[NYer]

The following is a description (slightly modified) from Dr. Peter Hammond's book: Slavery, Terrorism and Islam: The Historical Roots and Contemporary Threat. www.frontline.org.za/books_videos/sti.htm

As long as the Muslim population remains around 1% of any given country they will be regarded as a peace-loving minority and not as a threat to anyone. In fact, they may be featured in articles and films, stereotyped for their colorful uniqueness.

At 2% and 3% they begin to proselytize from other ethnic minorities and disaffected groups with major recruiting from the jails and among street gangs [Europe, Australia, USA and Japan]. Six percent of US prison inmates are Muslim. Like any other minority, they won’t integrate, but work to build their own separate community.

From 5% on they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their percentage of the population. South Africa's Muslim population is 2%, but they control 35% of the businesses, a large percentage of the banks and have five Cabinet seats while Christians (77% of the population) have none.

They will push for the introduction of halaal (clean by Islamic standards) food, thereby securing food preparation jobs for Muslims. They will increase pressure on supermarket chains to feature it on their shelves (along with threats for failure to comply).

At this point, they will work to get the ruling government to allow them to rule themselves under Sharia; Islamic Law. The ultimate goal of Islam is not to convert the world, but to establish Sharia law over the entire world.

When Muslims reach 10% of the population, they will increase lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions. (Ei: car-burnings in France last October.) Any non-Muslim action that offends Islam will result in uprisings and threats.

After reaching 20% expect hair-trigger rioting, jihad militia formations, sporadic killings and church and synagogue burning (India, Mindanao, Philippines).

At 40% you will find widespread massacres, chronic terror attacks and ongoing militia warfare [Indonesia].

From 60% you may expect unfettered persecution of non-believers and other religions, sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of Sharia Law as a weapon and Jizya (infidel tax). (Sudan, Kosovo, Lebanon and Egypt).

After 80% expect State run ethnic cleansing and genocide [Western Papua (New Guinea), Iran, Biafra, Turkey and North Nigeria].

100% will usher in the peace of "Dar-es-Salaam" - House of Peace - as in Saudi Arabia, Libya and Yemen

[NYer]

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[Vicomte13]

The article is too complacent about America.

"America" is indeed at 2.1 fertility - bare replacement rate.

But drill one layer deeper.
American WHITES have a fertility rate of 1.8, well below replacement. American blacks are at 2.0, ALSO below replacement. It is American Hispanics, and only them in any appreciable numbers, with their 2.45 fertility rate, who drag the American birth figures up to replacement rates.

What is happening below the level of "America" generically, WITHIN America, is that Hispanics are replacing the white and black population at about the same rate that Muslims are replacing the white European population.

So, the future of Europe will probably be Sharia, unless massive subsidization of the white birth rate is undertaken.
America's future is to be Latin America from the Arctic Ocean to Tierra del Fuego.

Demography is destiny, and the fecund do inherit the earth.

[Rutles4Ever]

No, actually, it will be death by sharia.

[SouthernBoyupNorth]

I for one will go down shooting.... Got plenty of ammo and a good scope.... bring 'em on

[markomalley]

In a related story, France is paying bonuses for babies

Wouldn't it just be much easier and follow God's way: "Be Fruitful and Multiply", as expounded on in Humane Vitae?

[Asfarastheeastisfromthewest...]

The Chapters-Indigo chain subsequently insisted it wasn’t giving Steyn’s book the Mein Kampf treatment (banned from being sold in the chain by the boss, Heather Reisman), but that they hadn’t anticipated the popularity of America Alone (a best-seller) and hadn’t ordered enough copies.

Sure.... I'll buy that. For those that don't know the chain, Heather Reisman and her hubby are bigtime liberal/Liberal supporters. All one has to do is walk in the front door and all the tables down through the centre aisle are littered with Michael Moore and Al Franken books - one can't find a decent conservative title to save their life. Frankly, I'm very surprised that they are bothering to carry Stein's book even though it is obviously a good seller. The other day I tried to buy The Looming Tower there and of course they had never heard of it in the store ("you might be able to shop for something like THAT online"). I absolutely refuse to buy anything from them.

[Joe Brower]

"Often, cowardice is camouflaged as principle."

Yes. Far too often.

[Nihil Obstat]

Generally, most of the media don’t want trouble, or to appear insensitive or intolerant.

also, they don't want to offend their sponsors. Notice how many ads for "birth control" pills and devices sponsor the news programs.

[meandog]

The plain and simple fact is that Caucasian women, driven by the lie of feminism, no longer desire to be moms. They have morphed into Liliths from Eve and see the world's workplace as their oyster instead of the home. In another two or three centuries, who knows, the death of the world's premier culture (and race) may go the way of the ancient Egypto-Babalonian, Greco-Roman, and Cartha-Phoenician societies did.

[NeoCaveman]

Mark Steyn is my absolute favorite writer.

He's dead on right that western civilization is having it's own going out of business sale, declining birthrates are a prime indicator.

[Carry_Okie]

No, it's death by government education.

[Puddleglum]

I think it's death by feminism, with feminism being just another a useful dupe of the consumer culture. There are other useful dupes, and they'd be shocked to see that they actually keep close company with one another.

[Mrs Ivan]

For example, 10% of France’s population is Muslim. Yet of citizens under the age of 20, 30% are Muslim. In the cities that ratio rises to 45%. So when the “youth” of Paris and other centres erupt in violence and burn cars, rampage the streets, rape and vandalize, statistically it’s mostly young Muslims. Huge problem In Britain and Europe, around 15% of the population is under 15 years old, while in countries like Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Yemen, 40% to 50% of the population is under 15. It’s going to be a huge problem for all countries when the grandparents outnumber the grandkids.

