The Islamic riots in France have spread to Belgium, and Brussels looks like a war zone right now. This is the capital of the European Union. 88% of people under 18 have a foreign background, and more than half are Muslim. What has Europe done to itself?

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Right-wing explanations for the French riots run from mass migration and Islam to sarcastic talk of “cultural enrichment.” Those are partly true. But do not explain why so many white, indigenous kids are taking part. Left-wing media blames the state of French education and police brutality. That does not explain the scale of the destruction, or why it has spread to Belgium. The truth is worse. This is the revolt of Gen Z and Gen Alpha. A generation stripped of identity. It is the endgame of anti-nationalism, of anti-French postwar self-hatred. Boomers taught these kids to hate their own cultural inheritance. So now they have none. Without that internal order, chaos follows. This is not only about foreign cultures. It is the slow murder of European culture, over decades, by its own leaders. The same void underlay the American BLM riots and the British pro-Palestine riots. Western civilisation is the greatest humanity has yet produced. It is under attack from inside and out — a spiritual attack. Kids should be proud of their home. They need to be. They need an identity. And, as an Englishman, I hate to say it, that applies even to the French.