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Thanks for the ping, g_w. Steyn is first-rate...and mostly correct, I fear. I wonder, though, whether muslims are going to be able to master the skills necessary to run the modern world when they inherit it. Right now, they look through the window and covet what's inside (or firebomb the cars parked on the street outside), but they don't seem to possess the ability to produce what's inside for themselves. Will that change? I wonder.

Happy New Year, my friend...

[Wilhelm Tell]

I wonder, though, whether muslims are going to be able to master the skills necessary to run the modern world when they inherit it.

They won't. Too many have the fatalistic inshallah view whereby everything just happens because it is God's will. An example of this: I heard an Iranian scientist interviewed who was alarmed about the lax building codes in his country. He was upset over all the people who died in earthquakes because the buildings were not made to modern standards. He said he kept approaching officials, saying that modern, earthquake-resistant buildings could save thousands of lives. The officials didn't comprehend what he was saying. The officials told him that if a lot of people died in an earthquake, then it was God's will and no one can question it or do anything about it.

Now picture that same attitude in an Eurabia that has inherited nuclear reactors. Probably a large part of Europe will go Islamic. It is questionable that this population will be able to support itself in the long run if they cannot maintain modern industry and agriculture. Just using my imagination, and I have no special insight, I can imagine 200 years from now an Eurabia in crisis being invaded by the Chinese or Africans. Who knows? Maybe the Africans will re-introduce Christianity to Europe. Enough wild speculation.