Conversation

-        Why has the religious and nationalist right trends with its extremist and populist wings achieved remarkable success in separate elections in more than one country recently?

-        Communism collapsed and socialism was weakened by the fall of the Soviet Union in the late Eighties of last centry, leading to the emergence of Eastern Europe spring as the triumph of Western liberalism. On the contrary, the Arab Spring, at the beginning of the second decade of the twenty-first century, has completely eroded Western liberalism so that it has nothing left to abandon.

-        How?

-        Liberals seem like a stripper pulling off a piece of her clothes with every step she takes, until she looks completely naked. Liberals abandon every principle of society in order to make society without any principles. At first they renounced religion, then family, then childbearing, then marriage, and so on. Look at European liberalism now. It looks completely naked after it has brought its societies into a fatal crisis. Churches turned into museums, atheism is the most widespread belief. Most new generations do not want to marry, have families or have children.

-        Liberals do not abandon the society’s principles. They just replace the national and religious principles with universal human principles that include all members of the society. 

-        What’s wrong with the national and religious principles? Did not these principles make Europe the best continent economically, militarily and technologically? But on the other hand, what did liberalism do for the Europeans? It has made threatened with extinction, despite their wealth, technological progress and military superiority. It has opened the door to immigrants and refugees, giving them privileges as minorities, until they have turned against Europeans with terrorism and crimes. The Europeans were about to become a minority in Europe.

-        The national and religious principles might be in favor of Europe, but they have been a burden on other peoples for centuries, when Europe had invaded them by colonialism, slavery and exploitation.

-        This may be true, but that is because Europe had led the world scientifically, technologically and culturally, and the rest of the peoples was dependent on it.