No mistake: ‘Misplaced respect‘ does not refer to the Vietnamese buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc in the ‘featured image’.
The video is about (Abrahamic) religions and changing views on the role of the US in history. A change that I welcome to a certain extent on the inevitable way to a more multipolar world, but that in my opinion threatens to get completely out of hand. And that’s not just the fault of Joe Biden and the American Deep State. From the insane transgenderism camp, there are even sounds today that deny or defend the communist genocide in Cambodia: possibly the worst crime in human history.
‘Misplaced Respect‘ is the prefix in the title of nine smaller chapters in my first book Islamophobia (available in Dutch only).
Cultivated spinelessness
More than 10 years ago, by including these chapters, I wanted to emphasize that muhammedan extremism was not so much an external problem for the West as an internal one. The issue of cultivated spinelessness was then expressed most clearly in that Islam dossier: the obsessive looking away from the real existing totalitarianism as the core of Mohammedanism. The preface to my book 49:49 with good reason concludes:
My approach is thus diametrically opposed to that of many who implicitly or even explicitly opt for an attitude that boils down to: ‘Islam will be fine if we just don’ t delve into it or meddle with it’.
Academia-link to that preface
Today, that self-evident spinelessness is a crucial part of several other files. I only méntion the transgenderism dossier here.
Today I am older than most active politicians. Unlike them, I was already born in 1963, but I was a child then. A very superficial re-examination of the relationship between that “Burning Monk” and the Vietnam War yielded disturbing results. The difference between the Dutch and English versions of Wikipedia texts about this relationship is significant. And I came across this Dutch website intended for high school students. A text about the Vietnam War contains an important link to a ‘funny’ anti-American video in which Buddhism is not even mentioned …