Guillaume Faye, The Colonization of Europe, Arktos, 2016, 400 pp., $30.40 (softcover)

The Colonization of Europe was written 16 years ago by a Frenchman about a continent 3,500 miles away from ours, and yet the racial crisis it describes is virtually identical to our own. Even more eerily–and what makes this book so valuable–its analysis of the lickspittle mentality of European whites is a near perfect diagnosis of America's rulers. Despite distance, language and cultural barriers, and even a long history of Franco-American antagonism, the same psychological disease rages on both sides of the Atlantic. All Western nations have the same disease. This is deeply sobering, but our similarities are so great that if even just one government pulls back from the brink, it could be a model for the rest.

The author of The Colonization of Europe is the prolific and talented Guillaume Faye, who wrote Convergence of Catastrophes, Why We Fight, and Archeofuturism, all offered to English-speaking readers by the increasingly indispensable Arktos. He has also spoken at two American Renaissance conferences, where he electrified audiences with his passionate defense of the West. He is one of the great spokesman for our people.

Colonization

"Europe," Mr. Faye writes, "is undergoing a demographic and ethno-cultural tragedy." With France in the lead, it is allowing itself to be colonized by aliens, often the very people Europeans colonized in the 19th century. This time, however, it is "colonization from below" by floods of non-whites who, through force of numbers, are conquering a continent their own nations could never hope to dominate by force.

Mr. Faye cites two causes. One is the expansionist nature of Islam, which, since it crossed the Straits of Gibraltar in 711 AD, has always coveted Europe. But far more dangerous is the catastrophic loss of will by Europeans, who act as if they believe in "the natural right of all human beings to settle in Western Europe." As Mr. Faye writes, "Throughout the Third World, we are spreading the word: 'Europeans do not defend themselves. They pity us and would never dare evict us.' "

Promoting colonization is the new European religion: Protestants, Catholics, Jews, and even Communists all cooperate in welcoming Muslims who hate them. Socialists and Greens like immigration because they think Arabs and Africans will vote for the Left–and many do–but Mr. Faye calls this a short-term, suicidal strategy because immigrants will surely start their own Muslim-ethnic political parties and spurn the Left.

Politicians are also united: "The soft Right allows our colonization to take place through its own laziness, its weariness, and out of fear of being accused of inhumanity, while the insane Left encourages settlement through political miscalculation and ideological passion." Except for a few dissidents, Europeans are drunk on Kool-Aid: "Just like in the Coca-Cola formula, it is difficult to determine the proportion of imbecility, hallucinated altruism, anti-racist snobbery, ethnomasochism, and political (mis)calculation that is in this cocktail."

Every public figure in France today, writes Mr. Faye, would agree that "racism is personally what he hates most and is the ultimate sin against the human spirit." To dissent on race or immigration "is to risk ostracism, professional banishment, and moral or criminal conviction."

The result is incoherence. The French government officially takes no notice of race or religion, because Frenchmen are defined only by "republican values." Therefore, there is no official count of non-whites and Muslims. However, everyone knows that they clump together in what are euphemistically known as "sensitive" areas where even the police often fear to go. The government is therefore careful to send in only non-white mail carriers, school teachers, and census takers because whites would be attacked. Mr. Faye laughs at this sensitivity to a reality that officially does not exist–a "beautiful contradiction," he calls it.

Anyone who wants better data on race is suspect. Mr. Faye cites the case of lefty demographer Michèle Tribalat who wanted to know the number of non-whites so she could calculate their underrepresentation in elite jobs. She was accused of being part of the "extreme right." Mr. Faye calls this preference for ignorance "breaking the thermometer;" the patient is near death but refuses to hear the diagnosis.

Of course, everyone knows the truth anyway. That is why television is a "scrupulously inverse depiction of reality," full of Arab social workers who counsel wayward French youth, and mixed-race couples living storybook lives. France has trumpeted the news