Posted on 04/07/2026 6:47:30 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Explaining the decline of the Roman Empire in The Story of Civilization, Will Durant wrote: “A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within.” The same could become true of the European Union (EU) in the 21st century. Postmodern illusions of a benign and righteous multiculturalism are allowing Islamist ideology—which has no reservations about its supremacist ambitions—to spread its roots with unprecedented virulence.
Consider how a guilt-shame complex fostered by leftist academia in institutions, the media, and the public is eroding the Judeo-Christian ethos. Christmas is no longer Christmas but some silly secular celebration like ‘Winter Journey’ or ‘Destination Beautiful Winter,’ while ‘Merry Christmas’ is being replaced by ‘Happy Winter.’ In the U.S., France, Spain, Germany, and beyond, governments, schools, and media outlets have diminished, canceled, or sanitized Judeo-Christian festivals and done away with Christian symbols, lights, and even traditional songs.
At the same time, Islam is permitted a loud and visible presence. Ramadan celebrations are happening more often at iconic locations and major government buildings. Iftar prayers are increasingly being held in public spaces rather than in mosques. Belgium, for example, organized the longest iftar dinner—2 km long, crossing multiple communities, and serving over 8,000 guests. The adhan, which proclaims there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad is His messenger, echoes from loudspeakers, asserting Islamic dominance and rejecting all other religions, to which such accommodations are outright denied.
In the U.K., iftars were even held within cathedrals in Manchester, Bristol, Southwark, Bradford, St. Paul’s, and Coventry. Declaring Allah as the only true God in a place dedicated to practicing Christianity is a direct violation of canon law, but the influence of public opinion and mood has increasingly led churches to permit it- perhaps as a gesture of virtue signaling
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Many Europeans don’t seem to notice their peril.
thank god for Poland and Hungary.
Charles Martel saved France and Western Europe from being conquered by a Muslim army in 732 and legend has it that he will awake again to save France when it is in peril.
Réveille-toi Charles
I would argue some don't care.
I have several close associates across the EU. A few say people are so fed-up with the ruling class that they just don't care what happens next, as long as it's not the same criminals. Pure apathy. It's sad and unfortunate.
Every time I talk to a muslim in this part of Northern Virginia, I think I’m talking to a predator, even when they are nice. They are the ruin of Western civilization and of America, baked in over centuries. That is their will and their prophecy.
How does one create a better will and a better prophecy?
Jesus is prophetic and has a will.
A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars.Certainly the imitation of class struggle -- those "poor" victimized Muslims ( and associated "racism" claims -- as well as the EU bureaucracy and "stifling" taxes, these couple with "green" to make the European Union a sinking ship.
“500 million Europeans are asking 300 million Americans to defend them against 140 million Russians. [...] Europe today lacks the belief that we are truly a global force.”Polish PM Donald Tusk, speaking before his flight to London for the European Ukraine summit: X, 2 March 2025
There is going to be a fight, can’t be avoided.
There don’t seem to be many Europeans with the stones to offer up any resistance at all.
Orbán pushes back against the tyrannical EU. For one thing, he refuses to accept the EU’s Muslim migrant quota for Hungary. Orbán’s main political opponent is pro-EU.
Next week Hungary is having parliamentary elections. If Orbán’s party loses, tough days might be ahead for Hungary.
Yes or care it’s like seeing lemmings going over the cliff.
Quite true, but then there is reason to believe that applies to us as well.
Whatever is distracting the Europeans our lst Amendment is more than a mere distraction, it is acting as an effective cover.
That’s how braindead they are.
The American Stinker is several years late with this realization...
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There is a place in Portugal that prevented an invasion by hanging pork products from every door and window.
They became one of the biggest pork sausage and salami producing towns in the whole country.
I wish I could remember the name of the town.
Verge? Already happened
Sadly in Europe at least non former Warsaw pact countries it will be very one sided, surrender has already been implemented
Muslims are thick in our area of Metro Atlanta. I can’t stand to look at them.
The Roman Empire lasted around a millennium. The Euro Union won’t make it to 40.
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