The headline here read: “Strangers in own country: Muslim students outnumber ethnic Austrians in Vienna.”

The article continued: “Ethnic Austrians are now a minority in Vienna’s elementary schools, with Muslim pupils rising to a whopping 41.2 per cent. The shift has sparked political backlash, language challenges and growing concerns over classroom disorder.

MUSLIM MAJORITY

“According to official data from the city’s school council, 41.2 per cent of students in Vienna’s elementary schools identify as Muslim, compared to 34.5 per cent identifying as Christian.”

Well, that is a killer fact, right there – 41.2 per cent. A real attention-grabber.

Vienna, the capital of the Habsburg monarchy and of Old Europe, leaves Londonistan for dead.

This isn’t just some Mark Steyn gloom-and-doom, “demography is destiny” prognostication about a far-off future. This is real. This is now.

I visited Vienna for a week last year. The week was filled with awe. With medieval cathedrals. With wondrous walks through the old city. With castles dripping with history.

With art galleries filled with the works of the masters. Dutch, French, English, German, Italian. The wonders of Carravaggio, Rembrandt, Turner, Bruegel (times two), and the rest of the boys in the band.

Not only a feast for the senses, but a snapshot of the big three of Judeo-Christian civilisation – the good, the true and the beautiful.

As they say, Europe is lost. We are a little like the Bourbons. Learned nothing and forgot nothing.

Now, as then, Europe – or at least a Muslim-friendly bloke who hated the Habsburgs and the Catholics – invited the invaders in.

This time, see under Angela Merkel, circa 2015. And Macron, Blair, Cameron and Ursula von der Leyen.

With a mix of ideology, white guilt, naivete and non-engagement, there is now a weird alliance of Leftists, globalists, multiculturalists, Muslims and assorted anti-Semites. Globalists in theory meet globalists in practice.

RIOTS

The 41.2 per cent figure is the back story of the current riots taking place across the European continent.

In Epping, UK, for example.

The new governance model being rolled out by Storm trooper Starmer and his fellow globalists across the Channel could be summarised as follows:

• Raise legal migration, slowly and cautiously at first;
• Test popular reactions at each stage;
• Embed multiculturalism as the official ideology of the State;
• Capture the key political cultural institutions, one by one;
• Accelerate immigration;
• Welcome illegals, calling them refugees, and roll out the red carpet for them;
• Ignore the criminality of immigrants;
• Define, then, criminalise hate speech by the native population;
• Start locking up those who resist the narrative, without trial;
• Silence/demonise any dissidents.

This, in outline, is the new Europe. Call it the Blairite model of intended civilisational decline. Of which population replacement is the core element.

No more culture, no more tradition, no more Old Europe.

The Europe of the great masters is no more. The Blue Danube of Strauss. The streets of Old Vienna, thrilling to the music and the art and the architecture of the Holy Roman Empire and then of the Enlightenment, of the Baroque and the Romantic eras.

The only real resistance is coming from Viktor Orban’s Hungary, and he has an election next year which he may well lose.