I think the issues raised in that article and in the Steyn editorial are very important. But one thing that I also think is that there is something odd about France that is hard to explain. We joke about them being "surrender monkeys" but the truth is that they do surrender rather than fight. They surrendered in 1870, they surrendered in WWII, and they didn't fight very hard in WWI.
The Germanic countries, the Scandinavian countries, and the observant Catholic countries, I am not that worried about. They will have social unrest but I don't think they will surrender to Islam.
The reason the Ottoman Turks were able to accomplish as much as they did is because they were militarily strong in a way that I can't foresee Islamic countries ever being again -- but we do need to keep them from getting nuclear weapons.
That's the nightmare scenario, as you know.
I do think it's a tiny bit ironic to be talking about how our Catholic Hispanic immigrants will help save us, in one breath, when it appears to me that the anti-immigration backlash wants to stop this because the people who are anti-immigration are afraid of being overwhelmed by Latinos, in the other breath.
I don't know where Hewitt comes down on this issue. I do know that the American Catholic Church is very pro-immigration, especially Latino Catholics.
At any rate, no matter where you come down on the issue, there's no escaping the fact that draconian measures being taken against Hispanic immigrants will act as a counterweight to the hope that higher Hispanic fertility rates will help save America from going the way that Europe is going.
But we continue to be the Great Melting Pot. Everywhere I go I see more immigrants. Yesterday at Microcenter in the post-Christmas jam countless non-Anglo faces, including a black man in a loose white garment that came down to his ankles, and a monk in saffron robes and sandals (in January!). |
