The Strange Myopia of Douglas Murray
From Amazon: "The Strange Death of Europe is
a highly personal account of a continent and culture caught in the act
of suicide. Declining birth-rates, mass immigration and cultivated
self-distrust and self-hatred have come together to make Europeans
unable to argue for themselves and incapable of resisting their own
comprehensive change as a society. This book is not only an analysis of
demographic and political realities, but also an eyewitness account of a
continent in self-destruct mode. It includes reporting from across the
entire continent, from the places where migrants land to the places they
end up, from the people who appear to welcome them in to the places
which cannot accept them."I just finished reading it and that summary is, for Amazon, pretty fair.
The author traces in great detail and with increasing horror the stunning scale and speed of the demographic and social transformation besetting Europe. He rips into politicians and the media for their duplicitous role in this transformation. He challenges 'liberals' and feminists on their inherently nonsensical and hypocritical support for immigrants who bring their illiberal and anti-feminine practises with them. He devotes a full chapter to demolishing political correctness, its bogus rationalisations, intolerance and falsification of history, and cleverly shows how these pathologies lead to authorities turning a blind eye to multiple instances of Muslim child-abuse. He traces PC corruption from the highest levels of national Government to local government, the police, courts and social services agencies. I particularly like the way he demolishes, first, the fallacy that Britain 'has always been a nation of immigrants' and second the idea that we need immigrants because European women aren't having enough children, identifying more child-friendly social and economic policies and not more Muslim head-choppers as the solution.
All of this
is powerful stuff, deeply researched and written with style. However
there are two areas in which the book disappoints: First, explanations
for how Europe's death came about and second his unqualified despair
about the future. For this particular coroner 'cause of death' was
suicide. Not murder. “More than any other continent or culture in the world today, Europe is now deeply weighed down with guilt for its past.”
And why is Europe deeply weighed down with guilt? Because.....well...
Christianity. And the Holocau$t™. The Jewish role, which was and
remains central, is ignored apart from his shock at the part payed by
European Jewish organisations in supporting the invasion. Shock because
the invaders will not be pro-Jewish! (I took Fred Reed to task for a similar evasion some time ago.)
Does
Douglas really not 'get it' about the Jews or is he just being cute? I
suspect the latter. First because anybody taking even a cursory analysis
of the subject couldn't fail to see it and second because Murray
himself was pretty explicit in an article with
the Jewish Chronicle. While taking care to proclaim his philo-semitism
(and in a this-hurts-me-more-than-you tone) he nonetheless makes some
hard points. Points which indicate that he does in fact 'get it'. He
notes - sadly, he conveys - how phrases like ''one law for the Jews,
another for the rest of us'', ''It's all very well for the Jews. They
have Israel where only Jews can go and all the time they're destroying
our own religious and racial identity in Europe'' and 'rootless cosmopolitans' are coming back into vogue. If nothing else this might give the nation-wreckers a few sleepless nights.
The only
other complaint I have lies in his lack of hope, or any form of program
to counter the 'strange death'. But I suppose his stated role has been
to catalogue that death and he's done a hell of a good job on that. Will
it make much difference? Well the book has sold and continues to sell
in huge numbers on both sides of the Atlantic. Any non-awake reader will
surely be jolted by its analysis and conclusions. Which is good. But
bear in mind that Thilo Sarrazin did the same thing for
Germany in books avidly read by millions of Germans. Who then went on
to give Angela Merkel an even bigger share of their vote.
Maybe Murray's pessimism is justified after all.....
No comments:
Post a Comment