Will There Be a Civil War in Europe?

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The piece below by Andrea Widburg about the effects of mass Muslim migration on Europe is, I allow myself to believe, too gloomy. But it deserves to be read, one more attempt to help the Western world come to its senses, as it considers the effect so far of mass Muslim migration on the countries of Europe, and as their indigenous peoples consider what steps to take to preserve themselves from a threatened irreversible transformation. How can we expect Muslims to integrate into our countries when the Qur’an tells them that they are “the best of peoples,” while non-Muslims are “the most vile of created beings,” and are taught to believe that Islam is “to dominate and not be dominated”?

Widburg’s piece can be found here: “The Gates of Vienna have fallen,” by Andrea Widburg, The American Thinker, April 19, 2025:

…a hugely popular podcast entitled “The Coming British Civil War.” On it, David Betz, a King’s College, London, professor who is an expert on civil wars, opines that the UK is on the verge of a civil war….

The UK is not the only European nation that is being driven to the breaking point by the stresses that the ruling elites have placed upon their ancient cultures. The same is true in France, where the ruling class has conveniently decided to lock away Marine Le Pen, the one person who is currently standing athwart the French political system yelling “Stop.”

Meanwhile, in Germany, the AfD party, which opposes unlimited Muslim immigration, is being blackballed, blacklisted, and sidelined. European elites, just like America’s Democrats, believe that “democracy” applies only to votes for their people and policies….

As for me, I don’t think there’ll even be a scrambling guerrilla war in Europe. I say that for a few reasons:

1. The European masses have been enervated by socialism, which, unlike religion, is the true opiate of the people. They are so utterly dependent on the government that they cannot rebel against it. Indeed, if you look at the utter passivity / helplessness of ordinary Brits in the face of the mass Muslim rape of their children, you have a microcosm of what the once warlike Europeans have become.

2. What’s going on in Europe has lasted long enough that it is the young people’s normal. They have been brainwashed from the cradle to accept multiculturalism, sexual abnormalities, and open borders as good and inevitable things. While their parents may rebel, the last couple of generations, like good Nazi youth who turned their parents in to the Gestapo, think their parents are wrong and even dangerous. And keep in mind that, thanks to the war on families, the old European lineage is dying out anyway, as native-born women have stopped having children.

3. The Europeans are disarmed. Their government took their weapons away a long time ago. They’re barely allowed to have sporks. And while immigrants haven’t felt constrained by those laws and have maintained access to weapons, the native Europeans smugly handed over their weapons of self-defense, secure in their moral superiority.

4. The civil war, such as it might have been, is already over, and the enemy is already in country. The civil war was fought at the ballot box when leftists became more and more extreme, and the population, hooked on that good socialist opium, kept voting for them. Their numbers are declining, and their values are already broken.

The last gasp was when Angela Merkel opened Europe’s doors to Islam. The ordinary people, cowed and bullied, acquiesced. Indeed, in Germany, they felt that letting in Jew killers was their punishment for killing Jews. (The Germans have always had a twist to the psyches, hence the Holocaust in the first place.)

5. The Barbarians are already in the gate. (Not at the gate, but inside the gate.) Nothing more clearly illustrates this than what’s happened in Vienna. As European history buffs know, in 1683, forces from the Holy Roman Empire and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth beat back the seemingly unbeatable Ottoman Empire, which was besieging Vienna from the East. Europe was saved from becoming one more of the Muslim conquests that began when Mohamed’s forces burst out of the Arabian desert a thousand years before….

Will all of Europe descend into civil war? Or will it be only in this country, or in that? Or will there be no open warfare but, rather, the death of a hundred thousand terrorist cuts, and the relentless demographic conquest from within, and an unstoppable stillicide of Muslim attacks on the indigenous peoples of Europe, too many of whom have given up having children, or are having very few, out of a lack of faith in the future?

In my hopeful moments, I think I see the signs of Europe coming to its senses, and willing not only to halt all further Muslim migration but also to find creative ways, through carrots and sticks artfully deployed, to cause a remigration of Muslims back to their countries of origin. I’m put in mind of Milton’s words in Areopagitica about a country — his own — waking from a deep sleep: “Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks.” There is still time, just.