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Reggie Dunlop's avatar

The truth is much darker than this satire. For most of history men were either weak or strong, either slaves or conquerors. Islam chose strength, the British are deliberately choosing weakness.

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Peter Boghossian's avatar

Despite the obvious title, it’s amazing how many people didn’t recognize it as satire.

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Leslie MacMilla's avatar

To be honest, the reveal didn’t fully hit home to me until Peter pointed out that it would be difficult to figure out whom to surrender *to*. Brilliant.

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Bruce's avatar

Peter, I realize that this was written tongue in cheek but the truth is not so far off. As a Canadian, I already feel like our country has been taken over. Not just by the islamists, but also by the East Indians, the Africans and the Chinese. This could only happen with a concerted effort by our Governments and from my analysis it is to import cheap(er) labor. Alas, this is of course a short lived reprieve for the mega corporations as the imports adjust to the cost of living here their demands surely increase to cover the shortfalls in income. Honestly, I think we have already surrendered.

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Syd (is not my real name)'s avatar

No, “we” didn’t.

I’m not owning one iota of the ruination of Canada by the treasonous bast***s in Ottawa.

The federal Liberal governments have been steadily working to allow foreign countries to infiltrate ours, and one has only to read today’s article from The Bureau to see clear proof of that.

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Karl P.'s avatar

True and dedicated fans of your writing and speaking will instantly recognize this for the satire that it is! I think your satirical take might actually be effective at waking up one or two people (yes, I'm pessimistic) to the reality they're facing in Europe.

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Doug Taylor's avatar

I’m not laughing at this poor attempt at satire. Surrendering to Islam is such a terrible and horrific idea that satire simply doesn’t work. the majority of Muslims might be law abiding but the Quran thumping minority are terrorists, plain and simple, and the culture is fundamentally misogynistic, in ways intolerable to western culture. Muslim wives are the true handmaidens, not Christian girls. Study it, it’s true. surrendering to Islam is nothing to make light of. resisting Islam should be the dominant theme today

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Karl P.'s avatar

I agree that it's no laughing matter, and the concept is abhorrent and terrifying. Satire doesn't always have to be "funny," it can be bitingly sarcastic when it's used for social criticism. I think that's what Peter is doing here.

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Otto C. Hottendorf's avatar

Swift is too nuanced for most 21st century English Lit classes.

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Connecting The Dots's avatar

This illustrates the power of a good logical argument, to either mask the satire (in this case) or manipulation in many others.

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Matt Habermehl's avatar

I didn't read it so much as satire, but as a provocation: It paints such a stark picture of a plausible future, and makes shocking but pragmatic suggestions, like the protection tax, that the reader should be primed to rail against the last sentence, expressing the inevitability of it all. It's like when you tell someone they can't do something just so they are motivated to prove you wrong and do the thing. Did I misread?

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Texas Arcane's avatar

I feel nothing but pity for you that you thought it would make a great jest. Not passive-aggressive pity. Not like that. Like buck naked pulling a train of 1000 Islamic men greased up with beef tallow. Like that's gonna hurt pity.

Which war did you fight in, Peter? It sounds like you have great insights into the current pending conflict.

What will Europeans "fight" with having been disarmed, silenced and reduced to mute submission before Shariah law even begins to spread? Words?

In many places, law enforcement is already converting. Who do you think will protect you? I don't think you know much real history.

I don't think you have been punched in the face and knocked down. Ever.

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Bob Trewin's avatar

Satire uses humour and exaggeration to make its point. These elements are absent.

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michelle  p's avatar

I subscribe to Sam Harris, so , no, I didn't think that. whew?

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Anne T's avatar

I hoped you were taking the piss. Relieved that you are. Hard to tell these days. I hoped that Trump was pretending with Zelensky, yesterday, but he wasn’t. Mad times.

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Gilgamech's avatar

I had my doubts!

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Dave's avatar

The British not only allow their children to be raped by Pakistani gangs, the parents hold their daughters down while they are being fucked. The very few who object to the gang rape are jailed and the rapists receive benefits.

