I’ve just finished reading a strangely disturbing book, Mark Steyn’s America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It (Regnery, 2008).
The most credible (and thereby disturbing) part of his argument is a summary of how Islam is repopulating European countries like France, Holland, and then U.K. Islam will outpeople the native Dutch in the foreseeable future. Many Hollanders are fleeing to Islam-free venues like America, Australia and New Zealand. (Steyn is a Belgian who emigrated to Canada.) He is appalled by jihadists living on the welfare dole in Europe while plotting a Caliphate! And deplores British churchmen who, in a Multiculti frenzy, say, Heh, you wanna Sharia law here in the U.K. O.K., already.
He prefers the resolve of one General Sir Charles Napier in India. "This book isn’t an argument for more war, more bombing, or more killing, but for more will. In a culturally confident age, the British in India were faced with the practice of 'suttee'—the tradition of burning widows on the funeral pyre of their husbands. . . ." Napier was impeccably multicultural: "You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well: we also have a custom: when a man burns a woman alive, we tie a rope around their neck and hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.” (p.193.) He deplores as well the French who try to pretend that the Moroccan youth burning cars outside Paris are not jihadists.
Steyn gets on slippery ground when blames the European reactions on their being victims of the welfare state. The falling native birthrates makes EURABIA vulnerable to invading Muslims. But surely, they can pass immigration laws that keeps Sharia ideologues out or if they lie, in jail. Indeed Steyn feels America has been chosen by history as the Last Stand. And he deplores how it is going welfare too. I don’t deny Steyn’s allegations that Europe is signing its own death notices.
Surely we can refine our Multiculti generous habits so they can exclude Caliphakirs. It’s intolerable to have polygamous wives all on welfare. Or financing jihadists whose only work is planning the destruction of so generous a host. Common sense politics. And no nonsense punishments for evil deeds, clearly defined. But admittedly it’s late.
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Perhaps you should take some time and learn how to research. Mark Steyn was never Belgian, was not born in Belgium, nor has he ever resided in Belgium. Where would you get such false information, and why would you spread it around? Just wondering...
Mark Steyn was born in Canada, raised in the UK, and presently resides in the US of A.
However, I believe he has some relatives in Belgium, though.
On page 35 of America Alone, Mark says, "My mother and grandparents came from Sint-Niklaas, a town I remember from my many childhood visits." I suspect that this is how the author arrived at his erroneous assumption.
now, now, Steyniacs, let's not pile on the poor fellow for a simple nonideological mistake. I'm just glad to see some recognition of the validity of at least some of what Steyn has to say. So there's hope, but, as he says, it's late...
Hi Doc,
You say: "The falling native birthrates makes EURABIA vulnerable to invading Muslims. But surely, they can pass immigration laws that keeps Sharia ideologues out..." OK, then tell us how the indigenous will pay for their welfare state without labor paying the sustaining taxes?
I agree this is not the moment to "pile on" here.
The major theme of Steyn's book should be explored more in depth, not his place of birth. He is denigrated as a "self-loathing" Canadian, however, for CERTAIN, for his refusal to buy into the latest mutli-culti, PC, NannyState mush and slush that passes for culture in the Chilly Dominion, even though he now lives in New Hampshire (...I think...).
But no matter. Are his stats about falling birthrates accurate?
Is it merely immigration the main force driving this Eurabian Dark Night of Islamicization, or that combined with the vacuus, Nothingness culture of the modern Euro welfare state and its sapping of individualist will that allows this vacuum to be filled in with something more culturally confident? Like Islam. Ya know. the "I" word.
Or none of the above, as some claim. I think some academic scribblers are still claiming, like Fukuyama, that Europe IS the Shining Path to glory, "egalitie", and 35 hour work weeks all paid for by the rich, and that "Gallic" genius will solve the immigration problem and put the dollar to shame with the Euro.
Busy old folks homes but few mewing and crying babies in the maternity wards can handle this?
Any takers?
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