Tuesday, July 25, 2017

"The Strange Death of Europe" by Douglas Murray: A Review

The Irish Savant

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 Murray's book 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.

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