March 22, 2016 entered contemporary history as another day made dark by a new terrorist act in Europe. This time it took place in Brussels, Belgium roughly following the general pattern of its Parisian predecessor in late 2015 by targeting multiple heavily populated areas: a major metro station and the city’s airport. These violent acts resulted in dozens of deaths and hundreds of injuries and were later attributed to the so-called Islamic State terrorist group, although at the time of writing the criminal evidence is just making its way into the media.

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Much like the Paris attacks, the Brussels bombing was born of a lethal mix of spearheading globalism at home and abroad, often described as “invade the world, invite the world.” Europe’s domestic suicidal tolerance and open borders fused with seemingly neverending Washington-led ‘humanitarian interventions’. The so-called Old World has been able to enjoy the lull of relative prosperity for several decades after the Second World War. This, in part, left it with a false sense of security and moral superiority.

This full-bellied sentiment is combined with a profound philosophical crisis, in which Europe rejected what made it Europe—for millennia—in the first place: both the last vestiges of sociocultural institutions of historic Christianity along with rootedness for its indigenous peoples. Yet it also failed to find an adequate replacement, a new raison d’être.
 

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