Mein Kampf in the Piety Stall

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Richard Fernandez

Feb 28 2015

 

While at church today I happened to glance at the rack of religious pamphlets near the entrance that usually contains little devotional pamphlets like the “Life of St Maria Goretii” or “envelopes for the missions” and noticed someone had left a copy of Mein Kampf among the readings to ‘take home for free’. Parishioners, most of whom were Fijians, Filipinos, Koreans or Chinese, browsed through the pamphlets without noticing Hitler’s magnum opus. One lady who might have been Korean showed a particular interest in the stack of Devotions to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, but neither knew nor cared — probably the former — what the publication beside it was. At the end of the mass I told the deacon, a 20-something Australian with a face and build like a boxer — to get it out of there, something which he did with celerity.

 

The devil can preach on his own premises but nothing obliges us to give him space in church for free. Yet “Mein Kampf in the piety stall” was the phrase that came to mind on reading how a human rights organization called Cage defended Mohammed Emwazi, AKA “Jihadi John” on British TV as an “‘extremely kind, gentle, beautiful young man’”. The media is our society’s secular equivalent of the piety stall and yet nobody seems to care how many Mein Kampfs are touted on it each day even if the sales are often funded by the taxpayer.

 

The research director of a human rights group … appeared to choke up as he told a press conference: “He was such a beautiful young man […] He was the most humble young person that I knew. This is the kind of person that we are talking about.” ….

 

“When are we going to finally learn that when we treat people as if they’re outsiders they are going to feel like outsiders and they will look for belonging elsewhere?” he asked.

 

It won’t be long now before apologies are wrung from the families of those he decapitated. The Western elite is compulsively self-hating. If you thought there were any limits, there are none. Were Jihadi John to charge for the service of bleeding out infidels, the question taken up by the great and the good will be over whether we were paying him enough. After all, he stoops to stain his knife to cut our throat. Yet in justice, Jihadi John and his apologists are at least fighting their own side and are free to toot their own horn.

 

You can see why the Cage organization would be so fulsome in its praise. After all, Dr. Josef Mengele would be a young, handsome, cultured and brilliant physician and Reinhard Heydrich even more admirable to the Nazis . Six foot three, expert swimmer and fencer, Heydrich was a classically trained and accomplished violinist. Goebbels would have an easier time portraying Heydrich as beautiful and talented than Cage would have defending Mohammed Emwazi. It’s all in the point of view.

 

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