INVASION OF EUROPE: Can Europe Stay Europe After Muslim Migrant Surge?

Western Civilization: European nations have been besieged by Mideast refugees, but never fear: Saudi Arabia says it will help out — by building 200 new mosques on the continent. Can Europe survive this demographic wave?

The European Union is bracing for as many as 800,000 mostly Muslim refugees arriving from the chaos in the Middle East this year, mainly Syria, Iraq and Eritrea.

Police forces try to control the crowd as refugees wait 
to board buses in Nickelsdorf, Austria, on Friday. AP

And it may be just the beginning. Can the EU withstand such a religio-demographic earthquake? Its failure to enforce any concept of borders isn't a good sign.

True enough, Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan have taken in 3 million refugees. But the Gulf States, in particular Saudi Arabia, have said no. They emphatically reject Western-style open borders.

EU borders have ceased to have any meaning. Under the Dublin rules, the EU's asylum and refugee law, it's the responsibility of the country in which refugees first set foot to take care of them. Overwhelmed, nations closest to the Mideast or on the Mediterranean — Greece, Hungary, Italy, France — are passing the refugees on. No more borders. EU bureaucrats and politicians are panicking. In his "State of the European Union" speech last Wednesday, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker admitted the EU "is not in a good state," in large part because of the flood of refugees.

His solution? A "permanent relocation mechanism" to spread refugees more evenly among EU nations.

Nice try, but it avoids the real question: Can a civilization whose population is on the verge of decline fill its demographic void by taking in hundreds of thousands of culturally incompatible people from elsewhere and still maintain its own unique culture and identity?

The answer, of course, is no. And no, that isn't some kind of Islamophobic hate fantasy. It's simple reality.

Read the rest of this IBD editorial HERE.

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