The Islamisation of Europe

Can Europe survive much longer?

That Islam is slowly but surely on the march throughout the West, with little or nothing stopping it, is clearly evident. In Europe especially we see the shocking transformation of Western cities and communities into Muslim enclaves. There are now even numerous no-go zones in Europe where the police and fire departments are hesitant to enter.

The fact that many Muslims might want to live in peace and enjoy what the West has to offer is really beside the point. True Muslims committed to their faith want to see the entire world become an Islamic caliphate with everyone submitting to sharia law.

A number of quick points that help to make the case about the Islamisation of the West – and especially Europe – can be highlighted here. First, consider these alarming facts about the rapid and relentless growth of Islam in Europe, as measured by the number of mosques that are found there today:

-In Germany there are around 2800 mosques today.
-In France there are some 2600 mosques (there were just 8 in 1975).
-In the UK there are over 1500 mosques.
-London has the greatest number of mosques outside of Turkey.

And many mosques in Europe today were formerly Christian churches! This is the real act of colonisation taking place. Forget about so-called Western imperialism. The traffic is all one way. Muslims are well on the way to taking over many Western cities and towns, if not entire nations. And this is being achieved by various means.

It can be by much higher birthrates. While Muslims still have large families (and often multiple wives), Westerners are on a massive demographic decline, being far more willing to abort their babies than allow them to live. Thus we keep hearing that the most popular name today for baby boys in the UK and elsewhere is Muhammad.

Add to this the almost unchecked immigration policies of most Western countries, where open borders allow millions of Muslims to pour into the host countries. Very few Western nations are even properly vetting these masses of migrants, and they often tend to get special consideration over other people.

While some of them seek to fit in, so many do not. They simply do not share Western values and beliefs, wanting instead to import their medieval way of life into their newfound homelands. And many often refuse to even learn the host country’s language. All this is a recipe for disaster. No nation can allow its social and cultural fabric to be shredded like this and long survive.

As mentioned, political Islam is an expansionist ideology, and Muslims are working overtime to take over the West by any means possible. Mass murder, killing sprees, and vehicular terrorism by jihadists is simply one part of this. And in places like the UK, Christians are being arrested for sharing the gospel in public, or praying silently outside of abortion mills, while mass Muslim religious meeting are allowed to be held in public with no questions asked by authorities.

And the horrific Muslim rape gangs that were allowed to thrive and flourish in places like the north of England has also been a massive failure on the part of authorities. There still is no real closure on what took place there, with thousands of girls raped, imprisoned and even killed. But fear of being seen as ‘racist’ has kept the authorities from properly doing their job. See more on this here: https://billmuehlenberg.com/2025/02/01/grooming-gangs-multiculturalism-and-barbarous-britain/

Consider also the rapid change in the religious makeup of Western nations. A friend just posted this on the social media: “ENGLAND: Catholics are on track to outnumber Anglicans for the first time since Henry VIII”. I replied with these words: “The real issue is whether Muslims will soon enough outnumber both Catholics and Protestants there!”

That is now a very worrying reality that we face. Here is another vignette worth mentioning. One meme making the rounds says this:

Islamic preacher Zakir Naik entered a taxi in London and said loudly to the taxi driver:

-Brother, please turn off the radio, because according to the instructions of the Holy Quran, I am forbidden to listen to music, because during the time of Prophet Muhammad there was no music, especially Western music, which is the music of the infidels (kafirs).

The taxi driver politely turned off the radio, stopped the taxi and opened the door.

Zakir asked him,

-Brother, what are you doing…?

The taxi driver politely replied:

-In the time of the Prophet:

There were no taxis;

There were no bombs;

There was no theft;

There were no speakers in the mosque to wake up the children, the elderly or the sick;

There were no suicide attacks;

There were no AK-47s;

So shut up, go outside and wait for your camel…

Whether that exchange actually occurred or not is in some ways immaterial. It certainly represents exactly what is happening all over so much of England, Europe and the West. Hate preachers in mosques do not even hide their intentions to see the West fully Islamised. And we are simply sleeping through it all.

Another meme features nine actual front-page headlines from British newspapers from recent years. They are:

-‘Muslim convert’ beheads woman in garden

-Christmas is banned; it offends Muslims

-Muslims tell British: Go to hell!

