Ethnic Apocalypse: The Coming European Civil War

by Guillaume Faye

In the last book he completed before his death, the irrepressible and trenchant Guillaume Faye takes a bold and ruthlessly candid look at the increasingly volatile situation on the ground in Europe.

With the growing incidence of Islamicist terrorism and inter-religious violence on European soil, alongside the first signs of native resistance to the demographic changes which have made this violence possible, Faye compellingly argues that Europe is poised for a terrible new civil war, threatening to break out along the many ethnic faultlines which have arisen thanks to years of bad immigration policies and bad political will.

Using some of the most troubling developments in French politics, culture and society as his arguments, Faye throws off the blinders of political correctness and confronts his readers with the harsh reality of an unsettled and deeply divisive multicultural Europe. Ethnic Apocalypse is a wake-up call aimed at making Europeans aware of their increasingly dire situation — before it is too late.

Genres: Politics

252 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 5, 2019

About the author

French political scientist, writer and journalist.

Faye was on of the main theorists of the French movement the "Nouvelle Droite". He was a member of Alain de Benoist's organisation GRECE until he parted from the organisation in 1986.

In 1987 he withdrew from politics and worked as a DJ for the radiostation "Skyrock"

In 1998 he re-entered politics with a book comprising diverse essays.

Reviews

[Owlseyes · Rating 4 out of 5]

“This Europe, always on the point of cutting its own throat in its unholy blindness”
Martin Heidegger, in Introduction to Metaphysics

"We have not seen anything yet in terms of migrational expansion’, says Serge Michaïlov, a researcher at Iris (Le Figaro, 01/02/2016). The nightmare has just begun…"
Page 32

"The fundamentalists of Human Rights remain insensitive to the right to preserve one’s own homeland. Just like UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, they persist in their belief that such migration is both “inevitable” and “necessary”.
Ivan Rioufol
Page 98

"Germany, France and England are collapsing under the weight of mass migration, while Poland and Hungary are thriving because they stood firm against it"
Steve Bannon 8th November 2025

"Nous vivons aujourd'hui le djihad du quotidian"
Éric Zemmour 9th November 2025


Jared Taylor, a friend of Guillaume Faye for many years, presents three possible scenarios for this apocalyptic future: (1) submission (2) defeat of French natives (3) victorious civil war. He doesn't admit, I guess, a compromise solution, a sort of mutual understanding between the "white Christian civilization" and Islam in Europe; especially regarding Salafism, the main driving (occupying) force, according to Guilaume Faye.

Looking at present numbers Guillaume's prediction looks a bit alarmist. Migration peaked in 2015 ( we remember Merkel allowing millions in Germany...) then in 2021 surged with the Ukrainan war; however, 2024 became a turning point and 2025 represents a downturn for migration. Certain nations surely updated/tightened their control over migrants coming into Europe.

The apocalyptic pictures drawn by Guilaume focus mainly on Christians versus islamists, but warn that even Jews have a "new question" to address.

Through the years, numerous cases of violence and "intense hate" over Christians ( Catholics "lost footing" deplores Guillaume) are well documented.

He died in 2019. The recent victory of a Muslim for the New York Mayor post, would challenge Guillaume, for sure. Especially because the newly-elect is also a socialist (some call him a Marxist). In France, Guillaume Faye would call it "psychotic Islamo-leftism" (a "world of madmen ").

Well, let's wait and see how things will develop in New York. Parallel issues in Nigeria may also bring new scenarios to the fore.

In the book Guillaume is very much for "self- defense" and the destruction of Marxism before it defeats you. To him, Obama was a "catastrophe" and America's "fragmentation" is a prospect to consider.

