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The Strange Death of Europe is the internationally bestselling account of a continent and a culture caught in the act of suicide, now updated with new material taking in developments since it was first published to huge acclaim. These include rapid changes in the dynamics of global politics, world leadership and terror attacks across Europe.
Douglas Murray travels across Europe to examine first-hand how mass immigration, cultivated self-distrust and delusion have contributed to a continent in the grips of its own demise. From the shores of Lampedusa to migrant camps in Greece, from Cologne to London, he looks critically at the factors that have come together to make Europeans unable to argue for themselves and incapable of resisting their alteration as a society. Murray's "tremendous and shattering" book (The Times) addresses the disappointing failures of multiculturalism, Angela Merkel's U-turn on migration, the lack of repatriation and the Western fixation on guilt, uncovering the malaise at the very heart of the European culture. His conclusion is bleak, but the predictions not irrevocable. As Murray argues, this may be our last chance to change the outcome, before it's too late.
- Print length384 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateJune 12, 2018
- Dimensions5.5 x 1 x 8.2 inches
- ISBN-101472958055
- ISBN-13978-1472958051
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". . . fiery, lucid, and essential polemic." - Sohrab Ahmari, Commentary
"Timely . . . Murray takes a stance that few dare to take . . . With violence erupting in Europe and America's new anti-immigration policies, this audacious work will find its readers." - Kirkus Reviews
"[An] excellent and disturbing book." - Michael Barone, Washington Examiner
"The Strange Death of Europe may be one of the most important philosophical books of our time . . . This is nothing less than a dynamite book. It is likely that liberals in Europe and North America will avoid this book, but they shouldn’t. Murray’s questions are too important to ignore anymore." - Benjamin Welton, New York Journal of Books
"A powerful new book." - John O'Sullivan, The National Review
"Murray’s analysis deserves careful attention. . . . Readers able to face a stern depiction of culture clash will witness in The Strange Death of Europea panorama of a receding landscape. One wonders what next transforms European mores and beliefs." - Spectrum Culture
"[The Strange Death of Europe] makes a ferociously well-argued case." - Ralph Berry, Chronicles
"Lively . . . Murray’s book is informed by actual reporting across the Continent, and a quality of writing that manages to be spritely and elegiac at the same time. Murray’s is also a truly liberal intellect, in that he is free from the power that taboo exerts over the European problem, but he doesn’t betray the slightest hint of atavism or meanspiritedness." - Michael Brendan Dougherty, The National Review
"This is a brilliant, important and profoundly depressing book. That it is written with Douglas Murray’s usual literary elegance and waspish humor does not make it any less depressing. That Murray will be vilified for it by the liberals who have created the appalling mess he describes does not make it any less brilliant and important ( . . . ) Read it." - Rod Liddle, Sunday Times
"His overall thesis, that a guilt-driven and exhausted Europe is playing fast and loose with its precious modern values by embracing migration on such a scale, is hard to refute." - Juliet Samuel, Telegraph
"This is a vitally important book, the contents of which should be known to everyone who can influence the course of events, at this critical time in the history of Europe." - Sir Roger Scruton
"Douglas Murray glitters in the gloom. His pessimism about multiculturalism is so well constructed and written it is almost uplifting. Liberals will want to rebut him. I should warn them that they will need to argue harder than they have ever argued before." - Nick Cohen
"Douglas Murray’s introduction to this already destructive subject of Islamist hegemony is a distinguished attempt to clarify the origins of a storm. I found myself continually wishing that he wasn’t making himself quite so clear." - Clive James
"Douglas Murray writes so well that when he is wrong he is dangerous." - Matthew Parris, Spectator
"A compelling, insightful and persuasively argued narrative . . . a deeply humane book that touches on individual tragedy . . . It may even prove to be the start of a conversation, and for such a dangerously politicized and neglected subject, that would be most welcome. The combination of fascinating subject matter and superb writing make The Strange Death of Europe a title that stays in the mind throughout the reading process and beyond." - Entertainment Focus
"Powerful and engaging . . . Murray is at his strongest when lampooning the neurotic guilt of Western liberal elites . . . Disagree passionately if you will, but you won’t regret reading it." - Literary Review
"[E]rudite, dispiriting, and indispensable . . . . More than any other book with which I am familiar, The Strange Death of Europe provides a rich, comprehensive, and haunting portrait of a continent in extremis and an astute, thoroughly credible diagnosis of the social, psychological, and cultural afflictions that have led it to this hour of crisis." - FrontPage Magazine
"Every so often, something is published which slices through the fog of confusion, obfuscation and the sheer dishonesty of public debate to illuminate one key fact about the world. Such a work is Douglas Murray’s tremendous and shattering book, The Strange Death of Europe." - Melanie Phillips, The Times
"Murray’s clear and humane exposition of the seismic changes and the abject failure of political elites to face up to them gives those not willfully blind an opportunity to see." - Eric Metaxas, Breakpoint
"[The Strange Death of Europe] does hit on some unfortunate truths." - The Economist
"The Strange Death of Europe by Douglas Murray is an enthralling account of the rise of Islamism in Europe. It’s beautifully written and cogently argued." - Christina Hoff Sommers, Politico
"In Douglas Murray’s The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam, whereby one learns that the death in question is not so strange after all, for it is merely a case of suicide--or, more precisely, attempted suicide, because there is an increasing resistance underway, which is even reversing Islamization in some European countries, at least in some respects . . . Murray is very effective in fully identifying the deformed, guilt-ridden liberalism à la Karsten Nordal Hauken that generates illiberal concessions to intolerance--and to violence." - Tablet
About the Author
Douglas Murray is an author and journalist based in Britain. His book The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam, was published by Bloomsbury Continuum in May 2017. It spent almost 20 weeks on the Sunday Times bestseller list and was a No. 1 bestseller in non-fiction. It has subsequently been published in more than 20 languages worldwide and has been read and cited by politicians around the world. The Evening Standard described it as, 'By far the most compelling political book of the year.'
