The Invasion and Islamisation of Europe: Bishop Athanasius Schneider, By Richard Miller (Londonistan)
Bishop Athanasius Schneider's statement, "We are currently witnessing an invasion. There are no refugees here. It is an invasion of the mass Islamization of Europe,"
reflects a sane stance on immigration and cultural change in Europe, rooted in his broader critique of globalism and secularism.
Athanasius Schneider, born Anton Schneider in 1961 in Tokmok, Kyrgyzstan (then part of the Soviet Union), is a Catholic auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Saint Mary in Astana, Kazakhstan. His family, ethnic Germans, faced persecution under Stalin, deported to Central Asia after World War II. Raised in a clandestine Catholic community amid Soviet repression, Schneider's early life shaped his staunch orthodoxy and suspicion of ideological overreach. Emigrating to Germany in 1973, he later joined the Canons Regular of the Holy Cross of Coimbra, was ordained a priest in 1990, and consecrated a bishop in 2006 by Cardinal Angelo Sodano in Rome.
Schneider has emerged as a prominent traditionalist voice in the Catholic Church, often clashing with progressive trends under Pope Francis. Known for defending the Tridentine Mass and critiquing Vatican II's ambiguities, he's authored works like Dominus Est and Christus Vincit, blending theology with cultural commentary. His Soviet background fuels his distrust of supranational agendas, which he sees mirrored in modern globalism and EU policies—hence his framing of immigration as a deliberate attack on Christian Europe.
Schneider's claim isn't a one-off rant; it's a distilled expression of his long-standing views on immigration, Islam, and Western identity, voiced in interviews and writings since at least 2018.
The quote aligns with sentiments Schneider expressed in a 2018 Il Giornale interview, where he called mass migration "an orchestrated and long-prepared plan by international powers to radically change the Christian and national identities of the European peoples." He reiterated this in a 2025 YouTube clip, framing it as an "invasion" rather than a refugee crisis—a view echoed by figures like Hungary's Viktor Orbán. The timing—amid Europe's ongoing migration debates and Russia's war with Ukraine—amplifies its resonance.
Schneider distinguishes between genuine refugees (like his persecuted family) and what he sees as economic or ideological migrants. He argues the latter, predominantly Muslim, are tools of a globalist elite aiming to "dilute" Europe's Christian and national character—a conspiracy he ties to the EU, which he's likened to a "new Soviet Union" with "Masonic ideology."
Schneider's worldview involves a clash of absolutes—Christian truth versus secular lies. He sees Europe's Christian heritage as a non-negotiable good, rooted in divine order (akin to Aquinas' natural law), under siege by relativism and Islam, which is true. His "invasion" rhetoric isn't just demographic—it's existential, a spiritual battle where Islam's rise threatens the West's soul. This echoes his broader critique of Vatican II's interfaith dialogue, which he believes softens Catholicism's exclusivity (Christus Vincit).
Politically, he aligns with Europe's populist right—Orbán, Salvini—who've long warned of "Islamisation." Schneider's not alone— many others, covered at this blog in past months predict Muslims as Europe's majority in 30-40 years, amplifying his alarm. That includes me as well.
The wokeness and weakness of the West is illustrated by the case below will ensure a snowball effect as immigration gets out of control, or rather under Islamic control down the tracks:
"A Pakistani who was convicted of sexually assaulting a woman was allowed to stay in Britain after he claimed he was gay.
The sex offender had been living in the UK illegally for 11 years but was granted refugee status after arguing he was homosexual and would face persecution in his home country in breach of his human rights.
The unnamed 53-year-old made his asylum claim and insisted he was gay just months after he was convicted of assaulting the woman.
He was allowed to stay in the UK by an asylum court despite there being a lack of evidence that he was homosexual, official judgments show. The Home Office said it "did not accept he was living in the UK as a gay man" because of his flimsy evidence, the court was told.
The case, disclosed in court papers, is the latest example exposed by The Telegraph where migrants or convicted foreign criminals have won the right to remain in the UK or halt their deportations, often by citing breaches of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
They include an Albanian criminal who avoided deportation after claiming his son had an aversion to foreign chicken nuggets, and a Pakistani paedophile who was jailed for child sex offences but escaped removal from the UK as it would be "unduly harsh" on his own children."
No thought here about the victims of his crime, almost certainly a white.
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