The End.
"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars but in ourselves, that we are underlings" - Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene 2, William Shakespeare
Israel has won. As she always would. As she always has, and as she always will.
Not because of military superiority, superior intellect or stronger coalitions - although all are true. But because she has something that none of the Jihadists worldwide can compete with: A purpose to live.
Israel won because she had to win. Defeat would’ve meant the eradication of the Jewish people for good. The annihilation of the Jewish culture, the resignation of the Hebrew language to historical linguistics, the story of Judaism reduced to same shelf as so many bygone tribes and peoples.
That is why Israel will always win. She wins because, unlike her enemies, she will cease to exist if she doesn’t.
But this essay is not about Israel. The euphoria of the hostages returning, the celebrations of a war (hopefully) coming to an end, as well as the mourning for those who gave their lives for this to happen, will be expressed by people far superior to me.
No, this essay is about the end of us. Of Western Europe. Of our defeat, at our own hands.
This is our obituary.
A Continent Without Purpose
“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
Israel has everything we have given up; An identity, a purpose, a Why. At some point, we decided that our cultures - the cultures of Socrates, Shakespeare, Newton, Goethe, Beethoven, Austen, Wilde, and Eliot - was all a nothing. It needed some spicing up. And who better to do that than a people who believe that they hold the key to the one true way of life, who’ve received the final revelation and who must impose it on everyone else, under the threat of death - a threat they’re more than happy to carry out given the chance.
And so, almost a millennia after Richard I had joined forces with France and the Holy Roman Empire to reclaim Jerusalem from Salah ad-Din (Saladin), became Islam an integral part of Britain and of Western Europe.
This was not by design, as some conspiratorially minded social media loudmouths claim. Rather, it happened for an arguably worse reason: apathy. It happened because, for decades, we were told that questioning any other culture, any alien practices, any other religions, was a form of bigotry.
Multiculturalism became the new dogma, unquestionable at the price of social (and, in the UK, legal) amercement. Why have one culture, when you can have many? Why defend your own, when you can be subjugated to others’?
What constitutes a “culture”? Is Sharia merely jurisprudence, or is it cultural too? Before you answer, think of something as seemingly trivial as what a woman is allowed to wear in different cultures; the injunctions mandating such norms, the punishments prescribed for those who dare deviate, and the cultural ramifications of this. How do women succeed en massé in academia, in business, in public life - if they are denied even the freedom of choosing their own fashion?
But it was decided for us that we must respect it! Otherwise, we’re bigots. To the devout Muslims, our wilful surrender to their demands should be bewildering, if they weren’t so arrogant to presume it.
That’s how they are emboldened to march our streets with signs demanding beheadings, extermination and holocaust.
Would this happen in a society that treasures its norms? Could it happen in a culture which defends its values? One which respects its past, and cares for its future?
We were warned
14th February 1989. Valentine’s Day. A senile old Shia cleric in Iran sits on a podium and declares a fatwa - a legal ruling on a point of Islamic law - to all Muslims to kill British-Indian novelist Salman Rushdie, for the crime of authoring a book - “The Satanic Verses” - about two Indian expatriates who survive a terrorist bombing and undergo surreal transformations. The reward was one million US dollars.
Two days earlier, there had been a mass protest in Islamabad, Pakistan, between police and gunmen in a crowd protesting against the sale of the novel in the United States, where at least six people were murdered.
On 27th May, 1989, some 30,000 Muslim demonstrators massed outside the British Parliament, where pro-Iranian and pro-Iraqi factions clashed violently.
On 14 September, 1989, four bombs were planted outside bookshops in Britain owned by Penguin, the book’s publisher.
From the demented Iranian theocrat down to the barbarians marching the streets, it is safe to say that not a single one had even read the book that had them so vexed. But that was irrelevant. What mattered was that here was an author who dared write a novel which they were told was blasphemous. A novel.
