Soft Jihad and Multicultural Naïveté

On Islamic Cultural Conquest, Part I

Islamic cultural conquest in Britain is real. To not oppose it is to welcome defeat.

I came across a new term recently: “soft Jihad”.

Much like the phrase “soft totalitarianism”—popularised by Rod Dreher in Live Not By Lies to describe the impact of cultural Marxism on western culture—“soft Jihad” describes the way the hearts and minds of a people are made apathetic to—and eventually won over to—the inevitability of their own cultural defeat at the hands of their conquerors.

Like all ideological infiltration of this kind, the key to its success is for those being “softly” conquered to tell themselves: (1) that what is happening is not happening at all; then, (2) that what is happening was inevitable anyway; and finally, (3) that what happened was a good thing all along.

In the case of modern Britain, the case is regularly made that multiculturalism is a liberating force for tolerance and inclusivity which enriches our culture, even if it fundamentally erodes vital aspects of our culture leading to the loss of liberties and freedom of speech as a direct consequence. Those who say otherwise tend to be shamed as lacking in education or empathy. This is why swathes of people refuse to allow themselves to think otherwise.

The Reality Before Our Eyes

Whether you agree with the term “soft Jihad” or not, its effects in Britain are real. We can look away if we want. We can pretend it’s not happening if we want. But the facts and trajectories do not lie. Islam is being permitted to grow in pervasive influence throughout nations like Britain, and will continue to do so. If not checked, this will radically transform what Britain is. In many respects, it already has.

This is not mere rhetoric. Look, for example, at the bare facts pointed out recently by one geo-political journalist:

“This is how you take over a nation by soft jihad:

The Mayor of London is a Muslim.
The mayor of Birmingham is a Muslim.
The Mayor of Leeds is Muslim.
Mayor of Blackburn - Muslim.
The mayor of Sheffield is a Muslim.
The mayor of Oxford is a Muslim.
The mayor of Luton is a Muslim.
The mayor of Oldham is Muslim.
The mayor of Rochdale is Muslim.

All this was achieved by only 4 million Muslims out of 66 million people in England:

Today, there are over 1800 mosques in England.
There are over 80 sharia courts.
There are more than 50 Sharia Councils…

Now, every school in the UK is required to teach lessons about Islam.”

—Johann P (cited here)

Islam not only isn’t going anywhere; it’s going up. It continues to gain serious cultural influence and relative population growth that will soon be virtually irreversible. If Islam did become the normative religion and cultural force in Britain at every level of society, why would we think it should be otherwise? Would this not be what we told ourselves we “wanted” by refusing to speak out against the changes we saw happening around us when we had the chance?

Just the other day I saw a massive billboard over one of the busiest roads in Sheffield, saying "TRUST ALLAH". It really hits you when you see things like that in the flesh, before your eyes. Even if you’ve been told for most of your life that it’s an always-good thing for other people to express themselves however they like, and that to reject others’ expressions of religion is a “bad” thing, there should be a part of every British Christian that sees a billboard like that and feels sad, as though you were staring at an obvious and palpable defeat.

Why? Not only for the loss of Britain as Britain, but the loss of Britain as Christian Britain, whose soil has for so long been sown with the seeds of the Gospel, overflowing with abundant fruit, sending missionaries to plant the seeds of the Gospel across the nations of the world, only to allow its home base to slowly erode away by compromise, apostasy, and the welcoming of idolatry.

The Middle Class Dilemma

Right now, most middle class Christians in Britain are probably caught between emotions by what’s happening around them. They hear about new Islamic “conquests” like this each year, every time an Islamic festival is touted by the cultural elites, that it eventually becomes normal.

Most probably don't want Islam to become the normative religion and culture of Britain. They actually like their culture. Like the old Christian nemesis, Richard Dawkins, they like the Christian values and pastimes which undergird their life and social infrastructure. If someone took them all away, they would mourn. They know, deep down, that such things could not exist if Islam became the normative culture.

But they also know they can't say so out loud because they don't want to be called names like "Islamophobe" or to be frowned upon by their more inclusive colleagues at work. And so they choose the cowardly option of saying and doing nothing, hoping it won't go in the direction it obviously seems to be going and has already been going for decades.

The more repetitive this scenario becomes for Christians, the more softened they become to the invasive threat of cultural takeover generation by generation; and in turn, the more hardened they become against other Christians who actively stand against Islam. And so they go into self-delude mode. It’s all they can do to overcome the dilemma.

"Stop exaggerating," they say. "It's not a takeover. It's just being open to appreciating different cultures. You need to open your mind! What are you, a racist?" It's hard for the otherwise polite middle class Christian to respond any other way because of how comprehensively they've been conditioned by western liberalism without realising it. Indeed, how can we expect them to respond otherwise when for most of their life they've been told, in one way or another:

- "all your cultural forefathers were basically evil"
- "caring about preserving national identity is Far Right"
- "opposing the spread of Islam is unkind"
- "'Christian Britain' was a myth, anyway"
- "Jesus wants you to be nice and welcoming to all people at all times"

This is why the "educated" of our time submit themselves to wilful ignorance. This is also why, despite that small part of them that knows that the spread of Islam isn't going to be "good news" for this nation in the long run, they continue to say nothing, and to think nothing of what it will mean for their grandchildren (if they’re lucky enough to get any).

Such is the wilful thoughtlessness of the conquered.

It can and should be otherwise.

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See part 2 here: