The Strange Case of Little Green Footballs III
As I mentioned in previous posts in this brief series, the ID-bashing blog Little Green Footballs has done important work in sensitizing us to the sympathies expressed in parts of the Muslim world for Hitler and Nazism. One of the most sickening videos I’ve ever seen was noted recently on LGF. It was of a smiling, youngish Egyptian cleric in front of a slick TV backdrop, praising the Nazis for slaughtering Jews and saying he only hoped it would be Muslims who do this work, blessed by Allah, next time around. On an inset screen, the cleric nodded and gestured approvingly to old black-and-white newsreels from the death camps, of Jewish corpses being bulldozed, or pulled out of ovens as smoking skeletons.
LGF author Charles Johnson is troubled by the weakness of Western leaders who don’t want to see what we are up against in the war on terror, who shrink from a strong and confident stance in dealing with challenges from the Muslim world. However, Johnson never makes the connection between the Darwinism he defends and the sapping of Western confidence that he laments.
This may seem surprising to those who are familiar with the history of 19th-century colonialism. Darwinian theory fueled an arrogant contempt for other nations that seems the very opposite of liberal guilt and weakness. It was not some sort of “crude” distortion of Darwin’s thought but a straightforward application of it that led to the biologization of foreign policy in the age of imperialism.
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So it goes, too, in the rest of the Western world. It’s no wonder that the most highly secularized nations—those in Western Europe—also have the hardest time explaining why they have a right to defend their own historically Christian cultures from the fundamentalist Muslim culture that—and here we return to LGF—blogger Charles Johnson regards with understandable anxiety and dismay.
Yet if Johnson and like-minded conservatives had their way on the evolution issue, basically banishing challenges to Darwinism from public life, they might well succeed only in hastening the very fate—the West’s increasing capitulation to terror—that they otherwise so earnestly and effectively warn us against.
Previously Featured & Related Threads: Happy Birthday Darwin, Strange Bedfellows: Evolution & Communism, Charles Denies The Link Between Darwinism & Nazism, The Strange Case of Little Green Footballs 1
