One of the things about the Fabians and those like them is a callousness about human life. Their eugenicist ideology seems to be the polar opposite of Christianity and its values. When so many people gloat over the killing of a young husband and father, there is something very cruel and dark about them.
Alex, I feel a growing sense of evil in the world and drawn to the church, but which church? So many church leaders are great at virtue signaling - "refugees welcome, shut up racists" - but when it comes to grooming gangs or the dangers some migrants can pose which you have written about so well, they turn away from the victims of crime. They remind me of the Pharisee in the story of the Good Samaritan. Where are the church leaders whose compassion is neither selective nor performative but rooted in honesty?
There are still plenty of good churches, badger. I recommend those that place an emphasis on the gospel, on truth and on personal decision. The ones that fly Pride flags etc. are, of course, very much to be avoided!
It is clear being white and Christian is totally unacceptable. How we change that I do not know, but we Caucasians are all at risk of being deleted if we do not stop the rot NOW… I fear we have to put our usual accepting natures to one side, maybe even treating the loony lefties and Islamists the way they treat us. I know the old adage an eye for an eye just leaves us all blind, but violence is the only language they understand - they’re too stupid to be able to reason with words and in an adult manner.
Well done Alex for making some excellent points. For me, the most enlightening was the Kate Forbes/Humza Yusuf SNP leadership contest. As you say, Forbes was excoriated for being a member of a Christian denomination which is anti-abortion and opposed to gay marriage. She could not be allowed to win for those reasons despite being an eminently capable and accomplished candidate.
And who did they choose to elect?
They elected a devout follower of a religion which in several countries punishes homosexuality with death, is completely against abortion, eschews women’s rights to a utterly barbaric degree.
You couldn’t make it up, so off the scale is the hypocrisy.
(to cap it all he turned out to be an incompetent, divisive, ignorant, racist pillock of a leader who ballsed up everything he got his hands on).
I have been trying to explain this to my son today , but he and his girlfriend think I am going mad. I agree it is scary and I probably spoke too quickly and gave too much information because they both work hard and I don’t see them for very long.
Is it worth upsetting them ? Can anything be done to stop this Fabian take over. ?
I believe that our whole nation should repent - we have allowed many evil things to take place over the last few decades - and pray. We also need to stand together in community and help each other. When we are divided we are weak.
Back in the 80's Alan, I sung with a Christian male voice choir. We were invited to attend a male voice festival in Scarborough one weekend hosted by the Salvation Army in the town. On Sunday around tea time we - along with another 5 male voice choirs - marched through the town singing Onward Christian Soldiers, while the Salvation Army staff went ahead and knocked doors and invited the bystanders to come to the Citadel for the service. People just latched on to the end of the parade and followed along to the church. It was stirring stuff, and I'll never forget it.
All that to say this... I don't even think one would be allowed to do that now for fear of causing "harassment, alarm or distress".
First off, in my humble opinion, there are way too many Muslims in positions of power in our country, the UK seems to have bowed down to them basically taking over; Muslims in government, Muslims sitting on councils, Muslim mayors, Muslim lawyers, barristers and judges, Muslim police officers they just seem to be everywhere and they demand, boy oh boy they demand everything, we’re even feeding our children halal meat without even knowing about it. The UK is supposed to be a CHRISTIAN country but what can you expect when Charles The Turd is giving them royal residences to hold their religious ceremonies and who, when he was coronated, said he wanted to be known as “defender of FAITHS”, he’s supposed to be defender of THE faith, meaning the Christian faith, when that happened, you know our once great country is on a slippy slope. How many people of other faiths, who have come to this country, demand what Muslims have demanded? Have you ever saw the Chinese community, the Jewish community or even the Japanese or Korean communities demanding the way Muslims demand? The answer is NO, they come to our country, they integrate and you never hear them complain. This is OUR country, if you can’t fit in with the way WE do things, then please, don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
Muslims have been encouraged to stand for political office- I have seen videos of officials going into Muslim communities years & years ago telling them to stand as counsellors etc - Then they brought in the postal voting so that Muslim communities could block vote themselves into power - and here we are. The corruption is coming from inside the British institutions. Society has been infiltrated by Marxists often of Jewish extraction who wish to destroy this country from within & they have installed a group of people (Muslims)who are willing to do it for them.
