Rod Dreher

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Interesting Times · Preparing for ‘Weimar America’ · 9 Jul 2026 podcast

But it will happen if those in charge don't take it seriously and act meaningfully to head it off at the pass.

In Europe, unlike the United States, a great deal of immigration into Europe has been from Islamic countries.

And Muslims have been, by and large, you don't want to generalize, but by and large, the ones who have caused problems are young Muslim men who will not assimilate.

Now, it is also true that European countries are much more difficult than the U.S.

to assimilate into.

I mean, having lived in Europe, I was treated with nothing but kindness, but I'll never be European.

That said, the problem with Islam in Europe is Muslims, by and large, know what they believe, and they set themselves in an antagonistic position.

place to the secularism of Europe.

In fact, I've talked to Muslims who said, we would respect you more if you were Christian, if you were really Christian.

And I think that what the religiosity of practicing Muslims has come to mean in Europe is it makes a lot of the secularists worried because they don't have the same commitment that the Muslims do.

If we don't recover Christianity in the West in some meaningful way, not just a nominal way,

then Islam will be the heir because people, you can't fight something with nothing.

Now, this is the message that Michel Houellebecq famously articulated in his book, Submission.

It was wrongly perceived as an anti-Muslim book.

It's not.

The enemy in that book is the malaise, the sort of layabout French secularists.

would you as a christian prefer an islamic europe to a secular europe you know i'm an eastern orthodox convert of 20 years eastern orthodoxy in islam well no no yeah they've had their problems have their differences if you speak to arab christians or christians who have lived under the islamic yoke in centuries past you can't possibly say that is that you would prefer islam

living under actual Islam to even the corruption and the malaise of the secular West today.

Yeah, well, to paraphrase T.S.

Eliot, you know, if you will not pay your respects to the God of the Bible, then you had better be prepared to pay your respects to Allah.

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