61. Chris:
I’m starting to worry a lot more about “Amerabia” and “Australarabia” than I am about Eurabia these days. I just got back from a 6-month stint on a contract job in Europe. Much of the work was in Lyons, Limoges and Paris, and having heard about the banlieues riots in France, I wasn’t looking forward to it.
Turns out it’s things on the American side of the Atlantic that are more worrisome. FWIW, Britain (Londonistan in particular) is indeed an Islamic state in the making. I spent 3 weeks there and couldn’t wait to leave—the Pakistanis and Somalis are everywhere, and in a report that just came out this past week, it was noted that their birth rates in England are actually rapidly increasing due to the excellent prenatal care they get. So Britain’s toast (or should we say “Englandistan”), just as Mark Steyn’s been saying.
But the picture’s different (and a lot weirder) elsewhere. France indeed has its problems in those suburbs, but seems like the lion’s share of the Lebanese, Syrians, heck even tons of the Algerians and Tunisians are Jews and Christians who were escaping Muslim oppression, not Muslims themselves. One of my contacts in France is Egyptian—Coptic Egyptian. I didn’t realize it until I went there, but France and Germany now have the two biggest Coptic Christian and Syrian Christian populations outside of Egypt and Syria themselves.
As for the Muslims? Oh, they’re there and they’re causing trouble just as you might expect. Not much in Lyons and Limoges but definitely in Paris. The tires on one of our vehicles were slashed, and the perps turned out to be Mauritanian. But here’s the catch: The most popular thing for France’s young Muslims these days, is to emigrate– Sarkozy in general is a self-serving fool, but the one thing he’s done right is to turn into Deportation Man, and he’s basically been kicking the young Muslims out.
And guess where those young French Muslims (and Dutch Muslims, Belgian Muslims, Swedish Muslims, German Muslims, Swiss Muslims and Norwegian Muslims) are emigrating to? That’s right—the good ol” USA, in part because our very own President Barack Hussein Obama is such an inspiring example for young Muslims across the world, about what a tolerant, pro-Muslim (I kid you not) place the United States has become. So Michigan and Minnesota will soon turn into Michiganistan and Minnesotastan, maybe soon Chicagostan to go along with them. Our only protection, is that millions of these Muslims are also emigrating to Canada (which has a big French component after all) and Australia, places which are seen as “far away from the xenophobic Europeans” and thus with increasing appeal. But that’s small comfort.
IOW, Steyn got it just partly right. The UK is indeed heading for Sharia Law within about 15 years. But Amerabia is now on the horizon, since those nasty Continentals and even the Scandinavians have gotten all nastily nationalist and xenophobe and hurting the Muslims’ feelings—and so, with the help of our ridiculous immigration laws, they’re coming mostly to the United States, with a few winding up in Australia or Canada. Yet another one of those “unintended consequences” of the 2008 election here. I guess if you have some Italian or German blood in you, there’ll be a place you can move to in 10 years—but otherwise, things are becoming even more miserable demographically than we thought before.