I think it says a lot that Christianity is so much the target, explicitly or otherwise, of "progressive" activism while the subjugating doctrine of Islam holds an entirely sanctified status to the same group of people. Their murderous fanaticism, as exemplified by what has happened to Charlie Kirk - and in the name of "anti-fascism" no less, bespeaks something primal that goes far beyond the reach of philosophy or even psychology to explain. No longer the politics of right and left obtains. It is rather the politics, and the practice, of right and wrong.
There is NO "political" answer to this. This is a spiritual war for the souls of men and woman.
I think the church should be out there mobilising and taking the Gospel of Christ to the streets of Britain. Yes, many will be harassed, arrested and intimidated by the police. They will be mobilised by the government against us. Yes, many will be imprisoned on trumped up "hate speech" charges. Yes, many will be beaten up by "other religions" and the authorities will turn a blind eye. Yes, many will be mocked and derided and attacked by the rainbow mob. Yes, some will have their homes targeted, and their kids bullied at school, and our churches fire bombed and vandalised (just look at Canada). And yes, some will even lose their lives for the Gospel.
But this is nothing compared to what other churches have gone through since the dawn of Christendom 2,000 years ago. Even today in countries like Nigeria christians die for the gospel.
While we sit in our church buildings and appease, and basically just shut up, then the world can just about tolerate us. If we get out there among them and preach the good news... THEN you'll start to see the government's true colours.
Paul said, " I have worked much harder, been in prison more frequently, been flogged more severely, and been exposed to death again and again. Five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one. Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was pelted with stones, three times I was shipwrecked, I spent a night and a day in the open sea, I have been constantly on the move. I have been in danger from rivers, in danger from bandits, in danger from my fellow Jews, in danger from Gentiles; in danger in the city, in danger in the country, in danger at sea; and in danger from false believers. I have labored and toiled and have often gone without sleep; I have known hunger and thirst and have often gone without food; I have been cold and naked. Besides everything else, I face daily the pressure of my concern for all the churches.". THIS is what happens when you take the message of the gospel to the masses, but you save souls in the process.
This doesn't sound like sitting in church listening to the "worship band", does it?
In church we should be taught how to do this. 👆
When I was a kid back in the 60's we (our church) was out Sunday and Wednesday nights preaching in the streets. As a teenager I was also involved in street preaching on Mondays as well in another town on Mondays. Now there is almost no street preaching and where there is the police follow up pretty swiftly to close it down on the back of "harassment, alarm and distress".
Every human society has had something which maps to "a religion" and most in existence today have one. Yet we are in a time when "western" society is so determined by its own arrogance that it will survive without one and that it will prosper based upon greed, the absolute certainty of the importance of the self/individual that it will junk its own entity. Is it going well? The competitor is being given a clear path through complete apathy. One day there will be a shock, when it is overturned, that day will be too late to conclude there was a a few turnings back along the path.
The entire situation from its geographical crux in Israel is religion. Islam is intent on world domination. And the issues, as in violence, death and destruction are always located wherever Islam meets resistance.
Badger, find a church which preaches the gospel and does not compromise but the most important thing is to find Christ himself. Read the Bible, pray, repent and be baptised. If you seek earnestly, you will find him.
I am not a Christian and certainly no Muslim but even this non-religious American can plainly see the double-standard. Why we bend over backwards to "welcome" a religion of grave intolerance and of violence into our country while mocking and diminishing the religion that our population has largely followed since before day one of our country is beyond me. I am not a Christian but I understand Christianity's role in the fabric of our Constitutional Republic and I understand Islam's desire to roll over us and our history and culture and I see those in the media and in learning institutions who aid and abet this attempted coup.
