My Name is Nobody: Religious Fanaticism is a Western Tradition
Amidst all the handwringing across the political spectrum,
commentators of every type decry the deplorable conditions that prevail
in the parts of the world that have been under attack by the US, NATO,
and the historic colonial powers of Europe: Britain and France. That is
to say the actions for which the wealthiest countries on Earth,
concentrated in the North Atlantic region, are jointly and severally
responsible. However, the vast majority of the text generated on this
subject is truly tiresome.
While nearly everyone is willing to say that the nature of the
violence prevailing in the Middle East and various parts of the “Dark
Continent” (the ignorance displayed with respect to Africa only verifies
that whites still consider Blacks next to worthless) is horrible, it is
conspicuous that nobody is willing to face a fundamental fact.
Religious fanaticism is essentially a European and Anglo-American
tradition.
The French colonised Algeria and deliberately gave the
archconservative Islamic clerics the job of policing Algeria’s native
population.[1] That was an essential part of their control over the
country. The British colonisers historically sought out the peoples in
Africa who were most susceptible to their puritan form of Christianity
and educated them to dominate the rest of the ethnic groups in their
colonies. This was in fact the main function of missionaries throughout
the Euro-American colonial enterprise.[2] Europe itself was created by
the process of imposing Christianity with the sword and the Inquisition.
The Roman pontiff extorted money and manpower for over three centuries
to subdue the Eastern Christian (Orthodox) church and dominate the
Middle East. A militarised bureaucracy emerged from a Greco-Roman sect
and declared itself the universal church. Based upon all manner of
forged documents and brute force, the Roman Catholic Church undertook to
drive adherents of Islam from the Iberian Peninsula, southern France
and the Levant. The more honest historians of those periods admit that
Islam was more tolerant of other religions than Roman Catholicism ever
was. The institution of anti-Semitism became part of the Spanish and
Portuguese monarchies’ enrichment strategy after the Islamic rulers were
expelled.[3]