-Sniffer dogs offend Muslims

-Millions are eating halal food without knowing it

-Muslim-only public loos

-Jihadi John family’s 20 years on benefits

-Muslim thugs burn poppies

-Now Muslims get their own laws in Britain

And please watch this short video of a British cop telling an elderly man that saying “speak English” is a hate crime! I kid you not! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYtls8E4naU

And consider this: American Vice President J. D. Vance, who has been very good in warning Europe about how freedom and democracy are quickly being decimated there, was speaking about nuclear proliferation a few months ago. Half-jokingly he said this about the possibility of the first truly Islamist country to get nuclear weapons. He said ‘maybe it’s Iran, maybe Pakistan, but maybe it’s actually the UK, since Labour just took over’. He may not be wrong there!

Another meme making the rounds on the social media is as telling as it is sobering. It features a museum-like building with a Muslim woman and her children (all fully covered in black Islamic garb) looking at an exhibit piece – a blonde-haired, white couple. The caption to it reads as follows:

Mom, what is this?

-These are people from Europe.

Who are the people from Europe?

-They are those who lived in Europe before it became ours.

Did you fight them to get it?

-No, they just gave us their land because they were afraid of being called racists!

Astute observers of the scene in Europe have been warning about all this for quite some time now. Just two books of many can be mentioned, and both are now two decades old!
-Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis by Bat Ye’or (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2005)
-Londonistan by Melanie Phillips (Encounter Books, 2006)

Let me offer a few quotes from each. In the very important book Eurabia Ye’or says this in her Preface:

“The book describes Europe’s evolution from a Judeo-Christian civilization, with important post-Enlightenment secular elements, into a post-Judeo-Christian civilization that is subservient to the ideology of jihad and the Islamic powers that propagate it. The new European civilization in the making can be called a ‘civilization of dhimmitude’.”

And in her conclusion she writes:

Islamism has entrenched itself in Europe’s strategic nerve centers, engineering the irreversible process of Europe’s dhimmitude: its respectful obedience to shari’a rules relating to social and political behavior, teaching, and gender. This signifies the definitive affiliation of an aging, confused, and timorous Europe with an assertive, demographically booming, Arab-Muslim world. The EU policy of impotence was planned, proclaimed, and implemented over the years by Europe’s democratically elected leaders and its spiritual guides.

And early on in her volume, Phillips says this: “For more than a decade, London had been the epicentre of Islamic militancy in Europe. Under the noses of successive British governments, Britain’s capital had turned into ‘Londonistan’ – a mocking play on the names of such state sponsors of terrorism as Afghanistan – and became the major European centre for the promotion, recruitment and financing of Islamic terror and extremism.”

The book’s final paragraphs deserve our close attention:

Britain is the global leader of English-speaking culture. It was Britain that first developed the Western ideas of the rule of law, democracy and liberal ideals, and exported them to other countries. Now Britain is leading the rout of those values, allowing its culture to become vulnerable to the predations of militant Islam. If British society goes down under this twin assault, the impact will be incalculable – not just for the military defense of the West against radical Islamism, but for the very continuation of Western civilization itself.

 

The West is under threat from an enemy that has shrewdly observed the decadence and disarray in Europe, where Western civilization first began. And the greatest of all is in Britain, the very cradle of Western liberty and democracy, but whose cultural confusion is now plain for all to see in Londonistan. The Islamists chose well. Britain is not what it once was. Whether it will finally pull itself together and stop sleepwalking into cultural oblivion is a question on which the future of the West may now depend.

Note, I did a review of Londonistan when it first appeared: https://billmuehlenberg.com/2006/08/31/a-review-of-londonistan-how-britain-is-creating-a-terror-state-within-by-melanie-philips/

If they were writing such things a full twenty years ago, imagine just how much worse things are today. Indeed, their words largely went unheeded, and we are now paying a steep price for this. But thankfully others have been warning the West about where we are heading.

Another person regularly sounding the alarm on all this is Douglas Murray. In his 2017 volume The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam he said this: “Europe is committing suicide. Or at least its leaders have decided to commit suicide. Whether the European people choose to go along with this is, naturally, another matter. . . . As a result, by the end of the lifespans of most people currently alive, Europe will not be Europe and the peoples of Europe will have lost the only place in the world we had to call home.”

(In a few days I hope to post my review of his brand-new book, On Democracies and Death Cults on my site, so stay tuned.)

Europe is in a real bad way. Christianity has been in a massive decline there over the past few centuries while Islam is on a massive growth spurt. Christianity is what made Europe and the West great. Unless something changes, and quite soon, political Islam will be their final death knell.

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