That’s a really sharp clarification. You’re right — the verse is 2 Timothy 3:12: “Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.” And the context is Paul writing, post-Damascus, no longer the Pharisee Saul but Paul the Christian, urging Timothy that godliness inevitably invites persecution.
What Paul is saying has nothing to do with ethnic identity or cultural Christianity. It’s not about being Jewish, Gentile, Roman, Greek, or “ethnically Christian.” It’s about the moral and spiritual stance of anyone who tries to live faithfully in an ungodly society. The warning is that if you hold to truth in a corrupt world, you won’t be applauded — you’ll be resisted, mocked, and sometimes destroyed.
So if that verse is being used in the essay you’re responding to, it seems misapplied. It isn’t an excuse for Christians to feel persecuted because their cultural dominance is slipping. It’s a spiritual axiom: the closer you walk in godliness, the more you’ll clash with a world that thrives on compromise.
Thanks for sharing your piece. I’ll be honest — I was a little confused by your title. “A special place in hell for Christians” reads, on its face, like a blanket statement that Christians as such deserve hell. Yet your essay itself was more specific: you were pointing to the way certain conservative or traditional Christian values — which, ironically, sometimes overlap with the kind of socially conservative views a murdered imam might have expressed — are not tolerated in our society. You speculate that such an imam might even be canonized, and on that point I think you’re right: there is real hypocrisy in how society decides who is permitted to hold traditional views, and who must be demonized for them.
That said, I personally find it difficult to see much common ground between conservative Christians and Muslims. For me, there’s too much textual poison in the Qur’an and Hadiths, and the long history of Islamic imperialism, for me to want to walk down that alley. Still, I think your underlying point about the selective tolerance of society is valid and important. You’re right — there are some groups of people that our culture has effectively declared open season on, where “you can punch them in the face and do anything you want.”
On that front, let me share where I’m coming from. I’m a recently fired professor — less than two months ago. My offense? Criticizing Hamas and calling them Nazis, which I stand by. It’s historically accurate: Hamas’s ideological roots are explicitly Nazi. My main accuser was a radical Islamist who openly hates the West, Canada, and the U.S.; who praises Putin, Maduro, Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis; who has called Jews filth, vermin, and subhuman; who glorified October 7th; who calls for Israel’s extermination; and who has even claimed Jews fabricated the Holocaust. A man who is, frankly, a walking human rights crime.
And yet — he was granted complete immunity. He and a university vice-provost stood as my accusers. I, meanwhile, was fired, slandered, demonized, and subjected to mass online attacks numbering in the hundreds of thousands. My life has been threatened. All because I called Hamas Nazis.
And here’s where your broader point about hypocrisy hits home for me. Because obviously, the people who can be attacked most freely in our society right now are Jews. At my own university, I’ve watched people scream “F*** Zionists” in public, unchallenged. Well, I’m a Christian — but I’m also a Zionist. And that hatred was tolerated on campus. Almost anything is tolerated if it’s directed at Jews.
The danger is this: we are not just in an era of antisemitism, but sliding into something darker — hate propaganda. And once you normalize hate propaganda, you’re already halfway to a pogrom. We had one recently in Washington, when Jews were killed in cold blood — that was a pogrom. And it is perverse that under the umbrella of “sensitivity” and “cultural understanding,” we allow a destructive force to cloak itself in respectability.
Let’s be honest: this is not only about Muslim fundamentalism. It goes deeper — it is about what Islam itself historically and doctrinally teaches. Islam is not, strictly speaking, just a religion; it is also a political doctrine. From its inception in the 7th century, it was designed to unify Arab tribes through a monotheistic, patriarchal creed that flattered ethnic pride, gave men dominance, and justified imperial expansion. And it succeeded: centuries of conquest and bloodshed followed.
But here’s another piece I thought your essay was going to explore: the history of so-called “Christians” — and I say so-called because I don’t believe they were truly following Christ — who for millennia persecuted Jews. From the “Christ-killer” slur to pogroms to expulsions to outright murder, Christians in name carried out atrocity after atrocity. Today, thankfully, no major Christian denomination preaches this insanity. No mainstream church embraces “Christ-killer” rhetoric. But echoes remain.
