Prelude to War

Chronicle of the Coming Cataclysm

Guillaume Faye

• Publisher: Arktos Media Ltd
• Year: 2021
• eBook ISBN: 9781914208157
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Nationalism & Patriotism
• Index: Politics & International Relations

' I have never known anyone who wrote so brilliantly and passionately about the crisis we face.' - Jared Taylor

Guillaume Faye's Prelude to War is a potent indictment of terminally decadent and hopelessly apathetic Europeans. Because of utter indifference and through skillful brainwashing by the corrupt elites, they seem resigned to their fate, namely subjugation under the merciless heel of Islam and flooding by the Third World, and thus eventual extinction in a sea of ravening masses. Faye not only targets the traitors and defeatists in our midst, namely the liberals and the leftists, he also mocks the cowardly attitudes of so-called 'conservatives', who are incapable of actually conserving any authentic values because they constantly make concessions to the prevailing rotten zeitgeist.

The war for the soul and survival of Western civilisation is real, and it is right on our doorstep. Faye paints a truly apocalyptic picture of the twenty-first century as an era of massive conflicts and calamities, which will resemble the Middle Ages in terms of sheer brutality and radical regression. Verily, this is Europe's last stand - either it learns to be sufficiently ruthless, with pagans and Christians united on the offensive again, or it will sink forever into a Muslim-dominated hole of oblivion.

No matter your foe’s humiliation, know that he is still to be feared.⁶

Saadi,⁷ The Rose Garden

Burn the libraries, for their value is in this book, the Koran.⁸

Caliph Omar⁹ (upon conquering Alexandria)

So you did not slay them, but it was Allah who slew them; and you did not smite when you smote, but it was Allah who smote.

Koran, surah 8:17

1. Facing Islam

We Are at War with Islamism

A people who no longer think about waging war are finished, drained of their substance and worn out from the inside. To say that ‘we do not have any enemies’ is to lower our guard and expose ourselves to surprise attacks. Likewise, to wage war against ‘terrorism’, which is an abstract term, is to intensely flog a dead horse. As for the enemy, he does indeed designate us and is always specific. It is not because one continually repeats that ‘we are not fighting Islam’ in an incantatory way, as Bush and Blair have done, that such sophism will make much of a difference, since it is from within Islam itself that war is being declared upon us in harmony with an age-old imperialism, an imperialism that is much more powerful than the American one.

One should rejoice at this situation, for it may be the only means to rouse us from our slumber.

Not only do the events that occurred at the Stade de France during the France-Algeria match — when the Marseillaise was booed by 70,000 official “Frenchmen” of Algerian descent — indicate the complete failure of integration, but they also reveal those people’s will to wage a war of revenge and conquest on our own soil.

Faced with this inescapable fact, declaring the Americans to be our ‘primary enemies’ falls into the category of unrealistic casuistry. Incidentally, here is a specific example to ponder, as one must always be wary of intellectual abstractionism: you run virtually no risks when spraying graffiti that states ‘US go home’, yet take every conceivable risk when spraying ‘Islam out’!

Islam’s Global Offensive

In his book entitled Clash of Civilizations, Samuel Huntington, a Harvard professor and former member of the White House’s National Security Council, predicts an ethno-political civilisational conflict during the twenty-first century. His theory is that ideological conflicts of the communism-vs-capitalism type will be replaced by ethno-cultural ones, in contradiction to the globalist theories of planetary unification. Interviewed by Dijana Sulic, this is what he stated on the World Media Network (translation provided by Dan Thorsby on 10 October 2000):

Just try to find one single major conflict, somewhere around the world, that is not between an Islamic society and a non-Islamic one. The border of the Islamic world, from Morocco to Indonesia, is a continuous front line: the Bosnians and Kosovar Muslims vs the Orthodox Serbs and Catholic Croatians; Greece vs Turkey; the Armenians vs the Azerbaijani people; the Russians vs the Chechens and the Muslims of Central Asia; and India vs Pakistan, not to mention the conflicts between Muslims and Catholics in the Philippines and Indonesia, the Jews and the Arabs in the Middle-East and the sanguinary war between Christians and Muslims in the Sudan.

