May plays her part in the strange death of free speech in Europe
by Jules Gomes, TCW:
[…] Readers will know that Nietzsche’s original parable describes the death of God and will forgive me for tinkering with his parable. It was this atheist philosopher who foretold the apocalyptic implications of atheism, which would usher in an age of nihilism—and with it bring about the strange death of Europe. But even Nietzsche could never have predicted the astronomical revival of militant Islam, the Orwellian gagging of free speech, and the Kafkaesque attempt made by a Conservative Prime Minister to suppress all criticism of Islam under the Jabberwockian categories of Islamophobia and extremism.
In our age where the stupid are considered sane and lunacy is high orthodoxy, it is writers like Douglas Murray who are piecing together the homicide of The Strange Death of Europe. That is the title of Murray’s pièce de résistance, and his diagnosis of Europe’s death is cleverly couched in the unholy trinity of the book’s subtitle: Immigration, Identity, Islam.
‘Europe is committing suicide. Or at least its leaders have decided to commit suicide.’ You simply cannot put down Murray’s book after reading its opening lines. It is like reading Tennyson’s ‘Into the valley of death rode the six hundred.’ But the six hundred were under orders. ‘Though the soldier knew someone had blundered. Theirs not to make reply, theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die.’ We are a democracy. We are not under military orders (or Shari‘ah law, for that matter). We have a choice. But ‘whether the European people choose to go along with this, naturally, is another matter,’ warns Murray.
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