George Orwell

A collection of 33 posts

Israel Featured

Two sides of Israel's existential war

Tending graves is usually old people's stuff, not something twenty-year-olds do. In Israel, that's what twenty-year-olds do. Here the sun was setting on another day. Where such men are flippantly condemned as "war criminals," and pronounced fair game, it is night all the time.

Totalitarianism Featured

Two conditions to end civilisation: one, “wokeness”; two, defeat of Israel. Part 2

Israel and Ukraine (and Taiwan) stand between “a combination of several Fascisms conquer[ing] the whole world,” and the obliteration of “those two conditions” by which “the liberal tradition” is preserved. The alternative is “a boot stamping on a human face—forever.”

Totalitarianism Featured

Two conditions to end civilisation: one, “wokeness”; two, defeat of Israel. Part 1

All three “Fascisms”, Russia, Iran and China, used the Houthis and Hamas, i.e., the Arabs, as their canary in the coal mine. If they survive Trump, we do x; if Trump wipes them out, we do y. To Muslims and communists, agreements are not part of making peace, they are part of making war.

Jihad Featured

Unequivocally the best news for Israel and civilisation since October 7, and the most urgent

It means giving up the chauvinist notion of "they hate us just because we're Jewish." There are healthier bases for uniqueness that do not involve shunning those you so badly need.

Jihad Featured

Israel vs Iran: The targets no one is talking about, Part 2

First a brutal Arab Sunni dictator, then a ruthless Arab Shi'a tyrant, followed by a brutal Iranian Shi'a dictator. Diverse, yes, but they had one aim, to destroy Israel with the ultimate weapon, and a common ideology, Islam.

Israel Featured

Netanyahu's address to the Joint Houses of Congress, 25 July 2024, in context. Part 2

As the longest-serving Prime Minister of Israel, no fewer than sixteen years and counting, there is much that Benjamin Netanyahu could have accomplished that no other Prime Minister stood a chance at.

Propaganda Featured

Is it Islamophobic to call out Ed Husain for his stance on "Islamophobia"? Part 2

Ed Husain does not see that "Islamophobia" is a club with which Muslims, the woke, and communists, together, have been bludgeoning the West into letting Muslims dismantle civilisation. Or perhaps he does.

Debate Featured

Answering my critics, Part 2

Let us, first of all, be crystal clear about one thing: if I could become Jewish and Israeli tomorrow, I would seize the opportunity with both hands.

Debate Featured

Answering my critics, Part 1

I resolved to do as much damage to Islam as I possibly can, before a Muslim’s knife reaches my neck. This is much, much bigger than whatever personal experiences my critics imagine I must have had in Islam. They simply have no idea.

Propaganda Featured

Muslims must not debate, will not debate, cannot debate. Part 4

We have all seen Muslims bolt from debates at Speakers' Corner and heard them cut the call on Christian Prince's YouTube channel. When overwhelmed with evidence and unable to dominate, their centre can no longer hold, and things fall apart.

Apostasy Featured

Had Orwell but known Islam. Part 5

The dhimmi is commanded to put his soul, good fortune and desires to death. Above all he should kill the love of life, leadership and honour. The dhimmi is to invert the longings of his soul, he is to load it down more heavily than it can bear until it is completely submissive.

Apostasy Featured

Had Orwell but known Islam. Part 4

Doubt is the undoing of Islam, and the antidote to doubt is simple and obvious: remain a Muslim of strong faith. This means to never doubt, remain primitive and simplistic in thought, remain ignorant, and, above all, never trust your own mind.

Apostasy Featured

Had Orwell but known Islam. Part 3

The simple believer must cling to the meagre faith that has been ordained for his inadequate station, grateful for the little he has been favoured with. At the end of the day, the closest thing to a guarantee that a lay Muslim has of reaching Paradise, is to kill and be killed in the cause of Allah.

Apostasy Featured

Had Orwell but known Islam. Part 2

The truant boy was punished, but we, his classmates, were all implicated. Our gaze made his humiliation complete. The strong boys holding his bare soles aloft will be conflicted for the rest of their lives, unless they fully embrace Islam and own their deed, or leave Islam and find healing.

Apostasy Featured

Had Orwell but known Islam. Part 1

The antithesis of Allah is, therefor, not the Devil, but the kufaar. Muslims hate the kufaar more than they hate Satan, a minor character in Islam. This says something about the relationship between Islam as religion and Islam as totalitarian system.

Jihad Featured

Give the Qur'an to Jews!

The bizarre situation in which Muslims are welcomed as citizens of Israel, but non-Halakhic Jews are seen as a threat to the state, is simply storing up trouble that can still easily be avoided.

Israel Featured

Orwell, Jabotinsky, Fascism and Islam - Part 5

I find it very hard to believe that Ze'ev Jabotinsky was not aware of the Führer's deference toward Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, especially after the end of WWI. The link between Islam and the predicament facing the Jews must have been coming at Jabotinsky from all sides.

Israel Featured

Orwell, Jabotinsky, Fascism and Islam - Part 4

The Arab Riots focussed Jabotinsky's attention on the practical urgency of saving European Jews from being murdered and securing for them their national home. The Helsingfors Programme was immediately to hand. If it was good enough to understand Russia, it was good enough to understand Palestine

Totalitarianism Featured

Orwell, Jabotinsky, Fascism and Islam - Part 2

"At every hour of every day, I can tell you on which page of which book each school child in Italy is studying." — Benito Mussolini

Totalitarianism Featured

Orwell, Jabotinsky, Fascism and Islam - Part 1

The process begins with tainting reality with the mark of the condemned: “2+2=4 reeks of white supremacist patriarchy.” From here it is a small step to 2+2= whatever the architects of Rubel’s mind decide it is today.

Propaganda Featured

2022: The year the English language reclaimed "refugee"

The "refugee" mania that so gripped Europe since 2015, when organised international mass crime became a virtue to so many in the West, while the safeguarding of citizens and the protection of their society was deprecated, is no longer quite the madness that it was.

Jihad Featured

Anatomy of a madness, Part 4

I read The Satanic Verses in the winter of 1996-97, unemployed and frozen, and again in the winter of 2014-15, Charlie Hebdo on TV 24/7. The third time was in that magical realist summer of 2020, with a fresh-ish MFA to my name, to study the work as art. 12 August 2022: the author survived.

Jihad Featured

Anatomy of a madness, Part 2

I read The Satanic Verses in the winter of 1996-97, unemployed and frozen, and again in the winter of 2014-15, Charlie Hebdo on TV 24/7. The third time was in that magical realist summer of 2020, with a fresh-ish MFA to my name, to study the work as art. 12 August 2022: the author survived.

Atheism/religion

The panic of the sheikhs

Atheism spooks the sheikhs. People cannot turn to them for answers, and must seek and find their own answers. Lying flat dissolves the CCP’s power over the Chinese people in exactly the same way as a Muslim woman marrying an atheist does.

Totalitarianism

Totalitarianism: we have become comfortably numb - Part 12

"a boot stamping on a human face, forever." — George Orwell.