The minimum birthrate necessary to keep a society going is 2.1 children per woman. Europe's birthrate is 1.5 and falling. The immigrants who are taking the place of Germans, Italians, French and others are largely Muslim. In contrast to the irreligious native Europeans, Muslim immigrants are passionate about their faith and highly fertile. It is estimated that in England, Muslim worshippers at mosques already outnumber congregants of the Church of England every weekend.
About 5 percent of the European Union is now Muslim, and historian Bernard Lewis told a German newspaper that Europe would be majority Islamic by the end of this century "at the latest." At present, more than 15 percent of the 16-24 age group in France is Muslim. In Brussels, one quarter of those under the age of 25 is Muslim. Muslims also account for 25 percent of the population of Marseille, and 20 percent of the population of Malmo, Sweden. Immigration, both legal and illegal, from Islamic countries continues. As Timothy Savage has noted in The Washington Quarterly, the United Nations estimates that Europe's native population will decline by 100 million or more in the next 50 years. The Muslim minority in Europe is quite fecund, however, and will double in size by 2015.
Yet while some Europeans are dismayed by these trends, something (political correctness?) prevents them from even discussing the subject. Civilizations don't just disappear, they are overtaken by others who are hungrier, more aggressive and more energetic.
Paranoia arose, with the jihad becoming "a bogey in the West for centuries" this paranoia is exemplified best by Edward Gibbon's account of Sultan Abd al-Rahman's defeat at the "Battle of Poitiers" by Charles Martel in 732:
. . . the Rhine is not more impassable than the Nile or the Euphrates, and the Arabian fleet might have sailed without a naval combat into the mouth of the Thames. Perhaps the interpretation of the Koran would now be taught in the schools of Oxford, and her pulpits might demonstrate to a circumcised people the sanctity and truth of the revelation of Mahomet. From such calamities was Christendom delivered by the genius and fortune of one man [Martel].
Gibbon seemed to have been under the belief that al-Rahman's intention was a continuation of the jihad, which was false. The Sultan "had been invited into Christendom by Eudo, Duke of Aquitaine", and had no intention of continuing the jihad or conquering Europe.
However, in case of Osama bin Laden and his cronies in Iraq and Afghanistan, Europeans have failed to understand the threat emanating from these cavemen. Along with long term demographic changes favorable to medievalists to impose their brand of world order, the goal in short term is quite obvious, it is a perpetual jihad against the world at large, it is their interpretation of extremist political Islam or the Talebinised version of medievalism presented by these ‘cave man’ as prevalent thoughts of prophet of Islam. It is about establishment of precedent of ‘order of governance.’
From their pulpits OBL and Zaharawi demonstrate to an already vicious circumcised people the virtues of ‘destruction’, their rage built on impotence and collective failures of their doctrine to bring prosperity to the region of Islam. The extension of this order to the hinterland of Europe looks possible in few decades but cowing their own societies into submission will help make the ultimate goal of rule of Allah over continents very achievable.
Only one power stands between them achieving their intention of establishing of archaic version of ‘kingdom of Allah’ on earth and conversion of the entire Islamic world to their brand of ‘radicalism,’ that one power is resolve of US to defend basic rights of mankind at large. |
