© Raymond Ibrahim, *Sword and Scimitar*, 2018

Western Europe is currently paying the price of historical amnesia.

Thanks to decades of mass Muslim migration—with particularly severe outcomes in the United Kingdom, Germany, and France—Western Europe has experienced surging crime rates in migrant-dense areas, grooming gang scandals involving the systematic sexual abuse of thousands of native girls, the emergence of parallel societies governed by sharia norms, welfare systems strained to breaking point, and growing cultural enclaves that function as de facto no-go zones for police and non-Muslims. Integration has largely failed, as large segments of these migrant communities reject Western values in favor of Islamic supremacism and separatism.

In stark contrast, nations like Hungary and Poland, which refused large-scale Muslim settlement and maintained strict border controls and deportation policies, have largely avoided these crises, preserving far higher levels of social cohesion, public safety, and cultural continuity.

This is the difference between those who remember—and those who forget—history: the latter are doomed to repeat it.

Put differently, Western Europe is suffering from the same Islamic expansionism and supremacism that Europe faced for over a thousand years—precisely because it has forgotten that long struggle; and nations like Hungary and Poland are not—precisely because they remember it.

If you doubt this, consider some facts for a moment…

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