TV studios hosted debates, asking if mocking religion can ever be acceptable, a decade after Monty Python’s “Life of Brian” had become one of the most successful comedies of all time.
Britain’s streets were packed with bearded men, shouting like neanderthalian savages, burning effigies of Rushdie and demanding his execution.
Although some voices stood tall - notably Christopher Hitchens, Harold Pinter, Susan Sontag, Margaret Atwood, and Martin Amis - British society as a whole, and particularly prominent religious and political leaders criticised Rushdie, arguing he had needlessly provoked offence. Even fellow authors, such as John leCarre (who later repented), Roald Dahl and John Berger, took the side of the Islamo-Fascists over freedom of speech and expression.
Rushdie himself had to be provided with round-the-clock police protection - a costly and long-term commitment that lasted for years. The Islamic Society of Britain and other UK-based Muslim organisations privately urged him to “reconcile” with Islam as a symbolic gesture of repentance.
Imam Zaki Badawi, then head of the Muslim College in London, acted as an intermediary and publicly stated that reconciliation was possible if Rushdie declared himself a Muslim.
(Watch the 2009 BBC documentary “Salman Rushdie & the Satanic Verses Scandal” here.)
Hindsight is 20/20, they say, but what would the world have looked like if Britain and her allies decided to stand up for their values? What if The Iron Lady had laid down a marker, instead of worrying about diplomatic ties with Iran, and made it clear that anyone who objects to a British author’s freedom of expression should either leave voluntarily, or be dragged out of the country by their heels.
What if The Western World had laid down the proverbial gauntlet and said, in no uncertain terms, that we treasure our most sacred values as vociferously as the primitive savages worship their prophet?
Of course, no such demarcation occured. Instead, there were talks of cultural sensitivities and respecting minorities. Islam, don’t you know, is a religion of peace and anyone who dares question it should expect death threats.
So, it began
Muslims in much of the West have gotten carte blanche to behave in the same primitive, violent, and crude ways which make their countries of origins such uncivilised cesspools. In fact, it has become so grotesquely normal that we no longer recoil at what should make any self-respecting society halt and summon its full will to resist.
But, under the guise of multiculturalism and sheltered under the dogmatic injunction to “respect all religions,” little girls’ clitorises can be ripped and cut to shreds, over 80 sharia courts established in the UK, and the subjugation of women to the level of cattle is now as common as mince pie during Christmas. The fear of causing offence allowed tens of thousands of girls across the country to be systematically gang raped at an industrial scale, enabled by the very people who were supposed to protect them.
Armed with a branding iron, the multiculturalists rush to sear every dissident with society’s Scarlet Letters, “Racist,” extinguishing thought and exalting cowardice in its place.
Our elected leaders compete in virtue signalling one-uppance, grovelling and crawling on their knees to appease the “Muslim community”, bending over backwards to all their whims and demands. Countless are the examples;
Gang Rapes on an Industrial Scale
When do anecdotes turn into patterns, and then trends? When does it cross over into an epidemic?
In the case of the so called “Grooming Gangs” scandal, which more aptly would be called The Systematic Gang Rapes of Tens of Thousands of Girls Across Britain (admittedly a less catchy title, but undeniably more accurate), there has been, and continues to be, a systematic effort to not find out. To propagate the myth of multiculturalism’s sacredness, every level of the British state has suppressed the truth about the debasement, exploitation and desecration of everything it was erected to protect.
We don’t know the exact number of victims. Some estimate it to be in the hundreds of thousands, while the most probable figure is in the tens of thousands of girls, some as young as 11 years old.
Imagine, for a moment, what that meant for even one of them. A little girl, barely a teenager, lured with a smile, a cigarette, free booze and drugs, a false kindness, before being passed from man to man in a filthy room that stank of sweat and smoke and cheap alcohol..
She tried to scream, but was told her family would be killed if she did. She tried to run, but the police told her she was a “troubled child,” and the social worker marked her file “promiscuous.” She learned to dissociate - to stare at the peeling paint on the ceiling while strangers violated her, penetrated her every orifice (even with bottles at times), branded her as the property of Mohammed, as if she was cattle. Some nights, up to 50 men would have their ways with her.
