You won't stop the carnage we see in France by passing a few immigration reforms -- as British politicians are now suggesting. Tighten immigration, sure. But the problem we face is much bigger than this. What we are witnessing is a highly-coordinated, deeply ideological and concerted war on not just France but the West more broadly. At the heart of it is a 'Red-Green' alliance of left-wing extremists, Islamists, and the Palestinian movement that has now morphed into a revolutionary movement. It wants nothing less than the destruction, dismantling, or 'deconstruction' of Western civilisation. And it is benefitting from a wider circle of 'tacit support' within our own Western institutions -- our schools, universities, media, publishing, and more. These activists are now exploiting a West that has become dangerously divided, deluded, & demoralised. While the West has certainly eroded itself and emboldened its enemies through mass immigration and broken borders, it has also taken a sledgehammer to its own foundations by teaching its own young people to hate who they are -- to hate their own history, culture, identity, and inheritance. Scruton called this Oikophobia. Furedi called it the war against our past. In France, Philippe de Villiers calls it 'Memoricide'. The stripping away of any sense of who we are. It is cultural vandalism against ourselves. China, Russia, Islamic states, they are all laughing at us. We have cut our own young people off from the West's distinctive and proud history by either telling them our nations are racist and embarrassing or bombarding them with historically illiterate documentaries and Netflix shows that present the West as evil. Unsurprisingly, they now feel little attachment or loyalty to their own nations while many young people today, put simply, don't even know who they are. With no strong sense of national identity, and no real understanding of where they are from or what their ancestors built, they have become completely disoriented, bobbing around on a sea of globalism and phone-induced narcissism. The young French destroy their country because they feel no loyalty to their country. Somebody said to me recently the West resembles a bouquet of flowers on the mantlepiece -- it is still beautiful but if you look closely it's roots have been cut off and it is now slowly dying in the vase. In the first instance, France is suffering the effects of all this, looking on at a generation that clearly hate its own nation or at least feel no attachment to it. But this deeper malaise is now visible in pretty much every Western state today, having been encouraged by a political class that decided it was a good idea to redefine Western nations as empty vessels that are merely here to show empathy towards everybody else. Immigration reforms might help but what we are facing now is actually much bigger than any of that. As Scruton, Furedi, Caldwall, Phillips, Murray, Lasch and others have been warning us for many many years, there is a war against the West and before it even really begins we are already helping our enemies by cutting off our own legs. Today it is France, tomorrow it will be everywhere.

France today, Britain tomorrow. Western nations are destroying themselves not just through mass immigration and rapid demographic change. But by taking a sledgehammer to their own foundations. New piece ⬇️

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Suicidal empathy is letting ISIS terrorists into your country and then forcing your own people to pay for them. This is actually happening in the UK right now. Cc @ShabanaMahmood