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The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam Paperback – June 12, 2018
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The Strange Death of Europe is the internationally bestselling account of a continent and a culture caught in the act of suicide, now updated with new material taking in developments since it was first published to huge acclaim. These include rapid changes in the dynamics of global politics, world leadership and terror attacks across Europe.
Douglas Murray travels across Europe to examine first-hand how mass immigration, cultivated self-distrust and delusion have contributed to a continent in the grips of its own demise. From the shores of Lampedusa to migrant camps in Greece, from Cologne to London, he looks critically at the factors that have come together to make Europeans unable to argue for themselves and incapable of resisting their alteration as a society. Murray's "tremendous and shattering" book (The Times) addresses the disappointing failures of multiculturalism, Angela Merkel's U-turn on migration, the lack of repatriation and the Western fixation on guilt, uncovering the malaise at the very heart of the European culture. His conclusion is bleak, but the predictions not irrevocable. As Murray argues, this may be our last chance to change the outcome, before it's too late.
- Print length384 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateJune 12, 2018
- Dimensions5.5 x 1 x 8.31 inches
- ISBN-101472958055
- ISBN-13978-1472958051
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". . . fiery, lucid, and essential polemic." - Sohrab Ahmari, Commentary
"Timely . . . Murray takes a stance that few dare to take . . . With violence erupting in Europe and America's new anti-immigration policies, this audacious work will find its readers." - Kirkus Reviews
"[An] excellent and disturbing book." - Michael Barone, Washington Examiner
"The Strange Death of Europe may be one of the most important philosophical books of our time . . . This is nothing less than a dynamite book. It is likely that liberals in Europe and North America will avoid this book, but they shouldn’t. Murray’s questions are too important to ignore anymore." - Benjamin Welton, New York Journal of Books
"A powerful new book." - John O'Sullivan, The National Review
"Murray’s analysis deserves careful attention. . . . Readers able to face a stern depiction of culture clash will witness in The Strange Death of Europea panorama of a receding landscape. One wonders what next transforms European mores and beliefs." - Spectrum Culture
"[The Strange Death of Europe] makes a ferociously well-argued case." - Ralph Berry, Chronicles
"Lively . . . Murray’s book is informed by actual reporting across the Continent, and a quality of writing that manages to be spritely and elegiac at the same time. Murray’s is also a truly liberal intellect, in that he is free from the power that taboo exerts over the European problem, but he doesn’t betray the slightest hint of atavism or meanspiritedness." - Michael Brendan Dougherty, The National Review
"This is a brilliant, important and profoundly depressing book. That it is written with Douglas Murray’s usual literary elegance and waspish humor does not make it any less depressing. That Murray will be vilified for it by the liberals who have created the appalling mess he describes does not make it any less brilliant and important ( . . . ) Read it." - Rod Liddle, Sunday Times
"His overall thesis, that a guilt-driven and exhausted Europe is playing fast and loose with its precious modern values by embracing migration on such a scale, is hard to refute." - Juliet Samuel, Telegraph
"This is a vitally important book, the contents of which should be known to everyone who can influence the course of events, at this critical time in the history of Europe." - Sir Roger Scruton
"Douglas Murray glitters in the gloom. His pessimism about multiculturalism is so well constructed and written it is almost uplifting. Liberals will want to rebut him. I should warn them that they will need to argue harder than they have ever argued before." - Nick Cohen
"Douglas Murray’s introduction to this already destructive subject of Islamist hegemony is a distinguished attempt to clarify the origins of a storm. I found myself continually wishing that he wasn’t making himself quite so clear." - Clive James
"Douglas Murray writes so well that when he is wrong he is dangerous." - Matthew Parris, Spectator
"A compelling, insightful and persuasively argued narrative . . . a deeply humane book that touches on individual tragedy . . . It may even prove to be the start of a conversation, and for such a dangerously politicized and neglected subject, that would be most welcome. The combination of fascinating subject matter and superb writing make The Strange Death of Europe a title that stays in the mind throughout the reading process and beyond." - Entertainment Focus
"Powerful and engaging . . . Murray is at his strongest when lampooning the neurotic guilt of Western liberal elites . . . Disagree passionately if you will, but you won’t regret reading it." - Literary Review
"[E]rudite, dispiriting, and indispensable . . . . More than any other book with which I am familiar, The Strange Death of Europe provides a rich, comprehensive, and haunting portrait of a continent in extremis and an astute, thoroughly credible diagnosis of the social, psychological, and cultural afflictions that have led it to this hour of crisis." - FrontPage Magazine
"Every so often, something is published which slices through the fog of confusion, obfuscation and the sheer dishonesty of public debate to illuminate one key fact about the world. Such a work is Douglas Murray’s tremendous and shattering book, The Strange Death of Europe." - Melanie Phillips, The Times
"Murray’s clear and humane exposition of the seismic changes and the abject failure of political elites to face up to them gives those not willfully blind an opportunity to see." - Eric Metaxas, Breakpoint
"[The Strange Death of Europe] does hit on some unfortunate truths." - The Economist
"The Strange Death of Europe by Douglas Murray is an enthralling account of the rise of Islamism in Europe. It’s beautifully written and cogently argued." - Christina Hoff Sommers, Politico
