George’s ShockBlog                  Jan 2016

German Guilt Brings Down Society

When you hear modern German expressed on television it is delivered with a sing-songy kind of accent, with the minimum of assertion, and an overwhelming need to concur, and to placate other speakers. Often it is interlarded with English words to avoid referencing cringe-making German words of the Third Reich. Possibly it is a long, slow reaction to Hitler. His sharp, belligerent delivery, with their vulgar overtones, has intimidated German-speakers who came after. And so the German people are in a long, slow search for a new identity.

One of the more profound and traumatic lessons internalised by most Germans concerns previous brutal treatment of minorities in their country. So averse are Germans to insulting their ‘guests’ that many public figures engage in a dance of  avoidance and denial about the bad behaviour of minorities. It parallels the disturbing cases across Britain where Pakistani paedophile gangs who raped young white girls was the source of a sustained and unconscionable cover-up by the authorities for fear of appearing racist. Who could have believed in the early days of Political Correctness that there would evolve  so many officials, tongue-tied and lying, to deny the facts before them? Who would have believed that Political Correctness would, one day, make donkeys out of politicians and mules out of mayors? Who could have believed that those called-upon to take action would retreat behind a barrier of evasive lies, and cunning false explanation?

Many young Muslim men have a familiar technique to touch foreign women. I have seen it for years out side the Rochechouart Station in Paris, where the ever-present gang of several hundred block the path to the station allowing a narrow alley of groping hands for the women hurrying to work. It is thought allowable because the police refuse to take action.

The New-Year’s Eve attacks upon German women on the last day of 2015 has engendered such a rash of denials and lies from officials that it sometimes looks like a new social disease;  kind of mass mental aberration whereby many people in responsible positions lose the ability to see or learn what is going-on around them. Similar in a way to all those German citizens who lived close by the death-camps, saw the smoke of crematoria, smelt the burning flash, saw their streams run pink with blood, but denied everything. The mayor of the town of Ohrdruf committed suicide, along with his wife, after General Walton Walker ordered the people of the town to visit a sub-camp of Buchenwald near Ohrdruf.

The Mayor of Cologne, Frau Henrietta Reker suggested that the thousand rampant Muslim men at the main station on New Years Eve were possibly not as described by many witnesses; Muslim men from Arabia and North Africa. She seemed to be putting the blame upon the molested girls themselves and proposed the simply solution that German girls should keep an arm’s length between themselves and the attackers; as if the women could simply rely on Muslim men to respect that supposed arm’s length. One official suggested that the sexual assaults were done by ‘tourists from North Africa’, or foreigners coming to the party from all over Europe. They simply refused to believe that the hundreds of thousands of Muslim immigrants that had trekked up through the Balkans last summer could have attacked German women so openly. At the time of the mass immigration there was a suggestion that the many ‘families’ holding-out trays of sweets to the new arrivals on German stations everywhere were actors appointed by the government to sweeten the invasion.

Denial is necessary when the world we occupy does not correlate with our hopes. Many Germans hoped to assuage the gnawing pains of guilt over their past by demonstrating, somewhat hysterically, that they have changed, and nothing will turn them against their minorities again. And into that delicate charade of the cuddly German steps a ruthless group of religious believers from the seventh century. ‘You must treat us well; Frau Merkel invited us!’, a dodgy Syrian  is supposedly told the suspicious police. He already knew of his power over the softy Germans. Play the guilt card. And that guilt is deep. On YouTube you may see a Right Wing German member of parliament inviting the days, twenty years hence, when Muslims will run Germany. Immigration of Muslims is leading to a slow German suicide, which has begun with denying rights to their own white citizens that they over-generously offer to Muslim Rapists.

Days after the assaults, the German opinion is hardening. Days  later  Frau Merkel described the assaults as "repugnant criminal acts that Germany will not accept".  She added: "The feeling women had in this case of being at people's mercy, without any protection, is intolerable for me personally as well.

We must examine again and again whether we have already done what is necessary in terms of deportations from Germany in order to send clear signals  to those who are not prepared to abide by our legal order."

There is, of course, something complex behind all this confusion; something that has never occurred to the German. Those who cheered the arrivals last summer jointly suffer an innocence concerning the nature of ‘culture’. And it is this. Culture is not simply a form of Group belief and Behaviour. It is a heritable set of beliefs and values that take millennia to evolve. The Germans will not be able to retrain Muslim misogynists simply by lectures upon appropriate behaviour, nor by revealing the German Laws protecting women in public places. The culture of Arabs and other North Africans is as old as their tribes and as intractable as as their genes. Most of the visiting Muslims will never be able to change their beliefs about women, and nor will their children and grand-children. Many do, of course, and adopt Western values, and enjoy Western family lives.  But most continue Tribal  behaviours that allow the slap, the punch, and the occasional murder. It can be seen in the laws and habits of all Muslim countries, and among the many closed Muslim communities in The West. Women wear the burka not only to hide the bruises, but to signal submission in the unconscious hope of escaping the moment of masculine anger.

