Homeopathic morality and Muslim sexuality

Posted on October 20, 2012 by jewamongyou

According to Livescience:

Of all the world’s major religious groups, Muslims are the least likely to have sex outside of marriage, new research found. And as a country’s Muslim population grows, the rate of premarital sex declines for all residents, even non-Muslims, according to the study.
Researchers analyzed the responses of over 620,000 people (ages 15-59) who were interviewed as part of the Demographic and Health Surveys in 31 mostly developing nations from 2000 to 2008. Most countries included in the sample had either a Muslim or Christian majority, except India and Nepal, which have Hindu majorities, and Cambodia which has a Buddhist majority. (The United States was not included in the study.)
They found that, overall, the odds of married Muslims reporting premarital sex are 53 percent lower than for Christians. Hindus are 40 percent less likely to report premarital sex, compared with Christians. Meanwhile, Jews and Buddhists have greater chances of having sex before getting hitched than Christians do, according to the study.

The study has some obvious weak spots. For example, it could be that people in Muslim-dominated societies are more likely to lie about their sex-lives than others. The authors of this study assumed that lying would be kept to a minimum if the interviewers were the same sex as the subjects, and if nobody else was in the room. Perhaps. I suppose that, short of following people around and monitoring their sex-lives, this was the best they could do.
Also,the article goes on to say:

“All major world religions discourage sex outside of marriage, but they are not all equally effective in shaping behavior,” wrote the researchers, led by Amy Adamczyk, an associate professor of sociology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York.

Yes, it’s true that other religions are not as effective; probably because their adherents don’t resort to honor-killings, acid attacks and female genital mutilation. Lynch mobs are very effective at curbing criminal behavior, but I’m willing to bet that Adamczyk does not support them.
In Adamczyk’s defense, she has published a number of similar studies in the past, all of which tend to support her conclusions in this book. She’s studies HIV rates and found them to be lower in predominantly Muslim countries as well.
I’m not sure that Livescience did a good job conveying the nature of the study to its readership. If we consult the John Jay College account of Professor  Adamczyk and co-author Brittany Hayes’s book, “Religion and Sexual Behaviors: Understanding the Influence of Islamic Cultures and Religious Affiliation for Explaining Sex Outside of Marriage,” we find the following:

Adamczyk and Hayes’s study found that Hindus and Muslims are less likely than Christians and Jews to have premarital sex and Muslims are less likely to have extramarital sex. Muslims’ lower likelihood of premarital and extramarital sex is related to their commitment to, and community support for, strict religious tenants that only permit sex within marriage. The researchers also found that national Islamic cultures influence the sexual behaviors of all residents, even people who do not identify themselves as Muslim. The authors posit that religion tends to have a more powerful effect than restrictions on women’s movement in many Muslim countries (bold mine).

This supports what I’ve been saying for quite some time, that the dominant culture/religion of a society shapes the overall behavior of that society, even those who do not subscribe to the dominant religion/culture. We can carry this insight one step further, into the realm of time, and state that historically Christian societies behave differently, even after the religion is gone, than historically non-Christian societies. If I may be so bold, I would like to call this homeopathic morality. It’s the religion-based morality that remains even after the religion is gone.
A good friend of mine has claimed that we have little to fear from a “Muslim-majority” Europe since the vast majority of “European Muslims” shed their religiosity. Like the masses of shiftless, mindless, youth everywhere, they’d rather be second-rate niggers* than first-rate Arabs or Polynesians or what have you. But, unfortunately, Europe can suffer the worst of both worlds. The same second, and third, generation aliens can be niggers during periods of bad behavior, and Muslims during periods of good behavior. That is to say, when they’re not murdering, looting, raping and vandalizing, they’re voting for Muslim interests, raising Muslim kids, participating in Muslim marches and protests and supporting Muslim culture. It’s a double-edged sword. Good cop/bad cop.
*For new readers: When I say “nigger”, I refer to criminal, trashy, people of any background or those who make it a point to emulate them.
 

