COLUMN: The (assisted) suicide of Europe and the West

What’s in a name?

A Wikipedia entry innocently entitled “Migration Period” might almost seem to refer to the current influx of so-called “refugees” into Europe, but if so, Europe might want to pay close attention to the better-known name for the “Migration Period.” When I was going to school, they called it the Barbarian Invasions.

Under whichever name you prefer, it refers to a period from about 376 to 800 A.D. when various Germanic tribes (the Goths, the Vandals, the Angles, the Saxons and more) and later the Huns, Slavs and others moved through Europe, taking control of large swaths of land through sheer numbers.

It is unlikely that if Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany referred to the arrival of millions of migrants from Syria, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan and other Mideast and African countries as the “Muslim Invasion,” she would have her citizens cheerfully welcoming the newcomers. But perhaps “welcome” is not the right word either. Do you really think that the German town of Sumte, with its population of 102 pensioners and other villagers, welcomed the 750 Muslim refugees that Merkel’s government sent to live with them? Do you really think the Germans don’t realize their culture is under attack? Do you really think they do not know the difference between immigration and invasion?

Europe is on the verge of cultural suicide, and what is astounding is that only a few sharp voices are speaking up to try to defend a continental civilization that is more than 3,000 years old from devolving into tribal anarchy in a few short months.

One such voice, perhaps the strongest voice in support of preserving Europe, is Viktor Orban, the prime minister of Hungary. Whereas Merkel issued a blanket invitation to any and all of the world’s oppressed people to come to Germany for refuge, Orban built a razor-wire fence on Hungary’s border with first Serbia and later Croatia to prevent hundreds of thousands of Muslim migrants from lawlessly transversing his country. It’s working too, but unless other European nations wake up to the danger they have placed themselves in, Hungary will fall along with the rest of Europe.

But last week, Orban — who has probably spent more time pondering this crisis than anyone else — suggested that the disaster in the making could be the intentional result of a monstrous conspiracy to destroy Europe and its culture.

“Ladies and gentlemen,” Orban told his fellow Hungarians, “what we face is nothing less than the challenge of finding ourselves at the gateway to the implementation of a deliberate conceptual project, which could be described as left-wing and which seeks to marginalize the nation states of Europe. Where this project has failed to overcome Christianity and the identity of the nation state in conventional political struggle, it will strive to eliminate it on ethnic grounds…”

In so speaking, Orban has pointed at the wizard behind the curtain — the purveyor of the poison pill that Europe is being forced to swallow.

“By whom and on what authority were the European leaders tasked with not only admitting but transporting to the European continent hundreds of thousands of people from groups outside European culture, so that European cultural identity will be called into question?” Orban asked.

Orban has pointed to several suspects, including billionaire investor George Soros, the Hungarian expatriate.

“His name is perhaps the strongest example of those who support anything that weakens nation states. They support everything that changes the traditional European lifestyle,” Orban said in a radio interview. “These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.”

Soros, for his part, has actually acknowledged his intention, drawing a contrast with Orban: “His plan treats the protection of national borders as the objective and the refugees as an obstacle; our plan treats the protection of refugees as the objective and national borders as the obstacle.”

It is hard to fathom that just one man, or even a cabal of wealthy men and women, could bring about the destruction of Europe, but if anyone could do it, you have to think George Soros could. He is ranked as one of the 30 richest people in the world, and he is an avowed proponent of progressive causes, being the funding source behind hundreds if not thousands of non-profits geared toward undermining the traditional social order of Western civilization.

What better way to destroy traditional values than by importing millions of people into Europe who don’t share them? If Europe is committing suicide, it is being assisted ably by Soros, who wrote in a column recently that the European Union must not only “accept at least a million asylum-seekers annually for the foreseeable future,” but pay them at least $16,800 each per year.

The money is supposed to soften the blow for the individual European nations being thus invaded, but as you might well imagine, the money will also lure ever more lawless Muslim immigrants across the Mediterranean.

According to Soros, his plan will end the “unnecessary human suffering” of the refugees. He doesn’t say so publicly, but it probably doesn’t hurt that it will put Europe out of its misery at the same time.

Frank Miele, managing  editor of the Daily Inter Lake writes a weekly column called "Editor's 2 Cents." If you don’t like his opinion, stop by the office and he will gladly refund your two cents.  E-mail responses may be sent to edit@dailyinterlake.com