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Thursday, November 09, 2006
Thomas Sowell :: Townhall.com Columnist
Where is the West?
by Thomas Sowell
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The achievements of western civilization are buried in histories that portray every human sin found here as if they were peculiarities of the west.

The classic example is slavery, which existed all over the world for thousands of years and yet is incessantly depicted as if it was a peculiarity of Europeans enslaving Africans. Barbary pirates alone brought twice as many enslaved Europeans to North Africa as there were Africans brought in bondage to the United States and the American colonies from which it was formed.

How many schools and colleges are going to teach that, going against political correctness and undermining white guilt?

How many people have any inkling that it was precisely western civilization which eventually turned against slavery and began stamping it out when non-western societies still saw nothing wrong with it?

How can a generation be expected to fight for the survival of a culture or a civilization that has been trashed in its own institutions, taught to tolerate even the intolerance of other cultures brought into its own midst, and conditioned to regard any instinct to fight for its own survival as being a "cowboy"?

Western nations that show any signs of standing up for self-preservation are rare exceptions. The United States and Israel are the only western nations which have no choice but to rely on self-defense -- and both are demonized, not only by our enemies but also by many in other western nations.

Australia recently told its Muslim population that, if they want to live under Islamic law, then they should leave Australia. That makes three western nations that have not yet completely succumbed to the corrosive and suicidal trends of our times.

If and when we all succumb, will the epitaph of western civilization say that we had the power to annihilate our enemies but were so paralyzed by confusion that we ended up being annihilated ourselves?

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And another thing
I was brought up in the 60's with womens rights and all of that crap. I believed it bought into it and I'm a strong person. However, the womens movement looking back was nothing more than a way for "some" women to get ahead and make plenty of money! Boy, was I stupid!

Where are all of these so call womens rights democrats, and that's what they all were, when the middle eastern women are not able to go to school, they have to ware burca's, are denied every right under the sun? Mind you I don't expect women in this country to be able to change things in those countries but as facism spreads in this country and others what do they expect to happen to the women in this country when it is taken over.

Al those women who shooted womens right are all liberal democrats who don't believe that we should be fighting the musclim extremest in there land, we should appease them, we not have a say when the facist have made it clear, clear, clear, to any thinking person that they intend to kill us all and take this country for themselves. The facist have tried this for centuries and it would have worked out for them if there weren't people willing to go to the mat to fight them.

I am so ashame of the women's right's women in this country, and more so my stupidity, that I can't stand it.

Good topic, poor development
Needs to go back for a copy-edit. Looks good on the surface, but fundamentally this article is inadequately thought-out and and poorly constructed.
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