[Francis Rockwell · Rating 5 out of 5]

In 1938, Hilaire Belloc predicted “that there would be a resurrection of Islam and that our sons or our grandsons would see the renewal of that tremendous struggle between the Christian culture and what has been for more than a thousand years its greatest opponent.” Only eighty years later, Guillaume Faye’s last work, Ethnic Apocalypse, shows that Belloc’s calamitous prophecy has come true. Ethnic Apocalypse, with poignant wit and fast-paced prose, sets the stage for a bloody civil war between the African-Oriental Muslims (and their French collaborators) and the white, French populace.
Non-French readers have likely heard of the Bataclan massacre, the beheading of a priest in Normandy, and other violent assaults by Muslims in France, but Faye delves further into the rolling conflict that does not break into international news. He cites the frequent attacks on police officers, medical personnel, and firefighters, both on and off duty, by Muslim and African immigrants (invaders). These attacks on representatives of the French nation are followed by “generally delinquent, criminal, hostile, provocative and parasitic behavior of a large part of these populations.” Faye views this behavior as a greater threat than the terrorist attacks; the great danger to France is the steady creep of Islam dominated neighborhoods, riots, harassment of women, etc. which demoralizes the French populace and diminishes their culture.
Faye views only three possible outcomes for France (and the West in general): a refusal to fight and submission to the Islamic invaders (in the words of T.S. Eliot: “This is the way the world ends /
Not with a bang but with a whimper.”), a civil war ending in European defeat, or a civil war ending in European victory and a realignment of political thought. Faye rules out peaceful cohabitation and multiculturalism as a myth. He also scoffs at the thought of the French government and European Union suddenly changing their stance on immigration and multiculturalism and sending back the invaders.
Ethnic Apocalypse paints a bleak portrait of the future of France, and with France serving as a microcosm of the West, a miserable future for the West. Just as many ideas have sprouted from the French soil and then been transplanted throughout Europe, so will a racial civil war erupt in France and then spread throughout Europe. This civil war will be as bloody or bloodier than the European Wars of Religion and have “far more devastating consequences” than the World Wars and the communist occupation of Russia. But while dark clouds hang over Europe, there is still a glimmer of hope if the people of Europe awake from their fear and complacency and assert themselves again as a racial, ethnic, cultural, and national people.
The reader who has not read Faye’s previous works and is unfamiliar with French politics need not fear picking up this brilliant book. It stands alone as a marvelous work, laying out the current situation in France and its solution, without needing a foundation in Faye’s earlier books. Additionally, the translator, Roger Adwan, has added excellent footnotes which explain references to French newspapers, politicians, and philosophers.

[PolicemanPrawn · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book's hypothesis is that immigration to Europe will lead to conflict and even civil war, focussing particularly on the situation in France. That appears to be a sensible, even inevitable, conclusion. However, this book is very poorly written, rambling, angry, superficial. It is basically a very long rant. Reading it was tedious. The book doesn't describe the cause of immigration and what the overall goal is. For example, it states that immigration has lead to rising antisemitism, but doesn't describe which tribe is playing a major part in encouraging this immigration.

[Shea McCurdy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Disappointed to hear a bunch of civic nationalist points, weighing heavily on the incompatibility of Islam in European peopled countries.

[Ietrio · Rating 1 out of 5]

The racist ramblings of a small mind, otherwise unoriginal, just a rehash of what has already been told and did not happen.

[Ed Venables · Rating 2 out of 5]

Overlong and a little dull. Lacks clarity and, as always with these books, requires more careful argumentation and links between evidence cited and conclusions reached. Shallow reading of the gospels and misunderstanding of Christianity. Stops short of actively advocating race war (despite all its arguments tending in that direction), and as a result reads as dishonest.

It was, however, clearly philosemitic (in a pro-Zionist sense), with a remarkably informed section on Judaism, so might serve as a good corrective to the more schizoid thinking that so often emerges from the French far right. For that it earns a second star.

[Harinie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Please disregard reviews that simply say "racist".They probably didn't bother to read it, and try scaring people into not reading it.An in depth study of the problems we face today with mass immigration. A must read.

[Koffing · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very basic talking points. Nothing surprising inside, also lack source and data.
Maybe good for people new to the far right.