Posted on 03/10/2007 9:02:39 PM PST by PRePublic
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/contentions/index.php/schiffren/160
Europe’s democracies have changed dramatically in recent years in response to Islamic population growth, growth fueled by immigration and birth rates substantially higher than local norms. Great Britain, France, Italy, and other nations have been forced to accommodate the needs and preferences of their Islamic citizens, often at the expense of the global conflict with radical Islam.
Can it happen here? Suppose that the writer Mark Steyn is right to argue that “demographics are destiny.” What number of Muslims, agitating for their self-defined interests and agendas, would constitute a critical mass in the U.S.? At what point would American politicians feel compelled to take up their cause?
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the Muslim American Society (MAS), and the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) all worked overtime this past election cycle to create the impression that, in American politics, Muslims are now a force to be reckoned with. They were especially emphatic about the country’s growing Muslim population—some 8 million souls, in their oft-repeated estimates.
So it comes as a useful corrective to read Patrick Poole’s “Numbers Don’t Lie” in this week’s Front Page Magazine. Poole cites two recent pieces (in IBD and the New York Sun) criticizing the methodology of the survey that produced the 8 million figure and citing new estimates drawn from survey work done at CUNY and the University of Chicago—estimates suggesting that there are, in fact, not 8 million Muslims in the U.S. but well under 3 million. Moreover, of these, only a minuscule 4,761 are dues-paying members of CAIR, which presents itself as the community’s authoritative voice.
Whether CAIR or any of the others truly represents the sentiments of American Muslims is a question that political strategists might consider before pandering to their radical demands or overlooking their questionable (or worse) political associations, all amply documented over the years by observers like Daniel Pipes and Steven Emerson. But why be fooled by numbers? The readiness to inflate the size of their alleged constituency is only another tactic in a campaign of intimidation to which too many have already succumbed.
There will come a day when "the muslim lobby" will refer to a high security part of the airport dedicated to outgoing international flights only.
Know the enemy ... maybe in 2008 we need to say:
"It's the Jihadism, Stupid."
Someone who gets it:
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=1907074&page=1
Hmm, Romney KNOWS "it", well.
Not all Muslims are terrorists, but Islam itself is the enemy.
It is Mohammad, his teachings, the Koran and Sharia law which springs from it, which have created the Jihadists as their logical extensions.
Islam on one hand, and freedom, Democracy and a multicultural, pluralistic society based on the concepts of the enlightenment and the Founding Fathers, are mutually exclusive - PERIOD!
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NEVER FORGET
IRAN =
"The world should now start to imagine a world without an America"
CLINTON =
"There might not even be an America around in 300 years"
And thus the Battle of our brand new Century is enjoined.
NEVER FORGET
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Well said. It is Islam that is the enemy of freedom and the enslaver of infidels. Islam is the enemy, period. Will Mohammed please report to the Muslim Lobby, your flight is now boarding.
They represent the sentiments of the ruling liberal establishment that brought them here, idiot, numbers don't matter.
Yes, search "pac" keyword on FR.
LOL---"the Muslim Lobby" ---love it. I would donate my time, tools, and building materials if only they would allow me to build such a lobby/ that was a somewhat heartening article, hard to believe that if the numbers in it are at all accurate, there are so few "dues-paying members" of CAIR. Nothing would make me happier than to see all three of these self-appointed "spokesmen" for American Muslims wither and die---the most serious and seriously troubling, part of their "mission" here is of course to fabricate stories of anti-Muslim discrimination, and win the 2.9 million Muslim uncommitteds over to their side. That, and to be allowed to sit at the Big Table in American Political Life, and be taken as "players". They speak for far fewer Muslims than Al Sharpton speaks for Blacks, but he is another one who has been accepted into the fold as a "player". That alone should tell us just what patent, craven phonies most of our "legitimate" politicians are.
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