in World News This Historian Has a Dire Warning for the West About Islam
Europe is becoming increasingly Islamic.
As of 2016, there were several nations in that part of the world with substantial Islamic minorities: France’s population was 8.8 percent Muslim, while Sweden’s was 8.1 percent, Germany’s was 6.1 percent, and the United Kingdom was 6.3 percent Muslim, according to data from the Pew Research Center.
Even if migration were to have stopped in 2016, which of course it did not, Europe would have been slated to be 7.4 percent Islamic by the year 2050.
Under high immigration conditions, that number could reach 14 percent in 2050.
While that may not seem like a crisis to European liberals, it would have been a civilizational catastrophe to their forefathers.
Raymond Ibrahim, an author and columnist who discusses the interplay between Islam and Christianity, spoke at an event in Denmark two years ago, offering a dire prediction about the future of Europe if that trend toward mass Islamic immigration is not reversed.
“In all of world history, there has never been a civilization that has so opened its doors to another civilization that is openly hostile to it,” he said. “So this is unprecedented, what’s happening.”
Ibrahim contrasted the capitulation of the modern West to the forefathers of modern Europeans, who “fought tooth and nail to prevent Islam from entering and conquering Europe.”
He noted that across several centuries, Muslims broke deeper and deeper into Europe, even as deep as Vienna in Austria and Tours in France, reflecting their broader goals to conquer Europe and the rest of the world.
Raymond Ibrahim speaking on the danger of Islam from his extensive knowledge of its history. I’ve benefited greatly from his books Sword and Scimitar and Defenders of the West. This is a man whom the West should absolutely listen to.
pic.twitter.com/2V2DK8LtRR— Brandon Lansdown (@BrandonLansdown) August 1, 2024
“This was an actual goal, and now Western Europe is saying, ‘Oh, none of that matters — it was a misunderstanding. Come on in.’ But they haven’t changed that mentality,” he added.
Ibrahim made clear that some Islamic migrants are merely seeking a better life. Plenty just want better economic opportunities for themselves and their children.
But he cautioned that world conquest of infidels is a distinctly “Islamic concept.”
Ibrahim said that “to just open your borders completely to that demographic, which has within it, not all of it, but within it, that kernel of animosity for Christians and so-called infidels, and the imperative to conquer the world in the name of jihad for Allah,” is deeply foolish.