an historical fact supported by the policies and writings of President Jefferson and the historical record.

Multiculturalists will not acknowledge this fact, but it is truth nonetheless. Political correctness is not an orthodoxy of truth, it is one of hope and ignorance. It is founded upon hope that extreme tolerance will make enemies into friends and upon the denial of knowledge .

In the mental worldview of the mutliculturalist there is no good and no bad, only differences. To these shallow analysts “differences” whatever they may be are fundamentally good.

The foundation of political correctness is the acceptance of differences, extreme tolerance of core differences- even for those ideologies that instruct their followers to commit murder of those who are not part of the group – you know, like uber-tolerant multiculturalists.

This extreme tolerance is fundamentally what multiculturalists claim is the best part of their orthodoxy. They suggest that when we as a society are tolerant, we can “all just get along”. But this is moral relativism because there are some individuals and some philosophies that we cannot get along with who have no interest in getting along with us.

In order to be intellectually valid the political correctness theory requires both sides of the moral equation to be equally tolerant; they rarely are.

In the case of Islam, the tolerance of American multiculturalists for Islam’s intolerance is a sign to Islam of western societal and moral degredation and weakness.

This reality of the failure of multiculturism is reflected in the rejection of Obama’s open hand of appeasement by the mullahs of Iran.

Islam uses political correctness. Islam grows because multiculturalists who know nothing of Islam and protect it because extreme tolerance is their moral philosophy, are the “useful idiots”, the anti-intellectual foot soldiers of totalitarianism.

The PC acolytes believe that since Islamic totalitarianism is “different” – and “difference” is inherently worthy -  it is considered then of equal value to anything else, equivalent to democracy and freedom. This is intellectual and moral failure.

Western political correctness is nothing more than prettified cultural and societal surrender.

The forces of totalitarian Islam see and understand this “philosophy” as the politically correct adherents do not. To the forces who desire our demise political correctness is their ally.

Extreme tolerance, tolerance of those who want to conquer us through any means, is seen by the forces of evil as moral, ethical and societal weakness and that is exactly what it is.

Islam is on the rise because we are on the decline.

When a critic of Islam says, “Islam is a totalitarian, cruel ideology of hatred and intolerance” the multiculturalist, extreme tolerance-centric westerner does this: they replace “Islam” with “Jew” and do a “self-test”. They restate the statement about Islam but now it is about Judaism.

“Judaism”, the desperate multiculturalist thinks-using their broken calculus, “is a totalitarian, cruel ideology of hatred and intolerance”. The next step for the PC doyen is quick: did the Nazis say such things against the Jews? Well, if they didn’t it sure sounds like a Nazi-ish statement!

Then, the multiculturalist dismisses the original statement about Islam and condemns the speaker for being a racist and bigot. This is the core of political correctness lunacy and anti-intellectualism. Dismissal of true context and a reassignment of inappropriate context to the argument specifically for the protection of politically correct ideas (and not for the pursuit of truth) is the purpose of the politically correct response.

Political correctness and multiculturalism are self-referential theories, they understand reality only in so far as it confirms or denies their foundational concepts. Anything that offends their fundamental concepts of how the world functions must be destroyed and the proponents of such ideas vilified. This is how self-referential ideologies (multiculturalism and Islam) that deny reality continue to exist and grow. Truth is not the core, protecting the ideology is the core.

The Jews of Germany prior to the Holocaust were completely assimilated into German culture. In fact, most Jews of Germany prior to the 2nd World War considered themselves Germans first and Jews second.

The mental gymnastics of the politically correct anti-intellectuals is false. Jews did not attack Germany, instead they were at the core of German intellectual, and cultural life. Jews were at the core of German life. Our own Manhattan Project was staffed with brilliant Jewish scientist escapees from nazism.

Islam has declared war on the west, on the United States andIsrael, but we prefer to pretend that there is no war, that Islam is “the religion of peace” and that terrorists quoting Islamic doctrine as they kill non-believers are misunderstanding and “highjacking” the doctrine of Islam. Political correctness is a fraud.

The adherent of multiculturalism denies a truth that they do not prefer to accept.

The truth of Islam is that it IS totalitarian, it is cruel and it is intolerant. We see evidence of this in the doctrine of Islam, in the activities of Islam every day, and in the writings of jihadists. This is the true reality. Political correctness and multiculturalism is the denial of reality and nothing less.

Islam is at war with us, and we pretend that it is not.

In no other war in history has any nation ever persevered when the very existence of the conflict was denied. Our multiculturalists and politically correct well-wishers are self-destructive.

Denial of reality is self-destructive; denial of reality is anti-intellectual. Political correctness is jihad.