Western Baby Deficit + Muslim Baby Boom = Disaster for Western Values

Submitted by GWK (United States), Aug 5, 2009 at 12:34

Dr. Pipes -- You have touched on the crux of the problem: Muslim fanatics will not allow Western liberal societies to continue liberal practices unless they are hijacked to benefit Muslim extremists. Unfortunately, many Western liberals fall into trap of liberalism -- defending those who do not believe in liberal ideals up to the point where the non-believing fanatics then turn on their benefactors. By then it is too late.

And speaking of too late, the liberal West has adopted the core belief that having children is bad for the environment that it has shifted from being a family focused society to a childless, existentialism-focused society. Meanwhile, Western groups have invited Muslim aliens into their cities and villages with open arms, only to become alarmed too late when those guests showed open disdain for European and Western mores and attitudes. But, along the way, the immigration floodgates have been jammed open, and the birthrate of non-European aliens in Western lands has skyrocketed. As the Western "baby bust" is matched by the Muslim "baby boom" of the last 60 years, the teeter-totter balance is shifting toward the islamification of the West without a parallel shift toward westernization in traditionally Muslim majority lands. As the non-Muslim West's population collapses -- as it surely will because of the last 50 years of childless behavior -- and as the West's elementary schools, then high schools become filled with the children of immigrants from the Muslim world, the loss of Europe's values, and then Canada's and then Australia's will be complete.

How long for this to happen -- It's estimated that a majority of Paris' elementary school students will be Muslim by 2025 to 2030. By 2070, most of the Europeans and Christians living today in Paris will be in the afterlife -- i.e., dead. And by then Paris will then be a Muslim city -- with masjids outnumbering active churches. A whimpering transition will then be completed for one of the West's proudest Christian capitals. But Paris will not likely be the only city to transition to Muslim majority -- London may be by 2090, Copenhagen and Brussels may be also. Marseilles, probably sooner -- perhaps as soon as 2040? And what about Cadiz, Spain, or Seville? And in parts of Latin America, Al Qaida is already colonizing districts of Argentina and Paraguay and Central America.

We are living in a time when the West believes that accommodation is the best strategy to deal with the shifting population balance -- and capitulation without any struggle at all. Is this logical? One has to conclude that Western liberals are either blind to the risk of a Sharia-bound majority in their future or that they are hopelessly lost in their philosophical compass because no matter how one slices it, Sharia is an anathema to the philosophical liberal ideals borne of Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Abelard, Thomas More, Hume, Franklin, Jefferson, Mills, and Lincoln. Once the West is bound to follow Sharia, who will then come to defend (or restore) its formerly core liberal ideals?

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