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A partial retraction from my previous post

Posted on October 18, 2012 by jewamongyou

A couple of commenters, Hugh and Ivan, set me straight on my appraisal of the movie Agora. I should have done more research before posting. It appears that the producers of Agora took some liberties with historical facts – which is not unusual in movies. I had also been told, by a trusted source, that the movie more or less stuck to the facts. It is entirely possible that this source, if he reads this blog, can defend Agora against its critics. He is a knowledgeable fellow. Thank you, Hugh and Ivan, for bringing the controversy surrounding this movie to my attention.
I believe somebody was quoted, in the movie, as saying that idolators can only believe in things they can see. Hence the need for statuary. It dawned on me that movies are today’s idols. People base their opinions  up0n dramatic events in their lives – and the vast majority of dramatic events people see occur in movies. In fact, I would bet that for every one dramatic event that occurs in real life, there are hundreds that the average person sees in movies and television shows. For the most part, television shows and movies constitute the a huge portion of what most Americans experience (through the senses of sight and sound). This medium is so powerful that it overrides real experiences in their lives. When it comes to ancient history, actual history doesn’t stand a chance against the make-believe history of movies and television – since no living person has experienced the real thing.
I suggested, in a comment on the previous post, that Agora’s producer, Amenábar, used the story of Hypatia as an allegory of the Muslim threat we face today.
I do stand by my previous opinion that the movie is wonderfully made and I recommend it to those who are not as sentimental as I.

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Agora: The story of Hypatia

Posted on October 17, 2012 by jewamongyou

While visiting a friend recently, he persuaded me to watch the movie Agora with him. Accolades flowed from his mouth. “You must see it”, he said. In the end, I regretted it.
The movie is extraordinarily well done. Indeed, I would call it a masterpiece. The acting is phenomenal, though I admit that I’m no expert. It was obvious that its producers went to great pains to depict Roman Alexandria as accurately as possible. The actors looked like the actual people who lived in Alexandria at that time, with the exception of the prominent black faces their P.C. sensibilities forced them to include. The hair styles were 100% spot on. The architecture, the dress, and even Hypatia’s dog were clearly gleaned from accurate historical sources. The only thing, other than the painfully obvious inclusion of blacks, that bothered me was the way they depicted Jews. I seriously doubt that the Jews of ancient Alexandria wore earlocks and played Hassidic-style music. But I can forgive them for this, since nobody can prove otherwise.
I regret having seen it because the character of Hypatia, played by Rachel Weisz, was so perfect that I could not help but feel anguish over her murder. It’s a real tearjerker and I watch very few movies – so my resistance level is very low. I didn’t actually cry but it bothered me. It bothered me because my friend kept reminding me that, in real life, she died a much more horrible death than depicted in the movie.
What I loved about the Hypatia character was, aside from her stunning beauty, that she loved knowledge purely for the sake of knowledge. This is something I was brought up with. While I appreciate people who learn a profession in order to earn a living, the attainment of knowledge strictly for its own sake is on a higher plane in my eyes. Actually, it’s not so much the attainment that excites me, it’s the effort and fervor that speaks to my soul. Rachel Weisz did such a good job depicted the love of learning that it touched me deeply. The thought of her death, at the hands of ignorant monks, repels me – and this, by most accounts, is what truly happened.
After reading the Wikipedia account of Hypatia’s life, it seems Agora’s account of what transpired is as valid as anybody else’s. Not much, for certain, is known about her except that she was a brilliant thinker who was murdered in the prime of her life by monks. None of her works survive and all the theories, attributed to her in the movie, are conjecture.
In Agora, the Christians come across much as Muslims do today. Obviously, reality is much more complicated. The movie has Christians destroying the great library at Alexandria, but nobody really knows how the library was destroyed.
Why did Christianity spread so rapidly in Roman Egypt? Perhaps traditional Egyptian beliefs had been on the decline for centuries, as had the Greco-Roman pantheon. Greek philosophy, and ever-changing Roman emperors, had weakened the old gods to the point where only formalities remained and few still believed in their power. Greek philosophy was one of the first attempts at secularism and free-thinking. But the Egyptians were not ready for it. They had nostalgic memories of their own pharaonic theocracy in centuries past. As soon as Christianity gained some authority, they latched onto it as a return to the past. Religious authority was what they craved and Christianity was the only vehicle available to them that had any credibility. The Egyptians were sick and tired of Greco-Roman secularism and politics masquerading as religion. They wanted the real thing but their old gods were dead. Their anger toward Hypatia may have actually been anger toward secularism. A secularism that had been imposed upon them by force through Greeks like Hypatia.
In our own day, knowledge far greater than anything Hypatia could have imagined is at our fingertips. It’s there for the taking. But most people are more interested in celebrities or sports. Politics is a combination of the two. We’re swimming in knowledge and yet few seek it for its own sake. In its stead, faith sustains them. Whether it’s the blind faith of liberalism or an organized religion. Modern Western civilization can flourish because Christianity has lost the power to impose its will on others. It can no longer decree inquisitions, burn witches or force scientists to deny their work. It lurks in the background, mostly harmless and sometimes helpful. But what about the teeming multitudes who practice Islam? While there are some signs that it too is receding to the background, the process might take centuries. We must recognize the risks – something Hypatia failed to do.

