Posted on 11/24/2019 2:19:15 PM PST by karpov
One morning in 1972, the French author Jean Raspail was at his home on the Mediterranean coast when he had a vision of a million refugees clamoring to enter Europe.
“Armed only with their weakness and their numbers, overwhelmed by misery, encumbered with starving brown and black children, ready to disembark on our soil,” he wrote. “To let them in would destroy us. To reject them would destroy them.”
At the time Raspail was a respected writer best known for his travelogues. But the racist novel that resulted from that episode, “The Camp of the Saints,” would become his most famous, most controversial and, surprisingly, most influential work.
For some 30 years, “‘Camp of the Saints’ has been one of the top two books in white supremacist circles,” said Heidi Beirich, an expert on extremism at the Southern Poverty Law Center. The center leaked emails earlier this month in which the Trump adviser Stephen Miller touted the book to Breitbart staffers as a work with strong parallels to recent waves of migration.
Published in 1973, the dystopian novel details how a flotilla of Indian migrants reach France’s southern coast to invade the country. Political elites fail to respond to the influx, and the continent is overrun. For nearly half a century, the book has stoked fears of immigration that have, to its supporters, seemed increasingly prescient as growing numbers of refugees and asylum seekers have arrived in Europe in recent years.
“Raspail can boast himself about being a prophet,” said Jean-Yves Camus, an expert on the far right at the French Institute for International and Strategic Affairs. “People now buy ‘The Camp of the Saints’ because they want to read the book written by the writer who saw what would happen before everybody else.”
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They hate this Stephen Miller guy for some reason
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Same reason they hate Donald Trump.
He sides with the citizens and the rule of law and wants to help the citizens keep their country.
The elite will not allow that.
I read this book (in English) in the late 70’s and while it was depressing, I told myself it could never come true. I was wrong.
I read it. It’s a good book.
L
Kindle is $10. the rest are wildly overpriced.
I originally read it about the same time. Given to me by a friend who was stationed in the UK. I kept it and reread it about ten years ago.
Very prescient in an Orwellian and Rand sense.
It was about Indians, not Muslims, if I’m reading the article correctly.
IMHO, Indians from India are mostly charming, bright, interesting people who do fit in with our culture while bringing us really delish food. I’d kill to find a decent Indian restaurant near me.
I think only their music is terrible. Plus, they are natural capitalists. Maybe not the poor classes, but some of the wealthiest people in the world are Indians.
Am I missing something?
Bump
yep.
He foresaw what’s happening today... the de-Europeanization of Europe by hordes of third-world invaders.
Nothing “racist” about it.
“I don’t know about this book...”
You can download the PDF here:
http://www.jrbooksonline.com/PDFs/Camp_of_the_Saints_2col%20.pdf
bkmk
I read it about 4 years ago....found it just fair. One chapter was absolutely gag inducing,and not necessary.
Did he, or did he not, predict what is actually happening?
Prescient and prophetic book! He intentionally chose Indian Subcontinent people for the book to avoid charges of racism in early 1970s because Arabs were already becoming a politically correct hot potato. The theme of the book is Liberalism nihilism kills a culture
I assume you are talking about the “semen” chapter. However, given the sexual abuse and rape culture the Muslims have brought to Europe, it was very accurate
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