The Death of Europe

Hat tip Gayle

Guest Post by Daniel Greenfield

 

How the Mohammed retirement plan will kill Europe.

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam.

European leaders talk about two things these days; preserving European values by taking in Muslim migrants and integrating Muslim migrants into Europe by getting them to adopt European values.

It does not occur to them that their plan to save European values depends on killing European values.

The same European values that require Sweden, a country of less than 10 million, to take in 180,000 Muslim migrants in one year also expects the new “Swedes” to celebrate tolerance, feminism and gay marriage. Instead European values have filled the cities of Europe with Shariah patrols, unemployed angry men waving ISIS flags and the occasional public act of terror.

European countries that refuse to invest money in border security instead find themselves forced to invest money into counterterrorism forces. And those are bad for European values too.

But, as Central European countries are discovering, European values don’t have much to do with the preservation of viable functioning European states. Instead they are about the sort of static Socialism that Bernie Sanders admires from abroad. But even a Socialist welfare state requires people to work for a living. Maine’s generous welfare policies began collapsing once Somali Muslims swarmed in to take advantage of them. Denmark and the Dutch, among other of Bernie Sanders’ role models, have been sounding more like Reagan and less like Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren.

Two years ago, the Dutch King declared that, “The classic welfare state of the second half of the 20th century in these areas in particular brought forth arrangements that are unsustainable in their current form.” That same year, the Danish Finance Minister called for the “modernization of the welfare state.”

But the problem isn’t one of modernization, it’s medievalization.

27% of Moroccans and 21% of Turks in the Netherlands are unemployed. It’s 27% in Denmark for Iraqis. And even when employed, their average income is well below the European average.

Critics pointed out in the past that a multicultural America can’t afford the welfare states that European countries have. Now that those same countries are turning multicultural, they can’t afford them either.

Europe invested in the values of its welfare state. The Muslim world invested in large families. Europe expects the Muslim world to bail out its shrinking birth rate by working and paying into the system so that its aging population can retire. The Muslim migrants however expect Europe to subsidize their large families with its welfare state while they deal some drugs and chop off some heads on the side.

Once again, European values are in conflict with European survival.

The European values that require Europe to commit suicide are about ideology, not language, culture or nationhood. But the incoming migrants don’t share that ideology. They have their own Islamic values.

Why should 23-year-old Mohammed work for four decades so that Hans or Fritz across the way can retire at 61 and lie on a beach in Mallorca? The idea that Mohammed would ever want to do such a thing out of love for Europe was a silly fantasy that European governments fed their worried citizens.

Mohammed doesn’t share European values. Nor are they likely to take hold of him no matter how often the aging teachers, who hope he gets a job and subsidizes their retirement, try to drill them into his head. Europeans expect Mohammed to become a Swede or a German as if he were some child they had adopted from an exotic country and raised as their own, and work to subsidize their European values.

The Muslim migrants are meant to be the retirement plan for an aging Europe. They’re supposed to keep its ramshackle collection of economic policies, its welfare states and social programs rolling along.

But they’re more like a final solution.

Mohammed is Fritz’s retirement plan. But Mohammed has a very different type of plan. Fritz is counting on Mohammed to work while he relaxes. Mohammed relaxes and expects Fritz to work.  Fritz is not related to him and therefore Mohammed sees no reason why he should work to support him.

European social democracy reduces society to a giant insurance plan in which money is pooled together.  But insurance is forbidden in Islam which considers it to be gambling. European social democracy expects him to bail it out, but to Mohammed, European values are a crime against Islam.

Mohammed’s Imam will tell him to work off the books because paying into the system is gambling. However taking money out of the system is just Jizya; the money non-Muslims are obligated to pay to Muslims. Under Islamic law, it’s better for Mohammed to sell drugs than to pay taxes.

That’s why drug dealing and petty crime are such popular occupations for Salafis in Europe. It’s preferable to steal from infidels than to participate in the great gamble of the European welfare state.

Mohammed isn’t staking his future on the shaky pensions of European socialism. He invests in what social scientists call social capital. He plans his retirement by having a dozen kids. If this lifestyle is subsidized by infidel social services, so much the better. And when social services collapse, those of his kids who aren’t in prison or in ISIS will be there to look after him in his golden years.

As retirement plans go, it’s older and better than the European model.

Mohammed doesn’t worry much about the future. Even if he doesn’t make it past six kids, by the time he’s ready to retire the European country he’s living in will probably be an Islamic State. And he is confident that whatever its arrangements are, they will be better and more just than the infidel system.

Sweden will take in 180,000 migrants this year. Germany may take in 1.5 million. Most of them will be young men following the Mohammed retirement plan.

