"We are becoming foreigners in our own land."

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Europe, meaning that area on the globe that we call Europe, will not suddenly disappear. The dirt will remain.

A nation is more then the dirt that its people live on. A nation is not really about the dirt at all. A nation is about the people who live like an extended clan, with a shared history and shared culture. Ethnicity can be a part of what makes a nation, but we in the US know from experience that ethnicity is not that important at all when it comes to defining a nation. A nation is a people who share a compelling and binding idea of what they hold in common that makes them different from the people of other nations.

For the US, the classical liberalism of our nations founding, the noble words and sentiments of our Declaration of Independence, the Preamble to our Constitution, the blood shed at Antietam and Shiloh to make those words true in law, the Marches on Selma and Martin Luther King’s speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to make those words true in spirit and in practice shaped who and what we are as a nation.

Central to the whole course of our nation’s history is the idea that our rights and equality in the law come from God and are not suffered upon us at the pleasure of the state or of capricious sovereigns. No mortal being can take our rights and our equality under the law away from us. Our history runs with the rivers of blood that have attested to the truth of that. We understand that even if we were to be made slaves by a conquering mortal power, we would still have our rights and our equality, even if our slave masters did not respect the truth of that.

Our first allegiance is always to our God who made us free to choose him or not of our own free will. It is the essence of who and what we are. (We would make poor slaves because of that.)

Europe is not so advantaged.

Most of the nations of Europe have been defined from time out of mind by ethnicities, clans and tribes.

With little but race to hold them together, they are crumbling in the face of an existential threat that will in time destroy them.

With God, Europeans could have rallied around a faith that made all of their liberties and luxuries possible.

It is too late for that.

They have rejected God in Europe, and now they stand alone in their battle with the forces of the Anti-Christ.

Have pity on them.

We can't help them. Its not that we wouldn’t want to and its not that we won’t try, we do and we will.

It just won’t work.

They have breached their own walls, they have torched their own cultures, and they have turned their own churches into sepulchers for a God that they have rejected and attempted to murder.

Europe would rather die than repent and return to God.

And die it will.

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Europe, as we may readily observe, is very far along in an accommodation with its still-increasing Muslim immigrant population that is resulting not in the Europeanizing of Islam, but rather the Islamizing of Europe. As Bernard Lewis declared in 2004, Europe will have an Islamic majority by the end of the 21st century at the latest. As Vlaams Belang's Mr. Dewinter recently put it, "We are becoming foreigners in our own land." Such tragic pronouncements turn conversation with Vlaams Belang into a kind of political free verse -- sadly evocative but rooted in a desperate reality that should shake American complacency. That is, "foreigners in our land" is poetry; Mohammed as the most popular boy's name in Brussels for six years running is implacable fact. The idea that "We are living on a dying continent but we are not dead yet," as Mr. Dewinter has explained, is metaphorical. His citation from Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi that "Allah is mobilizing Muslim Turkey to add... 50 million more Muslims" to the European Union augurs world-class revolution.
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