How Will Europe React to Decline?

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We write and speak a great deal on Europe and the forces shaping its future. I gave a presentation earlier this year the "Roots of Europe's Future" where we went through the Bible's prophecies that bear on this question.

Two divergent views on the crisis in Europe come from Ralph Peters in the New York Post and Mark Steyn whose book America Alone talks about Islamic facism and its impact in Europe. I am currently reading Steyn's book.

Peter's argument runs like this:
 

Don't let Europe's current round of playing pacifist dress-up fool you: This is the continent that perfected genocide and ethnic cleansing, the happy-go-lucky slice of humanity that brought us such recent hits as the Holocaust and Srebrenica.

THE historical patterns are clear: When Europeans feel sufficiently threatened - even when the threat's concocted nonsense - they don't just react, they over-react with stunning ferocity. One of their more-humane (and frequently employed) techniques has been ethnic cleansing.

Steyn's rebuttal is:
 

"...the native European population is split three ways: some will leave, as the Dutch (and certain French) are already doing; some will shrug and go along with the Islamization of the continent, as the ever-accelerating number of conversions suggests; and so the ones left to embrace Fascism will be a minority of an aging population. It will be bloody and messy, as I write in America Alone, but it will not alter the final outcome. If you don't breed, you can't influence the future. And furthermore a disinclination to breed is a good sign you don't care much about the future. That's why the Spaniards, who fought a brutal bloody civil war for their country in the 1930s, folded instantly after those Madrid bombings. When you've demographically checked out of the future, why fight for it?

Paul Belien in The Brussel's Journal says that the idea of Eurabia is very real:
 

I can assure you that "Eurabia" is real enough. We have received threats from extremist muslims, we have been harassed by the authorities. I was present when earlier this year a group of scholars met in The Hague to discuss Eurabia. I saw how they had to do so anonymously, under assumed names and under police protection.

Eurabia is not a myth. Eurabia is all too real.

The truth is somewhere between these two extreme views.  Bible prophecy shows us in Revelation 13 that a  two powerful figures, one political and one religious, will arise out of a period of crisis to bring order and stability out of potential chaos. We go into detail on this in our booklet, The Book of Revelation Unveiled.