Europe: Muslim Immigration and the Rise of 'Eurabia'

FOX News September 05 2009

IN APRIL 1968 Enoch Powell, a Tory cabinet minister, destroyed his political career when he denounced mass immigration as a disaster (like the Roman, he said, I seem to see the river Tiber foaming with much blood). Today Powells arguments are becoming mainstream.
Christopher Caldwell is an American journalist who writes for the liberal Financial Times as well as the conservative Weekly Standard. He has spent the past decade studying European immigration, travelling widely and reading voraciously in an impressive variety of languages. His controversial new book repeatedly echoes Powells warnings all those years ago.

Mr Caldwell argues that Western Europe became a multi-ethnic society in a fit of absence of mind. European policymakers imported people to fill short-term job shortages. But immigrants continued to multiply even as the jobs disappeared: the number of foreign residents in Germany increased from 3m in 1971 to 7.5m in 2000 though the number of foreigners in the workforce did not budge. Today immigrants account for about 10% of the population of most west European countries, and up to 30% in some of Europes great cities.
Policymakers were even more mistaken about culture than they were about numbers. They assumed that immigrants would quickly adopt the mores of their host societies. But a surprising number of immigrants have proved unmeltable.

Mr Caldwell argues that the reason why so many immigrants failed to assimilate can be summed up in a single word: Islam. In the middle of the 20th century there were almost no Muslims in Europe. Today there are 15m-17m, making up about half of all new arrivals in Europe.

For the most part European countries have bent over backwards to accommodate the sensibilities of the newcomers. A French law court has allowed a Muslim man to annul his marriage on the ground that his wife was not a virgin on their wedding night. The British pensions department has a policy of recognising (and giving some benefits to) additional spouses.

But European public opinion is tiring of such bending. Mr Caldwell cites a poll that shows that only 19% of Europeans think immigration to be a good thing for their country; 57% think that their country has too many foreigners. Such numbers have recently forced politicians to adjust their policies.

Europes indigenous population is ageing fast, with a quarter of it over 60. Immigrants have large families. Moreover, Europe is no match for Islamic self-confidence: When an insecure, malleable, relativistic culture meets a culture that is anchored, confident and strengthened by common doctrines, it is generally the former that changes to suit the latter.

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[polka23dot]

@Min90Ra The Muslim Arab world does not produce single manufactured product of sufficient quality to sell on world markets. Arab productivity and literacy are the lowest in the world. Nowhere in the Arab world is a world-class university, true democracy, respect for human rights, or a responsible media. Ralph Peters described the Arab Middle East as the world's first entirely parasitic culture because “it imitates poorly, consumes voraciously, spits hatred, exports death, and creates nothing”.

[soza999]

@de225229 i have a proof u r an idiot u r another arab who is born job is to blame the jews for everything just to hide the true facts cuz you have nothing else to contirbute to this world, the true is arabs who immigrat to eu is becouse they are being killed by thier own ppl in thier contry like siria yaman egpt etc, and we see the news each day of the ture face of islamic leaders and they can no longer stay hidden, arabs slay more of thier kind then any other country in the world ever did.

[crazytattoofreak]

@KingOfParrots its all over the netherlands, only the north(friesland, groningen, drenthe) they dont have this problem as big.

[crazytattoofreak]

@polka23dot they produce suicide bombers and children to get extra wellfare! the f**kers

[usaearthling]

It's time to pay for what we have done to these nations. I say give the white people to Islam and let them be the sacrifice.

[MrIndoCanadian]

@moistfaucet sorry you are a liberal I like beautiful white girls with blonde hair blue eyes.

[MrIndoCanadian]

@moistfaucet White people are the most beautiful people on this earth.

[moistfaucet]

@MrIndoCanadian, all white kids it will become very boring world. you will eat the same food, same clothing style, same news. same conversation. what a boring life.

[MrIndoCanadian]

@moistfaucet Europe should stay European and have more white kids and become more religious and fuck Islam.

[nationalistefr2]

Islam is crushing France but our governement is so pussy. Pfffft

[KingOfParrots]

"you have the same thing in amsterdam" ok, so the rest of the netherlands doesn't have that problem?

[RonSafreed]

Hey atheist these muslins are coming to get you, it is just a matter of time-lol