He could have added the clashes in Nigeria, the Ivory Coast and Europe to this list. Whether in Roubaix, Marseille, Birmingham, Brussels or Frankfurt, the ‘front line’ also reaches rather deep into the heart of Europe.

Wars of Religion — the Islamic Banner as an Ethno-Political Means

Let us consider this extraordinary historical reversal, which Malraux¹⁰ had more or less foreseen. There are many twentieth-century thinkers who believed in a process of secular transference in which religious and Abrahamic monotheisms would shift towards Marxism and global liberalism, both of which share their ingredients: eschatology, soteriology, a paradisiacal cult of man’s final destiny and the end of history (valley of tears), Manicheanism, and so on. And yet it is the very opposite that has taken place: following a short parenthesis, namely that of ‘modernity’, secular ideologies are the ones which, at the start of the twenty-first century, are crumbling before the original religious matrix whose face is now that of a conquering Islam.

As of now, 90% of all conflicts, from Africa to Asia through the Balkans and the Caucasus, are taking place against the backdrop of religious wars in which the protagonists that systematically act as aggressors declare themselves to be Muslims. What Islam embodies with regard to nationalist, tribal or ethnic demands is an incredible lever, a propeller and a means of legitimisation through sanctification.

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In France, the ethnic civil war that has been taking shape has adopted Islam as its main banner and identitarian standard, even if, at the start, the Browns were completely indifferent to their own religion and were only interested in parasitic consumerism (and even if, conversely, some Muslims are not actually belligerent themselves). As fractious when it comes to field work as cats are in connection to bathtubs, Parisian sociologists should know that the acts of violence afflicting both suburbs and other areas are being increasingly committed under the authority of Islamic slogans which, in some way, define their morality. Bin Laden and Mullah Omar¹¹ were not only heroes in Palestine, but also in Seine-Saint-Denis.

The increase in the number of Muslim prayer halls (4000 in France, which is twice as much as in Morocco), mosques (with built-in minarets) and madrasas (i.e. Koranic schools) is not solely motivated by a peaceful ‘religious need’, but also by a symbolic will to affirm Muslim territorial hold on Christian lands.

On the Intrinsically Totalitarian and Violent Nature of Islam

In a study published by Le Figaro on 25 September 2001, Alexandre del Valle¹² implied that it is not actually extremist ‘Islamism’ that embodies a threat, but Islam itself, which has now resumed the war of global conquest that it initiated during the seventh and eighth centuries. A lucid expert, this is what he stated regarding this totalitarian religion:

Under the pretext of denouncing amalgamation, the recurrent Islamist terrorist attacks always serve as opportunities to praise the intrinsic qualities of the Koran, the ‘text of peace’, as well as those of Islam, the ‘religion of love’. […] Islamism (al-Islamiyya) is characterised by its threefold theocratic, conquering and violent dimension, which defines it as an ideology of the totalitarian type rather than mere religious fundamentalism.

He specifies that the terroristic acts committed by fanatical Islamists originate from ‘the very foundations of Islamic orthodoxy, which is taught in the world’s major Muslim universities and has remained unalterable since the eleventh century, as well as from the Koran and Hadiths,¹³ i.e. the sources of Sharia law, a law that explicitly calls for the waging of holy war’.

He then expounds on the fact that the alleged difference between the Shiites, who represent 10% of all Muslims and are purported to be Islamists, and the Sunnis, who are said to be moderate, makes no sense whatsoever, since both groups include Islamists in their ranks.

The intellectuals who analyse ‘totalitarianism’ consider it to have arisen during the twentieth century — with Communism, Fascism and Nazism. It must, however, be said that they are completely mistaken with regard to this, for it is solely the word, which is of Fascist origin, that dates back to the twentieth century, whereas the thing itself is far more ancient than that.

