2. “Political correctness” and what Murray characterises as the far left (we might say “social justice warriors”) are, as Nietzsche identified, the heirs of Protestantism, Anglo-Saxon liberalism is largely a degraded Protestantism.
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3. It is, therefore, no surprise that Britain and Anglo-Saxon countries in general would be at the heart of political correctness. This is “Britishness”. In this sense, Murray is out of touch with British values.
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4. He represents an early iteration of liberalism that has been transcended. This was, in part, what the Enlightenment was about: the critique of all values. He complains that “truth” has collapsed, but that was what his beloved Enlightenment did.
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5. In a sense, Islam of any kind—austere, anti-iconic, strictly monotheistic, and also decentralised—is very similar to Protestantism. It is naturally at home in Britain and working with leftism and postliberalism.
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6. Again, it is Murray who is anti-Anglo-Saxon in his stance against Islam and Islamism. His own liberalism, a belief system that has no deeper grounds, cannot consistently oppose metaphysically objective religions like Islam. Islam will prevail over Murray’s beliefs.
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