Europeans are being assured that the Mohammeds will balance out the demographic disparity of an aging population with too many retirees and too few younger workers. But instead the Mohammeds will put even more pressure on the younger workers who not only have to subsidize their elders, but millions of Mohammeds, their multiple brides and their fourteen child Islamic retirement plans.

Retirement ages will go further up and social services for the elderly will be cut. The welfare state will collapse, but it will have to be kept running because the alternative will be major social unrest.

Among the triggers of the Arab Spring were rising wheat prices and cuts to food subsidies. Prices went up and governments fell as street riots turned into civil wars. Imagine a Sweden where 50 percent of the young male population is Muslim, mostly unemployed, turning into Syria when the economy collapses and the bill comes due. Imagine European Muslim street riots where the gangs have heavy artillery and each ghetto Caliph has his own Imams and Fatwas to back up his claims.

Europe is slowly killing itself in the name of European values. It’s trying to protect its economic setup by bankrupting it. European values have become a suicide pact. Its politicians deliver speeches explaining why European values require mass Muslim migration that make as little sense as a lunatic’s suicide note.

Islamic values are not compatible with European values. Not only free speech and religious freedom, but even the European welfare state is un-Islamic. Muslims have a high birth rate because their approach to the future is fundamentally different than the European one. Europeans have chosen to have few children and many government agencies to take care of them. Muslims choose to have many children and few government agencies. The European values so admired by American leftists have no future.

Europe is drinking rat poison to cure a cold. Instead of changing its values, it’s trying to maintain them by killing itself. The Mohammed retirement plan won’t save European Socialism. It will bury it.


 

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Montefrio

The day I need Shlomo to tell me what European values are is the same day I’ll listen to Ahmed’s take on the subject. “Tolerance, feminism and gay marriage” are NOT European values, or at least they weren’t until the brainwashing by Shlomo & Co. set in. Yes, it would be better for the West if most of the Muslims stayed home, but it wasn’t the influence of the Muslims who made the West into the mess it is today. How many Muslims were/are “scholars” of the Frankfurt School? How many Muslims fought tooth and nail to remove Christmas from public life, push the perverted into public life while shoving them down your throat? Maybe Hans and Fritz and Joe and Jane might better worry less about Mo and more about a little shit like this one who enjoys spitting in our faces from the “Shillman” (wonderfully ironic name, that!) Center.

Wake up folks! Europeans need to keep a wary eye on Mohammed and Shlomo both, because they are NOT Europeans and do NOT share traditional European values.

kokoda
kokoda

The Muzzies have not integrated into the European cultural fabric; they simply impose their existing social and cultural ‘values’ into their ‘new’ land of benefits within their homogeneous community.

To think the new influx of Muzzies will integrate into Europe and become a European is insanity by the Socialist leaders of the EU.

Social Justice campaigners will destroy their civilization.

kokoda
kokoda

Applicable???

Anonymous
Anonymous

The Europeans had to throw the Muslims out of Europe and stop their invasion back in the middle ages with the Crusades.

Had they not done so Europe -and the world that has developed out of European influence- would have been an Islamic region for the last thousand years and would look like the Middle East does today.

The question is: Do they have the guts to do the same today or will they simply allow themselves to succumb to Islam and become Islamic instead of western in nature.

KaD
KaD
bb

European socialist leaders like American so called leaders don’t have to live with the consequences of their decisions. Most go home to gated communities with guards. One day they will wake up and find themselves completely surrounded by hostile ethnic minorities. When the welfare state finally goes bankrupt Whites in Europe will be in a civil war whether they like it or not.

Mongolia , you are right. Muslims aren’t the ones pushing immigration down the throats of Europeans. It is very wealthy powerful Jews who see a multicultural society as being in their best interests. They don’t care how many people are hurt or killed. They don’t care if European civilization is destroyed.They hate Christianity. They can’t kill Christ again but they can kill Christian culture.This is their goal.

Gayle

World views are so interesting. We cannot help but divide along the lines of “us” vs. “them.” Religion is probably the most powerful divider, followed by ethnicity, social class, and political philosophy.

The division between the tribes of Israel and the goyim seems to be gaining more traction lately. Paul Rosenberg (“Freeman’s Perspective”) wrote about this last week, but as I recall it did not reach the readership of the Burning Platform.

I’m intrigued that some see the thesis of the article as reflecting a Jewish plot to destroy Europe’s economy and culture. The EU is already a thoroughly post-Christian entity; that work was completed quite a while ago. Since a strong economy only enriches all those at the top of the pyramid (mostly Jews?) then why would they want to kill the source of the golden egg?

The key statement of the article is “The Muslim migrants are meant to be the retirement plan for an aging Europe. They’ re supposed to keep its ramshackle collection of economic policies, its welfare states and social programs rolling along.” Greenfield proceeds to destroy the assumptions embedded in yet another liberal scheme based on complete denial of history, economics, and human nature.

