Must It Be the Rest Against the West?

http://www.hudsonfla.com/west.htm ^ | Matthew Connelly and Paul Kennedy

[mal]

Welcome to the 300-page narrative of Jean Raspail's disturbing, chilling, futuristic novel The Camp of the Saints, first published in Paris twenty-one years ago and translated into English a short while later. Set at some vague time--perhaps fifteen or twenty years--in the future, the novel describes the pilgrimage of a million desperate Indians who, forsaking the ghastly conditions of downtown Calcutta and surrounding villages, commandeer an armada of decrepit ships and set off for the French Riviera. The catalyst for this irruption is simple enough. Moved by accounts of widespread famine across an Indian subcontinent collapsing under the sheer weight of its fast-growing population, the Belgian government has decided to admit and adopt a number of young children; but the policy is reversed when tens of thousands of mothers begin to push their babies against the Belgian consul general's gates in Calcutta. After mobbing the building in disgust at Belgium's change of mind, the crowd is further inflamed by a messianic speech from one of their number, an untouchable, a gaunt, eye-catching "turd eater," who calls for the poor and wretched of the world to advance upon the Western paradise: "The nations are rising from the four corners of the earth," Raspail has the man say, "and their number is like the sand of the sea. They will march up over the broad earth and surround the camp of the saints and the beloved city. . . ." Storming on board every ship within range, the crowds force the crews to take them on a lengthy, horrific voyage, around Africa and through the Strait of Gibraltar to the southern shores of France.

[son of caesar]

not only must it be the rest against the west, but what

else could it possibly be? the west holds some future if

allowed to continue in existence, while the rest of the

planet simply orbits around our wishes. throw in

religious attitudes from the major antagonist, islam and

guess what? only a dem cant see what is going on AND

more importantly what our future holds for us, unless of

course we grow a pair.

[silverleaf]

Sounds interesting. But Australia would be much closer and has so little population to fill so much lebensraum. A future armada from the wretched shores of Indonesia would be a plausible scenario. I believe they are already pushing Timorese away from the coast.

[dsc]

A huge part of Australia is uninhabitable.

[Vision]

Must It Be the Rest Against the West?

No, it's Muslims verse everyone else

[theBuckwheat]

I read the book when it first came out. It was chilling then. It is coming to pass, in a way, right before our eyes.

[Thombo2]

"A huge part of Australia is uninhabitable."Good point.They also don't have an adequate tax paying base to support the hordes of "immigrants" or at least not for very long.

[Centurion2000]

bump

[staytrue]

Perhaps you would like to ping your list.

Personally, I don't like the idea of kicking people out who mostly came here to work, but it may be something that needs to be done.

[sionnsar]

first published in Paris twenty-one years ago and translated into English a short while later.

That can't be right. I'm sure I read it back in the early 70s... yes. Googled it: First published in 1973...