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Mark Steyn is the latest canary in the global cultural coal mine. Sounding a politically incorrect but growing alarm not heard since fellow conservative Pat Buchanan's The Death of the West: How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization (St. Martin's Griffin, 2002) and Philip Longman's The Empty Cradle: How Falling Birthrates Threaten World Prosperity and What to Do About It (Basic Books, 2004), Steyn makes a convincing case that the much of the West is dying demographically and culturally while America is in danger of following suit. Steyn's America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It (Regnery Publishing, Ltd., 2006) is a clarion call to arms for the United States to avoid Europe's fate, which is dying demographically through "lowest low" birth rates which has forced massive immigration, mostly Muslims with birth rates several times Europe's and whose cultural traditions and religion historically have not--and are not-- assimilating well.
Steyn, a native Torontonian now living in New Hampshire, is a widely syndicated columnist, most prominently known for his "Happy Warrior" byline in National Review. His book has three parts:
I. The Gelded Age. Demographics are working against the West (and in favor of Muslim immigrants):
* Much of the planet will be uninhabited before it's uninhabitable environmentally--we are the dwindling resource, not the oil.
* Japan is in a death spiral: in 2005, the country had more deaths than births.
* European societies are hopelessly socialistic, "hooked on unaffordable levels of social programs which in the end will put those countries out of business." Take Greece, whose projected public liabilities in 2040 will rise to 25% of GDP--total societal collapse--versus 6.8% of GDP for the U.S.
II. Arabian Night. Europe is ceding its cultural battlefield to the new immigrants (primarily Muslim):
* Europe has marginalized religion, thus only the marginalized will have religion. France's Muslim ghettos display more cultural confidence than the Frenchmen themselves.
* Islam is a political project. The jihad has no historical comparatives in the world's major religions, most of which adhere to separation of church and state.
III. The New Dark Ages...And How to Lighten Up. America is the West's last line of defense against a new caliphate and potential or actual despots like Iran, unless it cedes the battlefield too.
* The Soviets had the capability to launch nuclear war, but not the intent (thanks to Mutual Assured Destruction); Iran has the intent and is developing the capability.
The author makes a valid and comprehensive diagnosis of the problem and offers a 10-point prescription, which is basically to encourage internal reform of Islam which must come within, but does include "end[ing] the Iranian regime." I would have liked to see his prescription developed at greater length.
Steyn's book is a fascinating and provocative read with many "laugh out loud" passages, like: "By the time all those guys with the FREE TIBET bumper stickers get around to freeing Tibet, there will be no Tibet left to free."
I am actively recommending this book to my friends and colleagues, and seeking out the many books that Mark Steyn has cited in his work for further study.
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Mark Steyn's book should be read by all who care about America's future, expecially by those who know nothing about Islam. Very informative and provocative. I highly recommend it.
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I hope Amazon will let me put in a few quotes from the book -- with a few observations from yours truly -- to get a flavor of it, and then go out and buy it. If you read anything this year, read this:
p. xi-xii: "Brussels has a mayor, Freddy Thielemans, who presided over a ruling Socialist Party caucus of 17 other members. Here they are:
1. Fatima Abid
2. Mustafa Amrani
3. Samira Attalbi
4. Mohammed Boukantar
5. Philippe Close
6. Jean Baptiste de Cree
7. Ahmed el Ktibi
8. Julie Fiszman
9. Faouzia Hariche
10. Karine Lalieux
11. Marie-Paule Mathias
12. Yvan Mayeur
13. Mounia Majbar
14. Mohamed Ouria Ghli
15. Mahfoudh Romdhani
16. Sevket Temiz
17. Freddy Thielemans
18. Christian Van Der Linden
"Ten out of eighteen members of the ruling caucus of Brussels are Muslim, right now. That's to say, the capital city of the European Union already has a Muslim-majority governing party."
p. 16: "In most Muslim jurisdictions, there is simply no culture of inquiry."
p. 94: "Four out of 5 converts in Europe to Islam are women."
p. 67: "For many European females, it's a refuge from the slatternly image of post-feminist womanhood."
p.16: "In their bizarre prioritization of 'a woman's right to choose,' feminists have helped ensure [by birth control and inciting women to work, resulting in far fewer children being born - PN] that European women will end their days in a culture that doesn't accord women the right to choose anything. Non-Muslim females in heavily Muslim neighborhoods in France now wear headscarves while out on the streets."