There are an awful lot of liberals who are not Jewish. It is here I wish to divide the world into socialists and everybody else. Socialists persist in living in la la land rather than the dominion of truth. We err by believing their pie-in-the-sky solutions because we are inevitably burned by them. I suspect Europe is destined to literally burn.

Montefrio

Gayle: “’I’m intrigued that some see the thesis of the article as reflecting a Jewish plot to destroy Europe’s economy and culture. The EU is already a thoroughly post-Christian entity; that work was completed quite a while ago. Since a strong economy only enriches all those at the top of the pyramid (mostly Jews?) then why would they want to kill the source of the golden egg?”

I don’t see it as a religious divide but more a tribal one. I’m a European by ancestry but identify more closely with the European nation of which I’m a citizen. I’m not a Christian by belief but by cultural inheritance. That is true of many Europeans and their descendants. The “tribes of Israel”, however, have by and large chosen to identify with their tribes rather than the European nations into which they migrated from points east. I’ve had many occasions to experience the disdain they often hold for the “goyim” and find myself surprised when they are shocked that it might be resented. The Spanish philosopher Unamuno once wrote: “The God of the Jewish people is the Jewish people themselves” or words close to that effect. In a post-religious era in the West, I find that a pithy thought.

The snide tone of the article with the Hans and Fritz portrayal of the Germans, the Mohammeds and the rest is the real point of an article that uses a critique of socialism as a cover. The “Freedom Center” is I presume the David Horowitz Freedom Center, no? An old Trotskyite rebranded as a neo-con. No hidden agenda there!

ragman
ragman

Gayle: granted all liberals are not Jews, but the vast majority of Jews are liberal, progressive, anti Constitutional assholes. The leadership of the progressives is almost entirely Jewish. Feminist leaders are almost entirely Jewish. The worthless fuckers that invented communism were Jews. The disarmament crowd is led by Jews. I’d like to see this bunch go to Israel and try and preach the shit they do here. They wouldn’t last 5 minutes.

starfcker
starfcker

Monty. Love your style here. Detect some bullshit, take a closer look at the author and who pays him, and where that money comes from. I’m over think tanks. foundations, and every scumbag that grifts from them.. useful and traitorous idiots.

Gayle

Montefrio

I know the Jews are mostly atheists, smart ones who end up in leadership positions in most cultural dimensions. I am not a defender of them nor of the secular state of Israel. Debbie Wasserman Schultz gives me the creeps, but it has nothing to do with her ancestry. Same goes for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

If a WASP wrote the article, would it still irritate you? Is there some falsehood being promoted by Greenfield? On a website that is regularly bathed in sarcasm (TBP) does a sarcastic tone by someone whose background you don’t like make it unacceptable?

I found the article interesting because it analyzes the economic justification for the resettlement of millions of Muslims in cultures that hold conflicting values. It validates the hollow core of socialism and its economic premises. These topics interest me because I fear the same move is going to be made here, and I can’t reject the piece out of hand because it is authored by a Jew associated with David Horowitz.

What I really think is going on is a campaign to erase the independent nation state. Strong countries like Germany and the USA must be neutralized economically so a universal economic system can be established. You know, no more dollar and all that. It won’t be much longer.

Archie
Archie

Gayle writes, “What I really think is going on is a campaign to erase the independent nation state.”

Yes and it’s been happening for over a hundred years. The British author Douglas reed wrote a book called, ” insanity fair”, published in the late 1930’s. He had traveled all over Europe. In Moscow, he noted the following, “across the railroad was a flimsy metal arch that carried the words ‘Under World Communism Frontiers Will Disappear’ written in electric bulbs.” He also mentioned that a “little jewish censor” followed him around. His career came to a end when he subsequently wrote about the Jews. You couldn’t do that even back then. Today, fuggedaboutit. Everything you read or see today is a result of the little Jew censor.

This is all interconnected. Marxism, and all its offshoots (socialism, radical feminism, radical egalitarianism) is jewish from top to bottom, from start to finish, and is designed to crush Christian societies and culture. So much so that Marxism was equated with Judaism in the old days. It is perfectly reasonable to condemn the Jews for what’s happening in Europe today–they admit as much. I have written about it elsewhere many times on these pages. If interested I can give a series of links tomorrow.

Montefrio

Gayle: What bothers me about the article is the snide tone (the Katzenjammer Kids names, e.g.) and the fact that it reads like something Goebbels might have written substituting Moishe for Mohammed. I have nothing against people of Jewish background so long as they don’t hold mine in contempt. I must confess that overall I’ve found that the contempt comes to the surface more often than not and that cultural Marxism has an inordinate number of Jewish folks of Eastern European origin.

