The Strange Death of Europe

The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam is a 2017 book by the British journalist and political commentator, Douglas Murray. It was published in Britain in May 2017, and the U.S. edition in June, 2017.

Thesis

According to Elliott Abrams, Murray explores two factors that explain why European civilization as we have known it will not survive. The first is the combination of mass migration of new peoples into the continent together with Europe's negative birth rates. The second is what Murray describes as “the fact that… at the same time Europe lost faith in its beliefs, traditions, and legitimacy.”[1]

Reception

Writing in The Guardian, political journalist Gaby Hinsliff described Strange Death as "Chapter after chapter circles around the same repetitive themes: migrants raping and murdering and terrorising; paeans to Christianity; long polemics about how Europe is too “exhausted by history” and colonial guilt to face another battle, and is thus letting itself be rolled over by invaders fiercely confident in their own beliefs."[2]

Conversely, neuroscientist and philosopher Sam Harris lauded the book as "wonderful".[3] Writing in the National Review, Michael Brendan Dougherty praised it as "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."[4]

In The Daily Telegraph, Juliet Samuel summarised Murray's book by saying "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”.[5]

The Occidental Observer, an American far-right online publication, considers the book to "flirt with our ideas [white nationalism] and yet are among the first to condemn our movement" and acknowledges it as one of the few 'respectable texts' promoting their perspective on white population replacement.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Abrams, Elliott (12 July 2017). "The Strange Death of Europe". Council on Foreign Relations. Retrieved 13 July 2017.
  2. ↑ Hinsliff, Gaby (6 May 2017). "The Strange Death of Europe by Douglas Murray review – gentrified xenophobia". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
  3. ↑ "Waking Up With Sam Harris #85 - Is this the End of Europe? (with Douglas Murray)". Retrieved July 14, 2017.
  4. ↑ Dougherty, Michael Brendan (30 May 2017). "The Manchester Attack and the Death of Europe". National Review. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
  5. ↑ Samuel, Juliet (6 May 2017). "Yanis Varoufakis and Douglas Murray: why Europe is weary". The Telegraph. Retrieved 18 July 2017.
  6. ↑ "Review: The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam by Douglas Murray | The Occidental Observer - White Identity, Interests, and Culture". Retrieved 2017-08-10.
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