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  • Immigration, Identity, Islam
  • Written by: Douglas Murray
  • Narrated by: Robert Davies
  • Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (245 ratings)

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The Strange Death of Europe

Written by: Douglas Murray
Narrated by: Robert Davies
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The Strange Death of Europe is a highly personal account of a continent and culture caught in the act of suicide. Declining birth rates, mass immigration, and cultivated self-distrust and self-hatred have come together to make Europeans unable to argue for themselves and incapable of resisting their own comprehensive alteration as a society and an eventual end.

This is not just an analysis of demographic and political realities; it is also an eyewitness account of a continent in self-destruct mode. It includes accounts based on travels across the entire continent, from the places where migrants land to the places they end up, from the people who pretend they want them to the places which cannot accept them.

Murray takes a step back at each stage and looks at the bigger and deeper issues which lie behind a continent's possible demise, from an atmosphere of mass terror attacks to the steady erosion of our freedoms. The audiobook addresses the disappointing failure of multiculturalism, Angela Merkel's U-turn on migration, the lack of repatriation, and the Western fixation on guilt. Murray travels to Berlin, Paris, Scandinavia, Lampedusa, and Greece to uncover the malaise at the very heart of the European culture and to hear the stories of those who have arrived in Europe from far away.

This sharp and incisive audiobook ends up with two visions for a new Europe - one hopeful, one pessimistic - which paint a picture of Europe in crisis and offer a choice as to what, if anything, we can do next. But perhaps Spengler was right: 'civilizations, like humans, are born, briefly flourish, decay, and die'.

©2017 Douglas Murray (P)2017 Audible, Ltd

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"This is a vitally important book, the contents of which should be known to everyone who can influence the course of events, at this critical time in the history of Europe." (Sir Roger Scruton)

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Well written but a very sad reality for Europe.

I live in Canada our politicians are doing the same thing here and I fear we're going to face the same reality as Europe somewhere down the line. Why don't politicians listen to the people that built the country This is our home our lives our families we don't owe the world anything but we owe our family's everything

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What is the exact value of this book?

This is one of those books where I enjoyed it because it coincides with what I believe but does not provide any real value. This is a long elaborate opinion that is mostly backed by news stories that I would imagine most people are already familiar with. One thing that threw me off is his presentation of the story of the little boy that washed up on the shore. I read the book about that little boy written by his aunt and the family lived in horrid conditions following their escape from Syria so saying the father had a job in Turkey was a very serious stretch to misrepresent their story. It just made me wonder how many of such reporting liberties were taken throughout the book. I also can't express enough how horrendous the narrator's accents are for various quotes from leaders/authors around the world. No matter if he's quoting someone from Italy or Iran, they all sound like they're from Transylvania. Losing the awfully cringe accents would make it much better. Again the overall tone of the book is great and is brave of the author to address these issues and there is immense value in that very fact. But in terms of its content I thought it didnt have much depth to it.

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Not fair

It was a pain listening to this book, considering I’m a Muslim myself. I believe the author has a specific hatred towards the Muslim community and Islam as a whole, not just immigrants.

He painted all Muslims from all walks of life with a single brush and a single colour and tone!

Surely the Muslim community have the good and the bad, but saying they are all criminals, rapists, terrorists and crime motivators as this book suggests, is a clear lie and an effort to manipulate the minds of listeners.

I lived in Canada for 8 years and I don’t have a single crime, not even speeding tickets!!

This is not fair!!

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a very interesting take

Murray is one of the most interesting thinkers coming out of europe and this book is a sobering read.

While one may disagree with a variety of his points, what cannot be denied is that there is at least something happening on the old continent

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Awesome book!

interesting collection of stories that really highlights the history of the migrant crisis in europe.

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A powerful voice for reason

I found this book to be a much needed commentary on the state of the Europe and in general western democracies and how blindly following this globalist ideology is leading to a real perilous situation.
Wanting to be compassionate, caring , generous and charitable to others in need is a goal we should all strive for.
It needs to be balanced with whats sustainable, integration and support and costs and fairness needs to be apart of this conversation. In Canada we're abit farther behind on the curve on the impacts of not being prepaired, but there are so many lessons we can learn from looking at Europe that we should learn and heed before we make the same mistakes. #Audible1

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Insightful

Very compelling and exceptionally well narrarated. I wish everyone read Douglas Murray. 5 Stars isn't enough.

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Insightful and well narrated.

A sophisticated and compelling narrative of an uncomfortable truth. This is a topic that needs to be discussed and Murray bravely discussed it.

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interesting book

I would love to say I enjoyed this book but the reality is the subject matter is disturbing. That said it's also important that conversations have two sides and I found Douglas's take very interesting.

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Excellent, but…

if feels like too much focus on problems of the left. The right is responsible for at least 40% of our strange death.

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