Totalitarianism consists in viewing human society as an indivisible whole, governed by one central dogma, which is either religious or secular. And it is both the Old Testament and its actual imitation, the Koran, that serve as genuine theoretical and practical manuals of totalitarianism. Nowadays, the most complete and most perennial form of totalitarianism is embodied by Islam and non-democratic Islamic states.

In its secular form, totalitarianism was already noticeable in the French Revolution, which served as a testbench for Bolshevism. What we are witnessing today is a re-emergence of the most merciless kind of religious and political totalitarianism, that of the most obscurantist type — Islam.

The media detect a ‘totalitarian threat’ among German neo-Nazis or within the ‘extreme Right’ at a time when Wahhabi Islam, the most intolerant of all, is establishing its presence in all of Europe’s mosques. Are the democrats that participate in the implantation of Islam in Europe — as a result of their anti-racism or ignorance — unaware of the true nature of its message and its likely fundamentalist interpretation?

Due to the two central precepts that govern its teachings, Islam is not merely totalitarian, but, in fact, the purest kind of totalitarianism in existence:

1) Society is a whole, in which faith and law are indistinguishable and where no other party, regulation, opinion or behaviour outside the Koran itself could ever be allowed;

2) the entire world must one day become a universal caliphate in which fundamentalist Islam would be alone to prevail.

This is exactly what is taught across the entire world, in all Koranic schools. Such an objective is far more dangerous than that of the old (and still-born) Trotskyite/Bolshevist type of totalitarianism. Let us, however, point something out: the ones who collaborate with Islam and enable its insertion into the European space are the Trotskyites in disguise who hold the reins of power. A ‘modern’ and moribund type of totalitarianism is thus reintroducing its archaic model, a model whose power is, by comparison, far greater. One had better be on their guard!

‘Totalitarianism’ is but a concept, an instrumental term that was invented by the ideologists of Italian Fascism to refer to a ‘total’ sort of state, characterised by the presence of one single central ideology and a civil society that is organically indistinguishable from the state itself. And this concept then became a type of emblem, a deterrence flag that one contrasts with ‘democracy’.

Total states have, however, always existed! And ‘totalitarianism’ does not date back to the twentieth century. ‘Modernity’, which includes both the modern and the anti-modern, believes itself to have invented everything. How ridiculous! It alleges that totalitarianism, technology, feminism, individualism and, of course, democracy and socialism are all part of its inventions, yet all of them already existed in antiquity, ladies and gentlemen, up until the first and second centuries CE. Juvenal¹⁴ teaches us all about the radic...

Table of contents

• The Rocket-Propelled Spirit of Guillaume Faye
• Introduction
• 1. Facing Islam
• 2. Neo-Terrorism: Why One Should Be Pessimistic
• 3. The American Adversary
• 4. Towards a New Cold War Between China and the USA
• 5. Towards an Ethnic Civil War in Europe
• 6. The New Social War and the Economic Crisis
• 7. The New Jewish Question
• 8. Europe and the Third World — An Impossible Combination
• 9. The Belgian Case and the German Question
• 10. Those Who Collaborate with the Enemy
• 11. Resisters or Histrions?
• 12. Operetta Rebels
• 13. Intellectualism as an Anaesthetic
• 14. ‘You Are Politically Incorrect’
• 15. The Political Class: A Saraband of Clowns in the Face of the Tempest
• 16. Regarding the Notion of State
• 17. Decadence — A Prelude to Collapse
• 18. Is Christianity Still Capable of Struggle?
• 19. The Philosophy of Life in the Face of Degenerate Thinking
• 20. In Favour of Constructive Belligerent Thinking
• 21. Vae Victis or the Tribunal of History
• The Return of the Titans
• Scenarios of the Apocalypse
• Operation Skorpio or the Destruction of the United States
• The Incineration of Tel Aviv
• The Dead City of Paris
• Other Books Published by Arktos
• Notes