For some time now I have noticed a growing anathema in myself towards most things “politically correct” as they are generally dishonest and grossly discounting, both of me and my true beliefs, and of others and their right to know the truth.

Returning to the paid workforce for a spell about 10 years ago I knew I was going to be faced with a requirement to accept the current politically correct view regarding The Treaty Of Waitangi, a contentious piece of writing (there being 3 different versions) considered to be our nation’s founding document. This bothered me for many reasons, and while thinking through the issues I asked a friend for her advice. Her response was this: “Do what we all do - lie through your teeth!” And that is exactly what it comes down to. If you need a job in the public service of this country, and your views on this subject are at variance with those you “should” hold, then you have to lie (or in some other way avoid upsetting the PC brigade) or else immediately fail at your job interview. You are had over a barrel.

A friend recently enrolled for a course at the local Polytechnic to learn “desktop publishing” and was shocked to discover that the first part of the full-time course consisted of 2 weeks devoted entirely to learning the PC version of “The Treaty of Waitangi”. This was a pre-requisite and full attendance plus a Pass mark was mandatory before one could continue and learn anything about desktop publishing. It obviously wasn’t going to be enough just to “lie through your teeth” on some enrolment form, but in order to learn what you set out to learn required you to sit through the political brainwashing as well. You can be sure that arguing a different position would not hold you in high esteem and may well risk a Fail mark instead. And just what on earth does it have to do with learning desktop publishing anyway?

Do you remember the Aesop’s Fable about the man, the boy, and the donkey? The intended moral was that, should you try to please all you end up pleasing none. In just the same way, by using the excuse of not upsetting anyone, the politically correct have sanitized and purified forms of expression, dictated what are acceptable ideas, and are demanding that our thoughts and speech must become like the fool who would please everyone. We all must accept such ideas as truth or be regarded as rednecked bigots, ignorant and insensitive, unenlightened and intolerant. All clear thinking and straight talking is to be laced into the straitjacket of official truth. We are to lose our backbone and sway in whichever direction is considered friendliest to all others concerned. We are to sacrifice our honesty and integrity on the altar of niceness.

But what about honesty and integrity? What about my own beliefs and truths? I say that they actually do matter to me, and it matters to me that I am honest and live by what I know to be true, that I don’t deny my own reality by acceding to the trendy brainwashing of the times. It is one thing to be all things to all people to live alongside them and attempt to convince them of the truth that you know, as the apostle Paul speaks about in his first letter to the Corinthians, but it is quite something else to become what you are not by giving up your truth and exchanging it for something you know to be false and in doing so deny your own reality.

So where is this leading?

One of the things that concerns me greatly is the effect of the liberal left in their efforts not to offend anyone, through exercising their tyranny of political correctness, of progressively ridding us of our Judeo-Christian cultural heritage. In doing so, they are creating a cultural vacuum that lays us wide open to invasion by more aggressive ideologies. There is evidence of this process already underway in countries where post-modernism is rampant. The ideology that concerns me most is Islam. The name “Islam” means “submission” - submission to Allah. The objective of Islam is world wide dominance - whole world submission to Allah. As we continue to weaken ourselves culturally through political correctness, denigrating and spurning our own heritage, we are inviting Islam to come and live with us and when they are ready, to turn and take us for their own. We offer no cultural resistance as we are so busy pleasing everyone else, taking care not to offend them with our own customs and traditions.

When I began blogging under the title of “Judah’s Journal” I intended to write about whatever was of interest and concern to me, all manner of things including my Christian faith and the simple nuts-and-bolts of daily life. I intend to continue doing so. However, I have been reading widely on Islam, focussing on scholarly writings of those who have not been afraid to tell the truth rather than the deception offered by Islamic apologists. The truth is quite terrifying, and for a Christian it emphasizes even more the need to witness to our own truth and reclaim our Judeo-Christian cultural heritage as something that really does matter.

Every so often I come across someone who is like-minded on various issues, and recently I discovered Mark Alexander, author of Dawning of a New Dark Age: A Collection of Essays on Islam.

Mark has graciously agreed to reciprocate links between our two blogs, his and mine, and I would like to point the reader to the link in the left-hand column here to his extremely worthwhile blog called A New Dark Age is Dawning, and encourage frequent visits. He writes much the same as I think also, and he writes it very well. This is not for the feint-hearted. The message is honest plain speaking, the truth broken out from the straitjacket of political correctness and spoken with conviction and concern for our future, and is in accordance with the writings of people such as Dr Mark Gabriel, Robert Spencer, Vernon Richards and others of their stature.