Mark Steyn silences the left: Ted Byfield lauds columnist's new book on Muslim takeover of Europe

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | 11/18/06 | Ted Byfield

[George W. Bush]

I forgot that we also will have Australia and India. We may be able to hold Britain as well, especially Ireland and Scotland. And there is also a chance to hold some of the Scandinavian countries.

[wildbill]

Steyn's book isn't the first to demonstrate the demographic suicide of Europe--but he is the first to illustrate the probable outcome--Eurabia--since neither history or Nature will abide a vacuum.

And he does it with such perceptive wit that the book is enormously readable and popular.

[VOA]

Since a core objective of Islam is an autocratic theocracy, Muslims cannot
embrace democratic government without fundamentally compromising
their religion and thereby ceasing to be Muslims.

Any working accommodation with Islam is therefore impossible,
as France, Britain and Germany are painfully discovering.

Just bears repeating.

And might (regrettably) have something to do with the challenges of
making Iraq into a rational country.

[dufekin]

According to the CIA, the only two European countries not undergoing demographic implosion are Iceland and Turkey. Iceland should hold, and Turkey got the Muslim takeover in 1453.

[Billthedrill]

The reason the Left despises Steyn's book is that it lays the blame for cultural suicide directly at their doorstep. America Alone does not deal only with demographics, although those certainly are a major causative factor for the difficulties addressed therein, but more tellingly Steyn points out that there is very little assimilation among recent Muslim immigrants to Europe for two reasons that tend to reinforce one another - (1) radical Islam is by nature both aggressive and intensely insular, and (2) multiculturalism protects the radicals from the consequences of their behavior by asserting the primacy of the evils of Western culture.

One might suggest that the second of these messages is profoundly unwelcome in the self-regarding and doctrinaire circles that compose the intellectual left these days. Here we have a problem that they are accustomed to blaming, as they do everything else, on the wickedness of the imperialistic oppressive culture of the West, but that worn-out mold is cracked and crumbling in their hands and what is left is an unapolegetic theocratic fascism that refuses to fit into it. The fury and the fear emanating from the left are a direct result of its worldview being shattered by the rude buffets of real life. The message is unwelcome, but shooting the messenger won't make the meaning go away.

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[Blind Eye Jones]

Just finished reading this witty, harrowing book. Steyn gives plenty of evidence that Islamofascism atrocities, political ambitions and demographics are on the rise world wide and explains that the public is bound to say, "of course... but this is the exception." I too hope that it is, though there is plenty of bleak evidence to suggest otherwise. If we take the lyrics of the REM song that says, "this is the end of the world as we know it, but I feel fine"... you have the Lib stance.