p. 43: "Lincoln's allusion to the 'mystic chords of memory'...places the present in the context of history and eternal truths, and thereby binds us not just to the past but commits us to the future, too."
p. 98 "Almost by definition, secularism cannot be a future: it's a present tense culture that over time disconnects a society from cross-generational purpose...No examples of sustained atheist civilizations exist. 'Atheist Humanism' - a kind of dehumanisim in which a present-tense culture amuses itself to extinction."
p. 90: "...Britain is a jungle of declawed lions, its leadership divided between outright appeasers and dismal fatalists. And those who call for a Muslim Reformation in the spirit of the Christian Reformation ignore the obvious flaw in the analogy -- that Muslims have the advantage of knowing (unlike Luther and Calvin) where reform in Europe ultimately led: the banishment of God to the margins of society."
p. 203: "...multiculturalism just involves feeling warm and fluffy about everyone, making bliss out of ignorance. If the guy's vibrant cultural tradition involves standing over you with a scimitar shouting "Allahu Akhbar!" well, you can't complain you're not getting your share of cultural diversity."
From Steyn's intro to his 2008 edition:
IT'S THE STUPIDITY, ECONOMISTS
p. xvii: "Listening to American economists frame the illegal immigration question in purely economic terms, I'm reminded of the British and European political class a generation or two back. In the late '60s and early '70s when the anti-immigration working class of northern England fretted that they would lost their cities to the "Pakis," the sophisticates mocked them as paranoid racists. Racist they may well have been, but they weren't paranoid: In little more than a generation, Oldham and Blackburn and Batley went from mills to mosques. Yorkshire and Lancashire have adopted Mirpuri practice on arranged cousin marriage and can now boast among their native sons the July 7 Tube bombers.
"...Those ignorant, grunting, knuckle-dragging English masses understood something that the technocrat experts either miss or glide smoothly over -- that there is something wrong and reductionist in seeing human beings only as economic entities. Fine, we need bus drivers, or auto workers, or seasonal fruit pickers, or whatever it is. But if the price of a cheap pool of laborers is the transformation of Yorkshire into something that would be unrecognizable to any Yorkshireman of the mid-twentieth century, then the smart set should at least be smart enough to address the larger cultural questions.
"In 2008, in another of those non-alarmist, nothing-to-see here stories, a British gov't minister [Phil Willis - PN] tentatively raised the matter of severe birth defects among the children of Pakistani Muslims. Some 57 percent of Pakistani Britons are married to their very first cousins, and this places their progeny at increased risk of certain health problems ["Research for BBC2's Newsnight in November 2005 showed British Pakistanis accounted for 3.4% of all births but have 30% of all ... Read More
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Mark has converted what most of us have suspected since 9/11 into hard data. Bottom line, it's not about race and never has been. Race-baiting is the straw dog of the left and has been extremely effective. The real issue is culture. Culture is defined as an organized group of people who, for the most part, adhere to a set of behavioral traits (Democracy/Christianity) that unify them into a single mindset. When that group stops growing, it starts dying. This defines the west (read Europe) and its shrinking birth rate. With it, democracy and Christianity have been eroded to the point where they no longer dominate. When the climbing birth rate dies (the number of people who believe what you do), so does the culture. "Europe", he states, "has all but succumbed to the dull opiate of multiculturalism. In its drowsy numbness, it stirs but has no idea what to do and so does nothing." He then projects that numbness as the fate of America if we don't shake ourselves awake. It is the Middle East that is growing and along with it the intolerance of Islam and the sharia - Islamic law. Europe is already saturated with it and its moving west. "The price of liberty is eternal vigilance. Which is why so many radical Muslim lobby groups are eager to criminalize vigilance." This book is a fabulous read full of hard numbers to back up hard assertions. It is an absolute "MUST READ" for anyone who is paying attention and doesn't buy into the multicultural nonsense of the liberal left.
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Instead of the Red Scare (those damn pinko commies) we now have the Islamic threat. Read "The Concept of the Political" by Carl Schmidtt in order to understand the necessity of creating an existentially threatening 'other' for the sake of reinforcing national cohesion and identity. As some may know, Schmidtt was influential (especially in his critique of liberalism) in both National Socialist circles and in neo-conservative circles.
This is a re-hashing of Huntington, only Steyn is even more alarmist and pessimistic (who could have thought it was possible) in his 'prophetic' (read sarcasm) judgments. If you want a real book on the decline of empire that has a historical perspective beyond the past 15 years, then read Kennedy's "The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers".
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