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  • Immigration, Identity, Islam
  • By: Douglas Murray
  • Narrated by: Robert Davies
  • Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
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The Strange Death of Europe is a highly personal account of a continent and culture caught in the act of suicide. Declining birth rates, mass immigration, and cultivated self-distrust and self-hatred have come together to make Europeans unable to argue for themselves and incapable of resisting their own comprehensive alteration as a society and an eventual end.

This is not just an analysis of demographic and political realities; it is also an eyewitness account of a continent in self-destruct mode. It includes accounts based on travels across the entire continent, from the places where migrants land to the places they end up, from the people who pretend they want them to the places which cannot accept them.

Murray takes a step back at each stage and looks at the bigger and deeper issues which lie behind a continent's possible demise, from an atmosphere of mass terror attacks to the steady erosion of our freedoms. The audiobook addresses the disappointing failure of multiculturalism, Angela Merkel's U-turn on migration, the lack of repatriation, and the Western fixation on guilt. Murray travels to Berlin, Paris, Scandinavia, Lampedusa, and Greece to uncover the malaise at the very heart of the European culture and to hear the stories of those who have arrived in Europe from far away.

This sharp and incisive audiobook ends up with two visions for a new Europe - one hopeful, one pessimistic - which paint a picture of Europe in crisis and offer a choice as to what, if anything, we can do next. But perhaps Spengler was right: 'civilizations, like humans, are born, briefly flourish, decay, and die'.

©2017 Douglas Murray (P)2017 Audible, Ltd

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"This is a vitally important book, the contents of which should be known to everyone who can influence the course of events, at this critical time in the history of Europe." (Sir Roger Scruton)

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very good, but do be careful

this book is a well crafted anti islamic propaganda piece, which i thoroughly enjoyed as it was thought provoking and well crafted. the author skilfully dismantle the mass media politically correct propaganda, very refreshing, infuriating, and blinding...

I feel it is mistaking Islam for The cause of the death of Europe, while it is only a symptom of a greater disease. No great nation is brought down from outside unless it is rotten from within. if islam can make the headway it is making in Europe, it is because it is a cohesive force that constrain people within a commun frame, direct energies in one directions, while Europe is a "free" society, where everyone is told to be "who they are", atomised individuals, incapable of relating on any level strong enough to ensure a common entity, a common good, something greater than themselves worth defending...

I couldn't help but notice in the chapter on the guilt tripping of the European psyche the greatest guilt-trip of all was carefully omitted, slavery, the massacre of american indians and australians aborigines were discussed and relativised at length while the Holocaust wasn't even mentioned...







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A timely piece of writing

I am a migrant child, born in Germany to an English mother and a Moroccan father... I used to chant the refugees are welcome slogans and align myself very much on the left side of politics but found it increasingly hard to do considering that the left seems to live Islam so much even though it is an ideology that opposes pretty much everything the left used to stand for! I was suddenly alone in a political void, not able to support and align myself with anyone.
This book has enabled me to understand this conflict I am in better and I am grateful for it. Even though I very much "look Muslim", I am strictly against it and very much love being a European... I would recommend this book even if some parts were a bit of a struggle, not because I found the content hard to swallow from a belief standpoint, but simply because lists of facts can sometimes be a little long... ;)

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The Stupid Person's Idea of a Smart Book

30% of this book is "I don't like seeing brown people", the remaining 70% is "...and the elites say we're racist just because we're open white supremacists!"

It's genuinely bizarre how long this whiny book is stretched out for. The single intellectual idea in here is "white people are being Replaced in Europe, so we need to purge all the Muslims". Of course, as with many people who aspire to respectable status, Murray never states how he intends (or would like) to do this.

The only part which stirred me from catatonia whilst listening to this terrible, turgid tome was the unintentionally hilarious bit where Murray ponders why there aren't more governmental, centrally planned, incentives created to get white people DTF. Big fan of Murray joining Jordan Peterson in the small group of Christian conservatives who think the state should be small and remain outside of individual's lives - except when it comes to enforcing women to mate with men regularly.

Unless I drifted off at the appropriate point too, Murray makes ahistorical claims about Islam never previously having been a part of Europe. It'd have been inconvenient to include the 9 centuries following the Umayyad conquest of Hispania.

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Open Mind

I went in to this book with an open mind, armed with the notion that will be quite controversial.

What I was surprised with, is that Douglas Murray had done his research and not just google his facts but actually been out in the field and interviewed people across Europe. This makes many of his argument backed up by personal experiences and evidence.

I do feel however though, that I now need to read an opposing book so that I can weigh up his arguments fully.

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Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

Seneca

I am always surprised when people from the left tell me of all the evil Europe has caused in the world and the guilt they feel for having been and empire is almost palpable, yet when you point out that Europe and Britain are not unique to these litanies of crimes, that all peoples have transgressed on other people, they seem perplexed and disbelieving that history does not support their racist little theory of superior culpability, because it is racist if you accuse someone of being a monster because of the colour of their skin even if you accuse yourself, but also it is a and insult to the humanity of others a distortion of history and ignorance of facts and reality. So it is with great pleasure that I recommend this book to all, it will unveil the self-haters and the new despots and tyrants they are setting about to destroy centuries of civilisation and learning to flagellate their ignorant fantasy of superior evil to satisfy a masochistic need that will impoverish the world of one of the most benevolent societies ever to have arisen in history ( even with all its imperfections ).

This is the warning that if ignored will lead us to one more cycle of dark ages that we may never return from, this is not a hysterical account but a numerical reality that it is about to tip over and destroy the world of our children.

Have you asked yourself why we are told we have over population in the world but we need more people to sustain our society?

Are you happy to give up your rights not to offend religious sensitivities?

Do you want to live in a society where sectarian religious violence is the norm?

If any of this questions have disturbed you please read this book and inform yourself and if after reading it you do not agree at least you will see what the others are worried about.

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A deeply depressing but necessary read

This book highlights the appalling mess European politicians have made and are making of our continent, the inherent contradictions in their policies and the demographic destiny they have bequeathed us. It should be required reading for all Europeans.

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A must read for all Europeans

Douglas's book is a frank and honest account of the smoke and mirrors of the immigration policy in Europe and its effects. It will hated by many but it's pragmatic truth should foster debate and should get people to ask what kind of Europe do we want us and our children to live in. Superbly written, a great if not a depressing read.

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Written with all the objectivity of a right wing tabloid

This book’s selective use of facts and incidents lacks objectivity or contextualisation. For example it uses opinion poles to demonstrate that a majority of the British public believe immigration has been bad for the country and then fails to explore objectively if that is valid and if not why governments have failed to win that argument or why the British public consistently overestimate the levels of immigration. The author doesn’t explore what would have happened without immigration. There are important debates to be had about government investment and policy to aid integration so that we may learn from mistakes. This book is not that and I as an objective European who believes that society, values, identity and diversity can coexist and evolve am clearly not the target audience.

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Impossible to Ignore

A dark yet stirring portrait of a continent and its cultures in decline.
Murray's thesis on the cause Europe's "suicide" hinges on twin assertions. First, that unprecedented mass migration into Western Europe is rapidly altering the societies of the host countries. Second, that Europe is exhausted and thus unwilling to stand up for itself.

Murray has been sounding the alarm for years. Now, it seems, the time has come when we can no longer be deaf to it.

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Very informative

A very informative account of the EU it's origins and the story and motivations behind it. Our politicians of ALL sides have a lot to answer for

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