What is missing from all these new confrontations between Islam and the West, which the chief of police described as an unprecedented mass crime on the streets of Germany, is any kind of understanding of Islamic misogyny.  And, curiously, it is not about Islam; it is about us in The West! Unknown to most people in The West we have enjoyed two millennia of slow emancipation of women. We are perhaps fortunate in our history to have had strong women leaders; Elizabeth the First, Victoria, and our present queen; all setting a limit to public perceptions that women are stupid and inferior. And so the changes over hundreds of years have been slow and almost imperceptible. Such is the importance of Feminism. Back in the nineteen forties, there was still so much to do to bring British women to the forefront. I feel shame at what I believed as a child, but I was a child of my times. And was it not extraordinary that women of those times endured the patronising and humiliating attitudes of men? The changes were not trivial; they were monumental. It took the evolution of the male brain to the stage that women are respected as intellectual equals. And the job is not finished yet. Another century might do it for us in The West.

And so what hope for Muslim men? Even under the criticism of powerful women in The West, it may take centuries for Muslim men to evolve a reasonable attitude toward their womenfolk. For now, most Muslims continue to treat their womenfolk as children. Or donkeys. They cannot help it. To criticise them is to confuse our ‘elightenened ways’ with twenty centuries of slow evolution of men’s attitudes towards women. The misogynists are, after all, in the majority in this world.  

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What a Surprise ! The Arabs are Learning to Discuss Among  Themselves !

Most of the world banned public discussion centuries ago. Dictators and warlords trade in secrecy. The joke ‘Minister for Information’ in Tunisia, before the Arab spring swept him from power, believed that his job was to censor the media ruthlessly, so that news of the outside world did not reach his people. It would only upset them to know just how prosperous the world is becoming, particularly countries of the Far East, and parts of Africa; places which the Arabs have felt to be inferior.

 The Arab 22 nations of the Middle East and north Africa,  amounting to about four hundred million people, are only a small part of Islam in the world. And the Arab world has been the most secretive, and the most deliberately backward,  refusing to translate Western books on science and politics into Arabic, to keep their people ‘pure’ from civilising public discourse. The problems is simple, even the most sketchy of scientific knowledge seems to undermine The Koran; not only in direct refutation of Koranic claims, but also in wider knowledge such as the contradictory evidence to the holy texts from geology, genetics, biology, evolutionary biology, anthropology, palaeontology, history, physics and the study of ancient texts, which reveals many of them to be bogus.

And so the Muslim world has had to shut down almost all scientific knowledge, save that of pharmacy (but NOT medicine since so many people rely upon Western cures to stay alive, but do not want to inquire into anything that suggests Evolution!) A decade ago the Saudis promised to build advanced medical facilities and to enter the world’s economy in medicine, but, inevitably, the contradictions of all science with holy books threw power back into the hands of raving pulpit preachers who had the plan shelved. And those same preachers raging against women and The West each day have drawn Saudi Arabia closer and closer to their hoped-for paradise on earth set somewhere in the seventh century. And in keeping with the protection of seventh century knowledge, even public discussion on many subjects is banned. The Saudis now call it ‘terrorism’. The Shia cleric Nimr Al-Nimr, murdered on January 2^nd 2015, was a somewhat moderate voice calling for quite mild reforms, but that was enough for the Saudis to call him a terrorist. As one Arab intellectual recently avowed, it has become illegal for Arabs to have opinions, or to share ideas.

In Pakistan (which is not an Arab country) the former dictator, Zia-U-Haq, forbad all Western scientific journals and books, and so a university scientific education ended with those piles of old and mouldy Western journals of the nineteen eighties. Universities were turned into mosques. A science course spent much time discussing the speed which Paradise is drawing away from earth, which was the supposed centre of the universe, or the temperatures of the fires of hell. There has been some respite upon their war against science, but it has resolved into a terrible dichotomy in the minds of science students where speculation upon the nature of the universe has to be curtailed.

A new kind of free discussion is beginning to appear on Egyptian and Middle Eastern television, in which a prominent writer or academic may be brave enough to spell-out the failures of the Muslim world compared to The West. Those speakers have to be careful of course, and have to pretend that the Islamic world is far ahead, and that The West will, one day, bow to the superior Islamic cultures… only… Only the reality is becoming intrusive. And the reality is that the Muslim world is rapidly being overtaken by countries like China, India, Brazil and Nigeria, once regarded as culturally very inferior. One such speaker is the outspoken Ibrahim Al-Buleihi, former member of the Saudi Shura ruling council, who has been courageous in setting the record straight in such things as Arab aggression, and Arab backwardness.