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Jared Taylor speaks at Towson University

Posted on October 16, 2012 by jewamongyou

I just finished watching this video and thought I’d share it with the rest of y’all. It’s interesting to watch low I.Q., brainwashed, attendees asking questions that show how much they fail to comprehend. Speaking to them is like speaking to a wall. A thick wall of ignorance.
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Ye olde slave house

Posted on October 15, 2012 by jewamongyou

I was reading a post on Occidental Dissent about the condition of slaves in the antebellum South when I remembered that I wanted to share some photos from my latest visit to Kentucky. According to local tradition, the home shown below housed slaves and then sharecroppers. Now it’s overgrown and neglected. Not far away is a (also overgrown) slave/sharecropper cemetery. People and pigs dwelt together in the same house – which is not unusual even today in third-world countries.






A fixer-upper I know. But as Hunter Wallace points out, the lot of whites of that era may have been even worse. At least the slaves were property and, as such, their owners had an interest in keeping them alive and healthy. A sick slave isn’t very useful. Poor whites, on the other hand, may have had only other poor whites to help them out in difficult times.

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Prad Pitt: Right, but for the wrong reasons

Posted on October 15, 2012 by jewamongyou

Actor Brad Pitt has thrown his weight behind a documentary that blasts the American War on Drugs. According to Reuters:

(Reuters) – Brad Pitt has thrown his weight behind a documentary that blasts America’s 40-year war on drugs as a failure, calling policies that imprison huge numbers of drug-users a “charade” in urgent need of a rethink…
Ahead of a Los Angeles screening, Pitt and Jarecki spoke passionately about the “War on Drugs” which, according to the documentary, has cost more than $1 trillion and accounted for over 45 million arrests since 1971, and which preys largely on poor and minority communities…
“The House I Live In” was filmed in more than 20 states and tells stories from many sides of the issue, including Jarecki’s African-American nanny, a drug dealer, narcotics officer, inmate, judge, grieving mother, senator and others.
It also shows that although the United States accounts for only 5 percent of the world’s population, it has 25 percent of its prison population. Additionally, African Americans, who make up roughly 13 percent of the population and 14 percent of its drug users, account for 56 percent of those incarcerated for drug crimes.

I can think of lots of reasons to end the War on Drugs. It grants ownership of our bodies to the government. It breeds corruption, violence and waste. It ruins the lives of countless people for no good reason. It entraps innocent people and provides incentives to be criminally connected. It is grossly unjust.
On the other hand it does keep a lot of dangerous criminals, who could not be successfully prosecuted for other offenses, behind bars and away from the rest of us. As with any other class of dangerous criminal, drug offenders are disproportionally black – and this is what Pitt has a problem with. It may well be that the likes of Pitt object to the War on Drugs partly because of the reasons I listed above, but all those reasons pale in comparison to the mother of all reasons: It’s “racist”.
It appears that “racism” has become a necessary ingredient for every cause celebre activists can cook up. Animal cruelty, war, AIDS, poverty, crime and obesity all reportedly have “racist” components. If we were to believe the hype, we would have to conclude that eliminating racism would lead to utopia on Earth, where all of our problems would evaporate.
When people are trained to believe that racism is the root of all evil, and that whites are the root of all racism, then they will also be lead to believe that whites are the root of all evil. When such a world-view becomes prevalent, the consequences are dire. It becomes,ultimately, a license to eliminate whites by any means necessary – for the betterment of the world of course.
Aside from that, when charges of racism are, eventually, shown to be bogus, the cause itself (which may be a worthy one) loses credibility. If you build your case on a phantom argument, even when legitimate arguments are available, the simple-minded masses will abandon you when the phantom vanishes.
We would all be better off if we eliminated the notion of “racism” – for the betterment of the world of course.

