Question posed by writer Hanif Kureishi in an overly sentimental article in today's Guardian

"What is Europe so scared of" is the question posed by writer Hanif Kureishi in an overly sentimental article in today's Guardian.

Hanif Kureishi has obviously not read Gregory of Tours' History of the Franks which records the way in which a thousand years of Roman civilisation was gradually overwhelmed by the entry into Roman territory of those who most desired to become Romans.

It is not the immigrants that are feared, it is the possibility of a new dark age that might be the unintentional result of such social change.

Civilisation is not so resiliant that it can absorb millions of incomers every decade.

There must eventually be a tipping point when civilisation disintegrates.

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/30/hanif-kureishi-migrant-immigration-1