November 20, 2025
It’s not irrational to worry about mass Muslim migration
By Andrea Widburg
I oppose mass Muslim immigration, and I worry greatly when devout Muslims gain political power. This has nothing to do with racism and ideology; it has everything to do with proven history and current affairs. This is quite different from antisemitism, which is an irrational dislike of Jews, sometimes amounting to murderous hatred, of a people who are not members of your particular tribe.
There are a few strands of thought here, so let me see if I can disentangle them. Today, it started for me when I was reading a D.E. Stevenson book. She was a mid-20th-century British author who wrote sweet books about nice people in England and Scotland who lived their lives, fell in love, had children, etc. They, as much as chocolate, are my retreat when the news depresses me.
For all her sweetness and her view of the societal necessity of a loving, albeit muscular Christianity, Stevenson disliked Jews, something that was unchanged by the Holocaust. For example, in Five Windows, which she published in 1953, Stevenson includes this passage about her young protagonist, David, going shopping for used furniture:
I had expected, not unnaturally, to meet a fellow-Scot but there was nothing Scots about Mr. Mackenzie except his name. If his name had been Mr. Abraham I should have felt more at ease with him. It would have suited his nose and his olive skin and his dark sad eyes. Mr. Mackenzie was no Shylock; he was well-dressed; he spoke good English and had a dignified and benevolent air. (p. 150.)The Jew is the other. He’s not trustworthy, and you need a friend at your side (as David had), so that you don’t become a victim of his avarice. The fact that 6 million Jews had only recently been slaughtered when Germany went insane and decided that “the other” needed to be exterminated mattered not one whit to Stevenson. What’s important to note about Stevenson’s attitude toward Jews is while she didn’t like them, she understood that they were not a societal threat.
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