The Western world will in this Century bow before Islam

Submitted by rensburg (Canada), Feb 21, 2009 at 09:21

The writer above talks about Islamization in the Indian subcontinent, but I fear that Islam's biggest gain will be in Western Europe, and to a lesser extent, North America.

The reasons for this are somewhat complex, but divides into essentially two groups (1) the most important is the death of Western strains of Christianity, coupled with negative population growth under (former) Christians and Jews, and (2) migration by Islam driven by Western nations adopting the culturally disruptive notion of melting pot and multiculturalism from the Americans (ironically enough).

(1) The death of Christianity in the West implies moral destabilization of Western societies, causing family and cultural breakdown and low birth rates. What children are born are raised without religion. The cultural and religious vacuum left by the disappearance of Christianity will be filled, and Islam is likely to be the big benefactor. Conversions may have started sporadically under US black activists in the 1960s, but has now become widespread under whites in the US and Western Europe as well.

(2) The American notions of cultural tolerance, ethnic melting pots, coupled with modern airline travel and with the recent American civil rights history, may each on its own be good or have happened for good reason, but they have mixed in a toxic brew which has been exported and adopted by other Western states with enthusiasm in one of history's greatest examples of mass histeria and folly. The outcome is now preordianed: Islamic population growth in and migration to Western states, coupled with the cultural and religious retreat of decadent Westerners, can only have one outcome - and that is not the status quo we have now.

But then, if one has made a bed, then one must sleep in it.

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