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Dilbert encounters a liberal

Posted on October 14, 2012 by jewamongyou

I’m pretty sure I’m not allowed to reproduce a Dilbert strip without permission, so just follow this link.

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Struggles of a Model Minority

Posted on October 11, 2012 by jewamongyou

A recent Portland Tribune article, which also appears on the Koinlocal6 website, tries to claim that Portland Asians are being held back by institutional racism and stereotypes. This article shares the front page with “Cully builds on diversity, community” and “Investors lining up for green cards”. In other words, the entire front page is devoted to diversity. They might as well call themselves “The Portland Diversity Tribune” since that’s all they seem to care about.
Are Portland Asians subject to pogroms, anti-Asian quotas, housing restrictions or inferior medical care? Must they use separate drinking fountains or sit in the rear of the bus? Not exactly… but there was a “Chinese Exclusion Act” – back in 1882. Apparently, some Asians are still haunted by that, even though few of them had ancestors in the United States at the time.
The article points out that Asians, nationwide, earn an average of $66,000/year compared to $50.000/year for all Americans. But then it goes on to say:

But as far as Ying and other leaders of the local Asian-American community are concerned, Portland’s Asians are facing a completely different environment. Sure, successful Asian faces make it appear that Asians are the model minority here as well. But for most Asians in Portland, they say, the Model Minority image is a damaging myth perpetuated by institutional racism and the Asians’ own cultural bias.

After claiming that a 205-page study by Portland State University social work professor Ann Curry-Stevens supports the “institutional racism” hypothesis, the article goes on to quote Stevens as saying:

“My default position is there’s a lot of racism that goes on…”

In other words, Portland is more racist, toward Asians, than other parts of the country. Considering that Portland is one of the most liberal cities in the country, it’s an odd accusation coming from a leftist rag such as the Tribune. According to Wikipedia:

The state is broken up into two main geographically separate political areas: the Portland metropolitan area and Eugene, liberal centers of the state, and the rest of the state…

I can vouch for that from my own personal experience. Portland is, indeed, a liberal hotbed. It’s interesting how liberals love to accuse the most liberal segments of society, such as school teachers, of also being the most biased against “people of color.”
One of the theories, that Curry-Stevens rejects, is that Portland has more new Asians than other parts of the country:

Next, she thought that perhaps Portland had more new Asians than other cities. New arrivals take time to learn the language and assimilate into American culture. But Curry-Stevens says Multnomah County has fewer new arrivals than the national average. Nearly half of the current Multnomah County Asian population was born here, compared to four out of 10 nationally.

Aside from the fact that “nearly half” and “four out of 10” is about the same, Curry-Stevens should have looked at the overall number of Asians in Portland. It’s also unclear what qualifies as a “new arrival”. A company I worked for had an Asian engineer whose command of the English language was sorely lacking. Part of his job was to compose company documents – and the results were shocking. When I suggested he have somebody else proofread his documents, he took it very personally. He had lived in the country for many years and might not have been considered “newly arrived”, yet his limitations were obvious for all to see.
Stereotypes do not materialize out of thin air; they develop in response to real-world experience. They flourish when there are large numbers of that specific group around. The Chinese don’t have stereotypes about Jews – since very few Jews have lived in China. Europeans do have stereotypes about Jews because many Jews have lived in Europe. The South has historically had stereotypes about blacks because most blacks used to live in the South. Once most of them migrated to the North, the South’s stereotypes became weakened.
Curry-Stevens’ study is 225 pages long. Unlike her, I do not get paid to churn out such studies. I certainly don’t have the time, resources or inclination to defend the liberals of Portland from charges of racism. However, it is quite clear that Curry-Stevens is biased in favor of the “racism” theory, as she admitted above. When it comes to government grants, and career advancement, charges of “institutional racism” is tried and proven. A Wikipedia article on the Vietnamese may provide a hint of other explanations for the economic disparities between Multnomah County (which includes Portland) and the rest of the country:

