The trouble with Europe
The future always comes as a surprise, but political wisdom consists in attempting at least some partial judgment of what that surprise may be. And for my part I cannot but believe that a main unexpected thing of the future is the return of Islam.
Hilaire Belloc (1938)
When Christian faith had departed, it had taken with it a sense of ultimate meaning and purpose—and left the continent vulnerable to conquest by people with deeper faith and stronger convictions.
A godless Europe may for a few years appear pleasantly tolerant and nonjudgmental, but without commitment to faith and family, evaporating moral standards and plummeting birth rates create a society that is literally unsustainable.
If Europe were a woman, her biological clock would be rapidly running down. It’s not too late to adopt more children, but they won’t look like her.
Across Europe social change over the last thirty years has led to a steep decline in family size and a growth of single parent households. Today, western European nations report some of the lowest birth rates ever recorded.
The greatest of all the strengths of radical Islam. . . is that it has demography on its side.
