Suicide of Nations

The Islamification of the West

Following his ‘Valentine’s Day massacre’ of European elites at the Munich Security Conference, U.S. Vice President JD Vance has doubled down on his criticism of Europe. He told Fox News that the continent is “at risk of engaging in civilisational suicide” by not protecting its borders and allowing in millions of migrants from other parts of the world.

He said: “If you have a country like Germany where you have another few million immigrants coming in from countries that are totally culturally incompatible with Germany, then it doesn’t matter what I think about Europe, Germany will have killed itself.”

He could also be speaking of Great Britain. The media and politicians focus on the problem of the ‘small boats’ and smuggling gangs, and we constantly hear hollow promises that they are going to stem the flow. Vile as these gangs are, they do less harm to the country than our elites. The small boats with their ‘undocumented arrivals’ are a distraction from the far greater influx of legal immigrants. The population of Britain will reach 72.5 million by 2032; an increase of 4.9 million over 7 years, largely due to legal immigration.

What is a nation?

A nation is more than a piece of land marked off by lines on a map. It is more than a seat in the United Nations or an economic zone in a global business. A nation is the people who live on that land, who share the same culture, history and traditions.  A nation consists of a people whose mutual understanding has developed over the generations and centuries. This shared self-understanding has both emerged from, and shaped, the language, the stories and songs, the identification with particular events in history, which form the collective identity of the people.

It is evident that multiculturalism has failed. Instead of integration we have witnessed ghettoisation – the emergence of separate communities.

It is evident that multiculturalism has failed. Instead of integration we have witnessed ghettoisation – the emergence of separate communities. Instead of immigrants integrating with the host country’s way of life, the host country is integrating with the newcomers’ way of life.

Islamic normalisation

Symbolically the King, who has promoted and celebrated interfaith dialogue and religious diversity throughout his life, hosted Muslims breaking their Ramadan fast in St George’s Hall, Windsor Castle. Every day signs multiply: women wearing full veils, children sent exclusively to Islamic schools, and entire neighbourhoods operating under their own separate rules and legal system.

In the UK, approximately 85 underground Islamic Sharia courts rule on marriage and family disputes. Communities which rule themselves are not integrating: they are living according to Sharia law, and apart from the Western legal systems of their countries of residence.

Britain has become the ‘Western capital’ for Sharia courts, with men able to end their marriages simply by saying ‘divorce’ three times. Polygamy is so normalised in sectors of the Muslim community that an app for the creation of Islamic wills for those living in England and Wales has a drop-down menu for men to say how many wives they have (between one and four). The app, approved by a Sharia court, gives daughters half as much inheritance as sons.

Another app, this one for making marriage connections, has an option where male users can state their “polygamy plan” – whether they will seek a second wife or intend to stick with just one. It is clear that existing UK laws and regulations are not being properly enforced; especially when it comes to relatively segregated Muslim communities where orthodox Islamic doctrines prevail.

There is a creeping normalisation of Islam as a cultural force. Enshrining the All-Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims’ definition of Islamophobia into legislation would create a new blasphemy law, placing one religion above criticism. Why should our politicians legislate in favour of Islam? There’s a simple reason: it benefits them. Muslim communities throughout Europe are extremely disciplined voting blocs. Whoever controls these communities holds immense political influence.

Out-of-touch elite

The public are being influenced to accept the erosion of our national culture by a three-step process. We are told;

1. that what is happening is not happening at all; then,
2. that what is happening was inevitable anyway; and finally,
3. that what happened was a good thing all along.

Why should opinion-formers in the media and academia push these ideas? They have no ideological roots or attachment to the nation, its culture, traditions and history. They resemble the aristocracy of the feudal era when the powerful had land in differing regions, intermarried with each other and shared the same language and aspirations as their fellow aristocrats. Their allegiances were to themselves and those like them.

The new aristocrats may not be dukes and earls, they have different titles – Minister, Secretary of State, CEO, Director General – but they are just as out of touch with the people they rule.

Importantly, the old aristocracy had no connection with the masses they ruled; the plebs existed to fulfil the needs of the aristocrats. The new aristocrats may not be dukes and earls, they have different titles – Minister, Secretary of State, CEO, Director General – but they are just as out of touch with the people they rule. Today our elites have more in common with their fellow globalist new aristocrats than they do with farmers in Devon, lorry drivers in Coventry or hairdressers in Solihull.

Reconnecting with faith

The real culprits bringing Western civilisation into hazard are those who undermined the foundations so that the structure of Western civilisation is crumbling. Yet, if people are abandoning the faith which created Western culture, ultimately this is the fault of those who were tasked with defending the faith – and they failed.

Since the nineteenth century, the Church has, in most of its forms, accepted the standards and outlook of a rapidly secularising world. Confronted by the Enlightenment, the Church in the West increasingly downplayed the spiritual nature of the core of the faith in order to emphasise its rational bona fides.

Yet, whilst the Christian faith is rational, it is more – it is a living connection with spiritual reality – a relationship with our Creator, our Saviour, our Father God. It is only as Christians embrace this that we will have strength to withstand the destructive forces around us and reclaim the West.

Only then will the people, as well as the political and cultural elites of our nation, unashamedly identify Britain as a Christian nation. Not that we will be a nation of Christians, rather even non-believers will accept the historical reality that this is a country whose laws and culture are based on biblical teaching.

Who we are as a people is bound up with Christianity: if we reject those ties we are no longer the people we once were, and Britain is lost.

The Rev. Dr Campbell Campbell-Jack is a retired Church of Scotland minister; now a member of the Free Church of Scotland.