An Outrage, Plain and Simple

That's what today's bombings in London were. Our prayers are with those who have died and with their families and friends.

The cowards who have perpetrated this outrage must justice visited upon them swiftly and finally, wherever they may be. Let there be no doubt that those who have perpetrated this attack and those who have abetted it are committed to the destruction of Western Civilization and must not be allowed to succeed. Those who would suggest that this is about Iraq or Afghanistan are missing the point. Al Qaeda and its Islamist supporters view the whole of Western Civilization as weak and decadent and seek its destruction plain and simple. Of course, the reason they view Western Civilization as weak and decadent is that in many ways it is. Plunging birthrates and elites who loathe their own societies, along with stagnant economies, an unwillingness to assimilate those from other cultures into society, an excessive reliance on the state, not to mention the collapse of high culture and religion are signs of a civilization in its death throes. The West, and Europe in particular, have thrown off the things that have made it great and have thus lost any vision of the future. Now is the time to look back at the past and to take up once again the things that have made Western Civilizaton the greatest in the history of mankind. Only by taking up the mantle of Western Civilization can the West hope to survive the onslaught of radical Islam. They are convinced of the rightness of their cause, and we must be convinced of the rightness of ours.