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To: goldworldnet who wrote (344873)7/31/2007 4:42:36 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1573003
 
What does it mean to you when someone says the future belongs to Islam? Some of my comments re. the author's thoughts:

Canadian writer Mark Steyn [whose mother is Flemish] thinks “The future belongs to Islam.” The main reason for this, according to him, is demography, with massive population growth in Islamic countries and low birth rates in infidel nations. He makes some assertions I agree with, such as that big government is a national security threat since “it increases your vulnerability to threats like Islamism, and makes it less likely you’ll be able to summon the will to rebuff it.”

I can see how Islamic population growth is a threat to Israel but I don't see how its a threat to the West?

Steyn also does not fully understand the issue of demography. Islamic countries are parasitical. Even the massive population growth is only an advantage as long as Muslims are allowed to export it to infidel lands. Deprived of this opportunity, and of Western aid, the Islamic world would quickly sink into a quagmire of overpopulation. This is a long-term solution, to demonstrate to Muslims the failure of Islam.

Where are Muslims exporting their population to the West?

Sooner or later, we have to deal with the implications of this fact. The best way to deal with the Islamic world is to have as little to do with it as possible. We should completely stop Muslim immigration. This could be done in indirect ways, such as banning immigration from nations known to be engaged in terrorism. All Muslim non-citizens in the West should be removed. We should also change our laws to ensure that Muslim citizens who advocate sharia, preach Jihad, the inequality of “infidels” etc should have their citizenship revoked and be deported back to their country of origin.

We need to create an environment where the practice of Islam is made difficult.


Throughout history, whenever a people are denied the ability to practice their religion, it has made them more fervent and more committed to that religion. Christians should understand that concept very well.

Muslim citizens should be forced to accept our secular ways or leave if they desire sharia.

I see........Muslims are not to be allowed to follow their own belief structure. That will accomplish what?

Much of this can be done in a non-discriminatory way, by simply refusing to allow special pleading to Muslims. Do not allow Islamic public calls to prayer as this is offensive to other faiths.

Does that mean Christian churchs can no longer ring their bells, calling their members to church?

Both boys and girls should take part in all sporting and social activities of the school and the community. The veil should be banned in public institutions, thus contributing to breaking the traditional subjugation of women.

Many Muslim women like wearing the veil.

Companies and public buildings should not be forced to build prayer rooms for Muslims. Enact laws to eliminate the abuse of family reunification laws. Do not permit major investments by Muslims in Western media or universities.

I see.....we are to make sure the Muslims feel unequal. That should be real effective.

It is conceivable that some infidel nations will copy the Benes Decrees from Czechoslovakia in 1946, when most of the so-called Sudeten Germans had shown themselves to be a dangerous fifth column. The Czech government thus expelled them from its land. As Hugh Fitzgerald of Jihad Watch has demonstrated, there is a much better case for a Benes Decree for parts of Europe’s Muslim population now than there ever was for the Sudeten Germans.

Hmmmm......he wants us to follow a decree created by the Soviet Socialist Republic of Czechoslovakia, a dictatorship. This guy is a real dude.

David Selbourne, author of The Losing Battle with Islam thinks that “Islam’s swift progress is easily explained. For the West — but not China or India — is as politically and ideologically weak as the world of Islam is strong. The West is handicapped by many factors: its over-benign liberalism, the lost moral status of the Christian faith, the vacillations of its judiciaries and the incoherence of their judgments, political and military hesitations over strategy and tactics, poor intelligence (in both senses), and the complicities of the ‘Left’.”

The West is made up of democracies! That is our strength! That is our greatness! Once the Islamic empire was the West's superior.....but as the West became more democratic, the Islamic empire became weaker and crumbled.

Can the West defeat the Islamic threat? Selbourne states ten reasons why not, including the extent of political division in the non-Muslim world about what is afoot, the confusion of Leftist “progressives” about the Islamic advance, anti-Americanism and the vicarious satisfaction felt by many non-Muslims at America’s reverses, as well as the West’s dependency on the oil and material resources of Arab and Muslim countries.

What Islamic threat? The threat to civilized people is terrorists and the terrorism they espouse, not Muslims or Hindus or Christians or Jews.

I agree with him that the cultural weakness of the West is a major disadvantage, and has been one important reason behind the recent resurgence of Jihad. It was never inevitable that we allowed millions of Muslims to settle in our lands. This was the result of Multiculturalism and the weakening of our cultural identity, and in Europe with the deliberate help of Eurabians.

There is no cultural weakness in the West other than that lodged in the author's imagination.

In the book The West and the Rest: Globalization and the Terrorist Threat, Roger Scruton argues that globalization “offers militant Islam the opportunity that it has lacked since the Ottoman retreat from central Europe.” It has created “a true Islamic umma, which identifies itself across borders in terms of a global form of legitimacy, and which attaches itself like a parasite to global institutions and techniques that are the by-products of Western democracy.”

Why do conservatives make the threat of terrorism bigger than it is? I refuse to let American leaders snooker me into another cold war with an evil empire of people ready to destroy us. That's all this is. American leaders are at their best when they can create an enemy for us to support our vast military/commercial complex. Its enough........we have had 40 years with the Soviets......no more.

The Muslims are men and women just like us. The vast majority of them are peace loving people going about their business. Here.....watch this video of Iran carefully.....look at the scenes, the people, their buildings, their amusements etc.....they are no different than us......I don't want a war with them:

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