The Death of Europe
By Daniel Greenfield
SultanKnish.Blogspot.com
European leaders talk about two things these days;
preserving European values by taking in Muslim
migrants and integrating Muslim migrants into Europe
by getting them to adopt European values.
It
does not occur to them that their plan to save
European values depends on killing European values.
The same European values that require Sweden, a
country of less than 10 million, to take in 180,000
Muslim migrants in one year also expects the new
“Swedes” to celebrate tolerance, feminism and gay
marriage. Instead European values have filled the
cities of Europe with Shariah patrols, unemployed
angry men waving ISIS flags and the occasional
public act of terror.
European countries that refuse to invest money in
border security instead find themselves forced to
invest money into counterterrorism forces. And those
are bad for European values too.
But, as Central European countries are discovering,
European values don’t have much to do with the
preservation of viable functioning European states.
Instead they are about the sort of static Socialism
that Bernie Sanders admires from abroad. But even a
Socialist welfare state requires people to work for
a living. Maine’s generous welfare policies began
collapsing once Somali Muslims swarmed in to take
advantage of them. Denmark and the Dutch, among
other of Bernie Sanders’ role models, have been
sounding more like Reagan and less like Bernie
Sanders or Elizabeth Warren.
Two years ago, the Dutch King declared that, “The
classic welfare state of the second half of the 20th
century in these areas in particular brought forth
arrangements that are unsustainable in their current
form.” That same year, the Danish Finance Minister
called for the “modernization of the welfare state.”
But the problem isn’t one of modernization, it’s
medievalization.
27% of Moroccans and 21% of Turks in the
Netherlands are unemployed.
It’s 27%
in Denmark for Iraqis.
And even when employed, their average income is well
below the European average.
Critics pointed out in the past that a multicultural
America can’t afford the welfare states that
European countries have. Now that those same
countries are turning multicultural, they can’t
afford them either.
Europe invested in the values of its welfare state.
The Muslim world invested in large families. Europe
expects the Muslim world to bail out its shrinking
birth rate by working and paying into the system so
that its aging population can retire. The Muslim
migrants however expect Europe to subsidize their
large families with its welfare state while they
deal some drugs and chop off some heads on the side.
Once again, European values are in conflict with
European survival.
The
European values that require Europe to commit
suicide are about ideology, not language, culture or
nationhood. But the incoming migrants don’t share
that ideology. They have their own Islamic values.
Why should 23-year-old Mohammed work for four
decades so that Hans or Fritz across the way can
retire at 61 and lie on a beach in Mallorca? The
idea that Mohammed would ever want to do such a
thing out of love for Europe was a silly fantasy
that European governments fed their worried
citizens.
Mohammed doesn’t share European values. Nor are they
likely to take hold of him no matter how often the
aging teachers, who hope he gets a job and
subsidizes their retirement, try to drill them into
his head. Europeans expect Mohammed to become a
Swede or a German as if he were some child they had
adopted from an exotic country and raised as their
own, and work to subsidize their European values.
The Muslim migrants are meant to be the retirement
plan for an aging Europe. They’re supposed to keep
its ramshackle collection of economic policies, its
welfare states and social programs rolling along.
But they’re more like a final solution.
Mohammed is Fritz’s retirement plan. But Mohammed
has a very different type of plan. Fritz is counting
on Mohammed to work while he relaxes. Mohammed
relaxes and expects Fritz to work. Fritz is not
related to him and therefore Mohammed sees no reason
why he should work to support him.
European social democracy reduces society to a giant
insurance plan in which money is pooled together.
But insurance is forbidden in Islam which considers
it to be gambling. European social democracy expects
him to bail it out, but to Mohammed, European values
are a crime against Islam.
Mohammed’s Imam will tell him to work off the books
because paying into the system is gambling. However
taking money out of the system is just Jizya; the
money non-Muslims are obligated to pay to Muslims.
Under Islamic law, it’s better for Mohammed to sell
drugs than to pay taxes.
That’s
why drug dealing and petty crime are such popular
occupations for Salafis in Europe. It’s preferable
to steal from infidels than to participate in the
great gamble of the European welfare state.
Mohammed isn’t staking his future on the shaky
pensions of European socialism. He invests in what
social scientists call social capital. He plans his
retirement by having a dozen kids. If this lifestyle
is subsidized by infidel social services, so much
the better. And when social services collapse, those
of his kids who aren’t in prison or in ISIS will be
there to look after him in his golden years.
As retirement plans go, it’s older and better than
the European model.
Mohammed doesn’t worry much about the future. Even
if he doesn’t make it past six kids, by the time
he’s ready to retire the European country he’s
living in will probably be an Islamic State. And he
is confident that whatever its arrangements are,
they will be better and more just than the infidel
system.
Sweden will take in 180,000 migrants this year.
Germany may take in 1.5 million. Most of them will
be young men following the Mohammed retirement plan.
Europeans are being assured that the Mohammeds will
balance out the demographic disparity of an aging
population with too many retirees and too few
younger workers. But instead the Mohammeds will put
even more pressure on the younger workers who not
only have to subsidize their elders, but millions of
Mohammeds, their multiple brides and their fourteen
child Islamic retirement plans.
Retirement ages will go further up and social
services for the elderly will be cut. The welfare
state will collapse, but it will have to be kept
running because the alternative will be major social
unrest.
Among the triggers of the Arab Spring were rising
wheat prices and cuts to food subsidies. Prices went
up and governments fell as street riots turned into
civil wars. Imagine a Sweden where 50 percent of the
young male population is Muslim, mostly unemployed,
turning into Syria when the economy collapses and
the bill comes due. Imagine European Muslim street
riots where the gangs have heavy artillery and each
ghetto Caliph has his own Imams and Fatwas to back
up his claims.
Europe is slowly killing itself in the name of
European values. It’s trying to protect its economic
setup by bankrupting it. European values have become
a suicide pact. Its politicians deliver speeches
explaining why European values require mass Muslim
migration that make as little sense as a lunatic’s
suicide note.
Islamic
values are not compatible with European values. Not
only free speech and religious freedom, but even the
European welfare state is un-Islamic. Muslims have a
high birth rate because their approach to the future
is fundamentally different than the European one.
Europeans have chosen to have few children and many
government agencies to take care of them. Muslims
choose to have many children and few government
agencies. The European values so admired by American
leftists have no future.
Europe is drinking rat poison to cure a cold.
Instead of changing its values, it’s trying to
maintain them by killing itself. The Mohammed
retirement plan won’t save European Socialism. It
will bury it.