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Entry: Who Speaks for Europe? (on the PC defenders of the West) Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/who_speaks_for_europe_on_the_pc_defenders_of_western_civilization#29213 Post contents: So-called paleoconservatives (how I hate that word) who feel sympathy for Islam in the West because of our current decadence are as attached to an "idea" instead of a concrete civilization as any neocon and are as much traitors to our traditions. One does not side with the enemy when things get tough in one's camp, when one does not get one's way politically. For Muslims, the West was decadent at the time of the high Middle Ages and Renaissance. Our music, from Monteverdi and Corelli through Mahler and Bruckner, is decadent. Our troubadours who inspired courtly, romantic love are decadent. Those naked statues on Italian streets are decadent. Our failure to physically beat women and allow them a choice in marriage is decadent. Our systems of government, whether monarchy or republican, are evil. The fact that we are convulsing at this time and going through a crisis does not mean we open the door intellectually to the people we have been fighting since before revelation in the form of Xerxes or Carthage. The battle between Oriental despotism and Western freedom is ancient. I suppose had Professor Gottfried, lost a job at a Roman school to a new-fangled group of reformers, he would have given Hannibal a map of the Alps. Better to live under foreign rule than to lose political power, right? Sent at: 2008 12 02