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2006-11-14 Terror Networks

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Posted by anonymous5089 2006-11-14 12:27|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Steyn emphasizes that, with birth rates among native Europeans well below replacement level (2.1 children per woman), the Western populations in these countries will shrink with each new generation. At the same time, millions of Muslims are moving into Europe (naively welcomed by the existing governments as a source of labor to maintain their lavish welfare states), and are having many more children than their neighbors. Steyn reports that Western women in Europe have an average of 1.4 children, whereas Muslim women have an average of 3.5 children. The result is a baby boom among Muslims that, within our lifetimes, will completely change the European countries in which they live. Steyns analysis (though not original) strikes me as right on the mark (no pun intended).

Yet after spending page after page highlighting the demographic disaster that awaits Europe (and to a much lesser extent the United States), Steyn fails to state the logical conclusion, which is that Muslim immigration must be stopped. Period.

If one believes, as Steyn clearly does (with strong support from the evidence), that Muslims as a group not only are not assimilating into Western culture but are actively hostile toward the very principles upon which our societies are built, then it is suicidal (a term frequently used by Steyn) to permit millions of Muslims to take up residence within our countries.

Of course, such a blanket policy would be unfair towards the many individual Muslims who do not share the militant worldview of their co-religionists. Nevertheless, if 80 percent of Muslims cannot be trusted to act in the best interests of the Western nations in which they live (to use the British poll numbers cited above), then the only rational policy is to exclude Muslims altogether. However, nowhere in America Alone does Steyn dare utter this obvious, if uncomfortable, truth.

The other principal focus of Steyns book is on the inability of contemporary multiculturalism to provide a meaningful, vigorous base on which to sustain and defend Western civilization. On the contrary, as Steyn sharply remarks,

multiculturalism was conceived by the Western elites not to celebrate all cultures but to deny their own.

Hence, the governing principle of multicultural society is that Western man demonstrates his cultural sensitivity by pre-emptively surrendering. This already is happening in Europe, which Steyn thoroughly documents. But it even is happening in the United States see the craven response by our political and media establishment to last years Cartoon Intifada, and the continued refusal by our law enforcement agencies to engage in racial profiling as part of a sensible anti-terrorism strategy. Steyn surely is correct that multiculturalism, and its philosophical twin internationalism, cannot provide the ideological meat needed to maintain a healthy body politic.

Posted by KBK 2006-11-14 13:16|| 2006-11-14 13:16|| Front Page Top

#2 Granted, most Muslims are not terrorists.

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Posted by Excalibur 2006-11-14 15:54|| 2006-11-14 15:54|| Front Page Top

#3 Granted, most Muslims are not terrorists.

Granted, most Americans are not NASA astronauts.

Posted by gromgoru 2006-11-14 17:42|| 2006-11-14 17:42|| Front Page Top

#4 If Islam dominates, then humanity has no future.

Posted by gromgoru 2006-11-14 17:44|| 2006-11-14 17:44|| Front Page Top

#5 gromgoru, for about some 500-1000 years. Islam would then selfdestruct because there won't be anything left to parasite on.

Posted by twobyfour 2006-11-14 20:39|| 2006-11-14 20:39|| Front Page Top

#6 Will Islam Dominate the Future?

Most likely as an increased background count.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-11-14 20:42|| 2006-11-14 20:42|| Front Page Top

#7 2x4 That was then. Nowaday, they get control--- they get nukes. How long before they'll start using them on each other?

Posted by gromgoru 2006-11-14 23:57|| 2006-11-14 23:57|| Front Page Top

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