This topic is the subject of my new novel, which has over 110 Amazon reviews in the first few weeks since it's been out. The plot is an allegory for the defense of Western Civilization and European Christianity, or its ultimate submission to Islam.
Posted on 08/11/2017 6:57:55 AM PDT by Petrosius
August 10, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) -- Historian Arnold Toynbee once famously said that “civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.”
Using this as a springboard, commentator Mark Steyn shows in a new video how Western Europe is already in the death throes of “demographic suicide” because couples are no longer having enough children. He then shows how a thriving Muslim population in Western Europe is well on its way to filling all the empty space.
Steyn explained how given the divergent birth rate between Muslims and post-Christian secularists, it will take only two generations for the current Muslim population (sitting at about 10-percent) to have as many grandchildren as post-Christian secularists (who currently make up the other 90 percent). This is due, he said, to Muslims having on average 3.5 children per couple compared to post-Christian secularists who have only 1.3 children per couple.
“People think this is a slow process…It happens very fast. The catching up is well under way,” he said.
Steyn said that the takeover of Western Europe by Muslims is “not a prediction.” He noted that some elementary schools, such as in Antwerp, Belgium, already have a majority of Muslim students.
“Nobody is predicting anything. We’re talking about who are the kids in the grade school right now, which means they are going to be the guys entering the workforce in fifteen years time,” he said.
“That’s not a prediction. We’re not looking at trends. We’re looking at the actual warm bodies sitting in the elementary classes now,” he added.
Steyn quoted statistics from the Vienna Institute of Demography which he said predict that by mid-century a majority of Austrians under the age of 15 will be Muslim.
“This was a country that not so long ago was 90 percent Catholic,” he said.
Steyn said that some of his American followers might remember Austria as the setting for the film Sound of Music about a large family that fled the country in 1938 in the face of a Nazi takeover. Steyn said that by 2038, Austrians will no longer be singing “how do you solve a problem like Maria,” but “how do you solve a problem like Sharia.”
“This is the biggest story of our time, and yet hardly anyone ever writes about it,” he said.
“This is the biggest demographic movement/transformation in history, and it’s about to accelerate,” he added.
Steyn said that the demographic suicide of the West highlights the importance of U.S. President Trump’s July message in Warsaw, Poland about faith and family.
In his July 6 rousing speech, Trump issued a clear call for the defense of Christianity that underpins all of Western Civilization, along with all the culture and traditions that arise from that source. He urged Europeans to put “faith and family, not government and bureaucracy, at the center of our lives.”
But for Steyn, it is likely already too late for most Western European countries to turn the boat around.
“A post-Christian Europe doesn’t really have any faith and it doesn’t have any families either. They are fading into the past. They have essentially broken the compact of human societies,” he said.
“The people who built the modern world are going out of business, voluntarily,” he added.
Steyn is not the only one warning of the pending demographic crisis.
Last month Tesla CEO and SpaceX founder Elon Musk tweeted that “The world's population is accelerating towards collapse, but few seem to notice or care.”
Earlier in March Musk told CNNMoney that the world “should be concerned about demographic implosion.”
“So if you look at countries like Japan, most of Europe, China,” Musk said, “and you look at the birth rates, in a lot of those places it is only at about half of the sustaining rate.”
Musk described an up-side-down demographic pyramid, where the elderly are now the new flat top that is supposed to be held up by a shrinking younger base.
“So it will sort of fall over,” he said. “It will not stand.”
Modern liberal democracy has no answer for this crisis.
There is essentially going to be a new “Iron Curtain” put up in Europe where the old one was, as the countries of Central Europe refuse to partake in this suicide.
Que the Barry S. grinning & nodding gif.
Bkmrk
This topic is the subject of my new novel, which has over 110 Amazon reviews in the first few weeks since it's been out. The plot is an allegory for the defense of Western Civilization and European Christianity, or its ultimate submission to Islam.
