1. @DouglasKMurray wonders in this video why mainstream British opinion seems to be captured by the far left compared to Europe where there is a dissident stream on the right. The answer lies in his own ideology.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1nI5l8OCHeY …
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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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There's something fundamentally different about Islam and Protestantism. Islam, despite its decentralization seems much more resilient in terms of resisting degradation of its core ideological tenets into absurdity
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Yes, but they’re very close—possibly closer than Catholicism and Protestantism. One difference is that the Qur’an has not been philologicially taken apart like the Bible. This makes Islam resilient, whereas Protestantism has dissolved further into individualism.
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