{"id":1118,"date":"2011-03-27T23:17:14","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T05:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/?p=1118"},"modified":"2011-03-27T23:17:14","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T05:17:14","slug":"turning-the-muslim-bus-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/?p=1118","title":{"rendered":"Turning the Muslim Bus Around"},"content":{"rendered":"

The January 2011 edition of National Geographic Magazine<\/em> contains a cover story by Robert Kunzig, titled, \u201cPopulation 7 Billion.\u201d\u00a0 If it is not enough to scare the pants off anyone concerned about the future of mankind, it should at least be enough to make us do some serious thinking.\u00a0 For example, what do we see as the long term future of the country where our children and grandchildren, and their children and grandchildren, will have to live long after we are gone?<\/p>\n

The article begins by describing how, in 1677, Dutchman Antoni van Leeuwenhoek attempted to estimate the population of the Earth.\u00a0 Since there were no reliable censuses, van Leeuwenhoek assumed that the Earth was as densely populated as Holland.\u00a0 And since the population of Holland was estimated to be about 1 million people, and the inhabitable land mass of the Earth was estimated to be some 13,385 times the size of Holland (the correct figure is close to 3,300 times the size of Holland), he concluded that there were some 13.4 billion people on Earth.<\/p>\n

Actually, he overestimated a bit.\u00a0 Anthropologists now estimate that, in 1677, the population of the Earth was only about 500 million.\u00a0 As Kunzig describes the post-1677 population growth, \u201cA century and a half later\u2026 the world\u2019s population had doubled to more than a billion.\u00a0 A century after that, around 1930, it had doubled again to two billion. \u00a0Before the 20th<\/sup> century, no human had lived through a doubling of the human population, but there are people alive today who have seen it triple.\u00a0 Sometime in late 2011, according to the UN Population Division, there will be seven billion of us.\u201d \u00a0UN demographers project world population at nine billion by 2045.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Kunzig tells us that, \u201cClose to a billion people go hungry each day,\u201d and that, \u201cDecades from now, there will likely be two billion more mouths to feed, mostly in poor countries\u2026\u201d\u00a0 Paul Ehrlich, author of The Population Bomb,<\/em> predicted in 1970 that \u201chundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death,\u201d and that it was far too late to do anything about it.\u00a0 Making the point that the very future of the United States was at stake, he said, \u201cThe cancer of population growth\u2026 must be cut out, by compulsion if voluntary methods fail.\u201d<\/p>\n

What has surprised demographers is how far and how fast fertility rates have fallen<\/em> in some areas of the world.\u00a0 Kunzig points out that, \u201cChina, home to a fifth of the world\u2019s people, is already below replacement fertility and has been for nearly 20 years, thanks in part to the coercive one-child policy implemented in 1979; Chinese women who were bearing an average of six children each as recently as 1965, are now having 1.5\u2026\u201d \u00a0But there is another very ominous side to the story. \u00a0Kunzig tells us that in some parts of the world, occupied by just 16 percent of the world population, there is still a problem of high fertility\u2026 mostly in sub-Saharan Africa where fertility rates average five children per woman.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Compared to fertility rates in most western nations\u2026 2.1 children per woman in the United States, 1.9 in New Zealand, 1.5 in Canada, 1.3 in Germany and Austria, 1.2 in Russia and Italy, and 1.1 in Spain\u2026 it is worrisome to compare birthrates in those countries with the fertility rate in some Muslims countries: Niger 7.46, Mali 7.42, Somalia 6.76, Afghanistan 6.69, and Yemen 6.58. \u00a0As those countries continue to overpopulate and their people become poorer and hungrier, they tend to want to emigrate to Europe and to the United States where, more and more, they are making up the shortfall in the population replacement rate.<\/p>\n

Joseph D\u2019Agostino of the Population Research Institut<\/a>e states the obvious.\u00a0 He says, \u201cFor the most part, only Muslims have high birth rates\u2026\u201d\u00a0 And since Christians and Jews are no longer having large families, \u201cMuslims are going to inherit the Earth.\u201d\u00a0 He warns that the world will be a far different place if Muslims become the dominant religious group.\u00a0 He says, \u201cI think we can see what life is like in Islamic countries\u2026 And we can see that the Muslim world is becoming actually more radical and, in many ways, is headed backwards into its barbaric phase\u2026\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n

In some European countries Muslims have already begun to overwhelm existing cultures.\u00a0 They are imposing Sharia Law on old Europe at a rapid pace and, unless the people of Western Europe wake up and turn things around, within a generation or two the Europe we know and love will be gone forever.\u00a0 Unlike other cultures, Muslims do not assimilate. \u00a0To the contrary, their goal is to overwhelm<\/em> the culture of their host countries. \u00a0We\u2019ve seen this in the installation of foot baths at airports, Muslim cab drivers refusing to transport passengers with alcohol in their luggage, Muslim clerks refusing to ring up alcohol at department store cash registers, etc., etc.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Again, what we must all decide, before it\u2019s too late, is what sort of country we want to leave to our children and grandchildren\u2026 assuming, of course, that we care enough that we would want to leave them a nation with a western-style culture that bears no resemblance to the barbaric 7th<\/sup> and 8th<\/sup> century cultures that dominate the Muslim world in the 21st<\/sup> century.<\/p>\n

