Mr. Douglas Murray's new book was released on 2 May 2017 and it became immediately one of the bestsellers in the UK. I wonder why the Amazon.com (USA) and the Amazon.co.jp (Japan) are so slow in its schedule of selling it in September this year. (Lily)
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Death of Europe: Europeans are losing the place they call home, says DOUGLAS MURRAY
IS OUR continent on a suicide mission? Over the years of the recent migration crisis I have been travelling across Europe from the most remote southern islands of Italy to the north of Sweden, from the islands of Greece to the suburbs of France.
by Douglas Murray
4 May 2017
I have travelled to the places where migrants continue to land and the places where they keep ending up. Everywhere I have gone I have come to the same conclusion: our continent is in the process of self-murder.
Amid the day-to-day distraction of life and politics, it is easy to forget this biggest event of our time. All pale into insignificance besides the story of the loss by Europeans of the only place we had to call home.
Whenever this country does have a debate about immigration it is minuscule. It tends to focus on Calais. The British public sees footage of people sitting in makeshift tents or hurling missiles into the roads to slow the trucks down so they can board them and break into Britain.
Each time actors, celebrities and politicians head to Calais and visit the camp. They return to tell the British public that it must be more open-hearted and generous.
The argument they make is humane. It is an understandable reaction to human misery but it is a core part of our society's suicide mission.
Take that example of Calais. Before the latest clearance of the camp there were about 6,000 people living there. None of them should have been there.
By being there they had already broken every one of the rules that our continent put in place which demands they seek asylum in the first country of arrival. Almost nobody arrives into France first.
All these people have landed in Greece or Italy and made their way north.
And yet still the celebrities and others pick at our consciences. Can we not be generous and at least let in the people who are there? It is wholly understandable - and also ill-informed madness.
Over this year's Easter weekend alone about 8,000 people were picked up between the coast of north Africa and the south of Italy.
They were described - as everyone always is - as being "rescued". In fact what happens - what has been happening for years - is that each day boats filled with migrants set out from north Africa.
At first - after some high-profile sinkings - they pulled people out of their boats (or escorted the boats in) when they were close to islands such as Lampedusa.
But over time the European vessels have gone ever-closer to the shores of Libya. Today the smugglers hardly put any petrol into the barely seaworthy vessels they now put out.
The boats need go only a few miles out to sea before they are collected by European naval vessels and brought into Europe. The smugglers now do the smallest part of that journey. The Europeans do the rest.
Of course it is possible when standing in a migrant camp in one of these places or speaking to the people who arrive - as I have done many times - to think that perhaps our continent can cope with this flow.
From these far-flung outposts a few thousand people arriving every single day and then being shipped or flown up on to the mainland of Europe can seem a manageable prospect. In fact it spells a continent's catastrophe.
During the heights of the migration crisis of 2015, when Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel opened up the doors of Europe to the world, the whole continent began to buckle.
But in reality that flood of millions into Europe only sped up a process that had been under way for years. Ever since the postwar period European governments had encouraged migrant workers to come in.
At first - as Chancellor Merkel herself admitted in a speech in 2010 - they expected the workers to return home. But they didn't. They stayed. As did the flow after that and the ones for decades after that.
The governments of countries such as ours failed to get anything right. All their predictions were wrong for decades. They were wrong that people would stay for only a short time. Wrong to think that they would not continue to come in large numbers.
Wrong that they might not want to bring their extended families to join them. And wrong to think that once the tap was turned on anything but very radical action could ever bring the numbers to a controllable level.
In a country such as Britain we are used to politicians promising things on lowering immigration that we know they will never deliver.
Remember the promises to bring immigration down to tens of thousands a year? But even this is just a portion of the big-picture changes occurring across our continent into which millions of people are moving with no end in sight.
During the course of researching The Strange Death Of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam, I have travelled to see the places where those migrants who arrive on our continent end up. Last year the migrant crisis was widely believed to have slowed down.
But it had not and its effects were still visible everywhere. In the outskirts of Paris I saw hundreds of young sub-Saharan men living in tents in the middle of roadways. The French police would occasionally move them a few hundred feet further along.
In remote parts of Sweden areas that used to be filled with Swedes are inhabited instead by the residents of other continents.
Still the dream of some Europeans is that the arrivals into Europe will become European. It is more likely that Europe will simply begin to look increasingly Third World.
Part of the reason is that we keep lying to ourselves, or failing to inform ourselves, about what is happening. Even today the Left and Right in Britain and Europe still pretend that the people arriving are refugees.
Yet as I found out for myself most are not. Most of those who arrived in 2015, for instance, are economic migrants. They are escaping economic hardships we are infinitely lucky not to have been born into. But they are not fleeing for their lives.
Open borders campaigners and others deliberately smudge the differences between these groups, massively damaging their own cause but doing their part in the destruction of our civilisation.
