Certainly non -fiction book of the year so far.
I disliked it at first as I thought that he was writing from a right wing perspective, a bit too far towards the right for me. But this is not correct; I am not sure that he writes from any perspective, but he just sees the ‘open borders’ policy of Europe as an intellectual error, simply in that opening up your borders and allowing a flood of immigrants in crowds your country and imposes huge strains on your economy, particularly if (contrary to what you have assumed at their point of entry) they don’t go back, but settle in their new and hugely affluent new location. You then have to factor in the immigrant nationalities, beliefs and religions – his focus is on 4 below (Islam) but if you go back a few years you have:
Irish (Catholic)/Republican (inc me) brought a lot of violence to UK
West Indian post war brought none except when provoked – Broadwater?
Indian Hindu have brought none (?)
Asian/ North African Moslem fierce antipathy to Western/Christian values – huge
So the book’s premise is that an intellectually incoherent and spiritually bankrupt European ethos, of whom Angela Merkel (who generally I admire) is the unwitting villain of the piece, has actively and passively encouraged huge and largely inherently very anti European Moslem immigration into an already crowded Europe. Her premise is an outdated Christian ‘these people are refugees’ bit of thinking. Hugely thought provoking and challenging.
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