The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam

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The Strange Death of Europe is the internationally bestselling account of a continent and culture caught in the act of suicide. Douglas Murray takes a step back and explores the deeper issues behind the continent's possible demise, from an atmosphere of mass terror attacks and a global refugee crisis to the steady erosion of our freedoms. He addresses the disappointing failure of multiculturalism, Angela Merkel’s U-turn on migration, and the Western fixation on guilt. Murray travels to Berlin, Paris, Scandinavia, and Greece to uncover the malaise at the very heart of the European culture, and to hear the stories of those who have arrived in Europe from far away. 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 alteration as a society and an eventual end. This sharp and incisive book ends up with two visions for a new Europe--one hopeful, one pessimistic--which paint a picture of Europe in crisis and offer a choice as to what, if anything, we can do next. But perhaps Spengler was right: "civilizations like humans are born, briefly flourish, decay, and die." Half-title Page......Page 2 Title Page......Page 3 Contents......Page 4 Introduction......Page 5 1. The beginning......Page 12 2. How we got hooked on immigration......Page 22 3. The excuses we told ourselves......Page 33 4. ‘Welcome to Europe’......Page 53 5. ‘We have seen everything’......Page 64 6. Multiculturalism......Page 78 7. They are here......Page 101 8. Prophets without honour......Page 110 9. Early-warning sirens......Page 122 10. The tyranny of guilt......Page 128 11. The pretence of repatriation......Page 145 12. Learning to live with it......Page 157 13. Tiredness......Page 169 14. We’re stuck with this......Page 189 15. Controlling the backlash......Page 199 16. The feeling that the story has run out......Page 210 17. The end......Page 231 18. What might have been......Page 239 19. What will be......Page 250 Notes......Page 261 Acknowledgements......Page 271 A Note on the Author......Page 272 Index......Page 273 Copyright Page......Page 294