Europeans Must Disabuse Themselves of the Dreamy Belief That They Owe the Muslim World Something

European authorities are planning to welcome tens of thousands of Gazans to the continent: “Europe Wants Thousands of Gazans to Immigrate. What Could Go Wrong?,” by Jonathan Sacerdoti, Algemeiner, August 24, 2026:

Despite the court finding that the family members were “financially dependent on the financial support arranged and provided by the sponsor,” the judgment also records something rather awkward: She could accommodate only her parents, works part-time, receives Universal Credit (a UK state benefit), and “would not be able” to support the wider family financially. The tribunal further found that, once in Britain, “it is foreseeable that they would require access to public funds.” So, the supposed dependence on her has a curious practical meaning. In Gaza, she helped organize and channel money from several sources; in Britain, the family’s material dependence would rapidly shift to the state. They are not dependent on her; they are dependent on us and our taxes.

The relative who managed to leave Gaza and settle in the UK and is now being allowed to bring in so many of her relatives — twenty at last count — is not, it turns out, able even to support herself fully, much less be able to financially support all these relatives. When she was in Gaza, she managed to raise funds from several sources to support those relatives — Western charities, UNRWA, paltry sums from oil-rich Arab countries. Once those relatives are in the West those sources, meant for people in Gaza, will no longer be available; they will have to rely on the British taxpayers.

“Family reunification,” in this case, meant parents, siblings, spouses, nephews, and nieces, with the British taxpayer picking up a substantial part of the practical burden. And now Europe is working toward admitting 40,000 people under the same comforting phrase.

Evidence accepted by the tribunal described Palestinian family structures as unusually extensive and interdependent by Western standards. One European conception of family reunification may mean a spouse and children. Another can encompass parents, adult siblings, their spouses, and several branches of an extended family. Forty thousand may therefore prove a remarkably elastic number.

If family reunification is no longer limited to the nuclear family as that unit is understood in the West, but will now include a huge number of relatives, in accord with the expansive definition of “family” that Arabs observe, those 40,000 could potentially lead to hundreds of thousands of Gazans being “reunified” with the relatives they have among those 40,000.

Then comes integration, usually considered seriously only after arrival. The British government recently released its almost unbelievable nine-page booklet for asylum seekers on how not to rape women. It explains concepts such as sexual consent, equality between men and women, domestic abuse, forced marriage, female genital mutilation, and the age of consent — consent must be freely given, marriage does not provide permanent sexual consent, intoxicated or unconscious people cannot consent, and sex without consent is rape. Just think what kind of person needs this guidance because of their cultural background. Then think of 39,999 more of them.

If Muslims need to be told that rape is not okay, that domestic abuse is not okay, that female genital mutilation is not okay, that minors cannot give consent to sexual encounters, that husbands must never force their wives to provide sexual release when those wives object, that girls must not be forced into marriages, especially with middle-aged or elderly men, all that means, Houston, is that we have a problem.

Europeans must disabuse themselves of the dreamy belief that they owe the Muslim world something, that they should be willing to take in people who cannot possibly be integrated successfully, people who have shown in their behavior across Europe over the past few decades that they have brought to their hosts only a world of woe. Europe has a right, and a duty, to survive. And that means, as far as Muslim immigrants are concerned, pulling up the drawbridge and letting down the portcullis, at Castle Europa.