Europe/Eurabia a soup with lumps ?

Submitted by jon, a Brit in Euroland (France), Apr 15, 2008 at 16:32

While I have the sinking feeling that you are likely right in suggesting that the post-national countries of Western Europe have a troubling issue with political correctness which has yet to run its course. Also that this may move into the next stage: the passive acceptance of the Invasion having already taken place. I suspect that some countries may have a higher degree of resistance than others.

Russia, I suspect, is not, in the present day Orthodox revival, about to accept the situation lying down, and in a reverse of the Western European situation, where the elites are more passive than the populations at large, is quite likely to prove the opposite can also be true ...

France is, of course, the present capital of Eurabia, and is an easy target to point a finger at. French cultural defeatism is exemplified by the defence of a French cultural exception (since when do successful cultures need defending). The other EU countries are a whole lot less predictable, and the whole issue may be one of the reasons that the EU, at least in its present shape, may not survive. Your argument does however remind me of something the Saudi Arabian ambassador said when there was only mild French reaction to the invasion of Kuwait: when asked to explain French passivity he said "France is just the balcony of the Maghreb"

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