[Order Michael Finch’s new book, A Time to Stand: HERE. Prof. Jason Hill calls it “an aesthetic and political tour de force.”]
An influx of Muslims from Libya, arriving by boat, has suddenly inundated Greece. These Libyans are economic migrants posing as asylum seekers. While not nearly as generous a welfare state as France, Germany, and the U.K., Greece offers other benefits. As a country consisting partly of hundreds of islands, it is much easier for those illegal migrants in boats to land in Greece. It is a stepping-stone for those migrants who can then make their way to European states that offer many more benefits. But not all of those migrants do leave for other countries in Europe. Along with Turkish Muslims who have lived for generations in Thrace, there are 550,000 recent Muslim arrivals. As their numbers grow, they will inevitably affect the lives of Greek Christians. How will the lives of those Christians change? One way to predict that change, argues Uzay Bulut here, is to look at how Christians have over the centuries been treated in Libya: “Import Libya, Become Libya,” by Uzay Bulut, European Conservative, September 14, 2025:
Greece is currently flooded by illegal Muslim migrants from Libya and other Muslim-majority nations. It is thus significant to ask what kind of a culture Greece, and the rest of Europe, is importing by receiving these migrants en masse. The way Christians in Libya are treated gives a clear answer.On April 15, a Libyan court sentenced eleven Christians from a Muslim background—nine Libyan men, one Libyan woman, and one Pakistani man—to prison terms ranging from three to 15 years on charges that include “insulting Islam” and “insulting religious sanctities and rituals using the internet.”
Six of those Christians were reportedly arrested in 2023 for converting to Christianity and proselytizing. The authorities tried to use torture to force them to recant their faith. A U.S. citizen was also arrested by Libya’s Internal Security Agency (ISA) and was expelled from the country following accusations of proselytizing.
In another Libyan incident, a Christian convert from a Muslim background received a death sentence over “apostasy” in 2022. The convert was reportedly required to publish the verdict in a local newspaper and on a local radio station, as well as display it outside his residence and the court. He did not have legal representation during the proceedings. He is imprisoned while his case remains pending with the Supreme Court….
Slavery and human trafficking still take place despite an international outcry in 2017 when CNN showed video evidence of an auction of Sub-Saharan Africans, many of whom are Christian.Several church buildings and other places of Christian worship, mostly belonging to Sub-Saharan African Christians, have been attacked, demolished, or damaged. In 2022, the Union Church of Tripoli received a court order to leave the building it had used for more than fifty years. Hence, there are few church buildings in the country….
And in addition, Christians are forbidden either to repair existing churches or to build new ones.
Today, it is difficult to get reliable statistics on any religious community in Libya. There are probably no Jews at all, and some estimate that there are around 35,000 Christians left, the overwhelming majority of whom are migrant workers.
The extreme persecution against the tiny Christian community in Libya is reason enough why Islamic migration from Libya and other Muslim nations to Europe must be stopped. Otherwise, if we import Libya, we will become Libya. If you import Islam, you will, sooner or later, be conquered by Islam.
A gloomy view: If you import Islam, you will be conquered by Islam. That is, conquered demographically. But there are signs that Europeans are waking up to the problem of Muslim immigration. In Great Britain, at least 150,000 people — some participants claim there were one million people — showed up for a march on September 13 in the center of London, in order to protest against Muslim immigration. In France, the leading party is now Marine Le Pen’s National Rally, whose main appeal is her determination to end Muslim migration and to deport all Muslims guilty of breaking the law, including all those who entered the country illegally.
In Germany, despite the attempts of the other parties to ban it, the second largest political party is now the anti-Muslim immigrant Alternative für Deutschland. In the Netherlands the largest party is Geert Wilders’ anti-Muslim immigrant Party For Freedom; in Italy, the party of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Fratelli d’Italia, is similarly attempting to prevent Muslim migrants from entering the country.
Europeans have now had sufficient experience with the mass influx of Muslims to have drawn their own melancholy conclusions. To wit, the large-scale presence of Muslims in Europe has led to a situation, for the indigenous non-Muslims, that is far more unpleasant, expensive, and physically dangerous than would be the case without that large-scale presence.
Think of the tens of thousands of English girls whose lives were ruined by Pakistani grooming gangs. Think of the rise in crime across Europe, where Muslims are five to ten times more likely to commit crimes, as the prison statistics tell us, than are the natives. In France, 10% of the population is Muslim, but 60% of the prisoners are Muslim. In the U.K., 6.5% of the population is Muslim, but 20% of the prisoners are Muslim. In Germany, 7% of the population is Muslim but 23% of the prisoners are Muslim.
Think of the hundreds of billions of dollars that have been spent by European welfare states to lavish every benefit on Muslim migrants, including free or greatly subsidized housing, free medical care, free education, family allowances, and more. And think not only of hundreds of No-Go areas where non-Muslims now do not dare to enter, or the general feeling among indigenes of malaise and anxiety because of the large and aggressive Muslim populations they now must now contend with.
How long will Europeans tolerate this state of affairs? By the looks of things, including that latest march in London, it might not be for much longer.