And here’s where I speak personally. I am a Christian who stands openly and proudly for the Jewish people and for Israel. I’ve even started studying Hebrew. But when I was attacked — when fundamentalist Islamists came after me, destroyed my career, and smeared my name — who stood with me? Not my Christian friends. Not my Christian relatives. Not my academic colleagues. It was Jews. Random Jews, 98% of those who had my back, while my own community was largely silent.
So yes, Christians today may not be institutionally antisemitic — but the legacy of Christian hostility toward Jews is not entirely gone. And in my experience, it was Jews, not Christians, who stood beside me when it counted. That’s a sobering thing for me to admit as a Christian, but it’s true.
What shocks me most is not Islam’s consistency, but our own inconsistency. Out of misplaced cultural sensitivity — and sheer historical ignorance — we deny the obvious: that Islam’s central doctrines are profoundly opposed to post-Enlightenment values of reason, freedom, and individual dignity. This isn’t just about different values; it’s about values that are openly hostile to ours, and that seek not coexistence but replacement.
The real danger isn’t simply that Islam threatens to destroy us. It’s that we are destroying ourselves. We’ve lost connection with where we came from, what we stand for, and why reason and liberty matter. And because of that, we fail to recognize a destructive force when it stares us in the face.
So yes — I still don’t fully understand your title. But I appreciated your essay, and I agree with your central critique: hypocrisy rules the day, and the selective enforcement of “tolerance” is tearing us apart.
One of the things about the Fabians and those like them is a callousness about human life. Their eugenicist ideology seems to be the polar opposite of Christianity and its values. When so many people gloat over the killing of a young husband and father, there is something very cruel and dark about them.
Alex, I feel a growing sense of evil in the world and drawn to the church, but which church? So many church leaders are great at virtue signaling - "refugees welcome, shut up racists" - but when it comes to grooming gangs or the dangers some migrants can pose which you have written about so well, they turn away from the victims of crime. They remind me of the Pharisee in the story of the Good Samaritan. Where are the church leaders whose compassion is neither selective nor performative but rooted in honesty?
There are still plenty of good churches, badger. I recommend those that place an emphasis on the gospel, on truth and on personal decision. The ones that fly Pride flags etc. are, of course, very much to be avoided!
You don’t need a church to pray and trust in God. Too many churches are politicised now. Have faith. God is great 🇬🇧🇬🇧
It is clear being white and Christian is totally unacceptable. How we change that I do not know, but we Caucasians are all at risk of being deleted if we do not stop the rot NOW… I fear we have to put our usual accepting natures to one side, maybe even treating the loony lefties and Islamists the way they treat us. I know the old adage an eye for an eye just leaves us all blind, but violence is the only language they understand - they’re too stupid to be able to reason with words and in an adult manner.
I totally agree Sandie Jesse 💯
Well done Alex for making some excellent points. For me, the most enlightening was the Kate Forbes/Humza Yusuf SNP leadership contest. As you say, Forbes was excoriated for being a member of a Christian denomination which is anti-abortion and opposed to gay marriage. She could not be allowed to win for those reasons despite being an eminently capable and accomplished candidate.
And who did they choose to elect?
They elected a devout follower of a religion which in several countries punishes homosexuality with death, is completely against abortion, eschews women’s rights to a utterly barbaric degree.
You couldn’t make it up, so off the scale is the hypocrisy.
(to cap it all he turned out to be an incompetent, divisive, ignorant, racist pillock of a leader who ballsed up everything he got his hands on).
And his favourite colour which he couldn't stop telling us was WHITE , WHITE, WHITE !
I have been trying to explain this to my son today , but he and his girlfriend think I am going mad. I agree it is scary and I probably spoke too quickly and gave too much information because they both work hard and I don’t see them for very long.
Is it worth upsetting them ? Can anything be done to stop this Fabian take over. ?
