Europe would no longer be the same Europe

Lalit Shastri

Upon returning from Italy in December 2022

It won't be long before Europe is completely Arabised. The burqa or the hijab will dominate the streets, and Sharia law will replace all the democratic institutions and laws that were built over centuries around human rights and an inclusive society. Europe is doomed—I can see the writing on the wall.

Wait and watch: the Italians will regret it just as much as the Germans, Dutch, French, Belgians, and British will in the coming years. They have opened the floodgates for Bangladeshi migrant workers to fill the gap created by the reluctance of young native Italians to take up low-paid jobs in the infrastructure sector. Beyond forming a major part of the workforce needed for road and construction industries, the Bangladeshis have also taken over the weekly flea markets, not only in crowded tourist places like Venice but also in small towns in the northern Alps of the Friuli-Venezia-Giulia region.

Europe is already doomed, with no ground left to turn the clock back.

Way back in 1998, I saw that most London metro stations were swarmed with Muslim migrants. By 2022, more than 90 percent of the shopkeepers in Venice's shopping arcades and flea markets across small towns in the Alps were migrant Muslims, mostly from Bangladesh. Almost everyone I asked confirmed this.

When asked about the immigration policy leading to this imbalance, a senior politician in Italy explained that the infrastructure sector demands manpower, and the local youth are reluctant to take on labor-intensive jobs. This is where migrants come in handy.

Furthermore, the so-called liberals and intellectuals in Europe, many of whom are in power or have have held power in recent years, have kept the floodgates open for Muslim migrants and refugees from Africa and the Middle East. They justify their open-door policy with terms like diversity and inclusive society.