HERE IS an excerpt from a speech by Austrian anti-Islamization activist Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff, who spoke this weekend at a conference of the Alliance of the European Freedom and National Parties in Ashkelon, Israel:

No civilization is eternal. Because Western Civilization has been in the ascendant for the last few centuries, there is a tendency to think that what we have built is the final state at which mankind has arrived–that we have reached, as Francis Fukuyama put it, “The End of History.”

This is hubris of the highest order, especially given all the indicators of the dangers currently faced by our civilization, both from without and from within. The signs may not always be obvious, but they are there, and they are growing in number.

The death of a civilization does not come only when sand dunes drift in over the rubble of a once-proud city. The end is not necessarily marked by an invasion of barbarian hordes, or the burning and looting of our homes and businesses.

A civilization can also die from within, when it forgets the core values that once made it great, when it stops believing in its own fundamental tenets.

The disappearance of civilizational self-confidence in Europe can perhaps be traced back to the unimaginable and pointless slaughter of the First World War, or to the Holocaust and other horrors of the Second World War, or to the ravages of seventy years of Communism, or to a societal enervation imposed on the continent by the socialist welfare state–or some combination of all of these.

Whatever the reason, European civilizational self-confidence is all but gone. This is why Multiculturalism has become the dominant ideology in Europe. This is why Europeans have imported millions of unassimilable foreigners. This is why we abase ourselves to the newcomers and accede to their every demand.

Islam is a threat to Europe because the heart of European civilization has already gone cold. If it were still beating, Islam would be of no more concern than it was a century ago, and millions of Muslim immigrants would not be among us.

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Michael Konieczny writes:

I think Europe stepped off the edge with the Reformation [a misnomer]. Western Civilization, in ascent and in decline revolves around its relationship to the Catholic Church. Hilaire Belloc lays it out eloquently in his book, Crisis of Civilization. Before Christ we were pagan. With Christ, in communion with His Church, we were Christendom. We can’t go back to paganism, but we are no longer Christendom. What we have now is the means that came from the virtues discovered, understood, cultivated, and practiced – in a general cultural tone, for 1500 years after The Ascension. With the Reformation, which Belloc will properly call a disaster and an explosion; the means that came with that culture were corrupted and bent to the purposes of man and his glory instead of Christ and his glory. I think Belloc calls it the new paganism. I am very much paraphrasing here, but I think this is, generally speaking, his assessment. With that new paganism we get the great wars, the Muslim influx, and the malaise of Europe. All are to be expected when you turn from the Light and wander into the dark. I don’t think it is Islam that comes to Europe but that Europe is going to Islam. The geographic migration only confuses the matter. Islam is just a matter of degree in the same vanity of the Reformation.

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