When she came home, bloodied and broken, her mother couldn’t understand what had happened to her, while the men who did it were at the kebab shop, laughing. The state that should have shielded her - police, councils, schools - did nothing, said nothing, looked away, even blamed her for promiscuity. And for years, she carried that silence like a noose around her neck, while her abusers walked free under the sheltering lie of “community cohesion.”
She was targeted explicitly because of her troubled life, working class background, coming from a broken home. And because she’s a kuffar, as she was told repeatedly by her abusers.
Imagine if this was your daughter. Your sister. Your niece. Your cousin.
And now, imagine that your fury and indignation would be labelled as problematic and “islamophobic”.
That is the state of Britain in 2025.
What is the threshold for a failed society? What clearer measure is there than its conscious, wilful, even proactive effort to silence the mass rape of its own daughters to preserve the sanctity of an idea? What greater indictment of a nation exists than that?
(I urge my readers to watch this episode of Triggernometry with a survivor, hosted by Konstantin Kisin and Francis Foster)
Batley Grammar School
Batley is a small market town, with less than 50, 000 inhabitants, in the outskirts of West Yorkshire. Barely visible on a map, it’s a place that has no claim to fame, nothing that stands out, nothing that would attract attention. That’s until a fateful day in March, 2021.
That’s when a teacher at the town’s Grammar School dared to show his students the infamous Charlie Hebdo cartoon of Mohammed, which resulted in the mass murder of staff in the offices of the French satirical magazine. In a sane society, nothing could be more boringly trivial - showing a cartoon to students as part of religious studies.
But we don’t live in a sane society, and immediately, the mobs started organising and protests erupted. Batley Grammar’s headmaster, Gary Kibble, responded not with defence but with deference, suspending the teacher and offering a “sincere” and “unequivocal” apology for the “totally inappropriate” image of Mohammad. Of course, it did no good. The bearded mobs, bullhorns and placards in hand, demanded their pound of flesh.
The teacher and his family had to go into hiding, where they remain to this day, over four years later as of the writing of this piece.
The rare times British politicians spoke about the issue, they inevitably started with a now-mandatory incantation of “respecting people’s faiths” and some vacuous flattery about how valuable the “Muslim community” is. Some, such as Mike Buckley MP, claimed to not even know about the controversy, despite nationwide covering and debates.
This is Britain today, a society in which teachers must go into hiding for the crime of showing drawings, where we now have multiple parties and a non-negligible portion of society who can be relied on to take the side of the mob, just as so many did with the Ayatollah against Rushdie, all while the rest of us carry on with our lives as if it’s all part of the course.
We are not angry anymore. We are not up in arms, demanding that our teacher be free to teach what they want, and those who don’t like it can fuck off. No, we’re just apathetic. We have long ago reconciled with our elected leaders’ abdication and capitulation to those who hate us and our way of life.
Manchester Arena Bombing
22nd of May, 2017. Thousands of families and children had gathered at the Manchester Arena to watch Ariana Grande perform. A night of innocence, glitter, and excitement. They sang, they danced, they took photos. Then, as the crowd began to leave, a man waited by the exit, his backpack heavy with bolts and nails. At 10:31 pm, he pressed a button.
The explosion ripped through the foyer, once again shattering bodies, dreams, and the illusion that evil could not find its way into the heart of Britain. Parents searching for their children stumbled through smoke and blood, stepping over limbs, tripping on shoes that had been blown off tiny feet. Phones rang from pockets that would never be answered. Mothers screamed names that would never be called back. In a single moment, twenty-two people were murdered, ten of them under the age of twenty, and hundreds more were mutilated, burned, deafened, and scarred for life.
