In February 2015, the Christian Science Monitor began reporting that followers
of the Islamic ISIS movement were destroying magnificent artifacts of ancient civilizations
throughout Iraq and Syria. To historians and archeologists,
the losses were devastating. The fanatics of ISIS were fundamentally seeking to eliminate
irreplaceable pieces of history, whether sculptures or inscriptions, that gave evidence
and understanding of peoples of the distant past. It was a program of vandalism on a grand scale.
Much of the world stood by in shock and horror as museums, ancient architectural
structures and even remains of ancient cities like Nineveh were smashed or blown up. The
print and electronic media of the liberal West openly decried this savagery and barbarism.
Fifty years earlier, the Western world was witness to similar behaviour by the Red Guards of the
Maoist Cultural Revolution. A violent oppression of the Chinese people by young activist gangs
was largely stirred up by the influence of Mao s third wife,
who sought to thwart threats to her vision of the revolutionary development of China. Across the
land, roving gangs of youth defaced and destroyed artifacts of four millennia of Chinese culture.
Carvings, statues, inscriptions, ancient books, traditional instruments,
and anything of the past was subject to destruction. Millions were killed, many
whose only crime was that of being well-educated. Again, Western media condemned such behaviour.
Yet strangely that same media today treats similar criminal behaviour occurring in Canada and the
United States sympathetically. A modern barbarism, driven by the same zeal and motivation as that of
the Red Guards of the 1960s, is destroying the legitimate and recorded history in our lands.
Protests against police violence end up in rioting and willful destruction of public property.
Statues representing the history of the nation are torn down,
often without any idea of the real story behind the person represented or the context
of the time. Truth and actual history are not considered, just rumour and a tweet.
Sir John A. MacDonald for example, who numerous Canadian historians have admitted was the driving
impetus behind the development of the modern nation of Canada, is derided by people for
being bigoted in the starting of residential schools for Native children. Radical activists
demanding the removal of statues in his honour, and even his name, sweep across the land.
The truth is that the concept of residential schools for indigenous children started long
before MacDonald as early as 1831 in southern Ontario. A more comprehensive Canadian program
was started in 1883 under MacDonald s government, with the agreement of tribal leaders. Attendance
was voluntary, as it was up to aboriginal communities and parents to send students if they
wished. Initially, these schools were to provide education in skilled trades to older students.
It was designed to enable them to take part in the economy of the new nation.
Attendance was not mandated until 1920, long after MacDonald was dead. Yet on rumour, mobs roam
the streets and tear down statues of long-dead leaders, even of Queen Victoria. Unschooled masses
with a mob mentality, motivated by activists, act largely in ignorance to destroy history,
so an inaccurate but politically-correct narrative can take society blindly down a neo-Marxist path.
The similarity with the Cultural Revolution is remarkable. In 1966 the Red Guards were told
to destroy the four olds : ideas, customs, cultures, and habits of the past. This is
precisely what we see happening today in North America. Schools have largely abandoned the
teaching of an historical timeline, with key events of the past taught in sequence. Thus,
today s student does not appreciate the events that shaped the present. Statements (whether
true or untrue) are released on social media to create opinion and raise up protest movements.
We need to be acutely aware of another aspect of this illiberal trend. The radical theories known
as cancel culture, Critical Race Theory, or a host of other monikers, are driven by a few who seek
to eliminate the foundation of Western culture. School curricula and statues are not the end goal
of the radicals reign of destruction and terror, only stepping stones along the way.
Their final objective is the elimination from the public square of the concept of traditional
Western morality. This idea of right and wrong, that guided the generations who founded the
Western world, and nurtured its capacity to create wealth and produce a stable and peaceful society,
originated from what is called the Judaeo-Christian Ethic.
This set of guidelines to life and human interaction is drawn uniquely from the pages
of the ancient text known as the Bible. This book and its adherents are the ultimate target
of the new anti-intellectual and anti-morality barbarism sweeping the West.
It is the duty of those who still have a sense of that morality, and of a society driven by an ethic
of hard work and the provision of opportunity for all, regardless of ethnicity, to strive to
retain and live by this Biblically-based code. Anything else will lead to a frustrated life
in a country that will no longer provide the freedom of expression we have all come to love.
Do not allow the new barbarians to destroy the foundation of our society,
and steal from you that which can guide you to a happier life.
Watch our Tomorrow s World program The Judaeo-Christian Ethic.