[av_one_full first min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ padding=’0px’ border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ background_color=” src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=”]
[av_heading tag=’h3′ padding=’10’ heading=’INTERNATIONAL ILONGGO | Europe in turmoil’ color=” style=’blockquote modern-quote’ custom_font=” size=” subheading_active=’subheading_below’ subheading_size=’15’ custom_class=”]
BY JED JALECO DEL ROSARIO
[/av_heading]
[av_textblock size=” font_color=’custom’ color=”]
Sunday, April 2, 2017
[/av_textblock]
[av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=”]
ON MARCH 22, 52-year-old Khalid Masood drove a vehicle into a crowd in Westminster just outside the House of Parliament.
Masood’s rampage killed a total of four victims and injured about 50 others.
He attack, however, was by no means unique. In the minds of many Europeans, it was only the latest chapter in a series of Islamic-related terrorist attacks that has plagued Europe’s capitals for several years. Such attacks, along with the increasing “Islamification” of many European cities, explain why European nationalist parties are gaining ground in Europe.
What made Masood’s attack special, though, was that it was carried out at a symbolic target, Westminster. Such an attack helped to focus the problems of the European multicultural experiment, such as the rise of ethnic-related crime, social dysfunction, Sharia zones and even sexual predatory behavior among Muslim men against European women.
Masood’s attack, therefore, can be considered as the latest symptom of a failing European multicultural experiment, and the same can be said about the increasing popularity of European nationalist parties. They are signs that the Europeans – or indeed Westerners in general – are turning away from their traditional post-war roles as defenders and promoters of universal liberalism, and moving towards ethnic and national interests (just like the rest of the world).
Even if nationalist parties don’t win in the next few elections, the undercurrent of nationalist backlash will not go away, and it will not go away because European leaders are unwilling to address the real source of the problem: mass immigration into Europe.
However, whether or not European leaders are willing to address the problem, the unstable situation will resolve itself in one way or another. This is why immigration into Europe and the Western world will cease. Immigrants, including non-Europeans born in European countries, will be expelled just as the Europeans were expelled from their colonies during the de-colonization era.
But if that doesn’t happen, then European countries will become more dysfunctional and violent. Either way, European countries will radically change.
For Filipinos who live in or plan to move to Europe, this is a reality they will eventually need to come to terms with. Mass immigration into the Western World began around the 1960 but like all historical processes it will have an end. The only question is when that end will be, and under what circumstances it will take place.
Conflict is once again coming to Europe and Filipinos who live in that continent should be prepared to leave before it does. It may not happen this year, or even years after, but conflict will come in one form or another. And when it does, we should remember that Europe was the focal point of the first and second world wars. Do you want to be there when something bad happens? (jdr456@gmail.com/PN)
[/av_textblock]
[/av_one_full]
