This article first appeared in New English Review.
This past week in Torre Pacheco (Murcia) Spain, riots broke out and police had to separate Spaniards and North Africans after a 68-year-old man was badly beaten by North African youths, and Spaniards took to the streets looking to take revenge by attacking North Africans. Two nights of disturbances in this small community drew headlines not just all over Spain, but Europe as well.
Meanwhile, in England and Ireland, people have marched in loud protests against migrant crime and the growing Islamization of their countries. In virtually every country in Western Europe, with crime out of control, riots, attacks on Jews, mosques sprouting up everywhere, licensed or not, the ever-present threat of terror attacks, rapes, ethnic mafias, violent gangs, largely from the Middle East, North Africa, and Afghanistan, migrants, mostly illegal, and asylum-seekers running amok, the people are saying, "Enough!"
The violent incidents, whether acts of terror or simply attacks on the streets, are now too numerous to count, especially since former German Chancellor Angela Merkel opened the floodgates in 2015 during the Syrian war. For the most part, Europeans have been suffering in silence, threatened with legal action if they engage in so-called "hate speech" and oppose their government's lax immigration policies.
This discussion mostly concerns Western Europe because the Eastern European nations, just recently freed from the shackles of communism and centralized control from Moscow, want no part of this wave of migrants and asylum-seekers. They see what's happening in Western Europe, and they have no interest in "taking in their fair share" as the EU wants them to do and threatens them with punishment if they refuse. Brussels is becoming the new Moscow.
But from Spain and Italy in the south to France, Austria, and Germany in Central Europe, to Scandinavia and the UK in the north, the people of these countries have been victimized over and over again by migrant thugs, Islamists, and pro-Hamas protesters, and it appears they may have reached the point where they are fed up-and starting to fight back.
To be clear, I am not advocating violence on the part of anyone. But what happened in Torre Pacheco should serve as a wake-up call that if police are so overwhelmed, which they are, that they cannot protect the public, and their governments are unwilling to solve the problem, then it seems to me that there will be more and more Torre Pachecos throughout Western Europe.
In addressing the title of this piece (civil war), I am not envisioning a civil war like the American or Spanish civil wars. What I am fearing is that there may be a situation similar to what Germany went through in the years between the two world wars, leading up to Hitler's taking power in 1933. At the end of the First World War, Germany was saddled with all the blame for the war by the Treaty of Versailles. The economy fell through the roof, and the currency became almost worthless. Throw in the worldwide depression, mass unemployment, and Germany was in a desperate situation.
Meanwhile, political forces like the Nazis, the Communists, and the Social Democrats were fighting for power, not just in the Reichstag in Berlin, but in the streets of German cities. Militias sprang up, like the infamous Freikorps, to do battle with their political opponents. And it wasn't just beer hall brawls with people hurling beer mugs and chairs at their opponents. There were political assassinations, the failed Kapp Putsch in Berlin (1920), the failed Hitler Putsch in Munich (1923), and in the worst incident, the Epps Freikorps stormed Munich in 1919 to topple the Soviet style government that had been installed there. Estimates were that over 600 people were killed.
Many historians refer to that period as a civil war, certainly not on a scale of our civil war or the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s, but you get the point. Out of all that arose Adolf Hitler.
I may be an alarmist, but I can see that sort of thing happening in many Western European countries. The government has created the problem, and I include the EU in the blame because it has been their policy to admit millions of people, mostly young males, and aside from Italy, I don't see much governmental effort to reverse the trend in a serious manner. True, there are rising conservative parties in several countries that want to halt this migration and send the bad actors back home. The problem is that the other parties gang up and marginalize them to the sidelines. Italy is a notable exception, where Giorgia Meloni, leader of the Fratelli di Italia party is now the prime minister, but she still has to battle the other parties, the courts, the EU, and the other Western European countries. And to make matters worse, France, already with the largest Muslim population in Europe, has now declared that any and all Gazans are eligible for asylum in France! And thanks to the Schengen Agreement, once they are in France, they can go to any other country in the EU. What could possibly go wrong?
In addition, as noted above, the police are overwhelmed, especially in countries like Sweden. So, where do the people turn when they can't take it anymore? The longer a government fails to deal with a problem, the more extreme will be the solution.
Meanwhile, innocent people are dying, women are being raped, and the social fabric of Europe is being torn to pieces. Many Europeans say it is already too late, that Europe is gone.
It is obvious that the only sensible solution is to close the borders and repatriate those who have no business being in Europe. I am not talking about law-abiding immigrants who came to work decades ago and are now running businesses and keeping their noses clean. (Unfortunately, many of their children are not behaving themselves, but they do not all necessarily enjoy citizenship rights, even if born in Europe.)
Given the sheer numbers, this will not be an easy task and will be met with protests and violence. No doubt, the European Court of Human Rights, based in Strasbourg, will also be an obstacle, but it has to be done. In addition, many countries like Morocco refuse to take back their bad apples. That should be met with no more visas being issued and a halt to foreign aid, among other things.
The situation is critical, and extreme measures are required. Mass repatriations on such a scale will be extreme, to be sure, but what are the alternatives? Either surrender to Islamization and watch Europe become majority Muslim in a couple of generations due to continued migration and their exploding birth rate, with the resultant loss of freedom, or watch the continent degenerate into civil war, similar to what happened in Germany between the two world wars. If the latter comes to pass, the next Hitler may be lurking just around the corner.
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