Murray has been a contributor to the Spectator since 2000 and has been Associate Editor at the magazine since 2012. He has also written regularly for numerous other outlets including the Wall Street Journal, The Times, The Sunday Times, the Sun, Evening Standard and the New Criterion. He is a regular contributor to National Review and has been a columnist for Standpoint magazine since its founding.
His most recent book is The War in the West: How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason.
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- Language : English
- Paperback : 384 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1472958055
- ISBN-13 : 978-1472958051
- Item Weight : 1 pounds
- Dimensions : 5.5 x 1 x 8.2 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,684 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1 in European Politics Books
- #2 in Islamic Social Studies
- #9 in Political Commentary & Opinion
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Furthermore when people in various countries began to question whether uncontrolled immigration from the third world was an unalloyed good, the ruling elites attempted to quash any such questioning as racist and xenophobic. In polite society one wasn't allowed to talk about the creeping epidemic of female genital mutilation, honor killings and political Islam. Academics who studied these issues had their careers destroyed, sporadic political upstarts who organized around a more sane immigration policy were demonized by all sectors of the political class from center right to far left. Even immigrants themselves like Ayan Hirsi Ali, who pointed out cultural and societal problems from the rising population growth of Muslims in Europe, was painted as a racist hater, forced to live under police protection due to threats from Islamic radicals who are allowed to live (often on the dole) in places like Holland and England.
Murray delves into the phenomenon of white western guilt which especially afflicts such nations as the US , Australia and England. He points out how other countries have their histories and cultures judged by the best case examples, while we in the west judge ourselves by our worst moments (inquisition, Nazis in Germany, etc)
“In America, as in Australia , such a constant drumbeat of guilt changes a people's natural feelings about their own past. It transforms feelings of patriotism into shame or at the very least into deeply mixed emotions”
Not all countries do this. In Turkey which ushered in the first genocide of the 20th century, there is no collective guilt about the Armenian massacre. In fact Article 301 of the Turkish constitution makes it a crime to insult the Turkish nation. Thus any critique of their past is forbidden .
Why is it only western nations that should feel guilty? Should Mongolians in the 21st century be subjected to a constant parade of criticism for the massacres at Aleppo and Baghdad the Genghis Khan perpetuated?
Murray takes a close look at the trumped up Syrian refugee crisis of 2015 which involved very few war refugees and even fewer Syrians. It did involve millions of uneducated, probably unemployable young men with retrograde views on everything from church/state separation to women's equality. Pointing out that the Gulf States have taken in exactly zero refugees , Murray shows how this flood was encouraged by Western leaders notably Germany's Merkela. While it would have been far better and cheaper to house the true war refugees in the middle east, so they could return when Syria stabilizes, the political elite lacked the will to do this. Even with the societal and establishment pressure to never discuss the downside of this refugee flood, public opinion has increasingly turned againsted the unfettered immigration which had been encouraged. Still political leaders refuse to do much to police their borders or return unauthorized migrants to their homelands.
Murray looks at an issue I've thought about , the demorilization of Western society, which no longer acts as if the values we are built upon are worth preserving. This explains why societies with still only 10% Muslims are buckling under to the creeping Sharia that is coming their way. Murray offers the suggestion that a religious revival in Europe would help combat this trend but doesn't hold out much hope for one. He basically predicts a continued lack of will to confront the issue and the eventual transfomation of Europe into a place we won't recognize.
This was a very good book, very readable. Everyone should read and think about it.
Europe is an attractive destination for migrants because of its peace and prosperity, but Murray believes that immigration is changing Europe. In the 2011 census, only 44.9% of the people living in London identified themselves as white British. In 2015, Germany and Sweden added an extra 2% to their populations in a single year alone, because of immigration. Europe is also attractive because of its welfare state. If you can make it to Europe you are given free health care, free housing, and money to live on.
