The United States of Europe is “the illusion of Euro-maniacs who are destroying sovereign nations without at least creating a sovereign Europe in its place” – said Éric Zemmour, who visited the Hungarian capital on the occasion of the IV. Budapest Demographic Summit, in his interview with Magyar Nemzet.
The anti-immigration French writer-journalist currently boasts 11 percent in the polls with still a half year left until the French presidential elections. If the people were to vote today, he would receive millions of votes. However, Zemmour still did not disclose whether he will officially run as a candidate.
At the IV. Budapest Demographic Summit, you said that the Hungarians are well aware of dangers threatening them. What did you mean by that?
This means that Hungarians have two types of political experiences. One comes from the Islam-Ottoman occupation, and the other from the Soviet rule, which meant submission to a totalitarian regime. With these experiences under their belt, Hungarians are able to especially accurately spot the dangers lurking around us, such as the Islamic invasion, and the progressive ideology which is a totalitarian system just without the Gulag. Under the leadership of Viktor Orbán, Hungarians are resisting both and I think that is no accident. Nations are formed by their history and how they react is also due to their history. French intellectual René Girard, writes in one of his last books, Achever Clausewitz, that today we are entering a spirit of the age where we are closer to Charles Martell and the Crusaders than to the French Revolution and the consequences of the Second Empire’s industrialization. Today we are living through the same struggles between Islam and Christianity, East and West. This struggle never came to an end. One of the basic elements is demography.
To what extent?
To the extent that the West – including you since the fall of the Berlin wall – is living under another phenomenon: its deconstruction. Since the 1960s, our intellectuals, our elites, our universities have adopted, based on the American model, the concept that Allan Bloom has described so acutely: an attitude of deconstruction and rejection. They have convinced us that we are sinners. We are guilty of slavery, World War II, the holocaust, colonization and the oppression of women, children, blacks, and Muslims. Just about everything. And in order to be absolved of these sins, we are capable of doing anything – including destroying our own civilization. But Eastern European countries are exempt from this as they were victims of Communist and Soviet oppression. And this is what arms them – what a historical paradox! –from having to be absolved of these sins. History sometimes entertains us with stories like these, that have both tragic and strange twists. But what kind of deconstruction are we referring to, the deconstruction of what? First the nation, then the family, then the role of the father, then man himself, and then the biological sexes. I wrote about this seven years ago in my book, Suicide français (French Suicide): deconstruction is followed by ridicule, and then destruction. Islam is also an ally in the destruction of the nation, family and individual, which, taking advantage of our weakening state, is forcing their own norms on us. Take for example the Muslim women’s headscarf: what does this symbolize? That they are Islamizing our streets and our public spheres.