I believe that our whole nation should repent - we have allowed many evil things to take place over the last few decades - and pray. We also need to stand together in community and help each other. When we are divided we are weak.
I agree ✝️
I agree too. Everyone should consider going back to church. Get back to basics.
But like someone said, if you're church isn't practicing properly and waving the wrong flag find another, that's proper ✝️
Totally agree. Onward Christian Soldiers.
Our country, our religion, our laws.
Don't like it goodbye and good riddance !
Back in the 80's Alan, I sung with a Christian male voice choir. We were invited to attend a male voice festival in Scarborough one weekend hosted by the Salvation Army in the town. On Sunday around tea time we - along with another 5 male voice choirs - marched through the town singing Onward Christian Soldiers, while the Salvation Army staff went ahead and knocked doors and invited the bystanders to come to the Citadel for the service. People just latched on to the end of the parade and followed along to the church. It was stirring stuff, and I'll never forget it.
All that to say this... I don't even think one would be allowed to do that now for fear of causing "harassment, alarm or distress".
First off, in my humble opinion, there are way too many Muslims in positions of power in our country, the UK seems to have bowed down to them basically taking over; Muslims in government, Muslims sitting on councils, Muslim mayors, Muslim lawyers, barristers and judges, Muslim police officers they just seem to be everywhere and they demand, boy oh boy they demand everything, we’re even feeding our children halal meat without even knowing about it. The UK is supposed to be a CHRISTIAN country but what can you expect when Charles The Turd is giving them royal residences to hold their religious ceremonies and who, when he was coronated, said he wanted to be known as “defender of FAITHS”, he’s supposed to be defender of THE faith, meaning the Christian faith, when that happened, you know our once great country is on a slippy slope. How many people of other faiths, who have come to this country, demand what Muslims have demanded? Have you ever saw the Chinese community, the Jewish community or even the Japanese or Korean communities demanding the way Muslims demand? The answer is NO, they come to our country, they integrate and you never hear them complain. This is OUR country, if you can’t fit in with the way WE do things, then please, don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
Muslims have been encouraged to stand for political office- I have seen videos of officials going into Muslim communities years & years ago telling them to stand as counsellors etc - Then they brought in the postal voting so that Muslim communities could block vote themselves into power - and here we are. The corruption is coming from inside the British institutions. Society has been infiltrated by Marxists often of Jewish extraction who wish to destroy this country from within & they have installed a group of people (Muslims)who are willing to do it for them.
I think it says a lot that Christianity is so much the target, explicitly or otherwise, of "progressive" activism while the subjugating doctrine of Islam holds an entirely sanctified status to the same group of people. Their murderous fanaticism, as exemplified by what has happened to Charlie Kirk - and in the name of "anti-fascism" no less, bespeaks something primal that goes far beyond the reach of philosophy or even psychology to explain. No longer the politics of right and left obtains. It is rather the politics, and the practice, of right and wrong.
This is the saddest thing that I’ve ever seen watching them videos of his daughter running up to him only a few weeks ago
Wat a man he was
And them dicks on MSBCN need to hang their heads in shame
There is NO "political" answer to this. This is a spiritual war for the souls of men and woman.
I think the church should be out there mobilising and taking the Gospel of Christ to the streets of Britain. Yes, many will be harassed, arrested and intimidated by the police. They will be mobilised by the government against us. Yes, many will be imprisoned on trumped up "hate speech" charges. Yes, many will be beaten up by "other religions" and the authorities will turn a blind eye. Yes, many will be mocked and derided and attacked by the rainbow mob. Yes, some will have their homes targeted, and their kids bullied at school, and our churches fire bombed and vandalised (just look at Canada). And yes, some will even lose their lives for the Gospel.
But this is nothing compared to what other churches have gone through since the dawn of Christendom 2,000 years ago. Even today in countries like Nigeria christians die for the gospel.
While we sit in our church buildings and appease, and basically just shut up, then the world can just about tolerate us. If we get out there among them and preach the good news... THEN you'll start to see the government's true colours.
