Missed one, Mr. Pipes

Submitted by Don (Pakistan), Dec 26, 2006 at 08:23

I think it's important to note the birth rate of Muslims around the world compared to Christians or other faiths (or no faith). Muslim women tend to marry young and have several children. In so many cases the objective is simply to populate the world with Muslims, plain and simple; it's the woman's duty to produce as many kids (Muslims) as she can.

The kids are Muslim at birth and indoctrinated and brainwashed from the get-go. Those kids don't stand a chance at any choices of faith or inquire into other religions, as Westerners are. You say that 10-15% constitute up to 200 million Islamists, but what's that number going to be in two or three or four more generations - and this is a long struggle we have ahead of us. Do you think those numbers will decrease?

Contrasting that is the declining birth rate in Europe and America, except for their Muslim communities. This mountain is only getting steeper for us. I honestly believe the only chance Western civilization has is for a great moderate Islamic leader in the mold of a ML King or Gandhi to get Islam squared away, reform it, rid his religion of terrorism, and turn it into a (more) peaceful religion. I hate being a pessimist, but seeing the Europeans appease these people and the latest elections here in America, and the trend of thinking - passivism, political correctness, complacency - I see no other way for Islamism to be defeated.

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