As I commented the other day: “We warned you!”
Indeed we warned European governments much earlier than I realised:
The problems that France has been creating for itself were foreseeable, and indeed foreseen. As long ago as March 1959, de Gaulle is reported to have warned, “The Arabs are Arabs, the French are French. Do you think that the French can absorb ten million Muslims who will tomorrow be twenty million and after tomorrow forty?” The Anti-French Revolt in France Rich Lowry.
And: “…100 million people… saw this coming”. Bridget Phetasy.
I’m reminded of “Reflections on the Revolution in Europe”, by Christopher Caldwell, which I read when it came out on 2009, and have quoted numerous times since.
A key thing he noted was that the descendants of immigrants to Europe from Islamic countries were far more radical and less integrated than their parents and grandparents. This is in contrast to all other immigrant waves, where those born in the host country integrated into its values and customs.
I noted this in my own post in 2015:
And so, also, in Europe and the UK: waves of migration absorbed and contributing to their host countries, with their children hewing to their new nation.
All, that is, until the immigrations from Islamic countries.A weird thing happened with these migrants. The children of the original migrants -- instead of working on the base set for them by their parents -- began to bend to more fundamentalist Islam than their parents.And we know where that leads. "Lone wolf" attacks; calls for Sharia. Despising of their own nation.The best documentation of this phenomenon is in Christopher Caldwell's "Reflections on the Revolution in Europe".He shows -- in careful argument with scrupulous references -- how the descendants on Pakistanis in the UK or Turks in Germany, have turned against their parents and their countries, in favour of the Islamic Ummah, the great would-be caliphate of Islam.Caldwell quotes Hilaire Belloc, the great writer, orator, poet, sailor, satirist, man of letters, soldier and political activist, and leftist Catholic academic.Writing in 1936, in "The Great Heresies", Belloc is quoted in Caldwell (p 112):"... It has always seemed to me possible, and even probable, that there would be a resurrection of Islam and that our sons or our grandsons would see the renewal of that tremendous struggle between the Christian culture and what has been for more than thousand years its greatest opponent."
Prescient, what?!