Paul said, " I have worked much harder, been in prison more frequently, been flogged more severely, and been exposed to death again and again. Five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one. Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was pelted with stones, three times I was shipwrecked, I spent a night and a day in the open sea, I have been constantly on the move. I have been in danger from rivers, in danger from bandits, in danger from my fellow Jews, in danger from Gentiles; in danger in the city, in danger in the country, in danger at sea; and in danger from false believers. I have labored and toiled and have often gone without sleep; I have known hunger and thirst and have often gone without food; I have been cold and naked. Besides everything else, I face daily the pressure of my concern for all the churches.". THIS is what happens when you take the message of the gospel to the masses, but you save souls in the process.
This doesn't sound like sitting in church listening to the "worship band", does it?
In church we should be taught how to do this. 👆
When I was a kid back in the 60's we (our church) was out Sunday and Wednesday nights preaching in the streets. As a teenager I was also involved in street preaching on Mondays as well in another town on Mondays. Now there is almost no street preaching and where there is the police follow up pretty swiftly to close it down on the back of "harassment, alarm and distress".
Every human society has had something which maps to "a religion" and most in existence today have one. Yet we are in a time when "western" society is so determined by its own arrogance that it will survive without one and that it will prosper based upon greed, the absolute certainty of the importance of the self/individual that it will junk its own entity. Is it going well? The competitor is being given a clear path through complete apathy. One day there will be a shock, when it is overturned, that day will be too late to conclude there was a a few turnings back along the path.
The entire situation from its geographical crux in Israel is religion. Islam is intent on world domination. And the issues, as in violence, death and destruction are always located wherever Islam meets resistance.
Badger, find a church which preaches the gospel and does not compromise but the most important thing is to find Christ himself. Read the Bible, pray, repent and be baptised. If you seek earnestly, you will find him.
I am not a Christian and certainly no Muslim but even this non-religious American can plainly see the double-standard. Why we bend over backwards to "welcome" a religion of grave intolerance and of violence into our country while mocking and diminishing the religion that our population has largely followed since before day one of our country is beyond me. I am not a Christian but I understand Christianity's role in the fabric of our Constitutional Republic and I understand Islam's desire to roll over us and our history and culture and I see those in the media and in learning institutions who aid and abet this attempted coup.
That’s a really sharp clarification. You’re right — the verse is 2 Timothy 3:12: “Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.” And the context is Paul writing, post-Damascus, no longer the Pharisee Saul but Paul the Christian, urging Timothy that godliness inevitably invites persecution.
What Paul is saying has nothing to do with ethnic identity or cultural Christianity. It’s not about being Jewish, Gentile, Roman, Greek, or “ethnically Christian.” It’s about the moral and spiritual stance of anyone who tries to live faithfully in an ungodly society. The warning is that if you hold to truth in a corrupt world, you won’t be applauded — you’ll be resisted, mocked, and sometimes destroyed.
So if that verse is being used in the essay you’re responding to, it seems misapplied. It isn’t an excuse for Christians to feel persecuted because their cultural dominance is slipping. It’s a spiritual axiom: the closer you walk in godliness, the more you’ll clash with a world that thrives on compromise.
Thanks for sharing your piece. I’ll be honest — I was a little confused by your title. “A special place in hell for Christians” reads, on its face, like a blanket statement that Christians as such deserve hell. Yet your essay itself was more specific: you were pointing to the way certain conservative or traditional Christian values — which, ironically, sometimes overlap with the kind of socially conservative views a murdered imam might have expressed — are not tolerated in our society. You speculate that such an imam might even be canonized, and on that point I think you’re right: there is real hypocrisy in how society decides who is permitted to hold traditional views, and who must be demonized for them.
That said, I personally find it difficult to see much common ground between conservative Christians and Muslims. For me, there’s too much textual poison in the Qur’an and Hadiths, and the long history of Islamic imperialism, for me to want to walk down that alley. Still, I think your underlying point about the selective tolerance of society is valid and important. You’re right — there are some groups of people that our culture has effectively declared open season on, where “you can punch them in the face and do anything you want.”