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TheSwissPoliticalSystem's avatar

You overerestimate Islam's streghth; the hard truth is it does not offer anything to people in the West or the East, except for irrationality of absolute certainty to a few lost souls.

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Peter van de Ven's avatar

Really, do you want to bring Logic to the table? How very 20th century..

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Michael Dansbury's avatar

Have you forgotten the nationwide race riots last summer?

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Noam's avatar

The best satire cuts

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Throgmorton's avatar

Satire?

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Bob Trewin's avatar

Even though this lifts the title from Swift, this isn't satire. It's deadly serious.

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Kat Highsmith's avatar

LOL

Remigration is inevitable.

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Steven Work's avatar

Before I realized it was satire I was about to comment that if willing to accept Islam's religious understanding of men and women, then removing our Western women's insane hyper-empowerment, their vote, their destruction of decent men that show manhood, their feelies-thinking, their short-term grasping choices against the long-term best to wait and work harder, baby-murder, legal immunity to false accuse, return to men's Loving prudent corrections, ...

At that point we could Stand and be effective and deal with both the masses of immigrants that are Toxic to our White European Christian virtue-values based societies without the 5th column of Satanic Programmed vicious delusional psycho Sick insane womanhood kicking our testicles from within our own family, neighborhood, region, ..

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.. we saw the putrid retarded psychos turn-on mass like rabid dogs more willing to destroy men with manhood virtue then to listen and take head out of p-word, men that were trying to bring attention to the Pakistani Rape gangs and the support from police, media, government. The fungal-strangling poisonous hate-destroying Sick Western womanhood.

But we've seen it to often. Women dropping their poo into the common soup-pot we all eat from. Vindictive, lying, baby-killing, father-family-children destroying .. while they have political and more then 1/10 social power they will be poison to any corrective action that is needed.

I would hope we all can consider what insanity we suffer now that our Witch-directed mothers, sisters, aunts, grandmothers, and your's is not causing, making worse and-or preventing us from addressing properly? If old enough to recall the early 1970's when Sanity existed and women; mothers and older women we a Blessing to us all. Remember? How many embraced the baby-ripping-torturing silently screaming insanity Demon and brought it into her soul, how many to turn this Western society into a rotting-soulless-Zombie that can only stop slipping into Hell & Corruption by Witches tasering it to spastic movement?

One may wonder.

God Bless., Steve

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Clem's avatar

Read ‘Gulliver’s Travels’. It’s great! And very entertaining. 🙂

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Steve's avatar

That is *so* brutal. But, I'm not sure if I'm reading a Babylon Bee article or the real thing. Which is, I'm sure, the whole point.

Brilliant!

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Peter Boghossian's avatar

Thank you. I appreciate that.

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Kat Highsmith's avatar

Peter, in order to fully write the story, you have investigate how all of this Islamic migration happened in the first place.

Who pushed it? Who is behind it? Why can't it be stopped?

Write a satirical article on that.

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Julia Diamond's avatar

There a great article on SUBSTACK by NS Lyons on the ideological basis of the extirpation of national sentiment. It’s called “the return of the old gods” (something like that). It’s impossibly brilliant.

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Doug Taylor's avatar

If it were a Babylon Bee Article it would have been funny.

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David Mottershead's avatar

speaking on behalf of the 2.5 million british veterans and 76,000 currently serving personnel, with 900,000 years of british history - fighting surrounded and outnumbered continuosly...........we'd love to take a knee to our new masters, but sooooo many of us have dodgy knees, backs etc.....like i say, we'd love to.......

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Viccus's avatar

Is this for real? Europe surrendered a long time ago. It doesn’t bother the average European man one bit if his daughter is raped by a mob of degenerates as long as she doesn’t complain about it. Weak pitiful people who lost their religion and thus were conquered.

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Richard North's avatar

As a European, can I just say I'm OK with mass deportations.

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Beeswax's avatar

Yes

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Highwater's avatar

The Jizya is already partially implemented via the net flow of welfare from non-Muslim to Muslim.

Sharia anti-blasphemy laws are already partially implemented via Islamophobia laws.

