Posted on 05/07/2007 1:00:45 PM PDT by T.L.Sink
In my many conversations with people about the threat that radical Islam poses to the British way of life - and, indeed, to European civilization - we frequently end by despairingly agreeing that the West seems intent on committing political and cultural suicide. We look starkly at the demographic statistics, the wimpishness of our Establishment in the face of the threat, the perversions perpetuated by political correctness and our own passivity, it's hard to avoid the conclusion that within a couple of generations, Islam will be in control in Europe. Consider just a few chilling statistics. Europeans are failing to reproduce. Just to keep the population steady, you need to have 2.1 live births per woman. However, in 2005, the European average was 1.38. In Irealand it was 1.9, France 1.89, Germany 1.35 and Italy 1.23. Britain scored near the middle of this range with 1.6, but that was because - like France - we have a large Muslim population with a high birth rate. Indeed, Muslims are outbreeding non-Muslims throughout Europe.
"Just look at the development within Europe," said a triumphant Norwegian imam a few months ago, "where the number of Muslims is expanding like mosquitoes. Every Western woman in the EU is producing an average of 1.4 children. Every Muslim woman in the same countries is producing 3.5 children. Our way of thinking will prove more powerful than yours."
The big question this poses is: Why are we not reproducing? There are many reasons but probably the most important are the decline of religion and the liberation of women. Whereas in the 1970's, I was regarded both in the UK and Ireland as odd for being voluntarily childless, these days, childlessness is a common choice. In Ireland...
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I think it was Mark Steyn who said (I’m paraphrasing) that the greatest affirmation you can give to your own culture is to have children.
Welcome to FR!
Mosquitos? More like cockroaches.
‘Britain is practically Muslim now.’
And you’re practically stupid.
Hardly what you would call significant.
I love you brits, but he does have a point. Muslims are expanding rapidly enough that very soon you’ll find he’s all too right.
If he keeps walking around like that his son is going to mistake him for an enemy combatant.
My response is clean up your own house before asking for help!
"Don't shoot until you see the lobes of their ears"
They hatch bombers, don’t they?
This is the comment I posted at the Daily Mail. I encourage others here to comment as well.
“ONLY Christians have given the world liberty. Muslims are tyrants. Their religion comes with a tyrannical government called shariia law, when they have sufficient power they enforce it for all.
The free exercise of religion is a Christian value. Every free nation today exists because of Christian values, directly or indirectly. The idea that liberty is a God given right and every person has equal value is a Christian value which is the basis of the US Constitution and the Magna Carta. The US Bill of Rights exists because of the political demands of the Baptists, like preacher John Leland. Slavery was ended because of Protestants leading wars against it (one of first being the anti-slavery Baptist Revolution in Jamaica in 1832). Martin Luther King was a bible-thumping Baptist preacher. (its not just Baptists all Protestants value mankind the same way).
People aren’t taught the roots of liberty because it they are Christian roots. Christianity is taboo in schools.
Yes, 3% is practically a majority isn't it....
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