Americans have always taken pride in the fact that we were an ethnic \u201cmelting pot.\u201d\u00a0 But that characterization ceased to be a source of pride when immigration quotas favoring Europeans were abandoned in 1965.\u00a0 The catalyst for that demographic disaster was Senator Ted Kennedy\u2019s Immigration and Nationality Act.\u00a0 Since implementation of the Kennedy bill the United States has experienced a flood of immigrants from Latin America and Asia. \u00a0What he and other liberals failed to understand is that we had a perfectly fine country before they came along and that the vast majority of us would have preferred it to stay just as it was.\u00a0<\/p>\n

What Western nations must ultimately conclude is that Islam is not a \u201creligion\u201d as we in the west understand the term.\u00a0 Vested with full 1st<\/sup> Amendment rights, it is far more than that; it is a social, political, legal, military, and economic system with a spiritual component.\u00a0 It is an evil force that attempts to impose its seventh century value system in any way possible, violent or non-violent, on an enlightened twenty-first century world.\u00a0 Without its religious component, Islam would be viewed as just another hate group, outlawed in every country outside the Islamic world. \u00a0Of all of the major religious denominations, it is only Muslims who proselytize by giving reluctant converts a choice they cannot refuse: either swear allegiance to the Prophet Mohammed, or die.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Some Western European nations are already beginning to push back.\u00a0 Several European leaders have declared multiculturalism a failure.\u00a0 France has enacted a law barring Muslim women from wearing the burka in public and Germany and Holland are considering similar laws.\u00a0 But much more needs to be done. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Like most Europeans of the post-World War II era, many Americans have succumbed to the fiction that Islam is a \u201creligion of peace\u201d and that worldwide jihad is merely a pipedream of the radical few.\u00a0 The litmus test for Islam as a \u201creligion of peace\u201d will be the day when churches and synagogues can be built throughout the Muslim world and when Christians, Jews, and other non-Muslims can practice their religious beliefs openly and freely in all Muslim countries\u2026 and not before.\u00a0 Since many mosques are known to be breeding grounds for jihadist murderers, Muslims should be prohibited from building mosques anywhere in the West.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Islam must be viewed, not as the world\u2019s second largest religious denomination, but as an invasive alien culture that has not evolved appreciably beyond its 7th<\/sup> century roots.\u00a0<\/p>\n

If Islam cannot be banned from our shores on the basis that it is far more than just another religious sect seeking religious freedom\u2026 that it is, in fact, an invading force that occupies and holds territory by terrorizing and out-populating the indigenous peoples\u2026 then T.B Macaulay was right when, in 1859, he characterized the U.S. Constitution as being \u201call sail and no anchor.\u201d\u00a0 Instead, we must acknowledge that our Constitution invites such liberalization of 1st<\/sup> Amendment principles as to be a self-destructing instrument.\u00a0 If it does not allow us to protect ourselves from a religious sect that seeks not religious freedom, but social and political dominion through violent means, then it will not allow us to protect ourselves from the drunken savagery of a rampaging motorcycle gang.\u00a0 It\u2019s all a matter of scale.<\/p>\n

Kunzig\u2019s study leaves us with just two options.\u00a0 If we do not want to see our major cities devolve into nightmarish Muslim hellholes such as Kabul, Baghdad, or worse, Mogadishu, we can; a) do nothing, insuring that the U.S will become just another Islamic cesspool, our women brutalized and disenfranchised, or b) we can maintain the current size and ethnicity of the U.S. population by repealing the Immigration and Nationality Act, returning to pre-Kennedy immigration quotas, giving preference to the wealthiest, best educated, and most productive people of Europe, South America, and the Far East, and reducing or eliminating our dependence on Arab oil.\u00a0 That must be our goal and we must not shrink from embracing it openly and publicly.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Caroline Glick writes in Jewish World Review that, since taking office, Barack Obama has \u201cfailed to conceive of a strategy for contending with the situation.\u201d\u00a0 Instead, he has discouraged any discussion of the basic threat posed by radical Islam by banning the use of the terms \u201cWar on Terror,\u201d \u201cjihad,\u201d \u201cIslamic terrorism,\u201d and \u201cRadical Islam\u201d in U.S. government documents.<\/p>\n

As one Muslim caller to a radio talk show put it, \u201cThe liberal (peace-loving) Muslims are on the bus\u2026 but the crazies are driving the bus.\u201d\u00a0 If that is the same bus on which Obama has invited Republicans to ride\u2026 so long as we sit in the back\u2026 then I want no part of it.\u00a0 It\u2019s time to get all of the good people off the bus, turn it around, put Obama behind the wheel, and send him and all of his Muslim friends back to where they came from.\u00a0 Call me islamophobic if you will, but if peace-loving Muslims are incapable of controlling their radicalized brethren and assimilating in our culture, then I just don\u2019t want them in my country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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