tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18399778.post113516856697439103..comments2023-10-28T15:20:05.754+02:00Comments on Islam in Europe - Commentary by Snouck: Culture WarsSnouckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04337065305817263551noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18399778.post-1135435437348411522005-12-24T15:43:00.000+01:002005-12-24T15:43:00.000+01:00Why would a Jew NOT write Christmas songs?I do not...Why would a Jew NOT write Christmas songs?<BR/><BR/>I do not think there is a problem with it. I just do not want to buy "White Christmas" because it is generic or sterile. <BR/><BR/>Why did millions of Americans buy and listen to the music? Because they wanted their Christmas without Christ. They liked it generic. They did not like all the Chritian baggage and Irving gave them what they wanted. Which is good.<BR/><BR/>What worries me however is that people like Abe Foxman and the ACLU are taking it too far. Abe The Hun is charging into dangerous territory and he will find out that if he goes on like this he will turn allies into enemies and the only people who agree with him are the Muslims as Sailer points out. And Muslims are not friends of Jews. Foxman and ACLU should consider carefully what they think they can win with this fundamentalist secularist campaign. They are turning secularism into a religion and giving everybody a big headache. Not smart.Snouckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04337065305817263551noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18399778.post-1135329696511197752005-12-23T10:21:00.000+01:002005-12-23T10:21:00.000+01:00Aaah Esther I agree with you here. Read what I say...Aaah Esther I agree with you here. Read what I say in my reply to Desmond. I compare a song like White Christmas with a Protestant celebrating Carnival. <BR/><BR/>But it is just sterile. No spiritual content. Just compare "White Christmas" to "Silent night". The latter is VERY emotive and touches the soul even in the melody. The lyrics mention "Our Saviour" and "redemption". <BR/><BR/>I agree there is no conspiracy. This is also what I write in my post. The question is then "what connects the campaign to secularize Christmas. And Sailer and Prelutzky single out ACLU and its Jewish members. But they do not give an explanation for what motivates these Jews. So I try to find an motivator. And I think it is the fear to dissapear. <BR/><BR/>I once saw a cartoon in an Israeli newspaper of a Rabbi who says about Christians: "there are two types of Christians that are dangerous for Jews: those who want to kill us and those who want to marry us!" :-)<BR/><BR/>I was thinking of this cartoon when I wrote the post. I hope it makes sense to you.<BR/><BR/>I agree with your idea about many of these Jews thinking that Israel should make peace with the Palestinians, thinking everything would be hunky-dory afterwards. <BR/><BR/>I was at a dinner a week ago and there was a Dutch politician there and he said the same. He is a Middle East expert! can you believe such people? He thinks Israel should be one territory with one political body and a MultiCultural constitution. I just said nothing. Some people can not be educated and there where only radical Leftists at the dinner table. <BR/><BR/>So frustrating!Snouckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04337065305817263551noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18399778.post-1135293816693542752005-12-23T00:23:00.000+01:002005-12-23T00:23:00.000+01:00Because in The Netherlands we give gifts on Decemb...Because in The Netherlands we give gifts on December the 5th, Christmas is not so commercial as in the USA. As a child it already hit me that the American Christmas Songs like "white Christmas" there is no religious content. It is sterile. No flesh. But over here and in Germany the religous content is also emptying as a result of pop culture and secularisation. The thing with those Jewish Christmas songs is that they have a sentimental understanding of warmth and togetherness of Christmas, but it does not have spiritual roots, the same way Protestants can not really celebrate carnival.<BR/><BR/>I think the core problem is the emptiness of modern Culture and attending mass in the "Church of the Left" all waking hours. In the Protestant countryside TV is known as the "eye of Satan". There is a measure of Truth in that. It is like in the "Lord of the Ring" where the Stadholder of Gondor is demoralised by the crystal sphere (Palantir) showing him the Power of Evil. <BR/><BR/>The Church of the Left celebrates a cult of generity, a cult of rootless interchangebility or universality. And that Universality was always the hallmark of Christianity. So the question is how we can reroot our Culture. <BR/><BR/>Our culture is and must be both Particularist and Universal. Once Particularism becomes too strong the West become Parochial and murderous, Evil. Once Universalism becomes too strong the West becomes rootless and generic and unable to renew itself, Evil. This is were we are now. We in the West must set a new course, a Particularist course. Being aware that this course is beset with dangers too in the long run. <BR/><BR/>There is hope, is the message of the season.<BR/><BR/>The key is to subvert the subversion of our Culture. Send your e-mail address to yepitssnouck@hotmail.com and I will try to tell you what I mean.<BR/><BR/>Enough mutterings of reverend Snouck :-) <BR/><BR/>A blessed Christmas to you!Snouckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04337065305817263551noreply@blogger.com