A group of women consisting entirely of niqab-clad Muslims, 18, 19 and 21 years old, have been arrested for planning a terrorist attack in Paris.
The women were in possession of explosive belts and Kalashnikov rifles.
The group's leader came to the attention of French authorities due to her connection to another radical Islamist already under surveillance.
Ask yourself - why would an 18-year-old girl, born and raised in France, decide to become an Islamist terrorist and plan to blow up a concert hall in Paris?
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We have been told for decades -
"Diversity is our strength."
While no one says -
"What leads to broad cohesion - is our strength."
"Standing together in the greatest number under an umbrella of overarching common values - is our strength."
"A civilisation that knows who it is, that stands firm with clear boundaries - is our strength."
Why not, actually?
Japan is homogeneous.
Low crime. High social trust. No culture war.
No one tells the Japanese they should dissolve their culture to be "good people".
(And no one in Japan would believe it anyway).
In the Balkans they got the opposite - massive ethnic and cultural mixing.
It went so well that the whole world now uses the word 'balkanisation' as a synonym for chaos, division and blood.
Europe?
We have imported enormous quantities of people from cultures that are often hostile to personal freedom, opposed to equality, dismissive of the individual's right to be themselves and working to impose the most totalitarian worldview and theocratic social model in human history. A complete overturning of everything we - the Western freedom-oriented human - know.
And then we tell ourselves - because the Man on Television says so - that everything will be fine, because someone came up with a slogan that sounds nice.
Christianity - our inheritance - built the idea of the free human, of the dignity of the individual, of responsibility before rights.
But today? We've been taught to be ashamed of our roots, so we tear down our identity, and we sacrifice our civilisation - and therefore our children and coming generations - on the altar of "tolerance without limits" - and therefore without truth.
Facts matter less than feelings.
Reality matters less than narrative.
Safety matters less than appearing progressive.
If we really believe we can maintain civilisation without common morality, common norms and common culture...
....then we are more naive than the empires that thought they could ignore reality. If you want to know who they are, they're all in the same place today - in the history books' chapter on how civilisations collapse.
It's hard to say whether 30-40 years ago we had a society that worked. Nothing has ever been perfect. But we had direction, hope, trust - and belief in tomorrow - and that the future was bright.
Today we have slogans.
Hashtags.
Some days it seems we exchanged what worked - for what sounded good.
And perhaps that's precisely where the problem lies -
Because we've created a way of thinking - a mental model - where you can celebrate any culture in the world - as long as it's not our own.
Where any criticism of other cultures is called hatred, while any criticism of the West is called courageous.
We've ended up in a moral paradox -
All other cultures must be protected.
Our own must be dissolved.
Let me say it as clearly as I can, so you're free of it -
This is not diversity.
This is self-annihilation.
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