Camp of the Saints Meets Eurabia
Since the Industrial Revolution began a couple of centuries ago, the world has witnessed a rapid population growth of billions of people. This is unprecedented in the history of our species. The population explosion is still going on in many parts of the global South, especially Africa and the Islamic world. Combined with modern means of cheap mass transportation, this has triggered the largest and fastest migration waves in human history. People smuggling has become a huge international industry. Many illegal immigrants travel by land. Some use boats.
Boats have been crossing the Mediterranean Sea for years, loaded with migrants from Africa and the Middle East headed for Europe. Yet things have escalated dramatically. In April 2015 several shipwrecks with illegal immigrants on board, causing hundreds of deaths, brought this issue to the forefront of Western news.
On April 22, 2015 the head of the African Union said quick solutions to the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean do not exist. "If peopledon't have livelihoods at all, they are not going to sit and die of hunger, they are going to look for greener pastures," Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma told reporters in Brussels. She was visiting representatives of the European Union (EU). Her comments followed a meeting with EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker where the two discussed migration and human traffickers. Dlamini-Zuma, the ex-wife of South African President Jacob Zuma, comes from a country plagued by violent clashes between local blacks and recent immigrants from other parts of Africa. The white minority is also constantly at risk of violent attacks. Yet when many Africans today lack livelihoods, even food or water, perhaps it is not a good idea for Africans to double their numbers. That is what current estimates predict that they will do in the coming 35 years.
I wrote on my bilingual Twitter account that what is happening now in the Mediterranean is an invasion. This statement proved very controversial in certain circles. One Swedish columnist presented me as "the mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik's ideological ally" and a "Nazi."
I admit that the term "invasion" is provocative, but sometimes you need to be provocative to get a response. An invasion does not always have to happen with tanks.
The Nazis wanted more Lebensraum for Germans. This was seen as evil, and other Europeans fought them. Why are they now supposed to meekly accept more Lebensraum for Nigerians, Somalis, Arabs or Pakistanis in Europe? Despite their flaws, the Germans have at the very least shown themselves capable of maintaining a science-based industrial economy. That is not the case with Nigerians or Somalis.
Consider this simple fact: demographers believe that the global human population exceeded one billion people for the first time around the year 1800 AD. This was during the early stages of the Industrial Revolution. It took all of humanity hundreds of thousands of years to reach that level. Demographers now estimate that Africa alone can increase its population by one billion people or more in the coming 30 years. A single continent in just three decades can thus add to the global population more than the entire human race did in hundreds of thousands of years before the Industrial Revolution. That puts the current population explosion into perspective.
Yes, these numbers worry me. I can add. Apparently, understanding basic mathematics now makes you a "Nazi."
I come from a small, affluent and somewhat naive Scandinavian nation of a few million people. If a fraction of these newcomers from the booming global South are allowed into my country, my nation will be overwhelmed and will effectively cease to exist. This is perhaps the greatest dilemma for Europe in the coming century: do we want to exist as a still-recognizable cultural entity populated predominantly by Europeans?
The Camp of the Saints is a dystopian novel written by the French author Jean Raspail. It was first published in 1973. Raspail has written many books, but the one for which he will be chiefly remembered is ironically his most atypical one. Two generations ago, The Camp of the Saints predicted a Third World mass invasion of Europe, causing the downfall of Western civilization. This process was compressed in time so that what might take fifty years in real life took fifty days in the book. In addition, the main bulk of illegal immigrants in the novel came from India. Today, while immigration to Europe comes from every corner of the planet, much of it comes from the Islamic world and Africa.
Apart from that, the novel was remarkably prescient in describing the dysfunctional mindset of the modern Western world. We have become so wedded to unsustainable humanitarian ideals that we are mentally incapable of defending our national existence. When faced with millions of people coming from the global South, we simply raise a white flag and say that they are welcome to colonize our countries.
At least, that is what our leaders and mass media do. If we watch the way the EU or the Pope react to mass migration in the Mediterranean, we see that they are behaving in almost exactly in the manner described in Raspail's book. Europe risks committing suicide because of its abstract humanitarian ideals.
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