Vietnamese Americans’ income and social class levels are quite diverse. Many Vietnamese Americans are middle class professionals who fled from the increasing power of the Communist Party after the Vietnam War, while others work primarily in blue-collar jobs. In San Jose, California, for example, this diversity in income levels can be seen in the different Vietnamese American neighborhoods scattered across Santa Clara County. In the Downtown San Jose area, many Vietnamese are working-class and are employed in many blue-collar positions such as restaurant cooks, repairmen, and movers, while the Evergreen and Berryessa sections of the city are middle- to upper–middle-class neighborhoods with large Vietnamese American populations—many of whom work in Silicon Valley‘s computer, networking, and aerospace industries. In Little Saigon of Orange County, there are significant socioeconomic disparities between the established and successful Vietnamese Americans who arrived in the first wave and the later arrivals of low-income refugees.

Thus, it’s possible that the Vietnamese (as well as other groups) who settled in the Portland area are not the same Vietnamese who settled in Silicon Valley or Little Saigon. Indeed, there are so many affluent Vietnamese in California that they could easily skew the “national average” and make Portland appear poor in comparison. California may have siphoned off the well-connected and educated Asians, leaving the dregs for Oregon. Once a community of immigrant Asians becomes established, it might serve as a magnet for other like-minded/connected Asians. For any number of reasons, the Portland area never developed in the same way.
Be it as it may, the Tribune article makes some questionable assumptions. Among them:

The afternoon’s festivities will be held to celebrate the passage of resolutions by the U.S. Congress this summer formally apologizing for the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, which denied citizenship and basic rights to Asians. – That whites are obligated to apologize for policies, meant to protect against invasion by foreigners, of past centuries. Have other races made similar apologies?
 
“Our voice is just kind of silenced,” says Ying, “There are so many other people speaking louder.”
It doesn’t help when your minority is seen by many as problem-free. Or, that statistics appear to back up that sentiment. – That whites are always racist; whether they consider a minority problem-prone or problem-free, they’re “racist” either way.Incidentally, I’ve never heard of any group of people that is problem-free.
 
A recent Pew Research Center Study, “The Rise of Asian Americans,” reveals an astounding level of material, educational and cultural success among Asian immigrants nationwide. They are the most highly educated group of immigrants in U.S. history. More than half of all Asian Americans have obtained college degrees, nearly double the national rate for U.S. citizens. The average income for Asian-American families is about $66,000, compared to $50,000 for all Americans. – That “institutional racism” only works one way. When whites make less than Asians, it’s not a problem. But when Asians make less than whites, it’s a problem.
 
Crime and gangs in the Asian community are often ignored, they say, because they do not typically involve violence and the types of gangs behavior police associate with black and Hispanic gangs. – That violent gang behavior is not “associated with black and Hispanic gangs” but rather it’s the police who associate it with said gangs. In other words, the police are racist for noticing this pattern.
 
Asians in Portland haven’t spoken up to compete with other minorities for attention and resources, says Stephen Ying, Helen Ying’s husband and president of the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association, citing cultural taboos which make that nearly impossible. – That all minorities are entitled to “attention and resources” – while whites are not. If any minority is denied its share of the booty, it’s “institutional racism.”
 
But noise is starting to be made. Local Asian-Americans in the last few years have begun to form organizations such as the Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon to organize and lobby on their behalf. And this year, those organizations found a rallying point — a 205-page study by Portland State University social work professor Ann Curry-Stevens, who says institutional racism still exists throughout Multnomah County, and it’s keeping Asians down. – That non-whites can form racial lobbying groups and they’re expected to do so. We all know what happens when whites try the same thing.

I hope I live to see the day when similar articles, and studies, can be done about whites in America. When such articles will not only be widely published, but when people will be paid to write them. That such a thing is unthinkable in today’s America speaks volumes about who is truly being oppressed.

