Jag tänkte beställa boken Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam and the West som recensionen i engelska vänstertidningen the Guardian verkar lovande:
It is partly for this reason that Christopher Caldwell’s new book, with the melodramatic title Reflections on the Revolution in Europe, will seem rather shocking to some readers of this newspaper. For he asks some unusually direct questions: can you have the same Europe with different people? Why did mass immigration happen when so few people actually wanted it? Immigrants want a better life but how many of them want a European life? Why is minority ethnic pride a virtue and European nationalism a sickness? Is political correctness just fear masquerading as tolerance?
Caldwell cuts to shreds the conventional wisdom of the ”immigrationist” ideology – the view that mass immigration is inevitable and in any case a necessary injection of youth into our ageing continent. He shows, contrary to the immigrationists, that the flows of recent decades are unprecedented. He also demolishes the economic and welfare- state arguments for mass immigration and points out that in most countries there was no desperate need for extra workers in the 1950s – in Britain’s case, Ireland still provided a reserve army of labour. One of the most startling figures in the book is that the number of foreign residents in Germany rose from 3 million to 7.5 million between 1971 and 2000 but the number of employed foreigners stayed the same at 2 million.
Med andra ord – verkar lovande!
Arkiverad under: islamisering | Taggad: boktips, Christopher Caldwell, immigration, Islam, mångkulturalism, minoriteter, recension
