The liberal-left authorities in the EU’s capital, Strasbourg, have green-lighted the continent’s largest mosque. Paid for by Turkey and Qatar, the Eyyûb Sultan project will house vast prayer rooms and an Islamic cultural centre just a few kilometres from the European Parliament.
Since Brexit, the EU seems determined to ignore the lessons it should have learned from London, one of the early adopters of diversity, whose Muslim mayor is now promoting discotheques in St Paul’s Cathedral. If we do not learn, we are doomed to repeat the same mistakes.
A State Losing the Trust of Its People
Neither the EU nor the British government delivers what its people want. I have seen what happens when a population becomes genuinely angry with the state, and I now believe the UK could be heading towards civil conflict.
The growing distrust between British citizens and their authorities recalls, though in a less extreme form, the alienation felt during the years of communism in Eastern Europe. Despondency gives way to reckless excitement as masked vigilantes overpower port authorities, wade into the sea and attempt to prevent hundreds of illegal immigrants from disembarking from dinghies escorted towards their country by their own civil services, working in collaboration with France.
The headlines continue to condemn this as “disorder”, yet many people believe those masked men did more to restore order in one weekend than the Border Force managed in ten years.
The authorities in London, meanwhile, are panicking. One of the largest political demonstrations in British history rocked London last year in a simple and peaceful expression of ethnic-British solidarity, yet it was branded “far right” and “racist” by virtually the entire domestic and international press.
Nigel Farage’s chief of staff, Gawain Towler, has made an interesting observation: civil uprisings are extremely rare in the UK, and they are almost always conservative. The Peasants’ Revolt, then as now, was a matter of ordinary people demanding that things be restored to the way they were, rather than overhauled in the name of progressivism.
The state responded with a wave of quiet arrests and travel bans imposed on me and others who attempted to support British patriots raising their national flag in defiance of their national government.
The Lessons of Eastern Europe
Poland understands their plight. I remember what life was like under occupation by a Soviet-imposed puppet government, and what it meant to be called an extremist for wanting a state governed by one’s own compatriots. In the end, all the communist authorities could do was put the army in charge and barricade us behind the Iron Curtain - or, as the Andy Burnhams of Eastern Europe might have called it, the “anti-fascist barricade”.
Unable to conceal the state’s loss of control, the next institution to fall could be the British currency itself, as foreign and domestic investors pour resources into dubious cryptocurrency schemes that nevertheless appear to command more confidence than a Bank of England banknote. The young people of that foggy and heretical island have dangerously little to lose from the collapse of an economy increasingly structured to keep them homeless, servile and indebted.
Qatar Circles a Weakening Britain
All of this brings me back to one of the clearest signs of Britain’s structural decline: the patronage of Qatar. This little gas-rich country in the Persian Gulf, whose entire population is smaller than the reported turnout at last year’s solidarity march in London, arrives like a vulture at the scene of a dying nation to purchase whatever remains.
One reason the UK has ceased to function as a modern state is that Qatar, the same country that has poured €71 million into building mosques across Europe, reportedly owns £41 billion worth of assets and infrastructure in London and Britain, from the Shard to stakes in Heathrow Airport. This gives it considerable potential influence over the media, voters and politicians.
While British and European authorities fawn over this medieval monarchy, which denies fundamental freedoms to women, Christians, democrats, journalists etc - those same authorities, in London, Brussels and Strasbourg, bend over backwards to court the Muslim voting blocs created by decades of mass immigration.
Meanwhile, it is European citizens who are accused of violence, misogyny, extremism, intolerance, vulgarity and chauvinism for noticing that their streets no longer appear European. Forcing people to accept the fiction that this transformation is unquestionably their strength is extremely dangerous. Are Western governments actively trying to provoke a revolution?
The divide in Britain is not primarily between those arriving and the native population. The people crossing the Channel in small boats are responding to incentives created by the state, just as Turkish and Qatari donors respond to the opportunities presented by Green and Socialist parties across Europe.
No, the fundamental division in Britain, as we may soon see elsewhere in Europe, is between the native population and its own state.
Europe Must Choose
If Britain is to be restored, and I believe it will be, the backlash will have to be severe: remigration policies, withdrawal from the ECHR, reductions in welfare spending and perhaps even the severing of diplomatic ties with Islamist states.
How far could a Farage government go before the constitution prevented it? A Scottish gentleman I met recently reminded me, with classic British understatement: “The UK has no constitution.” As for those of us in the EU, the laws that have enabled the deteriorating situations in Strasbourg, Molenbeek and other centres of radicalisation will have to change.
Support from our ideological enemies must be punished decisively at the national level, because one cannot commit treason against the EU: it is neither a nation nor a state. Fortunately, Poland has controlled Islamic expansion effectively since 1683, so we remain capable of defining our national values.
France, however, is another story. If the French continue down this path, they may have to do what they are proud of doing best: start a revolution.
