I was a second generation Canadian brought up in the 1950s, the grandchild of Eastern European Jews. But from my earliest days I was a Canadian to my very roots and when I went to visit Crecy and Agincourt last month, I went to visit the battlefields in which “we” had won, the first time in 1346 and the second in 1415. I felt just as much pride in going to Vimy Ridge, the Canadian memorial in World War I, as I did in going to Villers-Brittoneaux, which is where the Australian memorial is found. I am a citizen of the West and my culture is the culture that channels back through European history as far as the eye can see. It is perhaps an odd notion, but there were Jews in Europe long before there were Christians. If I have a cultural homeland, that is where it is. One cannot think outside one’s own self, but what we have established in our cultural traditions – the freedom, the prosperity, the ethical dimensions that have been derived from our Judeo-Christian history – is what I value and want to see continue.

There is therefore a very sharp article I would draw your attention to by David Solway, The New Colonizers. We are dealing now in the West with new migrant communities who do not value what they find but disdain everything about our way of life. These are the final paragraphs but you should read it all.

Anyone with a modicum of perceptiveness must be cognizant by now that Islam is advancing its millennial agenda in two ways, that is, via a classic pincer movement: the tactic of terrorism, and the strategy of immigration as elaborated by the Muslim Brotherhood, the latter project an immensely powerful force owing to its stealthy and insidious nature, abetted by leftist and liberal sympathies and policies. By this time its cover should have been blown, and we must begin to speak out, to agitate for legislation to revise our immigration protocols, to reject outright the social camouflage of political correctness, to expose “outreach” and “interfaith” programs for the confidence games they are, to investigate the hotbed mosques spreading like bunkers throughout the land, and to lobby our congressional and parliamentary representatives to pass laws militating against the depletion of our welfare resources, the exploitation of our legal system to silence critics of Islam (known as “lawfare”), and the use of our human rights tribunals that deprive us of our…human rights.

It is obviously an uphill battle, not less because our politicians and political parties, themselves responsible for the immigration debacle, are deliberately trawling for votes among the burgeoning Muslim enclaves and boroughs. Yet it is equally obvious that failing such a reformation — or revolution — in our concessionary attitudes, the result will be that what we once took for granted as a social habitus founded on mutual recognition and a civic arena accessible to all will shrink to an uneasy and perhaps soon intolerable confinement in our own domain.

There is no longer any excuse for apathy, distraction or ignorance, for the evidence of our approaching dispossession is all around us. It is equally an affront and a tragedy to find ourselves colonized in our own land. To paraphrase the prophet Ezekiel (33: 2-6), those who hear the sound of the warning trumpet and do not take the warning, their blood shall be upon them. Regrettably, far too many of us still cannot or do not or will not hear the trumpet.

There are two models from the Middle East I think are broadly likely looking out fifty years, although others are possible. There is the Israeli model where its Muslim population live in an uneasy peace with the non-Muslim majority. And there is the Lebanese model where the two sides have ended up as two warring camps, the two sides never mix, with the territory divided between the two. The fact of the matter however is that our “political elites” intend to establish a world without borders in which everyone lives with everyone else since history and cultural traditions make no difference. That has been the aim for a long time and we are seeing the world they have created. It will never work in practice but the potential for a protracted Dark Age as the outcome is a very real possibility given how things are now progressing.