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Since October 7, prospects are looking worse than ever.
For many years now I’ve been playing a rather bleak game with myself called “which European country will fall first?” Sometimes it has seemed like a very close contest indeed. In 2006, after Denmark was overwhelmed by deadly explosions of Muslim rage – not just domestically, but internationally – over nothing more than a dozen cartoons of Muhammed that were published in a newspaper, it felt as if Muslims wanted to take over that tiny country, it wouldn’t take them much longer than the six hours it took for the Nazis to conquer it in 1940. Then again, Denmark’s leaders actually stood up to Muslim pressure over those cartoons, while their Norwegian counterparts buckled under instantly. These are the same Norwegian leaders, moreover, who feel that their calling as a “peace nation” obliges them to hold friendly talks with Hamas, for example, and to kowtow to the “religion of peace” at every turn. So might Norway, one wondered, be the first Western European country that the Muslims managed to bring into the “House of Peace”?
But then there’s Sweden, which has often looked like a very likely candidate for subjugation, partly because it’s got a higher percentage of Muslim immigrants than any other country in Western Europe, and partly because the staggeringly self-righteous multiculturalism of its political elite – which for a long time did an absolutely terrific job of appeasing Muslims and silencing dissent on its extremely lax immigration policies – appeared to have set that country, quite irreversibly, on the fast track to Islamization. And what about the Netherlands, where, early on, the chillingly pusillanimous reaction of everyone from the news media to the royal family to the brutal murders of Pim Fortuyn (2002) and Theo van Gogh (2004), two highly prominent critics of Islam, didn’t bode well, to say the least. Could that little country go under first? And what of Belgium? Half Flemish and half Walloon, the Belgians already have a weak sense of national identity and, partly because the EU is based in Brussels, a tendency to think of themselves as “global citizens” – attributes that have helped make them complacent about Islamic immigration…
