Goodbye Europe

10 years ago I read "The Strange Death of Europe"

About ten years ago, I read the book “The Strange Death of Europe” and I became an immediate fan of Douglas Murray. He described what I was fearing in an eloquence I would have never mastered.

He described how Europe is being essentially murdered.

And yes, if anyone paid attention to what is happening today in Ceuta, the Spanish city on the North African coast, they would no longer deny that Europe is on its death bed. Europe has been poisoned for a very long time. First slowly with inviting a few foreign guest workers, asylum seekers, then very, very accelerated after the 2015 war in Syria.

Europe’s culture is facing a death that could have been avoided. But the four horsemen of the leftist utopia have ushered in an irresistible dystopian nightmare: Led by feminism with the introduction of empathy as the primary driver of political decisions, then supported by socialism to establish laws to redistribute wealth, environmentalism as the excuse for every draconian measures limiting freedom and resources for most Europeans, and finally trans activism as the ultimate smoke bomb to erode any common sense and the use of facts that may have otherwise distracted from succeeding.

It is over in Europe. At the snap of the fingers of some not yet fully understood force, thousands of people from African and Middle Eastern countries are ready to invade Europe at any given time; there seems to be always a backlog in the waiting. The recent crossings of borders feels targeted, quick, and happens in huge numbers over a very short period of time. Something to create an overwhelm of systems and budgets.

There is no way any city or country can deal with this kind of mass influx without suffering severe lasting consequences.

There is no way that this can continue without the need for signifiant military force.

And without military force?

We are already seeing initial reports of break-ins and home invasions in Ceuta. The only alternative logical consequence is … civil war. Eventually the citizens of every country will revolt. Let’s hope this happens while there is still some strength in numbers.

If anyone paid attention to history, we know that parts of Spain (Andalusia) used to be Arabic. From 711 to 1492 to be exact. It was Christian before. It became Christian again. We heard about the Crusades. We heard about the Ottoman Empire. Islamic invasions are not new. The form it takes in the 20th and 21st century is new. We were just too stupid to understand this.

We could have known in the 1970s: the Iranian Revolution showed us. But hey, that was too far for most to even acknowledge. We could have known when the Fatwa against Salman Rushdie was spoken, but we were not him, so why bother. We rather listened to Cat Stevens and applauded him for finding Allah. Because we are all so good and kind.

Why the new surge in a little Spanish region that seems to just be on the wrong continent? It is not new that Ceuta experiences waves of people trying to enter from African countries. Wait. I should be honest. Young men. Young men from African countries are entering Spain on the North African coast. Not just people. We know why these men come to Europe: because there is stuff for free. Because it promises stuff without having to put in the efforts.

How many more migrants from African and Arabic countries can Europe digest before it collapses? The timeframe seems to be shorter and shorter. Health care budgets and the European equivalent of social security funds are already too low for the ever increasing people in need. Schools in Germany are reporting insanely high numbers of children with migration backgrounds (in my daughter’s class in 2015, the percentage of German kids with no migration background was 10%, yes, it meant there were only 2 kids in the entire class where not at a minimum one parent was a migrant). 10 years later it is now no longer a rarity whatsoever to have at least half of the kids in a class that do not speak German at home.

It is a shame that so many young and healthy men from Africa and the Middle East are not working on getting things in order in their home country. I am sometimes too convinced that all our Western charity bred is a culture in those countries that seems to feel now more than ever entitled to our money and possessions. I do not know if am right. I just see trends in human behaviors. And the idea that charity without tying it to accountability and responsibility to use it to jumpstart your life just breeds laziness and entitlement.

There was a book written in the 1970s by the French Jean Raspail: The Camp of the Saints. With everything we are seeing in Europe now, the book feels nearly prophetic. Here is a summary of the plot as provided by Grok:

“The novel is set in a near-future world (roughly the late 20th century from the perspective of its writing). It begins in Calcutta, India, where Western (especially Belgian and Catholic) charity efforts have encouraged the adoption of large numbers of Indian children by European families.

When Belgium abruptly ends the program after tens of thousands of children have already been taken in, a desperate mob of impoverished people swarms the Belgian consulate.A key symbolic figure emerges: a low-caste Indian man (often called the “turd eater” or “coprophage”) who carries his severely deformed, limbless child. Inspired by Western missionaries, aid workers, and an atheist philosopher who encourage the idea of heading to Europe as a “land of plenty,” this man and the child help galvanize a massive spontaneous movement. Roughly a million destitute people seize hundreds of old, barely seaworthy ships and form a vast “Last Chance Armada” that sets sail for Europe.

Conditions aboard are depicted as extremely squalid, with disease, death, and open sexual activity rampant.As the fleet slowly crosses the oceans (detouring around the Suez Canal after a warning from Egypt, rejecting food aid from South Africa and later from Western charity efforts), European media, intellectuals, clergy, left-wing activists, and political elites largely celebrate the migrants as a redemptive force for a guilt-ridden, decadent West. Southern French civilians, terrified, begin fleeing north. Parallel scenes show similar pressures building elsewhere (e.g., Chinese masses near the Soviet border).When the fleet reaches the French Mediterranean coast on Easter, the French president initially orders the military to stop them but then falters mid-speech, telling troops to follow their own consciences.

Most soldiers desert or refuse to act. The migrants land unopposed in the south of France. Resistance is minimal and quickly collapses. A small group of holdouts (including a retired professor named Calguès who remains at his coastal home, a Westernized Indian, and a handful of soldiers) make a last symbolic stand in a village but are eventually overwhelmed or destroyed by the new authorities.The migrants (joined by existing immigrant communities and radical activists) demand Western living standards while rejecting assimilation. Violence against resisting locals occurs, and similar mass arrivals soon overwhelm other Western countries. Governments collapse or become pro-migrant “multiracial communes.”

By the end, white Western societies are depicted as demographically and culturally submerged. Switzerland, the last holdout, is forced to open its borders under international pressure. The story is framed as having been written in those final Swiss hours.The title alludes to a passage in the Book of Revelation about the “camp of the saints” being surrounded by the armies of the nations at the end times. The novel is highly controversial for its portrayal of the migrants as an undifferentiated, threatening mass and for its critique of Western guilt, humanitarianism, and elite responses.”

Good night!