Among the dead was 8 year old Saffie Roussos. Her father later said he found her by recognising her shoes. Try, if you can, to picture that. To imagine what it means for a parent to hold their child’s body in pieces because a man, born and raised in Britain, believed he was serving Allah by killing her.
And yet, within hours, came the script. The platitudes, the hashtags, the candles. The declarations that “this has nothing to do with Islam.” The orders to move on, to stay united, to not let hate divide us. The invitations to sing “Don’t Look Back in Anger”.
As if the hate that mattered most was not the one that blew up our children, but the one that might form in our hearts afterwards. As if the real crime was not the slaughter itself, but the unforgivable sin of noticing who did it and what his motivations were.
A society that refuses to connect cause and effect, that fears truth more than terror, is one that has already surrendered. The same cowardice that silenced the victims of the so-called “Grooming gangs” also silenced the lessons of Manchester. Both crimes were born of the same ideology, the same hatred, the same moral paralysis that grips this country - and so much of The West - by the throat. Britain has become a place where protecting Islam is considered nobler than protecting lives. An acquiescence so craven that even Chamberlain would have recoiled in disgust.
So we light our candles again, we lay our flowers again, and we whisper again that this is not who we are, all while pretending not to see what exactly what we have become; A nation of masochists, surrendering to sadists.
It’s Islam, dummy
I recently attended Battle of Ideas in London, a two-day festival where current affair topics are discussed by panels of experts, with welcomed contributions from the audience. As I always do, I raised my hand during one of the sessions to remark that the main issue facing Britain - and The West - today is Islam, not “Islamism” or “Jihadism”.
To no one’s surprise, the very next speaker - a white, middle-aged Englishman - immediately felt the urge to correct me by pointing out the contribution of Muslims to our society and how it is, in fact, “Islamism” that is the problem, not Islam.
I recount this anecdote, because it perfectly encapsulates our resignation to the problem. The distinction between Islam, Islamism and Jihadism is purely an imaginary one, designed solely for the purpose of acquiescence.
What other movement do we bend over backwards to not offend like this? What other creed do we debase ourselves to avoid offending? Do we say that the problem was not Communism, but “Communist-ism”? Do we excuse National Socialism by claiming its philosophy was pure until someone misread it? When the Baader–Meinhof Gang was bombing cafés and killing officials, did the Germans paralyse themselves with fear of calling them “Leftists,” because most on the Left were law-abiding citizens?
Of course not. This is just another form of submission to appease Islam, and not offend Muslims. The notion of the noble and upstanding Muslim majority is also grossly exaggerated, and also irrelevant.
Exaggerated because, survey after survey demonstrate that a non-trivial percentage of the Muslim population in the UK hold explicitly anti-British, anti-democratic, and anti-Western fundamental views, on a wide range of questions ranging from homosexual’s rights, women’s rights, Freedom of Speech and many other fundamental values. This comes as no surprise to anyone who’s ever walked in Muslim majority neighbourhoods in cities and town across the UK, be it Tower of Hamlets, Cheetham Hill in Manchester, Small Heath in Birmingham, or Pollokshields in Glasgow.
Irrelevant because no other population is congratulated and thanked for doing what is expected from everyone else. I am reminded of that old Chris Rock routine, where he discusses people who boast about the most mundane things, such as taking care of their own children;“Do you want a cookie?”
Just as the virtue-signalling yet ignorant gentleman at the festival implied, we are somehow supposed to be both grateful and impressed by Muslims working and paying taxes. This is despite the fact that census data show 1 in 20 Muslims aged 16 to 64 is unemployed (the highest rate of any religious or non-religious group in England and Wales). According to The Guardian, 68% of Muslims live in areas with the country’s highest unemployment levels.
By comparison, 26% of Christians and 25% of those of other or no faiths live in similarly deprived areas. Muslims also record the highest proportion of economically inactive people, at 41.9%, compared with 30.3% among those reporting other religions. The gap is even more pronounced among younger adults aged 20 to 24.
