Posted on 01/27/2008 11:04:22 AM PST by Bokababe
put me on the balkan list.
Unfortunately, "the civilized world" is facing the same problem that Rabbi Kahana described as "Israel's problem" years ago when he said that Israel was going to have to choose between being a democratic State or being a Jewish State, because the Arab birthrate was so much higher than the Jewish birthrate that there was no way it could remain in the future both a democracy and Jewish state.
Today, much of the world is facing the same dilemma with Islam and they refuse to admit it. We want to be both civilized democracies, and be tolerant of multi-religiosity & multi-culturalism (which includes Islam,) -- and yet we also may not be able to be both. Islam has a religious culture that combines an astronomical birthrate with an aggressive political agenda -- and it doesn't want to "integrate", it wants to "dominate". So our choice may well wind up being: "Civilized" or "multi-religious", because we may not be able to have both. This is a political hot potato that no Western politician wants to touch.
While much the same could be said of the Hispanic culture in the US, they have no religious agenda to convert everyone to Catholicism.
I agree to a point, we haven't lived the godly lives that we should.
On the other hand, treating wives like nothing more than baby-machine-like chattel while playing Johnny Appleseed with as many women as you can, hardly qualifies these Muslim men for "sainthood" either.
In Kosovo, at least, most Albanians were and are, almost totally dependent on welfare yet have the highest birthrate in Europe. Albanians were breeding babies while non-Albanians in Yugoslavia -- who couldn't afford to support more of their own kids -- were paying for those Albanian babies to come back and try to steal their land and drive them out.
If Kosovo gets independence & the US recognizes it, Serbs won't be supporting Albanian over-breeding anymore, you & I and the Europeans will be. We got rid of welfare in the US, only to expand it overseas -- does that make sense to you? Of course not.
You are on! Welcome!
notice the “nobody goes to church dig”
When churches are a ubiquitous as a 7/11 it is understandable. In that part of the world the orthodox churches PERMIATE life.
I also thought it was sad that they article did not use FYROM and further confuses matters with the proper provence of Macedonia in Greece. (where Alexander the Great was born in Pella, where King Philip’s Tomb and museum stands)
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