On that front, let me share where I’m coming from. I’m a recently fired professor — less than two months ago. My offense? Criticizing Hamas and calling them Nazis, which I stand by. It’s historically accurate: Hamas’s ideological roots are explicitly Nazi. My main accuser was a radical Islamist who openly hates the West, Canada, and the U.S.; who praises Putin, Maduro, Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis; who has called Jews filth, vermin, and subhuman; who glorified October 7th; who calls for Israel’s extermination; and who has even claimed Jews fabricated the Holocaust. A man who is, frankly, a walking human rights crime.
And yet — he was granted complete immunity. He and a university vice-provost stood as my accusers. I, meanwhile, was fired, slandered, demonized, and subjected to mass online attacks numbering in the hundreds of thousands. My life has been threatened. All because I called Hamas Nazis.
And here’s where your broader point about hypocrisy hits home for me. Because obviously, the people who can be attacked most freely in our society right now are Jews. At my own university, I’ve watched people scream “F*** Zionists” in public, unchallenged. Well, I’m a Christian — but I’m also a Zionist. And that hatred was tolerated on campus. Almost anything is tolerated if it’s directed at Jews.
The danger is this: we are not just in an era of antisemitism, but sliding into something darker — hate propaganda. And once you normalize hate propaganda, you’re already halfway to a pogrom. We had one recently in Washington, when Jews were killed in cold blood — that was a pogrom. And it is perverse that under the umbrella of “sensitivity” and “cultural understanding,” we allow a destructive force to cloak itself in respectability.
Let’s be honest: this is not only about Muslim fundamentalism. It goes deeper — it is about what Islam itself historically and doctrinally teaches. Islam is not, strictly speaking, just a religion; it is also a political doctrine. From its inception in the 7th century, it was designed to unify Arab tribes through a monotheistic, patriarchal creed that flattered ethnic pride, gave men dominance, and justified imperial expansion. And it succeeded: centuries of conquest and bloodshed followed.
But here’s another piece I thought your essay was going to explore: the history of so-called “Christians” — and I say so-called because I don’t believe they were truly following Christ — who for millennia persecuted Jews. From the “Christ-killer” slur to pogroms to expulsions to outright murder, Christians in name carried out atrocity after atrocity. Today, thankfully, no major Christian denomination preaches this insanity. No mainstream church embraces “Christ-killer” rhetoric. But echoes remain.
And here’s where I speak personally. I am a Christian who stands openly and proudly for the Jewish people and for Israel. I’ve even started studying Hebrew. But when I was attacked — when fundamentalist Islamists came after me, destroyed my career, and smeared my name — who stood with me? Not my Christian friends. Not my Christian relatives. Not my academic colleagues. It was Jews. Random Jews, 98% of those who had my back, while my own community was largely silent.
So yes, Christians today may not be institutionally antisemitic — but the legacy of Christian hostility toward Jews is not entirely gone. And in my experience, it was Jews, not Christians, who stood beside me when it counted. That’s a sobering thing for me to admit as a Christian, but it’s true.
What shocks me most is not Islam’s consistency, but our own inconsistency. Out of misplaced cultural sensitivity — and sheer historical ignorance — we deny the obvious: that Islam’s central doctrines are profoundly opposed to post-Enlightenment values of reason, freedom, and individual dignity. This isn’t just about different values; it’s about values that are openly hostile to ours, and that seek not coexistence but replacement.
The real danger isn’t simply that Islam threatens to destroy us. It’s that we are destroying ourselves. We’ve lost connection with where we came from, what we stand for, and why reason and liberty matter. And because of that, we fail to recognize a destructive force when it stares us in the face.
So yes — I still don’t fully understand your title. But I appreciated your essay, and I agree with your central critique: hypocrisy rules the day, and the selective enforcement of “tolerance” is tearing us apart.
Well said.