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Death-by-Coconut's avatar

Curiously, no one will make the argument, as they constantly do with Jews in Israel—most of whom + their descendants fled every country in the Middle East and Europe—that they should “go back to where they came from.” Which begs the question: if culture doesn’t matter, and one is not superior to the other—why do immigrants only flee to the west or Israel? Why aren’t virtually any immigrants fleeing to the non-Israeli Middle East?

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Doug Taylor's avatar

The question answers itself

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Low Status Opinions's avatar

Our bosses surrendered years ago. They just haven’t got around to admitting it to the rest of us..

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John Coelho's avatar

Satire can be very effective. My counter proposal is that the west be a place of asylum from the Islamic world for women escaping forced marriage, religious minorities, genuine Islamic and ex Muslim liberals, secularists and humanists and have a far more probationary and conditional immigration system that makes it incredibly easy to throw out people who procreate more than two kids or believe in or practice sharia. As the desirable element from the Islamic world become more numerous, the chorus of people who tell the average left liberal

person that they are full of shit on Islam will become more resounding. In the ME, an alliance between liberal Iranians, Kurds, Balochis and Israelis would be considerable force against Islamism.

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Charlie Davis's avatar

Mars awaits.

Elon is on it.

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Charlie Davis's avatar

The thought of alliances of regional counter-powers confronting regional bullies

is an interesting observation.

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Julia Diamond's avatar

I’ve proposed that countries require that “refugees” and immigrants be 50/50 male/female and they have to even out the disparity now. So that would effectively be the end of Muslim immigration.

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Tony Pass's avatar

I suggest another solution - a return to a vital Mariolatry, with shrines to the Madonna in every, village, town and city; with pilgrimages and festivals and large statues. Bring in the southern Italians to set it all up. Time for the Romans to march north again! :)

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Internet Archaeologist's avatar

My man, right on the money. Get that patriotism flowing.

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Patricia J.'s avatar

Well put. But I think you need other, more anodyne words for it, like "peace in our time," for instance. We in America have been subjected to a four-year tsunami of unfriendlies, and so we might be more aware of the problem. We shall see what happens next year but at least we saw the problem before it was too late. (Poor strategy on the part of the Bidenistas to make it so obvious.)

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Peter Boghossian's avatar

And "joy"

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Bob's avatar

_Strength through joy!_

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Reggie Dunlop's avatar

Hope and change!

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Jo's avatar

Needs genz memes.

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Jo's avatar

I was under the impression we had already surrendered.

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nailbunny's avatar

Capitalism & Liberalism always win. They always have and always will. Muslim women in niqab see the freedom of British women & want it. No one will marry Muslims except those in their community, even resorting to first cousins. Their children will increasingly be mentally & physically retarded from consanguinous procreation. If they live past childhood they're not procreating. Apostasy is on the rise. Islam had nearly died out when the Ottoman Empire fell. The Muslim Brotherhood was a life support movement which bought it some time, but it's fleeting. As Muslim empires crumble it sends the message 'God does not favour you, because Islam is not the truth'. You'll be amazed how quickly it will die, especially when there is no money or food for you to feed your wives who don't work because you forbid them to learn English & your children who can't do anything for themselves. It's bleak for them. I won't take care of them. They either integrate or die, because money doesn't grow on trees.

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Peter Boghossian's avatar

Benefits are rapidly drying up. That’s when we’ll see the problem escalate.

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nailbunny's avatar

Peter, have you seen the speech from the AfD leader to the enormous mob earlier? Sh** just got real in Germany.

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Julia Diamond's avatar

Link please.

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maximum drive's avatar

Nothing in recent history has vindicated your statement. Far from it, the people who have been saying exactly the opposite have been closer to the truth.

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Liz Wagner's avatar

Sadly, people didn’t recognize this as satire, because the proposal doesn’t seem extreme to them. Not like Swift’s “Modest Proposal” of eating babies. They’re already thinking, “Well, maybe we should surrender?”

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Clem's avatar

Too true. 😔

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Throgmorton's avatar

But Europeans are already paying the Jizya to their masters - it's called the dole!

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