Each day boats filled with migrants set out from North Africa. 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. Murray has visited the camps that they are taken to in Greece and Italy. He argues that most of the people are economic migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa. They are looking for a better life in the West. NGOs often claim that everyone is an asylum seeker, but he believes that this is nonsense.
Murray examines the pros and cons of immigration and mostly finds the negatives. He argues that the British people have been misled about the benefits by the political classes. He demolishes many of the arguments used to justify mass immigration; and criticizes the suppression of uncomfortable facts about the immigrants. Many critics of immigration have been accused of racism and even fascism. Many have found their careers destroyed when they raised the issue.
Immigration has never been properly debated in Britain or Europe. Opinion polls in Britain, Germany, and Sweden show that a majority of ordinary people are opposed to further immigration. However, politicians have been able to ignore public opinion. Murray complains that politicians have consistently underestimated the number of immigrants who would come, and how difficult it would be to integrate them.
Murray also argues that Europe has lost faith in itself and its values. There is guilt about its past. Particularly, colonialism, the two world wars, totalitarianism, and genocides. Christianity is dying in Europe and this has left a hole. Intellectuals have been reluctant to admit that many of the values we associate with the West derive from Christianity. What’s left is a vague belief in human rights and democracy.
Murray believes that Europe is now an exhausted force, that won't fight or assert itself. While it seems acceptable for countries like Japan and Saudi Arabia to fight to try to preserve their traditional culture by restricting immigration, many opinion formers in the West don’t seem to believe that their culture is worth preserving. The pursuit of diversity has also led to European countries downgrading the notion of national identity and the beliefs and stories that underpin any Western society. He attacks Tony Blair's government for its naïve belief in multiculturism and pursuit of diversity. Blair’s administration believed that the indigenous population had to adapt rather than the incomers.
Murray is concerned about immigration from Third World countries. He is particularly worried about Islam and does not believe that its values are compatible with those of liberal Western democracy. Murray complains that many of the people arriving bring with them illiberal views and practices. The assumption seems to be that when you arrive in Europe, immigrants are expected to instantly adopt its Judeo-Christian culture and values. A poll carried out a couple of years ago in Britain found that among British Muslims, precisely 0% believed that homosexuality was a permissible lifestyle choice. A majority wanted it declared illegal. Many immigrants bring with them Medieval rather than liberal ideas.
Murray shows, that Britons have been lied to about the benefits of immigration. They have told that inward migration brings financial benefits to Europe, but the reverse is true. Immigration between 1995 and 2011 cost Britain at least £114 billion, rising potentially to £159 billion (according to a pro-immigration report from University College, London). Europe does face demographic challenges because young people are not having enough babies. The average family in Germany is having 1.63 children. Polls show that women in Europe would like to have more children but they just can’t afford them. He argues that there should be financial incentives to encourage women to have more babies. The other problem is that immigrants also get older. You can quickly create a Ponzi scheme if you constantly bring in immigrants to fill employment gaps. Murray argues that there is 20% unemployment in Greece and Spain and there is already enough surplus labor within Europe.
It is often argued that even if we are not better off financially we benefit culturally from diversity, for example, we get to experience new and exciting cuisines. This is an argument that plays better among liberals living in London, than in Britain's rust belt. Unfortunately, the amount of enjoyment to be got from Somali food does not increase year on year the more Somalis there are in the country.
It has also been argued by some that Britain has always been a “nation of immigrants.” That is clearly untrue. The Norman Conquest in 1066 increased the British population by only about 5%, and that was 1,000 years ago. Taking in persecuted French Protestants in the 17th century added about 50,000 people. About 40,000 Jewish refugees fled to Britain in the 1930s and 1940s. Many, like Madeleine Albright, Jerry Springer, and Ted Koppel, subsequently immigrated to the US. All these earlier groups were easy to assimilate, although the Normans were still hated by the Saxons, centuries later. The number of immigrants today is very much larger and the cultural differences are greater.
HSBC chief economist Stephen King has argued that migration from Sub-Saharan Africa is one of the greatest threats facing the West in the 21st century. Many of these countries are unstable but their populations are growing rapidly. The population of Nigeria is expected to increase from 180 million to 730 million by 2100. There is already friction between the country’s large Muslim and Christian communities. Many of these people will probably seek refuge in Europe in future decades. It is a similar story throughout Africa, populations are booming. Europe needs a better immigration strategy. Inviting the world to come and live in Europe is not a sustainable long-term option.
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Brilliantly and lucidly written, balanced, substantial, comparative and nuanced. It's immensely helpful in making sense of this ever so complex, hugely consequential, contentious and emotionally charged issue.
And, while I've just finished the book, I think it will give me the wherewithal to discuss immigration seriously and respectfully and to ask questions about it - and about what to do about it - without being labelled a racist and a reactionary.
So glad I came across this book.
I would love to read books of this quality on other public policy issues.











