Chapters (26)
- Half-title Page
- Title Page
- Introduction
- 1. The beginning
- 2. How we got hooked on immigration
- 3. The excuses we told ourselves
- 4. ‘Welcome to Europe’
- 5. ‘We have seen everything’
- 6. Multiculturalism
- 7. They are here
- 8. Prophets without honour
- 9. Early-warning sirens
- 10. The tyranny of guilt
- 11. The pretence of repatriation
- 12. Learning to live with it
- 13. Tiredness
- 14. We’re stuck with this
- 15. Controlling the backlash
- 16. The feeling that the story has run out
- 17. The end
- 18. What might have been
- 19. What will be
- Notes
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on the Author
- Index
6 For one of the best discussions of the idea of multiculturalism as an ideology, see Rumy Hassan, Multiculturalism: Some Inconvenient Truths, Methuen, 2010.
7 BBC News, ‘Sharia law in UK is unavoidable’, 7 February 2007.
8 Samuel P. Huntington, Who Are We?, Free Press, p. 171.
9 In his 1996 essay ‘Multikultureller Werte-Relativismus und Werte-Verlust’.
10 Quoted in an opinion piece by Karen Jespersen in Berlingske Tidende, 19 February 2005.
11 Hege Storhaug, But the Greatest of These is Freedom (originally published in Norwegian by Kagge Forlag, 2006), 2011 pp. 282–3.
12 Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, John Murray, 1855, vol. 6, ch. 52, p. 387.
13 For instance, Nicholas Sarkozy in his book Tout pour La France, Plon, 2016.
14 Bernard-Henri Lévy in conversation with the author, 12 July 2016.
15 Jean Raspail, 1982 Afterword to The Camp of the Saints.
16 Ibid., pp. 9–13.
17 Jean Raspail, The Camp of the Saints, trans Norman Shapiro, The Social Contract Press, 1995, p. 34.
18 Matthew Connelly and Paul Kennedy, ‘Must it be the West against the Rest?’, The Atlantic, December 1994.
19 Le Figaro magazine, 26 October 1985.
20 ‘French article sets off furor on immigrants’, The New York Times, 3 November 1985.
21 OFPRA (Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides).
22 INSEE (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques).
23 Raspail, The Camp of the Saints, 1995, ‘Author’s Introduction to the 1985 French Edition’, p. xiii.
24 ‘Le tabou des statistiques ethniques’, Le Point, 18 February 2016.
25 Ipsos poll carried out for Le Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Sciences Po Grenoble.
THEY ARE HERE
1 Bundesamt für Migration und Flüchtlinge, Aktuelle Zahlen zu Asyl, December 2013.
2 ONS, Migration Statistics Quarterly Report, November 2015.
3 ‘Get rid of the immigrants? No, we can’t get enough of them, says German Mayor’, The Guardian, 6 August 2015.
4 Eugenio Ambrosi, ‘Europe can cope with the influx of migrants’, The Wall Street Journal, 25 August 2015.
6 Quoted in Kenan Malik, From Fatwa to Jihad, Atlantic Books, 2009, p. 8.
7 Salman Rushdie, Joseph Anton: A Memoir, Jonathan Cape, 2012, p. 143.
8 The comments were made on the BBC programme ‘Hypotheticals’, broadcast in May 1989, moderated by Geoffrey Robertson QC. Clips from the programme intermittently appear and disappear from the internet, but the relevant clip can still currently be viewed on YouTube.
9 Hugh Trevor-Roper (Lord Dacre) quoted in The Independent, 10 June 1989.
10 Rushdie, Joseph Anton, p. 252.
11 Ibid., p. 152.
12 Ibid., p. 186.
13 Correspondence between Salman Rushdie, John le Carré and others in The Guardian, 18–22 November 1997.
14 Tony Benn, The Benn Diaries, ed. Ruth Winstone, Arrow Books, 1996, entry for 15 February 1989, pp. 616–17.
15 Rushdie, Joseph Anton, p. 147.
16 Fay Weldon, Sacred Cows: A portrait of Britain, post-Rushdie, pre-Utopia, Chatto & Windus, CounterBlasts, no. 4, 1989, p. 7.
17 Ziauddin Sardar, Desperately Seeking Paradise: Journeys of a Sceptical Muslim, Granta Books, 2004, p. 285.
18 Cited in Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir, Atlantic Books, 2010, p. 271.
19 Malik, From Fatwa to Jihad, p. 197.
20 There is an interesting discussion of this episode in Malise Ruthven, A Satanic Affair: Salman Rushdie and the Rage of Islam, Chatto & Windus, 1990, esp. pp. 68ff and p. 107.
21 Shikha Dalmia, ‘The Iconoclast’, an interview with Salman Rushdie, Reason, 1 August 2005.
PROPHETS WITHOUT HONOUR