JOSEPH A. HARRISS: Europe Was Yesterday
Laqueur, Walter
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...France in particular, bled white by Napoleon's wars, was considered down for the count followingitsdefeatbythePrussiansin1871,andagain afterthehumiliatingcapitulationof1940.Twentiethcentury European historians and philosophers from Oswald Spengler to Jean-Paul Sartre saw no future for it following the determined destruction and mass slaughter of that century's two European wars...
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...From being the world's leader in 1900, when it boasted far-flung colonies, great military power, the strongest economy, and a population six times that of the United States, is it destined to become "a cultural theme park, a kind of Disneyland on a level of a certain sophistication for well-to-do visitors from China and India...
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...Since the vast majority of these new populations are Muslims, they have constructed their mosques--today over 2,000 each in France, Germany, and Britain, and counting--frequentedtheirhalalbutchers and grocers, and lived among themselves in isolated enclaves, obeying the Islamic commandment to shun the infidel, the kufr, like very sin...
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...But Europe has continued to show signs of life, creating seeming prosperity and welfare for all, plus six-week vacations...
...and Mohammed Bouyen stabbed, shot, and tried to behead the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh because he made a film about the abusive treatment of Muslim women...
...In northern Europe, the postwar guest workers from Spain, Portugal, and Italy mostly came for a few years and returned home with their money...
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...fully 70 percent of France'sprisonpopulationareyoungMuslims,many of whom are torching tens of thousands of cars each year...
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...But what makes Laqueur despair of Europe's future are its demographic decline in the face of uncontrolled immigration, and the turbulent rise of militant Islam...
...John Newton, in his own words, was truly converted from "a great sinner" to the devoted servant of "a great Savior...
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...Pope BenedictXVIapologizesafteraMuslimuproarovera speech they didn't like...
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...The history of postwar Europe," he wrote then, "unlike many other periods in the history of the continent,readsalmostlikea Hollywood movie of the old-fashioned kind, with all kinds of tensions and conflict but a strikingly happy ending...
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...After observing Europe professionally for 40-odd years, he decidedthatitwastime,hewrites,"forasummingup, astheEuropeIhaveknownisintheprocessofdisappearing...
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...But Europe, unwilling to make the effort to create credible clout, didnothavemuchofeither.Thislackofpoliticalwill, combined with malignant demographic/social changes, certainly means, he concludes, "the end of Europe as a major player in world affairs...
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...Today Laqueur finds the European economy plagued by slow growth and high taxes,whiletheEuropeanUnionisstumblingandtrying to find a second wind after the failure of its draft constitution and ill-considered enlargement to 27 members...
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...today Germany is decisively back as Europe's most powerful economy and biggest exporter...
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...North Africans are turning large swaths of Paris suburbs into no-go zones as their private halal preserve...
...It's all a far cry from the heady days, not so long ago, when some American observers were predicting that the 21st century would belong to Europe, thanks to a burgeoning EU, its social safety net, and its sophisticatedwieldingofsoftpowerandsubtlediplomacy...
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...That think-tank view, Laqueur says, was based on wishful thinking on the part of "Euroenthusiasts in their dreamworld...
...By John Fleming and rising violent crime be the signs of a deep-seated malaise...
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...or the repeated waves of migration of European history...
...These galloping demographic changes are not going to go away, Laqueur insists, quoting Auguste Comte, the father of modern sociology, to the effect that in the life of a nation, demography is fate...
...Laqueur sees today's Europe, offering easy mobility, health care, and financial support in the formofhousingandcashpayments,as"agiganticsafe house...
...He contrasts this with more self-confident nations likeJapan,China,orSingapore,whereillegals"would have been sent back within days, if not hours, to their country of origin...
...They are spreading exponentially and have every intention of imposing their religious law on the local populations...
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...To illustrate the fast-changing face of Europe, Laqueur takes us on a brief tour of cities and towns beingtransformed.InBrusselshenotesthatoverhalf of the children born in 2004 were of immigrant, mainly North African, parents...
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...Places like Britain's Bradford, Burnley, and Oldham arealso"graduallycomingtoresemblethelesssavory parts of North Africa and the Middle East...
...Londonistan, whileinGermany'sRuhroverhalfofthecohortunder 30 will soon be non-German, mainly Turkish, in origin...
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...Newton was almost alone in recommending that an evangelical chaplain be sent along with the first shipment of convicts to Botany Bay,inAustralia,in1787.HewasfriendswithWilliam Carey (1761-1834), the Baptist missionary whose prodigious labors in India produced the Bible in Sanskrit, Bengali, and numerous other Indian languages...
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...This may be, he surmises, out of guilt for its aggressive nationalism of the past...
...Could the obvious exhaustion of Europe's creative juices--virtually all its popular culturetodaycomesfromAmerica--itssecond-rateuniversities, high unemployment, hand-out mentality, B O O K SI NR E V I E W 6 2 T H E A M E R I C A N S P E C T A T O R O C T O B E R 2 0 0 7Joseph A. Harriss is a Paris-based American writer who has covered European affairs for many years, and whose latest book is About France.The Last Days of Europe: Epitaph for an Old Continent By Walter Laqueur (THOMAS DUNNE BOOKS/ST...
...It was intended as a "people'shymn,"asortofdidacticdevicefordoctrinal instruction, in musical form, of spiritual truths that ordinary people could barely grasp if they relied on theBookofCommonPrayeralone.Newtoncouldnot possibly have foreseen the hymn's 20th and 21st century popularity, any more than fellow English hymncollectors, who basically ignored the hymn for the next 120 years...
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...Laqueur faults Europe's political leaders for authorizing the lavish distribution of entrance permits to so-called asylum seekers whose status could not be verified, and for shunting them into welfare programsfromthedayofarrival.Heattributesthisto a failure of nerve, along with Europe's prevalent cultural and moral relativism...
...The rosy picture he painted 15 years ago in his Europe inOurTimewasfullofpraise...
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...When asked ifhethoughthisdefeat might have helped the country by turning the SenateovertotheDemocrats,hereplied,"Tobehonest, yes...
...There is no question that he is profoundlysympathetictoNewton.That,however,is nofailing.JohnNewtoninmanywaysisthepersonal emblem of England's amazing spiritual rebirth in the 18thcenturyfromoneofEurope'smostdecadentand brutal societies to one of its most virtuous and humane a century later...
...At times, Laqueur weakens his case with overly bold, longterm extrapolations of Europe's demographics that invite incredulity, e.g., "In 200 years some countries may have disappeared...
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...European-born, polyglot author of more than 20 learned books, mostly about Europe and, lately, terrorism, Laqueur has taught at Georgetown, Harvard, and Johns Hopkins, and chaired the International Research Council of Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies...
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Vol. 40 • October 2007 • No. 8