 

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"Hate crimes" in Eugene, Oregon

Posted on October 9, 2012 by jewamongyou

I just visited Eugene, Oregon and couldn’t help but notice prominently displayed signs such as these:


From what I’ve seen of Eugene, it’s an ultra-liberal, almost entirely white, college town. Any “hate crimes” against non-whites must be few and far between. The City of Eugene website has a presentation about hate crimes in which only four incidents, non of them violent (all involved graffiti), are listed since 2008. That’s a pretty good track record, even if we assume that all of them were legitimate.
There’s no way of knowing how many anti-white incidents occurred during the same time period since nobody keeps track of those. The above-mentioned presentation lists resources and organizations for fighting hate crimes. Tellingly, none of them look after the interests of white people; their goal is to protect non-whites and sexual minorities. Of course, the governmental institutions listed are well-known for turning a blind eye to anti-white hate crimes.
Here’s an interesting page from the presentation:

I’m sure it will come as news to many of y’all that a non-criminal activity can be a “crime”. Evidently, “hate speech” is already considered a quasi-crime by the municipality of Eugene. “Hate speech” is any speech that is critical of non-whites, or views whites in a positive light. It is also any speech that challenges orthodox views on race. I’m guessing that some will disagree with me on this. So I’m tempted to pass out some flyers in Eugene to prove my point.

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Rap to Islam: Out of the kettle and into the frying pan

Posted on October 6, 2012 by jewamongyou

A French rapper, Mélanie Georgiades (also known as Diam’s) has converted to Islam and showed up on television wearing a hijab. According to Alarabiya:

Amid a nationwide debate in France surrounding attitudes towards the Islamic veil, or hijab, a French rapper has surprised fans by announcing her conversion to Islam and choosing to wear a headscarf.
Mélanie Georgiades, known as Diam’s, has gone through what onlookers have described as a “complete transformation” from an image she had prior to 2009.
Since 2009, Diam’s had been unusually absent from the mainstream rap scene, prompting more than three years of controversy over her whereabouts, despite making the odd public appearance with her scarf.
But recently the French rapper made her first television appearance with her new image.
Diam’s appeared in an exclusive TV interview with French TV station TF1, to talk about a past experience with drugs, including hallucinating narcotics, and being in a mental asylum until she discovered the “serenity of Islam.” The rapper said the religion was introduced to her by coincidence, when she saw a Muslim friend praying.
Diam’s, said she has been married for over a year and is a now a new mother, moving far away from her drug-relate past.

The article goes on to say that her conversion was the result of personal conviction. To me, it looks like she had reached the bottom of depravity, found herself void of meaning in her life and embraced the only up-and-coming spirituality she knew: Islam, which some would argue is only a more organized form of depravity. Europe’s hostile elite have nurtured a culture where Christianity  is for old people and belongs to the past – while Islam is for young people and belongs to the future. It’s no wonder so many young Europeans, especially women, consider Islam the natural answer to their spiritual emptiness. For those who wallow in rap “culture” Islam can certainly be a step up, just as it is for American blacks who find comfort in the Nation of Islam.
Christianity probably would not have taken root in the Roman world had the masses not already given up their belief in the old Pantheon. In a world where the wealthy lived lives of shameless hedonism, and the poor desperately sought meaning for their short and wretched lives, Christianity was the right thing at the right time.
Like Islam, Christianity came from the Middle East. But Europeans made it their own. They replaced their old pagan beliefs with their own brands of Christianity – but they did not replace themselves. In contrast, the current transformation is much more sinister. Europeans are replacing themselves. Also, with current conditions, it’s hard to imagine a new, European-style, Islam taking root on any large scale.
Even if the bulk of Europeans remain secular, having Islam as the default religion will still cause tremendous damage to culture and freedom. Even as more and more Americans rejected traditional religion, Christianity remained the basis of many laws. So too does Islam serve as the legal foundation even in mostly secular Muslim countries.
Is it possible for a people to exist, for any appreciable amount of time, with no religion? Perhaps in pre-industrial times it would have been possible, with natural barriers to protect it from invasion. But in today’s world I highly doubt it. It would be ironic if the only way to preserve ones nation is to ensure that an undercurrent of patently false beliefs survives.
There’s a lot more that could be written about the French rapper turned Muslim; the above are just thoughts off the top of my head. Perhaps some European readers could provide deeper perspectives.

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