Episode Details

Harry Cole is joined by author and historian Raymond Ibrahim to discuss whether Western plans for multiculturalism have gone off the rails. Ibrahim says integration is only possible with smaller numbers; large influxes lead to “parallel societies,” “no-go zones,” and the rise of radicalism among young Muslims who, he claims, “despise liberal ideology.” The more the West appeases, the more it’s disrespected, he argues. “Gays for Gaza?” Not likely, says Ibrahim, “useful idiots” is his phrase for left-wing allies who, he says enables the West's weakening. Are we at a tipping point? “It’s already here,” says Ibrahim. Even if you closed the borders tomorrow, you’d still have to “live with” a big, non-integrated, and potentially hostile population. His predictions aren’t cheery: violence, disorder, and a “combustible situation.”He points to the UK’s grooming gang scandals and claims that, unlike the US, Europe’s problem is “existential”. Islam has, he says, “been trying to conquer Europe for centuries.”

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