The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam

Fierce discussions, criticism from the "liberal" mass media, accusations of Islamophobia and the status of an international bestseller - this is exactly the kind of resonance caused by the book of the leading British intellectual Douglas Murray. Today, the author's theses are becoming more and more convincing, and the predictions are impressively accurate.

The book provides a thorough overview of the mass immigration of Muslims to Europe from the Middle East and Africa: the antecedents, development, social consequences and culmination in the form of political radicalism and terrorism that have become commonplace. At the same time, Murray shows how the crisis of identity, the decrease in the number of Christians, the hypertrophied sense of guilt among the citizens of European countries, the weakness and irresponsibility of the elites create an ideological vacuum that is filled by the narratives of the new conquerors.

The cover of the book is an allusion to the famous painting "The Dance" (La Danse) by the French painter Henri Matisse. This work was created by the artist shortly before the First World War and caused a huge scandal in Paris. Matisse not only broke with the classical art forms of that time, wild dance and unusual combination of calm and aggressive colors, he managed to convey the expression of the "crazy" beginning of the 20th century. On the cover of the book, the naked figures of people in a hot temper have been replaced by politicians who have gone wild in their political gyrations, and this has catastrophic consequences for Europe and its inhabitants.