A speech to the Pim Fortuyn Memorial Conference on Europe and Islam

This is a long but essential read to understand how and why Europe and the West is where it is. Douglas Murray explains in his speech at the Pym Fortuyn Memorial Conference, w hy European intellectual and political leaders will not stand up to radical Islam. The infection, writes Murray is relativism. A culture which is imbued with relativism, argues Murray , can in the end find no reason to fight for its own salvation.

".Much of the threat we face today bears no similarity to the Nazi threat of the thirties. We do not face vast militarized units, we are not seeing the absorption of nations into a military superstate, and we can be all but certain that we will not in our lifetimes again see the mbutt mobilization of Europe 's citizenry. By all these things we are comforted..Were troops in blackshirts or jackboots to come marching back through our cities today, not a European country would stand for it.As in the 1930s, Europe is tired of war. So when war has been launched upon it, Europe pretends it is not war, and fails to fight back..Europeans are making a worse confrontation down the line more likely: in their effort to pretend-away the risk, the risk is swelling..what makes it so dangerous now, is that in the current war the enemy is, as a demographic and political fact, mbutted not just on foreign shores, but within the gates of our cities." A speech to the Pim Fortuyn Memorial Conference on Europe and Islam by Douglas Murray ".The collision of forceful Islam with European spinelessness and dhimmitude is bane for our free societies. Dhimmitude rises when people think the feelings of a threatening minority matter more than cherished native traditions of free-speech.Dhimmitude begins in such small ways, but it is growing into a big problem.Anyone who thinks that Islamic populations in the West are going to convert to relativism before we are all converted, or subjugated, to Islam is living in a fantasy.When we stare in disbelief at tolerance of the intolerable and the slow turning of that tolerance into acceptance and then acquiescence in evil, we are seeing Europeans acting out the last stages of nihilist philosophy. It is a way of looking at - and acting in - the world which will ruin Europe if we do not rid ourselves of it.."