“Contra all the assurances and expectations, the people who came into Europe did not throw themselves into our culture and become a part of it. They brought their own cultures. And they did so at the precise moment that our own culture was at a point that it lacked the confidence to argue its own case.”

—  Douglas Murray

The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam (2017)

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