The Red Cliffs of Zerhoun
Extended excerpt:
https://www.enemiesforeignanddomestic.com/excerpts/contents.html
Amazon link:
https://www.amazon.com/Red-Cliffs-Zerhoun-Matthew-Bracken/dp/0972831053/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
Douglas Murray's new hot-selling book, "The Strange Death of Europe" explores these unfolding sad -- if not a little frightening -- events.
Where is Charles Martel and the Battle of Tours?
“That’s not a prediction. We’re not looking at trends. We’re looking at the actual warm bodies sitting in the elementary classes now,” he added.
Steyn quoted statistics from the Vienna Institute of Demography which he said predict that by mid-century a majority of Austrians under the age of 15 will be Muslim.
Okay. Steyn is right on here. He's NOT focused on trends and predictions. The article gets this right. And the article IMMEDIATELY follows up with Steyn predicting things that may happen by mid-century. Totally undercuts the reality of the problem TODAY.
Last month Tesla CEO and SpaceX founder Elon Musk tweeted that “The world's population is accelerating towards collapse, but few seem to notice or care.”
I could be wrong, but I'm going out on a limb here and saying that Musk is not worried about Sharia. I'm guessing Musk is trotting out the hoary old Population Bomb stuff from 50 years ago. That's basically one of the causes for why the Western World is having fewer babies. Musk isn't warning about our situation -- he's encouraging acceleration of the problem.
The answer was to not allow mosques to be built... demand they assimilate and become Europeans..
The U S is next because political correctness has allowed for all of the above... including schools acommadations and letting them in our courts.
Our people do not see the danger even when it’s happening. Their goal has always been to take over...and we have let that snake in with open arms. The left are too ignorant..
They all know it......but since there’s no
cash in it for them, they could give a chit
The problem all stems from liberalism push to convince westerners of the horrors of over population, lack of resources and climate change, and how having children while facing these calamities was stupid. Throw in ardent feminism’s push to convince educated women it was better to be childless than embrace motherhood and you had a recipe for cultural disaster. The educated west and Japan bought it. The poor countries of the south did not. They were already poor, under nourished, over populated, staunchly patriarchal, and didn’t care or understand climate change. They kept having babies and just needed somewhere to put them. An empty Europe is turning out to be a fine place to do that.
Was this planned or did it just happen because people made bad choices? That could be a totally new topic for discussion, but the results are not up for discussion. Europe will die, culturally in a generation, and it’s great history will go with it. But, that is the story of history. Civilization come and go. The future belong to the strong and the fertile not the weak and barren. The same thing Ks happening here with migration from central America filling our empty cribs with Spanish speaking, brown skinned babies. We may be able to assimilate some, but eventually we will be overwhelmed too. At that point the world will revert back to its natural condition. A small, rich, educated elite being sustained by and ruling over a large, poor, uneducated serf class. Feudalism will return.
Okay. Thanks. Maybe Musk isn’t all bad. I just think of him as a Green Energy hustler who gets largely funded by taxpayer subsidies. If he sees Sharia as a danger, then good for him.
This is correct.
What no one knows as well is that the dark ages of europe were brought on by the muslim invaders in the 600’s and not by the collapse of the roman empire in the late 400’s..
Islam’s goal from the beginning was for all to submit.
Submit or Die
Mad Mo made it so.
The European attitude now is the massive Muslim migration is part of nature, inexorable, like the rising of the sun in the east.
I disagree. They will not assimilate. They need to be sent home and if modern liberal democracy cannot do so then modern liberal democracy by damned!
Charles the Hammer wouldn’t be able to fight internal demographic rot. Nor did he have coastline defenses that could have stopped the multitude of boats that arrive on the shores of Southern Europe daily (mostly escorted in anyway). Best Tucker Carlson show ever last night, with the great Mark Steyn hosting. Mainland Europe is goners. Britain is not far behind. Gotta love our 2 oceans and a president who gives a damn.
“The answer was to not allow mosques to be built... demand they assimilate and become Europeans..e answer was to not allow mosques to be built... demand they assimilate and become Europeans..”
The answer was to not allow these 6th century throwbacks into their countries.
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