Monday, August 30, 2004
The Moors
The Moors
Very interesting interview with actor John Rys-Davies. I believe he has hit the nail on the head with his analysis of Europe.
Just recently in Spain there was the dedication of a new Mosque. The first since El Cid stopped the Moors over 500 years ago. It just took a little longer, but the with the absurd immigration policies the Moors will finally take over Europe without a "Shot" being fired.
Same here except the Mexicans will one again have California and maybe Texas.
Read On: This interview was conducted with the cast members of the JRR Tolkien movie trilogy based on his Lord of the Rings series.
LOTR:John Rhys-Davies (Gimli) Interview: Islam Vs. The West
http://promontoryartists.org/lookingcloser/movie%20reviews/Q-Z/returnoftheking-jrd.htm
12-05-03 Jeffrey Overstreet
On Wednesday, Dec. 5th, Jeffrey Overstreet joined several other privileged film critics, including Steven D. Greydanus (Decent Films), Andrew Coffin (World), and Michael Elliott
(Movie Parables) to talk with members of the cast and crew for the year's most ambitious, exhausting, and gloriously realized film.
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(There's some stuff about the movie but then this question is asked.)
Jeffrey: How much of Tolkien's Catholic beliefs and perspective resonate with you?
I'm burying my career so substantially in these interviews that it's painful. But I think that there are some questions that demand honest answers.
I think that Tolkien says that some generations will be challenged. And if they do not rise to meet that challenge, they will lose their civilization. That does have a real resonance with me.
I have had the ideal background for being an actor. I have always been an outsider. I grew up in colonial Africa. And I remember in 1955, it would have to be somewhere between July the 25th when the school holiday started and September the 18th when the holidays ended. My father took me down to the quayside in Dar-Es-Salaam harbor. And he pointed out a dhow in the harbor and he said, "You see that dhow there? Twice a year it comes down from Aden. It stops
here and goes down [South]. On the way down it's got boxes of machinery and goods. On the way back up it's got two or three little black boys on it. Now, those boys are slaves. And the United Nations will not let me do anything about it."
The conversation went on.
"Look, boy. There is not going to be a World War between Russia and the United. The next
World War will be between Islam and the West."
This is 1955!
I said to him, "Dad, you're nuts! The Crusades have been over for hundreds of years!"
And he said, "Well, I know, but militant Islam is on the rise again. And you will see it in your lifetime."
He's been dead some years now. But there's not a day that goes by that I don't think of him and think, "God, I wish you were here, just so I could tell you that you were right."
What is unconscionable is that too many of your fellow journalists do not understand how precarious Western civilization is and what a jewel it is.
How did we get the sort of real democracy, how did we get the level of tolerance that allows me to propound something that may be completely alien to you around this table, and yet you will take it and you will think about it and you'll say no you're wrong because of this and this and this. And I'll listen and I'll say, "Well, actually, maybe I am wrong because of this and this."
[He points at a female reporter and adopts an authoritarian voice, to play a militant-Islam character:] "You should not be in this room. Because your husband or your father is not hear to guide you. You could only be here in this room with these strange men for immoral purposes."
I mean the abolition of slavery comes from Western democracy. True Democracy comes from our Greco-Judeo-Christian-Western experience. If we lose these things, then this is a catastrophe for the world.
And there is a demographic catastrophe happening in Europe that nobody wants to talk about, that we daren't bring up because we are so cagey about not offending people racially. And rightly we should be. But there is a cultural thing as well.
By 2020, 50% of the children in Holland under the age of 18 will be of Muslim descent. You look and see what your founding fathers thought of the Dutch. They are constantly looking at the rise of democracy and Dutch values as being the very foundation of American Democracy. If by the mid-century the bulk of Holland is Muslim and don't forget, coupled with this there is this collapse of numbers ... Western Europeans are not having any babies. The population of
Germany at the end of the century is going to be 56% of what it is now. The populations of France, 52% of what it is now. The population of Italy is going to be down 7 million people. There is a change happening in the very complexion of Western civilization in Europe that we should
think about at least and argue about. If it just means the replacement of one genetic stock with another genetic stock, that doesn't matter too much. But if it involves the replacement of Western civilization with a different civilization with different cultural values, then it is
something we really ought to discuss because, g**dammit, I am for dead white male culture.
You do realize in this town what I've been saying [is like] blasphemy!
But we've got to get a bit serious. By and large our cultures and our society are resilient enough to put up with any sort of nonsense. But if Tolkien's got a message, it's that "Sometimes you've got to stand up and fight for what you believe in." He knew what he was fighting for in WW1.
[With that, he departed our appreciative and applauding table, saying:] Try and put verbs in my sentences.
