Posted on 08/11/2017 6:57:55 AM PDT by Petrosius
August 10, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) -- Historian Arnold Toynbee once famously said that “civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.”
Using this as a springboard, commentator Mark Steyn shows in a new video how Western Europe is already in the death throes of “demographic suicide” because couples are no longer having enough children. He then shows how a thriving Muslim population in Western Europe is well on its way to filling all the empty space.
Steyn explained how given the divergent birth rate between Muslims and post-Christian secularists, it will take only two generations for the current Muslim population (sitting at about 10-percent) to have as many grandchildren as post-Christian secularists (who currently make up the other 90 percent). This is due, he said, to Muslims having on average 3.5 children per couple compared to post-Christian secularists who have only 1.3 children per couple.
“People think this is a slow process…It happens very fast. The catching up is well under way,” he said.
Steyn said that the takeover of Western Europe by Muslims is “not a prediction.” He noted that some elementary schools, such as in Antwerp, Belgium, already have a majority of Muslim students.
“Nobody is predicting anything. We’re talking about who are the kids in the grade school right now, which means they are going to be the guys entering the workforce in fifteen years time,” he said.
“That’s not a prediction. We’re not looking at trends. We’re looking at the actual warm bodies sitting in the elementary classes now,” he added.
Steyn quoted statistics from the Vienna Institute of Demography which he said predict that by mid-century a majority of Austrians under the age of 15 will be Muslim.
“This was a country that not so long ago was 90 percent Catholic,” he said.
Steyn said that some of his American followers might remember Austria as the setting for the film Sound of Music about a large family that fled the country in 1938 in the face of a Nazi takeover. Steyn said that by 2038, Austrians will no longer be singing “how do you solve a problem like Maria,” but “how do you solve a problem like Sharia.”
“This is the biggest story of our time, and yet hardly anyone ever writes about it,” he said.
“This is the biggest demographic movement/transformation in history, and it’s about to accelerate,” he added.
Steyn said that the demographic suicide of the West highlights the importance of U.S. President Trump’s July message in Warsaw, Poland about faith and family.
In his July 6 rousing speech, Trump issued a clear call for the defense of Christianity that underpins all of Western Civilization, along with all the culture and traditions that arise from that source. He urged Europeans to put “faith and family, not government and bureaucracy, at the center of our lives.”
But for Steyn, it is likely already too late for most Western European countries to turn the boat around.
“A post-Christian Europe doesn’t really have any faith and it doesn’t have any families either. They are fading into the past. They have essentially broken the compact of human societies,” he said.
“The people who built the modern world are going out of business, voluntarily,” he added.
Steyn is not the only one warning of the pending demographic crisis.
Last month Tesla CEO and SpaceX founder Elon Musk tweeted that “The world's population is accelerating towards collapse, but few seem to notice or care.”
Earlier in March Musk told CNNMoney that the world “should be concerned about demographic implosion.”
“So if you look at countries like Japan, most of Europe, China,” Musk said, “and you look at the birth rates, in a lot of those places it is only at about half of the sustaining rate.”
Musk described an up-side-down demographic pyramid, where the elderly are now the new flat top that is supposed to be held up by a shrinking younger base.
“So it will sort of fall over,” he said. “It will not stand.”
It’s Islamophobic to realize Islam is invading!
It’s Islamophobic to speak about no go zones!
It’s Islamophobic not to agree to Sharia arbitration even though you’re not a Muslim!
It’s Islamophobic to not pay the tax!
It’s Islamophobic to flinch as some Muzzie lops off your head!
The Pill, was a poison one.
>>Where is Charles Martel and the Battle of Tours?
The original one is dead. Here’s where the next Martel is:
He was born into a socialist European state with post-Christian parents. He attended a very Leftist university and now works fora multi-national corporation. He really can’t understand what all the fuss is about since the influx of Muslims really adds a lot of cheap labor to the market to drive costs down and his company’s bottom line up over the next few quarters. After that, he plans to move to a new MNC anyway.
That’s precisely what I am proposing.
Related, and very good news:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3576022/posts
The Lord’s ways are higher than our ways.
Mark has already written two books on this subject in which he goes into depth on the demographics and immigration trends. His writing is so erudite and satiric that neither of my children would finish them. Which also says something about our own system of education. Mea Culpa.
He points out it is irreversible. What a shame that so many great works of art, statuary, architecture and books which denote our ethos and culture will be broken, burned or banned when the Muslims impose their sharia culture on the once grand bastions of Western Civilization.
Muslim armies swept away a prosperous Classical and Christian North Africa replacing it with deserted towns and fields to be reclaimed by the desert.
Muslims burned Classical era libraries wherever they went.
Muslim Pirates caused the collapse of trade.
Muslim raiders chased people away from the coasts.
Muslim armies attacked incessantly somewhere put near every year if not several times a year: killing, pillaging, enslaving.
Islam brings misery, poverty, and oppression. Then it brings damnation to its adherents.
It is not irreversible if the Europeans wake up and do what is necessary, i.e. expelling the invaders.
Its starting to happen in the US. Muslims are being dispersed into every community in the country. My Mom and I got the pleasure of two burka babes behind us at Subway yesterday. The only thing you can see are the eyes. Assimilation? I don’t think so.
Mark has already written two books on this subject in which he goes into depth on the demographics and immigration trends.
His writing is so erudite and satiric that neither of my children could finish it. Which also says something about our own system of education. Mea Culpa.
He points out the demographics of childbearing age in Europe coupled with families that do not replace themselves make the Muslim takeover virtually irreversible.
What a shame that so many great works of art, statuary, architecture and books which denote our ethos and culture will be broken, burned or banned when the Muslims impose their sharia culture on the once grand bastions of Western Civilization.
I blame 2 generations of multiculturalism promoting self hatred of the west and environmentalism convincing people not to have children in order to save the planet.
“I could be wrong, but I’m going out on a limb here and saying that Musk is not worried about Sharia. I’m guessing Musk is trotting out the hoary old Population Bomb stuff from 50 years ago. That’s basically one of the causes for why the Western World is having fewer babies. Musk isn’t warning about our situation — he’s encouraging acceleration of the problem. “
The last article I read on this population explosion specifically said that fewer westerners should have children since they have the greatest impact on the planet. Meanwhile the vast majority of the population explosion is in Africa and other 3rd world hellholes. The message and the trend is clear, get rid of the white people.
I’ve been trying in vain to warn my adult children about the danger to the US from these “post-Christian secularists”, as Steyn calls them, especially the secular atheist progressives. And my children vote Republican and attend Christian churches! I guess they just think I’m an over reactive old man “crying wolf”.
A co-worker of mine was lamenting that Europe is in a butter shortage crisis. I said that they have more important things to worry about than a shortage of butter and relayed what was going on in Europe concerning Islam. My co-worker had not heard of this, yet they knew about the butter shortage. Tells you what the MSM is reporting.
The m*slims are breeding rapidly thanks to normal people’s money. Who will pay for things when all the humans are gone?
I’ve been warning folk for 30+ years about the islamization of the US.
I agree with you. Assimilation is not the answer. Not that it would ever happen. Their gene pool has been totally fouled with all their inbreeding. We don't need that. Send them back home where they belong.
At best we'll have a president who gives a damn for seven and a half more years. Then it will be back to business as usual, regardless of which party wins. Cockroaches can survive a nuclear holocaust, so they will reemerge once a new president is elected.
Yep, we had Reagan for 8 years, and then it was right back to BAU with Bush.
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