This sudden cut is misleading. The Muslim population of the UK is around 1.6 million, as has often been pointed out by my better half. Likewise, the immigrant population from Eastern Europe is increasing - an immigrant population that to the best of my knowledge has not caught the no.babies disease that typifies the Western world and particularly the US.

Think, before you write off the UK and many of the Scandinavian countries who have as little to do with the EU as possible and who are in no way about to be shariafied.

With the U.S. about the only country with a viable birthrate that will keep its population from stagnating,

And that would be due to Spanish speaking illegal immigrants. If we follow the logic of this article you will all be speaking Spanish in ten years time.

That is not true of the US and nor is it true that the UK will be islamic in ten years.

We are on the same side, people! Listen to divisive rubbish, spread divisive rubbish, believe divisive rubbish, and all you are doing is helping the islamist.

[ProCivitas]

"The worst are full of passionate intensity, while the best lack all conviction." Is it Yeats ? Might not be an exact quote, but seems applicable anyway.

[FYREDEUS]

The larger threat to Western culture as a result of demographics is NOT the high Muslim fertility rate that white America seems so worried about in the wake of 9-11, nor even our own declining fertility rates but the ALREADY enormous population of CHINA. Heck they already have a potential military pool demographic larger the ENTIRE population of North America. Fortunately they don't have the air/sea lift capability to apply it transoceanically. But they may not need it - just because they can't ship SOLDIERS here in a massed invasion doesnt mean that we arent vulnerable to the vast Chinese numerical superiority; the rope upon which we may hang ourselves could be our own airlines transporting not PLA soldiers but PRC civilian EMIGRES. Consider; if Chinese emigration were allowed by other [Western] countries to 'export' a 'mere' 5,000,000 Chinese people into each of the Western democratically governed countries 100 largest cities it would only reduce China's population from a billion and half to a 'mere' billion people [the same as when I was teenager] - little damage to Chinas industrial productivity and economic growth would result but China could then take over the entire planet at the ballet box without ever firing a shot in only a single generation or two. I see this happening already in Toronto where bank machines now have menus in Mandarin as well as our official English and French [in some areas of the city Mandarin is listed ABOVE our OFFICIAL languages on ATM displays] and there are large areas of the city including entire malls that have predominantly or in some cases exclusively Chinese signage [I'm not talking about a normal urban 'Chinatown' but large parts of our suburbia]...and thanks to our 'multicultural' immigration policies influenced by the political and economic power the increasing Chinese-Canadian population already wields here we are expecting a MILLION more Chinese emigres into Canada's major city of <4 million today... In a couple decades you should expect Toronto will be nothing less than 'Beijing North' - consider the national security implications of THAT my American friends; unlike Russia placing nuclear missiles off your shores in '62 the PRC is now happily placing millions of its people on your northern border. And the Chinese can do that EVERYWHERE foreign governments [ours] allow them to without even noticing the people that leave...but we will notice the flood of them that arrives. Stop worrying about America exporting jobs to China and start worrying about the Chinese exporting PEOPLE before you are inundated; wasn't it Sun Tzu who said: "Those who use fire to assist their attacks are intelligent. Those who use inundations to assist their attacks are powerful" The Chinese NEVER forget Sun-Tzu...and they have the true power of a vast HUMAN inundation to sweep away the West in a true Clash of Civilizations which is not with the Islamic World but with the Eastern Civilization that has been the true enemy of Western Civilization for >4000 years. That is far from the only threat to the West that China can muster...but as a non-military one it is especially difficult to oppose without the liberal media villifying even mentioning it as "anti-multiculturalism" or even 'racist'. And it's one the West can't defeat by increasing our own fertility rates either...unless EVERY family in America and the other Western nations were forced by law almost the reverse of Chinas to have a dozen kids each ["Eight is enough" NOT] it would take a LOOOOOOOOONG time for example for America to QUINTUPLE it's population to 1.5 BILLION and the Western economy as presently constituted at single-digit GDP growth rates couldnt support the effort [IF large scale space industrialization/L5 colonization efforts had been started by America/the West in '77 as we COULD have then we COULD afford to...but we didnt; choosing VCRs and SUVs and IPods instead of moonbases and He3 fusion, microgravity manufacturing and O'Neill colonies with exponential economic growth]. Dont get sidetracked by Americas PRESENT conflict with the radicals in the Islamic World and miss the BIGGER threat that is coming next...or we'll all regret it forever when Humanity is under the bootheel of 'New Celestial Kingdom' Chinese overlords.

[Ben Ficklin]

From the CIA Factbook:

US
Birth rate- 14.14 per 1000 of population
Fertility rate- 2.09
Immigration rate- 3.18 per 1000
Population growth rate- 0.91%

Canada
Birth rate- 10.78 per 1000
Fertility Rate- 1.61
Immigration Rate- 5.85 per 1000
population growth rate- 0.88%

Mexico
Birth Rate- 20.69 per 1000
Fertlity Rate- 2.42
Immigration rate- -4.32 per 1000
population groth rate- 1.16%

[PeterFinn]

With over 300 million children lost to abortion it is no wonder the West is in decline.

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

For a stable population — that is, no growth — a country has to have a fertility rate of at least 2.1 live births per woman.

You know, it occurs to me that all of us married Freepers ought to step away from our computers, into the arms of our spouses, and do something more...ahem...productive this evening.

For the good not just of the Republic, but for Western Civilization itself!

[VOA]

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[Ronaldus Magnus]

For example, 10% of France’s population is Muslim. Yet of citizens under the age of 20, 30% are Muslim.

If this true, the Eldest Daughter of the Church is mortally wounded.