Stephen A. McIntyre
Very interesting interview with actor John Rys-Davies. I believe he has hit the nail on the head with his analysis of Europe.
Just recently in Spain there was the dedication of a new Mosque. The first since El Cid stopped the Moors over 500 years ago. It just took a little longer, but the with the absurd immigration policies the Moors will finally take over Europe without a "Shot" being fired.
Same here except the Mexicans will one again have California and maybe Texas.
Read On: This interview was conducted with the cast members of the JRR Tolkien movie trilogy based on his Lord of the Rings series.
LOTR:John Rhys-Davies (Gimli) Interview: Islam Vs. The West
http://promontoryartists.org/lookingcloser/movie%20reviews/Q-Z/returnoftheking-jrd.htm
12-05-03 Jeffrey Overstreet
On Wednesday, Dec. 5th, Jeffrey Overstreet joined several other privileged film critics, including Steven D. Greydanus (Decent Films), Andrew Coffin (World), and Michael Elliott
(Movie Parables) to talk with members of the cast and crew for the year's most ambitious, exhausting, and gloriously realized film.
------------
(There's some stuff about the movie but then this question is asked.)
Jeffrey: How much of Tolkien's Catholic beliefs and perspective resonate with you?
I'm burying my career so substantially in these interviews that it's painful. But I think that there are some questions that demand honest answers.
I think that Tolkien says that some generations will be challenged. And if they do not rise to meet that challenge, they will lose their civilization. That does have a real resonance with me.
I have had the ideal background for being an actor. I have always been an outsider. I grew up in colonial Africa. And I remember in 1955, it would have to be somewhere between July the 25th when the school holiday started and September the 18th when the holidays ended. My father took me down to the quayside in Dar-Es-Salaam harbor. And he pointed out a dhow in the harbor and he said, "You see that dhow there? Twice a year it comes down from Aden. It stops
here and goes down [South]. On the way down it's got boxes of machinery and goods. On the way back up it's got two or three little black boys on it. Now, those boys are slaves. And the United Nations will not let me do anything about it."
The conversation went on.
"Look, boy. There is not going to be a World War between Russia and the United. The next
World War will be between Islam and the West."
This is 1955!
I said to him, "Dad, you're nuts! The Crusades have been over for hundreds of years!"
And he said, "Well, I know, but militant Islam is on the rise again. And you will see it in your lifetime."
He's been dead some years now. But there's not a day that goes by that I don't think of him and think, "God, I wish you were here, just so I could tell you that you were right."
What is unconscionable is that too many of your fellow journalists do not understand how precarious Western civilization is and what a jewel it is.
How did we get the sort of real democracy, how did we get the level of tolerance that allows me to propound something that may be completely alien to you around this table, and yet you will take it and you will think about it and you'll say no you're wrong because of this and this and this. And I'll listen and I'll say, "Well, actually, maybe I am wrong because of this and this."
[He points at a female reporter and adopts an authoritarian voice, to play a militant-Islam character:] "You should not be in this room. Because your husband or your father is not hear to guide you. You could only be here in this room with these strange men for immoral purposes."
I mean the abolition of slavery comes from Western democracy. True Democracy comes from our Greco-Judeo-Christian-Western experience. If we lose these things, then this is a catastrophe for the world.
And there is a demographic catastrophe happening in Europe that nobody wants to talk about, that we daren't bring up because we are so cagey about not offending people racially. And rightly we should be. But there is a cultural thing as well.
By 2020, 50% of the children in Holland under the age of 18 will be of Muslim descent. You look and see what your founding fathers thought of the Dutch. They are constantly looking at the rise of democracy and Dutch values as being the very foundation of American Democracy. If by the mid-century the bulk of Holland is Muslim and don't forget, coupled with this there is this collapse of numbers ... Western Europeans are not having any babies. The population of
Germany at the end of the century is going to be 56% of what it is now. The populations of France, 52% of what it is now. The population of Italy is going to be down 7 million people. There is a change happening in the very complexion of Western civilization in Europe that we should
think about at least and argue about. If it just means the replacement of one genetic stock with another genetic stock, that doesn't matter too much. But if it involves the replacement of Western civilization with a different civilization with different cultural values, then it is
something we really ought to discuss because, g**dammit, I am for dead white male culture.
You do realize in this town what I've been saying [is like] blasphemy!
But we've got to get a bit serious. By and large our cultures and our society are resilient enough to put up with any sort of nonsense. But if Tolkien's got a message, it's that "Sometimes you've got to stand up and fight for what you believe in." He knew what he was fighting for in WW1.
[With that, he departed our appreciative and applauding table, saying:] Try and put verbs in my sentences.
Stephen A. McIntyre
