Posted on 11/10/2005 6:06:25 AM PST by Pokey78
Mark Steyn can write what I think and feel better than anyone.
Another fricking MS home run. Wow.
Another Steyn classic!!
I suspect it went right past M. de Villepin's flowery-furrowed brow :-).
That should scream to the left: "It's the demography, stupid!"
Excellent Steyn article. I'd thought of the demographic issues over there, but I'd not really looked closely at effective street power.
Thanks Pokey78!
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I have found my new tagline!
Er... how about this.
"you & #8217" ?
Never mind.
LOL! You just gotta love HTML sometimes, don't ya?
I'm always amazed when it eats the apostrophes.
France has a similar problem.
At the same time the native French are de-populating themselves (with the average age of the native French increasing), the Islamics are breeding without restraint.
Eventually - if the native French don't just surrender first (and I'm not discounting that) - France will face a civil war. A shooting war, requiring soldiers on both sides. A "fight to the finish", after which France will be reconstituted as an Islamic nation, or after which Islamics will be expelled (or worse) from France.
On the Muslim side, there will be no shortage of young males to take up the cause of Allah.
But France may not be able to mount an army of native French large enough to stand against the Muslims. Even if they draft nearly every able-bodied Frenchman. There won't be a large enough cohort from which to draw....
Demography is destiny. Ultimately, morals and culture may not have all that much to do with things when confronted with explosive population growth. Those in the greatest numbers, prevail. Simple, awful - but true.
- John
That's pretty much the point I was making. In the case of Japan, maybe Islam won't be the problem. I'd think the Chinese are more likely to decide they could swallow a decimated, geriatric Japan in one gulp. Plenty of old grudges there, too.
Another possibility is that, if the population of ethnic-Japanese workers gets too small, they'll decided they could bring a few other Asians in to help support the elderly ... and there are plenty of Asian Moslems.
"Well, it’s true there are Muslims and there are Muslims: some blow up Tube trains and some rampage through French streets and some claim Mossad’s put something in the chewing gum to make Arab men susceptible to the seduction techniques of Jewesses. Some kill Dutch film-makers and some complain about Piglet coffee mugs on co-workers’ desks, and millions of Muslims don’t do any of the above but apparently don’t feel strongly enough about them to say a word in protest. And it’s also true that it’s better to have your Peugeot torched than to be blown apart on the Piccadilly Line. But what all these techniques — and those of lobby groups who offer themselves as interlocutors between bewildered European elites and ‘moderate’ Muslims — have in common is that they advance the Islamification of Europe."
Speaking of poetry; Steyn writes a good line, too!
Thanks, Pokey! :)
OUCH! That's gotta hurt.
There's Mark Steyn, and there's everyone else.
Most European nations are doomed by their own birthrates of native populations. They do not have enough babies to replace themselves, they are beyond zero population growth and went into minus population growth
As the birthrate declined after WWII, these nations began to import foreign workers (Germany was first with the Turks)to 'take jobs that German workers won't do."
Sound familiar?
Good job!
Better inform Steyn.
When it comes to "painting a picture with words," MS is Rembrandt, DaVinci, Matisse and Wyeth all rolled into one!
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