Yes, that article would have irritated me had it been written by Thackery Finchwell IV, Patrick O’Hoolihan, Helmut Schmetterling or any number of others, primarily because I see it as a red herring to further the Hegelian dialectic in use by folks like Mr Horowitz and Mr. Kristol whose late-life conversion into staunch defenders of a Western culture they previously loathed is something I simply don’t buy.

The premise of the false promise of socialism is entirely correct, but so is the campaign not just to destroy the nation-state but to grind down the Europeans and Americans who simply haven’t sufficiently bent the knee to those who see themselves as their betters.

Neutralization or “neuterization” if you prefer is best begun with the Gramscian cultural method, what we have been subjected to to a great degree since the end of the Second World War and the advent of overwhelming mass media. That sets the stage for economic neuterization through the agency of central banks with a license to destroy the value of money through unlimited credit creation.

I’m not a great believer in conspiracies, but now and again I’m reminded of an old saying in Spanish: “No creo en las brujas, pero que las hay las hay”. Roughly: “I don’t believe in witches, but that there are witches, well, there are”.

IndenturedServant

Hell, I’m all for the muslim invasion. Every little bit helps right? Maybe we let the muslims get rid of the fudge packers, gerbil jammers, rug munchers and a few other degenerate classes then we outlaw islam and start smoking the muzzies along with banker scum.

Billy best teach his son how to shoot and fight. When shit goes sideways here and Billy sends his family to Germany it will be hard to tell who will have the bigger fight.

Miriam
Miriam

I don’t think it was those of European descent who wanted mass immigration from Muslim lands and counted on them for a retirement plan. It was another minority who thought that they would be safer if the ethnic concentration in Western countries was more diverse. It’s all a bit crap because our forefathers actually fought the Germans as they targeted many of our own extended families who were not necessarily Jewish (but some looked it) and we were certainly not plotting another holocaust. Now they want us all to turn into Nazis but not against them, just against the Muslims . We were made so poor from all the other wars. I think to a large extent it’s also a ploy to cover up the extent of the collaboration some people engaged in with the fascists (where do all these think tanks get their funding from?) because people are asking hard questions about the holocaust now- it was never about religious identity.

BEA LEVER
BEA LEVER

I/S- Good point but Billy knows things that we don’t as he is connected to military information. Your plan sounds good in theory but would it really rid us of the muzzie/banker problem? Nothing ventured, nothing gained so stock up on popcorn and let’s watch the show.

IndenturedServant

One of my favorite bands from high school and the last concert I saw before leaving Europe. I’m not sure is Saxon is even known here.

Billy
Billy

@ IS and Bea…

I have been watching the events that are unfolding in Europe with great interest…

My take on it – there’s gonna be a fight. A big one. Both there and here. Which will be better off? In all honesty, I do not know. Truly.

A six-way bullet festival over here or a three-way bullet festival over there. Pick one. It’s like trying to pick between two different piles of dogshit to step in…

I do know, that “it” has begun – such things start small, but they have a big impact.

Super-leftist mayoral candidate was attacked a few days ago. Dude just walked up and drove a hunting knife into her throat. Then he chopped up two leftists that were with her. Then he gave up, mission accomplished.

Watched a PEGIDA rally video yesterday that was filmed only a few days ago… multiples of thousands of people chanting Wiederstand!! (“Resistance!”) and “Wir sind das Volk!” (“We are “The People””: meaning, the true people of Europe, ie: Not “invaders”).

Most of what I know, I glean from scouring sites like RT, German-language news websites, emails from guys I knew in the service, etc, innocuous shit that slips through the MSM. It’s a mess of information and trying to make a coherent picture of it all is sometimes impossible…

But sometimes, things line up. And this is one of them. “Isolated incidents” – like refugee camps burning to the ground (what I call “German Lightning”) for no reason right before a bunch of refugees get there – are on the rise. The leftist shitheads are brazen enough to say what they’re thinking. Shit like “Sometimes you have to force things on the citizenry whether they want it or not”… they think people will just shut up and take it, then act bewildered and stupefied when they get right pissed, march in the street or start shanking people.

It’s the Osties – those from East Germany who lived under the yoke of Communism – who are leading the charge. Just like expatriate Russians who move here, they are the staunchest opponents of Communism and leftism. Their hatred of all things leftist is palpable… and they are gaining supporters in the West (of Germany).

Those who try to control the narrative are resorting to some rather fucked-up, desperate means to maintain that control… they (being the Merkel government) are actually going to start hiring ex-Stasi agents to troll the Web in an effort to crack down on dissenting opinions!!!

The fuckin’ Stasi. Seriously. They’re trying to play it off as no big deal, but your average Herm is LIVID!!

They’re getting desperate, and they’ve shown their hand.

This will not end well….. but folks know who the Quislings are – and those who are pushing this shit are quietly shitting their pants and very likely making plans to un-ass the country on short notice…

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