In right wing spheres, The Camp of the Saints by Jean Raspail is frequently cited literature in the fight against mass immigration to the west by the third world. The niche satirical novel depicts the journey and subsequent political fallout of Indians taking an old ship from Calcutta to the shores of southern France. Raspail was a man who journeyed the world and was a prolific French writer. His depictions of the Indian migrants was hardly favorable, yet his greater emphasis throughout the novel is the French media, clergy, and politicians who aided and abetted the invasion of France.
Because of these depictions of Indians using poop for fuel (see Ezekiel 4:15), their indifference towards their own dead and fellow Indians, their rejection of Western charity, and the subsequent social decay that follows their presence in France, this book has been censored and “banned” for many years. Last year, Vauban Books published translation of the book, taking from a previously translated version.
In a political environment where mass immigration is the number one issue, the book makes many saliant points that have been realized as third world immigration comes to the West. The depiction of the Catholic Church as hapless and counter-productive to stop the migrant hordes has been realized, and it is especially noteworthy that the pope in the book is a South American. Pope Francis was from South America while the current Pope Leo ministered in South America. While they might not liquidate the Vatican for “charity,” both popes are in favor of mass immigration. Raspail, being a French Catholic, offers a steady critique of the universal church that has become apparatuses of twentieth century liberalism, some of which under the guise of ecumenism. He depicts priests who hardly believe their religion playing vital roles in bringing about the invasion of Europe. These things have come to pass with the litany of religious NGO’s sponsoring mass immigration into the west. The spiritual state of France preceding the moral impotence that allowed it to occur while ignoring the warnings until it was too late.
While the satire appears outlandish, the logic behind the characters is very true: the media joyously celebrating the hordes, the academics who champion them under the guise of blank slate liberalism, the French anarchists types who welcome them for the destruction they will bring, and the ethnic blocs already immigrated that favor the hordes. In some capacity, the books depictions have all rung true with the words being spoken or realized by modern leftists. The most famous of which is spoken by a French anarchist:
Three centuries, father to son…disgusting. I look at you and you know what I think? I think you’re perfect. That’s why I hate you. And it’s here, to your house, that I’ll bring the most wretched ones tomorrow. They know nothing about what you are, about what you represent. Your world means nothing to them. They won’t try to understand. They’ll be tired. They’ll be cold. They’ll build a fire with your lovely oak door.
The quote describes the ingratitude and disrespect that often accompanies the migrant hordes when traveling to the West. The image of the burning oak door represents the high time preference behavior that often comes from the third world, where they would destroy for temporary gain that which provides long term benefit. Ultimately, proponents of immigration do so out of hatred for their countrymen, whether because they want whites to be demographically replaced or like Don Bacon, they support Haitian leeches out of spite and a false sense of moral superiority to their voters.
This past week, Amazon briefly banned The Camp of the Saints from its website and subsequently unbanned it, which has boosted sales as the book reached a spot in the top ten domestically. Many conservatives rallied in support of the book and against Amazon’s temporary censorship.
But when Southern Baptist pastor Tom Ascol supported the novel, calling it a chilling read, the accuser of the brethren showed up.
McGowan tries to use the racism card against Ascol while attempting to paint him as glamorizing the sexual abuse content in the book. It should be noted that McGowan’s wife had wonderful things to say about Lolita which is a book about a man that is sexually infatuated about a twelve-year-old girl. The log in thy eye is straining against a gnat.
The harsh reality is that the behaviors in the book are authentic and have been fully realized in the West. Child sexual abuse is much more common amongst certain immigrant groups, and while jarring, these things are portrayed in the book. In Africa, degenerate and abusive sexual practices led to the spread of HIV/AIDS. The proliferation of criminals sodomizing the most vulnerable is why countries like Uganda enact such stringent legislation against sodomy. In South Africa, rape culture is so normalized amongst the non-whites that 27.6% of men were found to have committed rape. In Afghanistan, American soldiers became exposed to Bacha Bazzi, which is a “traditional” practice of anally raping boys. Child sexual abuse happens at astonishing levels in the third world. When those people go to either Europe or America, those behaviors often follow them. This must not be denied because the perpetrators are brown.
The book also portrays child abandonment. The famous missionary William Carey testified to child sacrifice in India, that if not for Western laws, would still be ongoing, but in the book is reduced to irreligious abandonment.
Many things in The Camp of the Saints might be shocking to the readers’ sensibilities, but that is also the author’s intention. The West is already seeing the horrors of mass immigration upon its shores, though much more subtle than large ships crashing upon the shores with hordes of people. If anything, Raspail undersells how the State would weaponize immigration against its people, giving them priority treatment, tolerating their criminality, and punishing dissent. The French government in the book is largely incompetent and collapses into a failed state, which cannot be described of Western Democracies as of yet.
The Camp of the Saints is a controversial warning against mass immigration. It does indeed contain some chilling moments but not inaccurately nor in a way that glamorizes violence. Many so-called Christians will call the book “racist” because they cling to a Blank Slate anthropology of mankind that does not permit one to view differences in races that have manifestations at scale. The Third World is not like the West. It will never be. The West will not survive if turned over to people who did not build it, did not inherit it, and cannot maintain it. That is the warning of the novel.
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It’s probably not “brethren”, but Masons.