When World Collide

What is one planet for one person, is a world full of terrifying alien elements to another. Western Civilisation is supposidly under threat. Our freedom of speech is under siege, no longer can we walk the streets without looking behind our backs. We, esspecially the Europeans, are loosing pride and confidence in our culture, thereby making way for Eurabia, Eurasia of Eurafrica.
Within one or two generations this continent will become a warzone of ancient european/western culture and foreign elements. Popular movement will rise to defend all that is uniquely ours, against the barbarian influence.
So where did we go wrong? What moves were obvious mistakes, for which we now taste the bitter fruit of alien culture infiltrating our huble corner of the world? Why are the Hordes coming to corrupt our distinct civilised citizenry?
Four historically identifyable mistakes European made, i will sum up:
1. Christianisation
2. Crusades
3. European Expansion
4. Imperialism
First of all, being conquered by Romans brought many good stuff: Chiefs became Kings, Hunting Grounds became Farms and howling hordes became disciplines knigthly soldiers, more or less. After the fall of the Empire, another - more evil - empire persisted, the Christian Rome. This empire broke off contacts with the South and East, esspecially after the rise of Islam. As a result of this act of conservative imperialsm, the European backlands became fearful and isolated.
This led to the second mistake: approaching the unknown world by mounting a 20,000-people strong expedition to save Jerusalem and the Holy Land. This legion of stinking, underfed cannibales greeted ancient civilisation of middle east by butchering all it encoutered. This was mistake #2.
Still some rational trading folk build up some good contacts with the middle-east, and learned the art of trade, calculations, science as a result of these contacts. Some actually believed this was their own rebirth! With the new knowledge they set out to find new trading grounds, with the result of worldwide trading companies. These multinationals benefitted from the scope of their trade, and they could easily control import/export martkets in asia by offering produce from the other side of the world. This led to amazing cultural developements back home, as enlightenment came around, science matured and participation in politics grew, as the riches grew in amounts. Becoming rich in the world-market was not unique, but the europeans did it ever more clever by looking for exceptional benefits, such as slave trade and staging various coups and regime changes around the world. (not forgetting destorying civilisations and humiliating indiginious peoples. Mistake #3
Then all really began rising to our heads. The world actually needed our civlisation. We needed the worlds resources to compete against each other. All this eventually led to the subjigation of millions, the deaths of millions in world wars and most of todays borders, of which many still conflicted. Mistake #4: Imperialism.
So now, we would like to spread democracy, and keep all that seek to bath in our wealth on the other side of the border / water.



It was after the Gulf War that his mother and boyfriend at the time decided to 'descend' from the Holy land and set sail towards The Hague, being the birthplace of Even-Zohars
mother. Jonathan managed well in Grade school and High school, so the
next logical step was the University, the infinite source of knowledge.
After speculating on Industrial Design, Social Geography and Journalism
it was the study of History at Leiden that turned out to be his
decision.
Now, four years into the study, matters have only become more
complicated as this student advances towards World History; meaning the
complete array of fields a historian may implement in explaining the
entire past of the entire world to fellow men. It is especially the
philosophical character of World History that attracted Jonathan.
For him there is only one question that stands above all others like a
lonely chuchtower in some Flemish village, which asks the cause of the
Western Rise and the Industrial Revolution. Furthermore, the role of the
European self- and worldimage throughout its history may explain the
role of Europe in the Eurasian Human Web. Thus, the direct contact
between Islam and Christianity is to be investigated. Were Muslims
constantly on the verge of invading Europe? How did Arab people perceive
the 'barbaric' Christians? How was Science spread and how did the West
pick up knowledge form the Arabs or from further East? Europe and the
Islam are still not at peace, certainly not in the mind.
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