France Sounds Alarm on Islamist Threat. Left Cries Racism Instead

A civilization unwilling to defend itself, morally and culturally, will not long endure.

In 1973, French author Jean Raspail penned The Camp of the Saints, a dystopian novel imagining a future where massive waves of migrants from the Third World overwhelm France and Western Europe. Paralyzed by guilt and fear of being labeled racist, European governments watch meekly as boatloads of migrants land on their shores.

By the end of the book, the West’s refusal to assert its own cultural identity causes it to collapse; a victim of liberal ideology.

Raspail cited a memory from two years early as the inspiration for the novel, writing, “What if they were to come? I did not know who ‘they’ were, but it seemed inevitable to me that the numberless disinherited people of the South would, like a tidal wave, set sail one day for this opulent shore, our fortunate country's wide-gaping frontier.”

The Camp of the Saints was controversial even in its own time. While many of the West’s conservative intellectuals praised the book as a prophetic warning for the survival of civilization, leftist academics decried the book as promoting xenophobia and dehumanization of immigrants.

Those leftists are still screaming racism nearly 50 years later as France again warns the West of the looming threat posed by migrants more concerned with conquest than assimilation.

A leaked report commissioned by the French government last year alleges that terrorist group The Muslim Brotherhood has been actively influencing policymakers across France and the rest of Europe. The report claims that Brotherhood aligned groups were pressuring members of the European Parliament in Brussels to push pro-Islamist policies including criminalizing blasphemy and painting all criticism of Muslims as Islamophobia.

French authorities noted that L’Hexagone has been a particularly popular target for Islamist subversion campaigns owing to the large populations of Muslims living in the country and its strict cultural and political secularity.

France has seen its fair share of explicitly Muslim violence, including the attacks on the Bataclan concert hall that killed 130 and wounded nearly 500 by agents of ISIS, and the infamous Charlie Hebdo terrorist incident where a satirical magazine was shot up for depicting the prophet Mohammed. Lone wolf incidents of Muslim violence are also common, like when French schoolteacher Samuel Paty was beheaded by a terrorist after he allegedly showed the Charlie Hebdo cartoons featuring Mohammed in class.

Yet, though it’s clear that Islam is an inevitable thread tying these terrorists incidents, the left refuses to concede the French report is on to something. Several left leaning groups and individuals have already decried the report as alarmist and unfounded.

One such critic was Nadia Fadil, an associate professor at Belgium’s Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Fadil researches Islam in Europe and argues that the report engages in a “lazy trope” of lumping together diverse groups from across the spectrum of Muslim civil society as dangerous.

Which is deeply ironic given that Fadil has repeatedly made disparaging comments about white people as a monolithic bloc. A racist leftist, go figure!

Leftist hypocrisy aside, what this episode reveals is that Europeans are terrified blaming Muslims and Islam for problems over fears of looking racist. When a Muslim commits a highly visible crime, their first reaction is try and counter perceived backlash rather than address the crime itself. They rush to declare Muslims the real victims before any backlash even occurs. "Islam is a religion of peace" has joined “mostly peaceful protest” as sarcastic criticism of leftists covering for vile behavior.

Europe’s Muslims and Islam generally are granted a level of deference other religions don’t receive. For example, in the British city of Rotherham, Muslim grooming gangs were knowingly given free reign to rape and abuse young white girls for years as authorities feared appearing racist were they to act. Once the utter disgrace was exposed, the priority for the government became protecting Muslims and not ensuring the grooming wouldn’t happen again.

The French report’s findings make complete sense then. European authorities’ utter paralysis around criticizing Islam creates prime conditions for the Muslim Brotherhood to gain influence. The Brotherhood has prime allies in feckless Europeans ideologically committed to never making Muslims look bad.

No matter what the report said, even if the criticisms were mild at worst, critics would’ve called it Islamophobic fearmongering.

Raspail was indeed a prophet when he penned “The Camp of the Saints” nearly a half-century ago. It is the instinct of leftists to see the only best in people viewed as the downtrodden and the worst in those who supposedly trod upon them; to apologize for the atrocities committed by the “oppressed.” Unfortunately, Europeans seem to be imbibing this philosophy wholesale.

As the French report shows, there is concerted effort to tear down Europe from the inside and to remove the values that recent arrivals to the continent find odious. If the continent is to survive, Raspail’s warnings must be taken seriously.

A civilization unwilling to defend itself, morally and culturally, will not long endure. The question is no longer “What if they were to come?” They have come. The question now is “Will Raspail’s prophecy of a fallen Europe come to pass?”