Neither is there any workable system to send people who should not be here back to their own countries.
The system that existed on Europe's borders was never designed to cope with flows of the kind we now have. As terrorist attacks perpetrated by people who have used this system have shown - it is almost totally broken.
As is our ability to integrate people. In 2010 Chancellor Merkel, then prime minister David Cameron and many other European leaders gave big speeches admitting that the policy of "multiculturalism" had failed.
But they then proceeded to speed up immigration to an unheard of high. If immigration had failed at such low levels, how was it meant to work at a historic high?
None of this was any more thought through than the other periods since the war. At the end of my travels I developed some ideas of how to at least slow down this flow, which is the most urgent need for our continent.
I hope Theresa May and her counterparts, all now so focused on Brexit, will consider this. But my fear is that they will not. It will go into the pot of "too big to deal with". As it does for so many other people. But we should be under no illusions if we continue to avoid this issue. Our civilisation's whole future is at stake.
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Laura Perrins: Elites betrayed the people over immigration – read Murray’s book
9 May 2017
by Laura Perrins
Gaby Hinsliff does not like it when people can read good and write proper. That is one of the problems with Douglas Murray, what with his fancy ways and his poisonous pen.
In his new book, The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam, Murray dares to question the lefty consensus that the open borders of Europe, and the open borders of Britain in particular, have been a most welcome development that can only lead to more fabulousness for this green and pleasant land.
Hinsliff in her ‘review’ of Murray’s new book dismisses it as follows: ‘think Daily Mail columnist Katie Hopkins, but with longer words.’ Having dumped the Hopkins slur upon him, she declares the book is just gentrified xenophobia – racism for better-read posh people. (Worth noting that Hinsliff once worked for the Mail.)
Murray sure is a pain in the neck for the establishment of which he is part. What with his educated ways and lovely curly hair instead of a skinhead with massive Union Jack tattoo, he gives an air of respectability to those who challenge the open borders maniacs (my word, not his. He is too polite to call them maniacs.)
If it wasn’t for the likes of Murray, the Guardianistas could continue to dismiss all decent people who are not on board with the 330,000+ net migration revolution as the knuckle-dragging, racist, scumbags that they are.
Now Murray has gone and written a whole book on the greatest issue of our time – uncontrolled mass immigration imposed by an elite without the consent of the people. It is the issue that triggered Brexit. And this book on immigration ‘with footnotes and everything’ (Hinsliff actually says this) is out there spreading all this filthy gentrified racism for posh people.
Hinsliff asserts: “Murray never quite spells out why it matters so terribly that people should come here from abroad – what is supposedly so awful about black and brown Londoners, including second or third generation immigrants, or indeed white people born overseas.”
Yet Murray does. First, there are and will continue to be huge pressures placed on housing, education and health. Secondly, immigration on this scale was profoundly undemocratic, no party, least of all New Labour, had a mandate for it, the public did not support it and once it had happened the public rejected it (fat lot of good it did them.) In one poll 67 per cent of the British public believed that immigration over the previous decade had ‘been a bad thing for Britain.’
The response of the ruling elite to the public was: screw you. As Boris Johnson declared ‘we need to stop moaning about the dam-burst. It’s happened.’
The greatest of Murray’s concerns is the question of values and culture. Yes, immigration brings diversity but no culture is perfect, and as he points out ‘specific cultural ideas and attitudes that were clearly held by some immigrants’ were gravely damaging.
He sets out in detail the systematic gang rape of white minor girls in Oxfordshire by gangs of Muslim men of Pakistani origin. This was something the authorities ignored for years in the name of political correctness.
In fact, we know following an inquiry that at least 1,400 children were sexually exploited in the town of Rotherham alone by Muslim men of Pakistani origin, referred to as Asian gangs by the media.
These children are just collateral damage in the great lefty plan to transform Britain, into something better, more diverse and definitely less British – because we all know what a horrid lot the natives are.
The most outrageous part of the review is when Hinsliff alleges that Murray merely asserts, “the evidence suggesting immigration has economic benefits is all either wrong or fiddled by New Labour.”
In fact, Murray sets out in detail over a number of pages how the idea that immigration has been a net economic benefit to Britain was trumped up, especially by the media. It was a classic case of fake news (my phrase not his) and the academic paper itself, in its final version, put to rest the idea that mass immigration has been a boon for Britain. In fact, it probably cost Britain more than £159 billion.
Never mind. You will take it and you will like it, declare the elite.
Take it from me: the book is a great if depressing read. It’s all there – the great betrayal of the British public. Despite the gross lefty media bias, they could not even manufacture consent for this open borders policy. They just rammed it through, shutting down any debate or mere concern as expressions of racism.
At the start of the book, Murray asks three questions: How much longer must all this go on? Are we approaching the end of this transformation? Or is this only the beginning? These are the questions that Theresa May, should she get her great democratic mandate, must answer.
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