I generally like to avoid writing about the same topic repetitively, but events now demand it as they have acquired a sense of urgency since my original essay drawing attention to the problem nearly seven years ago.
After the Manchester terrorist bombing at the Ariana Grande concert in 2017 which killed 22 and injured over a thousand, I wrote that the attack signaled trouble for the West. This attack, deliberately targeting young girls and women, was a foreboding. A society that chose the mythical virtue of multiculturalism over protecting its own most precious resource—the health and safety of young women--- was a sign that it is in deep trouble.
In 2019, I wrote a separate essay (see below) about four beautiful young women, all of different races, one white, one black, one Hispanic, and one Indian, one Asian all murdered in separate incidents. In my essay entitled Bloody Fall, I wondered aloud about a society that refused to take sufficient measures to protect these young women from street thugs that were allowed to roam free and snuff out their lives before they could even get started. I posted all of their pictures on my blog. To his day, it’s hard not to look at their faces and not choke up a bit. How could we have let savages near these precious girls?
https://commonsense-mark.blogspot.com/2019/12/bloody-fall.html
Yet, here we are again. The murder of 22 year old nursing student Laken Riley by an illegal Venezuelan immigrant is simply the latest and most visible indication that Western society is failing.
Young women ARE the future of the Western world. They give birth. They nurture. They have a disproportionate role in childcare. They do these things and protect children in ways men cannot. Our society—most societies-- provide special protections for women. It is entirely appropriate and necessary that they should be given absolute priority and protected at all costs. Of all the troubling things that are percolating in the West, the failure of our society to protect young women is the biggest flashing red light for Western Civilization. Often, in the name of progress, we are making deliberate choices to expose them to harm.
Open borders and liberal immigration unnecessarily endangers women. Kate Steinle was murdered by an illegal, dying in her father’s arms, crying out in anguish, “Dad, help me.” She had been shot by an illegal that had been deported five times. The killer later was acquitted and walked free. He paid no real price for his misdeed. Nor did it change the posture of the Left toward illegal immigration. The murderer of young Molly Tibbets likewise was an illegal. And now we have the murder of Laken Riley by an illegal Venezuelan immigrant. None of these murders had to happen. These women were needlessly exposed to harm by a coldly indifferent administration that apparently views these women as collateral damage in their globalist and progressive agenda.
In Europe, the consequences of open Muslim immigration have been similarly horrendous. While hard statistics are not easy to come by (in part because the authorities have incentive to hide them), one estimate asserted that 59% of sexual assaults on women in Sweden were perpetrated by a foreign born assailants. Grooming gangs and no-go zones are common. In many places, women can no longer walk about alone, especially at night. Great Britain and France are having similar issues. In one notorious case, an elderly Holocaust survivor was raped and murdered by a Muslim immigrant.
Open borders has been a catastrophe for women and women’s freedoms across the West, whether it is from unvetted illegals in the U.S. or Muslim immigrants in Europe. If you cannot walk your streets in safety, you are not free.
The trans movement is another front in the war against women. Stories of doctors conducting female genital mutilation here in the U.S. started popping up six or seven years ago. Almost immediately afterwards, the trans movement hit with full force, attempting to coerce us to change our language with absurd pronouns, but more importantly, providing a rationalization to mutilate and sterilize young women with the innocuous sounding phrase “gender affirming.” Some jurisdictions now will forcibly remove children from parents that do not accede to this grotesque practice. This obnoxious movement has been most detrimental to girls and women, absorbing and legitimizing the Islamist practice of genital mutilation into Western culture, under cover of a different label. But it is even more heinous than FGM. It steals their fertility. A perfect blend of Islamism and concurrently advancing the globalist goal of zero population growth.
In athletics, the trans movement is ruining women’s sports. We have age and weight limitations and stratify competition even among pre-teen boys in baseball, football, and hockey because we know that speed, strength and power changes dramatically as testosterone kicks in. Most obscenely flying under the flag of Title IX, it has wreaked havoc in girls’ and womens’ sports, reversing out 40 years of progress for women. It was bad enough when Lia Thomas won the NCAAs in swimming, and having high school girls lose in track, but sports in which physical contact occurs is causing real risks. We have seen a girl get her teeth knocked out in field hockey, a girl suffer a concussion with contact in hockey, and 3 girls get hurt in a basketball game. Still, the male to female “transitioners” elbow their way in, exposing girls to harm and stealing their opportunity for success in competitive athletics.
The attacks on Israel on 10/7 are one of the most horrific manifestations of the attack on Western women. The Nova Music Festival was deliberately targeted by the Hamas savages. And young Israeli women (and their babies) were disproportionately affected. Some of the most heart-wrenching images were of beautiful young women in the prime of their youth, having a wonderful time, dancing and enjoying themselves, just before the Hamas barbarians descended on them, raping them, killing them, and visiting unspeakable horrors on them. All this was done with intent and glee. The Israeli government will do their assessment at an appropriate time, but the fact remains that one of the most sophisticated defenses in the world experienced a massive failure… and a failure to protect its young women against a barbaric culture.
For weeks after 10/7, after the stories were revealed, it was hard for me to look at a young woman without thinking, “There was a beautiful young woman that looked just like you, full of life, energy and hope, that went to a music fest in Israel that was brutally and savagely raped and murdered.” Today, barely four months later, I see the photos and videos of young Laken Riley, murdered by a Venezuelan illegal immigrant. Like her sisters in Israel, she was beaten so badly that she was disfigured. The feelings of grief, anger and revulsion are washing back on me and they should on all of us. Although the Nova Music Festival and Laken Riley’s murder occurred thousands of miles apart, they are connected. They occurred as a result of the same forces at work.
Fertility symbols are deeply embedded in human history in art and religion and carry deep meaning. From prehistoric times to ancient Egypt and ancient Hindu times, the fertility symbol is ubiquitous. It carries deep meaning for humanity. Only women possess the power to generate life and propel a civilization forward. There are now insidious forces that are attacking that power in the West, deliberately leaving young women vulnerable, assailng and defiling them. This is the most certain sign that Western Civilization is in trouble. Fail to protect and nurture young the young women of your society and your society will fall.
While not a conspiracy theorist, I see these things as connected and a sign that the West is reeling under pressure from forces, which are, in large part, a result of the alliance between the New Left and Islamism. It’s why the New Left simultaneously allows illegals and street thugs to prey on our girls, and brings out pro-Hamas protesters and whines about “Islamophobia” in the immediate aftermath of 10/7. Just yesterday, the Leftist mayor of Athens leapt to the defense of illegals instead of taking steps to stop another murder of a young woman in his town. Always listen carefully to whose side politicians and the MSM leap to protect after incidents like these.
In some measure, the de-masculinization of our society has inhibited our response. It’s no mere coincidence that some of the women pushing back on Woke are women -- “super moms” that have several children and take their role as mothers very, very seriously—Bethany Mandel (6), Karol Markowitz, and a woman that goes by the pen name Peachy Keenan.
In his 1961 inaugural address, President Kennedy called on us to “pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the success and survival of liberty.” pay any price to defeat Communism.” It is time the West does the same to protect and shield our women from the barbarians that would cause them harm and stand between them and the gates of hell. It’s time to step up.