SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER
‘The most important book of the year’ Daily Mail
The brilliant and provocative new book from one of the world’s foremost political writers
‘The anti-Western revisionists have been out in force in recent years. It is high time that we revise them in turn…’
In The War on the West, international bestselling author Douglas Murray asks: if the history of humankind is one of slavery, conquest, prejudice, genocide and exploitation, why are only Western nations taking the blame for it?
It’s become perfectly acceptable to celebrate the contributions of non-Western cultures, but discussing their flaws and crimes is called hate speech. What’s more it has become acceptable to discuss the flaws and crimes of Western culture, but celebrating their contributions is also called hate speech. Some of this is a much-needed reckoning; however, some is part of a larger international attack on reason, democracy, science, progress and the citizens of the West by dishonest scholars, hatemongers, hostile nations and human-rights abusers hoping to distract from their ongoing villainy.
In The War on the West, Douglas Murray shows the ways in which many well-meaning people have been lured into polarisation by lies, and shows how far the world’s most crucial political debates have been hijacked across Europe and America. Propelled by an incisive deconstruction of inconsistent arguments and hypocritical activism, The War on the West is an essential and urgent polemic that cements Murray’s status as one of the world’s foremost political writers.
Jørn
6.8.2025
DOUGLAS MURRAY reads “THE WAR AGAINST THE WEST” with a clear voice! Outstanding. Perhaps the most important book on history and politics of our generation - right now. Hundreds of concrete examples of hatred against “white” people and the whole Western Society. We are supposed to hate ourselves - because of our own origins and societies - in US, in UK, in EU - and in Australia. Churchill was a bad racist, Shakespeare has no value. All white people who sang Negro Spirituals in the 1950s – as it was called back then – have no value. They should have understood that they were racist performers. Even trying to use the cultural heritage of black people! What a shame! According to The British Library, all books by authors from the last 300 years, who had any connection to slave traders, or British colonial companies - can not be read anymore. Their long lists consist of hundreds of names – right up to the present day. Murray shows that many of these writers, on the contrary, wrote against colonialism - and even against the slave trade. Nothing negative has been said about the very common Arab slave trade. They castrated all slaves. And continued almost up to our time. Painters interested in white light and dark shadows are supposed to be Western racists. Plants supposedly discovered in Africa and Asia has to be redescribed, they were already known to the old inhabitants. And so on, and so on, and so on! Douglas Murray warns us – we can no longer tolerate being hated as a group – by others - who want very much to live in our countries. We will not that our children must learn in our schooles - to hate our own society – and our 3000 years of history. Homer’s Odysseus and the philosophers Sokrates, Platon and Aristoteles do not have to leave our history books. A reader told Douglas Murray that it was a great book, but very depressing to read. Douglas replied: “What do you think it was like - to write it?”
Rannva
10.9.2024
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