The Discerning Texan

It was just thirty or so years ago when much of the academic and journalistic elite worried about overpopulation. It was considered a serious and possibly lethal crisis for humanity.

Now, the political phenomenon of our time is the essential depopulation — and essential disintegration — of Europe. No one, circa 1970, ever predicted this turn of events.

The German author Henry K. Broder recently told a Dutch newspaper that young Europeans who love freedom must emigrate, because the Europe they knew will no longer exist in 20 years. Demographics trends show Europe is becoming Muslim, which will have profound political and social consequences as the Enlightenment finally dims.

Many Europeans are taking Mr. Broder’s advice. In 2004, for the first time in history, more Germans left their country than immigrants moved in. More than 145,000 Germans exited, most for the United States. In 2003, more than 110,000 people (mostly Dutch natives) left the Netherlands while 90,000 (mostly Muslims) moved in. In the first half of 2004, more than 53,000 moved out. An exodus of more than 100,000 people a year is a lot in a nation of just 16 million. It is, as sociologists like to say, a trend.

Many of the immigrants moving to Europe do not like Europeans. In Scandinavian countries, crime rates are soaring. In Norway, rapes are up a sickening 40 percent since the year 2000. Two-thirds of the sexual assailants are Muslim immigrants. Many immigrants to Europe do not consider themselves as citizens, but enemies to their respective nations.

According to writer Paul Bekien of the Brussels Journal – who catalogued some of these figures – the European decline also explains the anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism in Europe. America and Israel will fight for freedom. Too many Europeans will submit to tyranny."

This is why (many Europeans) have come to hate Israel and Americans so much, and the small band of European "islamphobes" who dare talk about what they see happening around them. West Europeans have to choose between submission (Islam) and death. I fear, like Broder, they have chosen submission – just like in former days when they preferred to be red rather than dead," he wrote.

Science fiction writer Robert Silverberg once wrote a story in which couples traveled in time to see the end of the world. While they traveled, their current world was crumbling into chaos. The story was an ironic satire on the times.But his chilling story is now true. Individuals can death-watch the end of the European era. It is probably the most important – and least publicized – event of our time.