But above all, the distinction between Islam, Islamism and Jihadism is one made up by non-Muslims to offer us an escape. We tell ourselves that Islam is just another religion, and just like Christianity has the Westboro Baptist Church, and Judaism has Neturei Karta, so does Islam have the odd ISIS.
But that betrays a crucial ignorance about the nature of Islam, the content of its holy books and the teachings of its prophet, understandable because the general population aren’t supposed to be theologians. But it is this ignorance which has enabled the fifth column to establish itself on these lands.
Freedom of Religion?
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” - James Madison, The United States Constitution (1787, ratified in 1791)
“No man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever… but that all men shall be free to profess… their opinion in matters of religion.” - Thomas Jefferson, Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom (1777, enacted 1786)
When Jefferson and Madison wrote those eternal words, they did so by extending the essence of The English Toleration Act of 1689, which allowed certain Protestant dissenters to worship but excluded Catholics and non-Christians, to its logical conclusion.
The framework which the Founding Fathers operated from was a distinctly Judeo-Christian one, and there was no point of reference to other religions. There was no familiarity with the monstrous doctrines of Islam, which was a world away, and no reason to think that, centuries later, their humanistic secularism would be so grossly taken advantage of and abused by the Mohammedians.
Far be it from me to put myself in the shoes of the Founding Fathers, but I suspect that, had they had the foresight of Islam making a claim to protection under this principle, they would have taken active measures to prevent it from happening.
For what even is a religion? What qualifies Islam, but not, say, Scrutonian Conservatism? Is Scientology a religion, just because the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), after years of abuse, harassment and threats by the practitioners of L. Ron Hubbard’s nonsensical movement, labelled it as such?
Where does religion end, and political ideology begin?
As I’ve explained before, Islam makes claim on every domain of life; from cradle, via grave, to the eternal afterlife. Islam has injunctions about taxes, fashion, diet, inheritance, an entire body of jurisprudence - Islam, in its essence, is a totalitarian religion.
As such, it will always be a parasitic force within its host nation, intent to destroy it and replace its fundamental values with its own. It cannot coexist with the liberal values, democratic principles, and humanist doctrines that are antithetical to it, as its entire raison d’être is to replace them with its own creeds.
Now, you may say that I am hyperbolic, as Muslims have lived in The West for decades, if not centuries, and we’ve gone along just fine (with only the odd instances of suicide bombings, decapitations and gang rapes).
But you’d be missing the point.
Islam’s conquest is happening now, because we have given up on our own values, lost faith in our institutions and the multiculturalists have eradicated our right to claim our culture. It is in this vacuum, fanned by the leftist anti-Westerners, which Islam has started annexing societal, cultural and spiritual real estate for itself. Hiding in plain sight, Islam was ready to fill the void and use our own values against us. Why knock down the gates, when you can rely on the host to wilfully open it for you?
Freedom of Religion should not be granted to those whose “religion”, and the practicing thereof, entails the destruction of the very same freedoms which enabled it to flourish in the first place. We cannot bequeath the rope to those who wish only to tighten it around our necks.
The End.
Whenever I proclaim that Britain and Europe, as it was, is no longer and will never return, I am always confronted with one or more of the following three comments:
It’s not too late.
You’re exaggerating.
What is your solution?
Allow me to address each in order.
“It’s not too late”.
What would be the moment one would think it is too late? If (and I make no apologies for sounding like a broken record!) the gang rapes of mostly British girl at an industrial scale, across every town in the country, and the subsequent systematic silencing of the victims, by the very people hired to protect them, is not “too late” - what is? What could possibly be worse than that?
“You’re exaggerating.”
I could just ask you to read the above paragraph. But my case would remain intact even without the “grooming gangs” scandal. A society which allows for parallel judicatures, a society which places zero demands on assimilation on people whose cultures are not just radically different, but inherently antithetical to its own, a society where someone enters into a Taylor Swift–themed dance workshop and stabs 14 children, three of whom perished - only for the conversation afterwards to not be exclusively about the monster and his motivations, but about “the dangers of social media and far right terrorism”… Can this case even be exaggerated?
