There is a blessing for the establishment here. By focusing attention on provocateurs like me, it gives breathing space for everyone else to develop their arguments and present them to the public without censure. After an encounter with a force of pure irreverence like me, a George Will column must seem like a nice break! A smart observer might realize that’s the whole fucking point.
In March of 2017, Charles Murray, renowned author of The Bell Curve, was violently pursued by an angry mob when he attempted to give a lecture at Middlebury College. I know, bitch stole my act.
Perhaps you think I’m just a comedian doing all this for fun. Perhaps you think I’m just the world’s biggest narcissist. Both these things are at least partly true. But, I’m also deadly serious about the American right to speak freely on any topic. People like Charles Murray deserve to have their voices heard, and my divinely appointed job is to toughen up these kids so they can properly engage in the big debates. Daniel Henninger in the Wall Street Journal brilliantly quoted President Eisenhower: “Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing the fact that they ever existed. Even if they think ideas that are contrary to ours, their right to say them, their right to record them, and their right to have them at places where they are accessible to others is unquestioned, or it isn’t American.”160
McCarthyism is what they called it in 1953. Now, we just call it liberalism. What happened to Charles Murray is exactly why I do what I do, and it’s exactly what I’ve been warning everyone was going to happen, and I’m telling you, it’s going to get a lot worse before it gets any better. Unless we fight back.
The Left would like to shut the Overton Window and push conservatives out of public view altogether. Ironically, establishment Republicans would like to do the same. Before I arrived on the scene, they were seriously close to succeeding. Even consummate moderates like the libertarian columnist Cathy Young were being banned from campuses.
That’s how the Left fights. They take control of culture, and use it to smear even moderate conservatives as racists, sexists, and bigots. By the time American youths reach college age, significant portions of them are frothing at the mouth, desperate to suppress conservatism, which they believe to be synonymous with bigotry. When they reach that point, there is little hope of them listening to our arguments, no matter how strong they are.
That’s why this civil war has to end. Conservatism needs its great thinkers and its brilliant minds—the Debate Club brigade—to persuade voters who are already open-minded. But we also need provocateurs and clowns, to grab the attention and challenge the biases of those who don’t want to be challenged.
No movement has ever survived with just moderates and intellectuals, and no movement has ever survived with just hellraisers.
If we want to win, we need both.
9
WHY MUSLIMS HATE ME
“I studied the Quran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as that of Muhammad.”
—Alexis de Toqueville
I’d really hate to be thrown off a roof.
In the summer of 2015, Europe opened its doors to millions of people who would very much like to kill me—and you too, most likely.
After a picture of a drowned Syrian boy went viral, globalist elites like Angela Merkel exploited sympathy to lower the drawbridge of an entire continent, welcoming millions of Muslim migrants, and moving another step closer to eliminating national borders.
The implicit message from the media was clear: all migrants are just like the drowned boy—innocents fleeing oppression, hunger and death in war-torn Syria. In reality, fewer than half the people admitted to Europe in the months following the viral photo were from Syria.161 Most weren’t refugees at all: they were economic migrants, from regions of the world even more radical than the country that currently hosts the Islamic State. And they certainly weren’t boys.
Globalist media and political elites sought to extend the rare moment of pro-migrant sentiment for as long as possible. Journalists flocked to German train stations to take pictures of teary-eyed liberals holding placards stating “refugees welcome,” and hugging the smirking new arrivals.
Over a million Muslims poured into the Mediterranean to cross into Europe.
It only took a few months for this leftist dream to turn into a nightmare. On New Year’s Eve, 2015, the new arrivals introduced Germany to Muslim misogyny. An estimated 2,000 migrants, acting in gangs, unleashed taharrush gamea—an Arab word meaning collective sexual harassment—on German women returning from and attending New Year’s celebrations.
Attacks took place in the cities of Cologne, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Dortmund, Düsseldorf, and Stuttgart. By night’s end, police estimated that at least 1,200 women had been groped or otherwise sexually assaulted, including at least five rapes.162 It was the worst night of sexual assaults in Germany since the Red Army’s invasion.
Germany was not alone. Sweden, which welcomed more than 140,000 migrants, was also beset by sexual assaults. A report from The Gatestone Institute referred to a “Summer Inferno of Sexual Assault” in Sweden. This was largely suppressed by the police and media.163 Analyzing Swedish crime data, the report found a particular surge in group sexual assaults on girls aged 14-15. Virtually all of the apprehended attackers were citizens of Afghanistan, Eritrea, or Somalia; three of the four largest refugee groups in Sweden. Various Swiss cities, as well as others throughout Europe, began handing out flyers to incoming migrants, explaining why groping women and bashing gays is bad.164 Thanks to Muslim immigration, Sweden now has rape statistics approaching what feminists in the U.S. claim.
Rape, unfortunately, was just the beginning. Next came murder.
On March 22, 2016, two bombs exploded in Brussels Airport, killing 13. An hour later, another explosion went off in the town of Maelbeek, killing 20. The attack’s mastermind, who also planned the November 2015 Paris attacks, was Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a Belgian native who had travelled to Syria to fight for the Islamic State, before returning to Europe at some point during the refugee crisis.
European states suspected of letting him pass through their borders on his return to Belgium immediately issued flustered denials.165 But the truth is, no one was looking that closely at the streams of migrants flooding across the continent’s borders.
Abaaoud’s attacks, encouraged by the Islamic State, inspired a string of copycat strikes in Europe’s summer of terror. One month later, a police officer and his wife were stabbed in Magnanville, France, by Larossi Abballa, acting on the orders of ISIS. One month after that, on Bastille Day, a Muslim driving a 19-ton truck ploughed through the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, France. 86 people were killed, and more than 400 were injured.