BY ALEX STORY
By Munich, on the Isar, a fast-moving river, every summer, mostly in the sun, hundreds of large rafts float down one after the other, transported by the stream.
Each carries up to forty people, a sausage & beer stand, and a music band.
Men wear lederhosen, women dirndl, the traditional dress that shows just enough to make you wonder but too little to be sure.
Life, on the surface, could not be much better.
Much is eaten and drunk while bands play a mixture of German and Austrian traditional tunes.
One sticks out: “schlimmer geht immer“.
Translated in English, the singer sings: “things can always get worse”, to which the crowd roars.
To British ears, though, few words have ever rung so true.
It reveals, to attentive passengers, that what we have built is fragile and requires constant husbanding.
It is certainly true of our civilisation, currently in freefall.
We haven’t reached the bottom yet, but we can see the concrete floor and the eternal fires approaching fast.
Recently, Trafalgar Square and Nelson’s column witnessed thousands kneeling, along with London Mayor Sadiq Khan “in pious observance” performing a public “adhan” to mark the end of Ramadan.
In Golders Green, Jewish-owned ambulances catch fire, while across the land Christian preachers are arrested.
In addition, Church of England schools encourage children, the age of Aisha when she married Mohammed, to kneel and bow their heads “in the style of an Islamic prayer.”
A few days ago, accelerating our collapse, our government went so far as to announce a new definition of “anti-Muslim hate”, replacing the term “Islamophobia”; introducing, thereby, blasphemy laws by the front door.
Though the definition is “non-statutory”, meaning “it is not set in law or legally binding”, the effect on the civil service, broadly defined, will reinforce what the girls in Rotherham and beyond found out:
The definition will be an ideological rampart against Justice, as we, in this country, understood it.
The reality, of course, is very different from the fiction that many of our betters peddle.
Our heritage suffers.
On average, churches are vandalised eight times a day across England and Wales.
The Countryside Alliance, a pressure group, found that over 9000 churches were subjected to “criminal damage, vandalism and assault” from 2022 to 2024.
Since 2017, over 40 000 crimes were committed against churches “with 15,719 thefts, 11,412 cases of criminal damage and arson, and 4,696 cases of violence”.
In short, every year thousands of our churches are being attacked.
All in silence.
At best, officialdom doesn’t care.
Our country, though, is dissolving.
And multiculturalism is its philosophical solvent.
The process of decomposition is irregular but proceeds everywhere at pace.
To most observers, it is a self-evident truth that “not all cultures are equal”.
Each culture depends on a belief system, or a religion.
Most are not compatible.
As Jordan Peterson, the Canadian psychologist, pointed out a few years ago “Mohammed was a warlord” and Jesus “of all the things he was, warlord was definitely not one of them”.
While Peterson added “I don’t know what to do with that”, interested readers notice a difference between these two central figures that grows with each reading of the texts left behind.
In fact, they both soon become antithetical.
They have nothing in common.
And yet, in the top-down revolution in which we find ourselves, officialdom in our country, and, alas, much of the Western world, believes in and has imbedded multiculturalism, a patent absurdity, in many of our institutions.
As a result, the belief system that we inherited is being forcefully removed and with it the gradual erasure of our way of life.
To Labour, focusing on institutions and elections, multiculturalism is the corollary to the “majority of minorities” concept brought together, often with government money and regardless of their own inherent hostility, to destroy the monolith – the white, married, home-owing, working Christian man.
To those marking the end of Ramadan with such vigour, the official belief system they are confronted with classifies their own religion, and all that goes with it, as a protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010, Great Britain’s new de-facto constitution.
In order to destroy the damned monolith, which gave temporal victory to Lady Thatcher, the Left gave not just equivalence but legal superiority to a religion against which our ancestors have fought over the course of centuries.
It is not just Churchill and our flags who bear witness to that.
William Bedwell, a gifted mathematician and Orientalist from Cambridge University, was tasked to help with translating the first twelve books of the Old Testament when working on the King James Bible between 1607 and 1611.
A few years later, in 1615, he wrote “Mohammedis Imposturae”.
Described by friends as “neither a slave of envy, nor of his own fancy”, Bedwell was focused more on content than marketing. The title wasn’t snappy. It had 91 words.
But the message of the text was clear.
No-one who knew where we came from historically and religiously could accept our intellectual abasement. But this is what we are confronted by.
Cultures, you see, follow religions. Civilisations and nations, where they can exist, need the latter to develop the former.
The intellectual riches we inherited have been replaced with ephemeral ideas fabricated in colleges and universities, among others, and propagated by a biased media.
As a result, Britain stands on nothing other than legacy, dismantled daily as we become ever more like those whom we are importing.
As they sang on the raft in the depth of Bavaria: things can only get worse.
Alex Story is an Olympian, entrepreneur and writer on economic and social issues.