“What is your solution?”
There isn’t one. As I mentioned in the very beginning of this essay, this is an obituary - not a diagnosis, or guidance for treatment.
We are not going to take down UK’s 1, 800+ mosques. We are not going to ban halal meat, or expect that people dress in Western attire. We are not going to deport millions of people who explicitly wish to tear down our societies. We are not going to publicly and muscularly stand up for Western values and against Islamic ones.
Nothing like this will happen, regardless if Reform win the next general election in the UK, or Sverigedemokraterna in Sweden, or Marine le Pen in France.
First of all, a significant proportion of the non-Muslim population would fight tooth-and-nail against any imposition of Western values, which they regard as colonialist, oppressive, and racist. These are the same people who rage against capitalism, adorned in keffiyehs ordered from Amazon Prime and broadcast through iPhones onto Meta’s Instagram. These are the same people who see no oxymoronic irony in the Queers for Palestine movement.
Secondly, the ruling class - the same people who bend over backwards to appease the “Muslim community” - are far too well remunerated (financially and electorally) to ever wish to upset the apple cart. In the UK alone, the Qatari Royal Family - patrons of The Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas and other Islamo-fascist movements - own more prime real estate than King Charles. “Qatari-owned businesses supported a cumulative revenue impact of £1.3 trillion across the UK economy between 2008 and 2022”, reports CBER.
Selling your soul is profitable business.
To imagine that there is a way out of this is naïve beyond parody. In my research for this essay, I looked up the sexual assaults across Germany, Sweden, Finland and Austria on New Years Eve, 2015. Wikipedia’s blurb summarises the problem better than this entire article ever could:
Douglas’ warning
The great Douglas Murray published his book “The Strange Death of Europe - Immigration, Identity, Islam” in 2017.
To call it “prophetic” would be an understatement. Murray’s warning was not a prediction, but a diagnosis delivered when the tumour had not yet metastasised to stage 4, and this essay is merely an updated plagiarism. He wrote of a civilisation so guilt-ridden by its own success that it invited its undoing. He described, with surgical precision other writers (including your humble servant) couldn’t dream of emulating, the paralysis of a continent that had forgotten why it existed, and the suicidal benevolence of elites who mistook surrender for compassion. What Douglas Murray chronicled was not immigration as policy, but as penance, an act of self-flagellation by nations that could no longer summon the will to defend what they were.
But, despite numerous interviews on podcasts, TV, radio, and in print, his warnings were mostly ignored. He was called “alarmist”, “reactionary”, “hateful”. We were told that Europe could never die, that its light could never go out. His warnings were not primarily about demography or borders. It was about spirit. About a civilisation that had grown weary of itself, that mistook comfort for virtue and self-loathing for moral superiority. Murray saw that when a people no longer believe their culture deserves to live, it won’t. Others, who believe with absolute conviction that theirs must rule, will fill the void.
Europe’s tragedy is not that it was conquered, but that it ceased to care whether it was. It no longer produces men or women capable of saying “no”; no to barbarism, no to inversion, no to moral blackmail. The instinct for survival has been replaced by the reflex of apology. The courage to judge has been traded for the cowardice of “understanding.” The continent that once built cathedrals now builds mosques, and calls it tolerance.
When the history of this age is written, it will not speak of bombs or borders, but of a people who looked upon their own extinction and congratulated themselves for how tolerant they were while dying. Douglas Murray did not prophesy that death, he merely pointed to the body and said, “Look.”
We did not. And so the corpse lies unburied, the vultures gather, and the requiem has already begun.
This is not the strange death of Europe. It is the obituary of The West.
A deeply disturbing yet accurate analysis. Islamic fundamentalists along with their Western "useful idiots" are strangling the very freedoms they exploit to undermine progressive democracy. This is one of the main reasons for the rise of Maga.
Outstanding essay.