Christopher Rufo writes at City Journal:
Since my last visit nearly two decades ago, the white British population of London has declined from 60 percent to 37 percent. Meantime, the Muslim population of London has nearly doubled, and migrants from South Asia and Africa have entrenched themselves throughout the city.
Anglos have been a minority for more than a decade.
What I’ve observed in the city this week has amazed me. Women’s eyes peering through the slit of black niqabs. A procession of sub-Saharan Africans traversing Westminster Bridge, waving the flags of their homelands and demanding reparations. Street corners that could be confused for Peshawar or Islamabad. Districts in which one could pass an entire day with barely a glimpse of an Englishman.
The history of mass migration in Britain is a history of civil tension, punctuated by violence: riots, terrorism, murder, rape.
The structure of a civilization is a delicate thing. Changing its citizens will, over time, change its form. This process is underway in London. The buildings, avenues, and palaces look the same as before; there is still a parliament, a king, and the pound. But the central city feels hollowed out. The old connection between citizen and nation has been altered. The old bonds of culture have been frayed.
To engage in violence is not the answer. But neither is the answer to pretend that this conflict, or this re-composition, does not exist.
Reality has a way of breaking through.
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