"In Douglas Murray’s The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam, whereby one learns that the death in question is not so strange after all, for it is merely a case of suicide--or, more precisely, attempted suicide, because there is an increasing resistance underway, which is even reversing Islamization in some European countries, at least in some respects . . . Murray is very effective in fully identifying the deformed, guilt-ridden liberalism à la Karsten Nordal Hauken that generates illiberal concessions to intolerance--and to violence." - Tablet
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- Publisher : Bloomsbury Continuum; Updated edition (June 12, 2018)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 384 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1472958055
- ISBN-13 : 978-1472958051
- Item Weight : 12.8 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.5 x 1 x 8.31 inches
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These days I am seeing statutes get tore down all over the Western world, pushes to change history, literal struggle session for White people. I am convinced that different groups of people can not live together when they can not tolerate the different histories and myths that they need to survive and thrive. I recognize that separated people will develop their own versions of common events, have different facts, myths and point of views, etc. Tribalization and balkanization seems to be a more common theme in the world than unification despite the EU, NATO, USA, etc. There are more countries in the world now than ever before and the number keeps increasing. Trying to unify great diversity requires an iron fist and we are seeing this taking place in USA -- the Conservatives want their own history and myths and do not want what is being forced on them by the state and they no longer trust the state. The result is a riot and protest in Capitol Hill on 1/6 and obvious political persecution with unjust name calling.
I bought Murray's subsequent book, Madness of Crowds, and perhaps am finding it broader in ideas and more nuanced than The Strange Death of Europe. I am only a third the way through Madness of Crowds. I found The Strange Death of Europe more difficult to put down but perhaps that is only a matter of habit and not that Madness is less engaging.
I look forward to his next book in the series. The topics are connected -- mass migration made people think about identity, belonging and even indigenous land rights which includes Europeans. Perhaps his next book will be on White Identity Politics. It seems appropriate since the whole world is closing in on the West.
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Furthermore when people in various countries began to question whether uncontrolled immigration from the third world was an unalloyed good, the ruling elites attempted to quash any such questioning as racist and xenophobic. In polite society one wasn't allowed to talk about the creeping epidemic of female genital mutilation, honor killings and political Islam. Academics who studied these issues had their careers destroyed, sporadic political upstarts who organized around a more sane immigration policy were demonized by all sectors of the political class from center right to far left. Even immigrants themselves like Ayan Hirsi Ali, who pointed out cultural and societal problems from the rising population growth of Muslims in Europe, was painted as a racist hater, forced to live under police protection due to threats from Islamic radicals who are allowed to live (often on the dole) in places like Holland and England.
Murray delves into the phenomenon of white western guilt which especially afflicts such nations as the US , Australia and England. He points out how other countries have their histories and cultures judged by the best case examples, while we in the west judge ourselves by our worst moments (inquisition, Nazis in Germany, etc)
“In America, as in Australia , such a constant drumbeat of guilt changes a people's natural feelings about their own past. It transforms feelings of patriotism into shame or at the very least into deeply mixed emotions”
Not all countries do this. In Turkey which ushered in the first genocide of the 20th century, there is no collective guilt about the Armenian massacre. In fact Article 301 of the Turkish constitution makes it a crime to insult the Turkish nation. Thus any critique of their past is forbidden .
Why is it only western nations that should feel guilty? Should Mongolians in the 21st century be subjected to a constant parade of criticism for the massacres at Aleppo and Baghdad the Genghis Khan perpetuated?
Murray takes a close look at the trumped up Syrian refugee crisis of 2015 which involved very few war refugees and even fewer Syrians. It did involve millions of uneducated, probably unemployable young men with retrograde views on everything from church/state separation to women's equality. Pointing out that the Gulf States have taken in exactly zero refugees , Murray shows how this flood was encouraged by Western leaders notably Germany's Merkela. While it would have been far better and cheaper to house the true war refugees in the middle east, so they could return when Syria stabilizes, the political elite lacked the will to do this. Even with the societal and establishment pressure to never discuss the downside of this refugee flood, public opinion has increasingly turned againsted the unfettered immigration which had been encouraged. Still political leaders refuse to do much to police their borders or return unauthorized migrants to their homelands.
Murray looks at an issue I've thought about , the demorilization of Western society, which no longer acts as if the values we are built upon are worth preserving. This explains why societies with still only 10% Muslims are buckling under to the creeping Sharia that is coming their way. Murray offers the suggestion that a religious revival in Europe would help combat this trend but doesn't hold out much hope for one. He basically predicts a continued lack of will to confront the issue and the eventual transfomation of Europe into a place we won't recognize.
This was a very good book, very readable. Everyone should read and think about it.