Aztecs and Moslems

In 1520 Aztecs captured a caravan of 550 persons consisting of Spanish conquistadors and local men, women and children traveling with them, and over a period of six months sacrificed a few of the Spanish and Aztec prisoners each day by holding them down on a stone slab and cutting their hearts out, then eating their hearts and boiling and eating their flesh. The story has been unearthed by archeologists working at a site near Mexico City.

“It was a continuous sacrifice over six months. While the prisoners were listening to their companions being sacrificed, the next ones were being selected,” said Enrique Martinez, head of the dig. “You can only imagine what it was like for the last ones, who were left six months before being chosen, their anguish.”

Look at the photo of the Aztec god that accompanies the article: a fat disgusting brute smacking his lips with pleasure at the taste of human flesh.

I’m not a fan of Spanish Catholicism, but let us remember with gratitude the tremendous things the Spanish accomplished. Immediately after succeeding—after a struggle of seven centuries—in rescuing Spain from Islam and its cult of jihad, they went to America and rescued its people from the horrible cult of human sacrifice, replacing a religion centered on the assembly-line ritual murder and consumption of captured people, by a religion centered on the spiritual voluntary sacrifice of Jesus Christ. If ever there was a people and culture for whom Christianity was seemingly designed, to sublimate their brutal cosmic religion into something higher, it was the Mexicans.

Which doesn’t mean the conversion is complete or that we should simply embrace the Mexicans à la George Bush and the open-borders Catholic “conservatives.” Mexican culture still bears many traces of its pre-Spanish past and of course is incompatible with our culture. The Spanish changed a people following a cult of human sacrifice into a Christian people, for which the Spanish deserve great credit. Yet, as is discussed below, today’s Mexicans are actively rejecting their Spanish and Catholic past and re-embracing their pre-Spanish identity.

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Carl Simpson writes:

I can certainly appreciate your point about the Spanish attempt to Christianize the bloodthirsty, human-sacrificing Pagans who ruled Meso-America when they landed. Even so, it appears that their efforts were largely in vain if the routine behavior of MS-13 and any of the numerous Mexican gangs inhabiting parts of the USA are taken into account. Their huge presence here—even in places like Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley—is thanks in no small part to the non-enforcement policies of our ‘Family-Values don’t stop at the Rio-Grande’ Idiot-in-Chief and his Republican worshippers. (Though to be fair, maybe he’s actually referring to Bush—or ‘Sopranos’—style family values here.)

Mexico is marginally better than the Aztec original as it stands. Bribes and general corruption are at least now seen as somewhat preferable to ritual murder. Even the atheist Heather MacDonald has remarked on the fact that the only thing the new arrivals from the nation of Montezuma and Pizzaro are “assimilating” to is the gangsta-rap culture of our native Africans, which is every bit as barbaric—arguably even more so—than that of the Aztecs. They’re probably better off staying in Mexico even from that particular angle.

Hey, Let’s celebrate diversity!

Howard Sutherland writes:

Thank you for this post. The Spaniards should get their due. What a tragedy that the West is now importing wholesale the very people who created these death cults: Mexican Indians and Moslems.

Edward D. writes:

In response to your posting about the Aztecs, I still think it would be perfectly appropriate and reasonable to refer to the Mexicans as children of the cannibals. As I’ve said before, pointing to this Discovery Channel article:

“they named their country after these forefathers—the Mexica. Their flag’s symbols: the eagle, cactus, and snake, come from Mexica (Aztec) mythology. The modern day Children of Cannibals are proud of this ancestry, as we can plainly see with eyes and hear with our ears. Why shouldn’t we make point of that?”

LA replies:

That’s a tough one. That is their history after all. Would they have to renounce any reference to their pre-Spanish history and identity in order to be clear of the charge of being cannibals? And are they promoting the Aztec sacrifice cult today? However, I think you have a point. I wouldn’t want to use the “children of cannibals” label generally, but when Mexicans attack our culture as racist or whatever, or when they start to attack their own Spanish past and assert their pre-Spanish identity, then we should use the cannibal charge on them and put them on the defensive. We should make it clear that if they are going to embrace their pre-Christian, Aztec identity as their main identity, then they are total undesirables and don’t belong in this country.

Here, provided by Carl Simpson, is a gentle yet effective message we might send our southern neighbors when they get too full of themselves.

Howard Sutherland writes:

We have compelled the Germans to renounce any commemoration of Nazism, and rightly so. Should we ask the same of the Aztecs’ descendants? As it stands, Mexico takes great pride in its Indian heritage, and affects to despise its Spaniard heritage.

Edward G. writes:

In February of this year I visited my cousins in Arizona and through them met a man who was involved in border security. He told me that the real danger on the Mexican border is that more Mexicans are converting to Islam. Is their conversion to Islam in a sense a return to their pagan roots of human sacrifice as described in the article about Aztecs eating and sacrificing Spanish captives? Whether you recognize it or not, we are standing in the tradition of the ancient Hebrew prophets by sounding an alarm to the West to awaken to the dangers facing it.

LA replies:

What would be the link between Islam and the ancient Mexican religion?

Edward G. replies:

The barbaric behavior of both. The lust for your enemies’ blood. The link is not historic or theological, it is behavioral.

Stephen T. writes:

I’m about as worried that Islam will sweep Mexico as I am that Nazism will. Strict obedience to letter-of-the-law codes of behavior and discipline is—let’s just say—not the Mestizo Mexican’s strong suit. I can imagine some Imam trying to get 40 million Mexicans to stop boozing and over-breeding and bow and pray several times a day at exactly the same time. Or better yet, strap on a suicide bombers vest. (“Manana, man! Deseo una cerveza.”)

Nope, Mexicans will bring down this country not via iron-willed fanaticism or lockstep strength of evil purpose, but through its polar (though equally malignant) opposite: the corrosive effect of chaos, low-grade third world anarchism, and an apparently genetic apathy toward the concept of written laws, the social contract, academic discipline, etc. This would surely extend to the dictates of the Koran as to everything else Mestizo Mexicans manage to erode into irrelevancy by the sheer force of their rampageous numbers.

Carl Simpson writes:

Edward G. raises an interesting point that I’ve seen mentioned in several places about a dramatic rise in conversions of Mexicans to Islam—especially within the confines of prisons. While I can’t see any connection, or any particular reason why a the pre-European Indio culture would be any more likely to convert to Islam than any other pagan culture, I *can* see a connection between the whole machismo culture already strongly present among Mexicans and Islam, which has its own version of machismo.

While I have seen several mentions of this rise in Islamic conversion, whose poster-boy is Jose Padilla, I’ve not seen any data reflecting this. Another thing being reported from very reliable sources in Mexico itself, like Alan Wall, is that—contrary to the used-car sales pitch from plaid-pants Busheviks—Catholicism is not a very strong influence in Mexican culture, and becomes less of an influence with each passing year.

Ben writes:

I want to say something about the dramatic rise of conversions to Islam in Latin America. This also ties in with the black communities and their strong ties to Islam. I think a lot of this has to do with the strong anti-Western sentiment that is also inside of Islam.

Islam fits like a glove into the hatred that has been fueled into minorities by liberalism with the constant propaganda, revisionist history, and attacks on the white race (which is Western civilization) on how they have oppressed the world.

It’s not so much that these groups have any love for Mohammed’s teachings, rather they have a love affair with the anti-Western sentiment that comes out of Islam.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at August 24, 2006 02:24 AM | Send