What has been revealed is the depth of delusion the Arabic world carries. And how they believe that the greater world could be vastly improved by a dose of the Koran in Arabic, and some Sharia Law. Underpinning their sense of superiority is a constant reference to the Great Humiliations of the past, by which they may mean the partitioning of the Arab world into countries such as Iraq and Syria after the Great War and upon the decline of the Ottoman Empire of Turkey. It was the 1916 Sykes-Picot agreement, cooked-up by Britain and France upon dividing the Middle East under spheres of Allied interest. That agreement imposed rectilinear nations out of the hodgepodge of tribal allegiances is spoken sorely by Arab intellectuals as if it happened yesterday. Raving preachers in mosques play upon the Great Humiliation, describing, for example, how Westerners belittle the Islamic nation of Turkey, by naming a bird, and eating it on the holy day of Christmas. We know of no such humiliation. In fact, many British and French have an admiration for the Arab peoples for their socially advanced forms of relationships; although women are excluded from that.

Because they have no notion of cultural pluralism, lifestyle, and the public good, the Arabs have long assumed that the wealth, bought by oil, positions The West as mere servants of the Islamic world, providing them with cars and phones as any good servant should. But the hard realisation is that the Arab world produces almost nothing, not even needles and head-dresses. ‘Your headband was made in England!’ scorned one modern Arab thinker to his television host. But to be fair there are a few successes such as in telecommunications (safe from Koranic insult) like Orascom in Egypt and Etilsalat in Abu Dhabi (UAE)

One Arab intellectual teasingly proposed that almost every Arab believes that the Arab world could walk on the moon next year if they had an inclination. ‘They see American passenger planes with the names of Arab countries and assume that we made them! They use mobile phones with Arab writing and assume that they were made by Arabs!’ he scorned. The depth of Arab delusion concerning their abilities is worrying, and so are their poorly realised plans to modernise. But modernise they must. The falls in oil prices is beginning to squeeze them. Most Arab countries import not only most of their food, but also all home-contents even down to knives and forks. And they have little sense of the enormous social changes required to begin to make such things, including building a universal technical and vocational education. They have no idea of automated factories, but still think in terms of an artisan in the souk cutting-out spoons with hand-shears. Interestingly, that’s exactly how china saw mass production fifty years ago. Small-scale makes big economy? No, it doesn’t!

It is all a matter of understanding economics. They look to Japan, China, Korea and even Israel, and complain that many nations took Western technology fifty years ago and now profit by it, while the Arab world merely offers the disaffected youth the promises of seventy black-eyed virgins when they kill themselves. And it is the lesson of economic reality that hurts the most. As one writer pointed-out, the four hundred million Arabs (including all that oil) has a smaller GDP than that Germany, and is likely to fall with the falling price of oil. Even with the oil, the Arab nations together produce about the same as one State of the USA.

The Killer Figures – From IMF Country Report on Saudi Arabia September 2015

Saudi Arabia Corporate Sector

Although the Non-Oil Private Sector of the Saudi Economy may be larger than the Corporate Sector (there is little information) these figures illustrate a very weak and almost insignificant part of the Saudi Economy, outside subsidiary Oil businesses.

The total Saudi GDP is set at 644 -744 billions of US Dollars. Of that, the Corporate world makes a mere 27 billion, and the private sector, as much. It is all a bit of a guess. But it does illustrate the urgency of reform and the small base upon which an economy may be built.

The pretence that Arab nations could rapidly become rich by means other than oil is a serious one. One writer mentioned the unbelievable, that any commercial future of the Arab nations must necessarily involve the liberation of women. Arab intellectuals talk of major social reform to come such as the release of women from bondage and into the workforce; the learning of  English, the  abandonment of world-shaming executions, the modernising of universities with a Western slant towards technology,  and most controversially of all, -the introduction of democracy. In The West, people vote and a few weeks later the government changes with not a blip. Why do Arab changes of government always involve car-bombs and guns, they ask?

News of the Western ‘work-ethic’ comes hard. But where could they possibly introduce the idea of work into nations dependent upon oil revenues? A recent survey, says one Arab politician, revealed that the average Arab administrator does twenty seven minutes of work a day, and spends his time drinking coffee, chatting or running errands. But in The West, people work 40, 50, sometimes 60 hours a week.

And so the common features of the West such as Free Speech, Human Rights, and Democracy is beginning to weigh heavily on Arab minds.

Behind all the grumbling and the calls for reform lies one unmentionable obstacle. For Arab nations to commercialise and industrialise they would need an educated workforce, familiar with Western science and technology. But that same Western knowledge is incompatible with the Koran, which is profoundly anti-science and demands that all  knowledge comes from authority, and not from the laboratory. Until the Arab nations are able to remove Islam from college and from daily life and consign it so the mosque, then there is no possibility of an Arab renaissance. And the many uneducated raving mullahs shouting from their pulpits are not going to relinquish power that easily, even as Arab fortunes sink into the sands.  

Clips of Arab intellectuals appraising Arab failures and achievements may be seen on YouTube, under Memri TV.