I do have to tell you I am surprised to find the disappearance of our Western civilisation being looked at as an opportunity to show our compassion. We are too stupid to survive, and we will not survive. We are about to have all the diversity anyone could ever have wanted. If you are of the view that open borders work for you, and one culture is equally as worthy as any other, everything will be great. But I am just that tad bit unsure of where all this will go, since if it made no difference, Damascus would look like Stockholm. So we shall see.

In the meantime, the only place I can find where the decline and fall of the West is being charted with any kind of recognition of what is overwhelming our cultural and historic home is at Andrew Bolt. Everywhere else in the media it looks like nothing of much significance is going on. While we still have time to think about things, reading this, also from Andrew, might be worth reflecting on: With more Syrians en route, Sweden struggles to maintain identity as country where refugees are welcome. It is from the Canadian National Post and therefore will inevitably look on the bright side of life:

Another point of division is language — most refugees have trouble mastering Swedish.

That helps explain what has happened in Rosengard, a suburb of Malmo, Sweden’s third-largest city 80 kilometres from Astorp: more than 80 per cent of residents speak Arabic.

“I love it here because it feels like the Middle East,” said Taghrid, a young hijab-wearing Palestinian from Syria as she pushed a baby carriage past other women in similar attire. “It’s special. You know, people in the streets, the smell of spices.”

Such segregated enclaves are part of the problem, said Jonczyk, who moves easily between Astorp’s Swedish and Arab communities.

“What they do at home, they want to do in Swedish society and they want Swedish society to accept that,” he said. . . .

With unemployment among refugees well above 40 per cent, finding them work was one of Jonczyk’s major preoccupations. But to reach the point where they were employable was not possible if Sweden did not do a much better job of making them feel part of their new environment.

The job will now be to make Swedes feel part of their new environment.