The Demographic Bomb

The West is currently under assault from within and without and yet most of us don't realize it's happening. We ignore the facts and accept a concoction of dreams peddled to us by our leaders. Fortunately, some, a very few, voices are now being heard. 

The Demographic Bomb

by Frank Hilliard

One great advantage of age, time and relative isolation is that you can take a longer view of world events. Instead of being transfixed (like a deer in the headlights) by day-to-day emergencies and surprises, I have had the great privileged of being able to mull over trends in society; slow waves that rise and fall almost imperceptibly, lifting or ebbing beneath our keels.

In four years of thinking about these, I've noticed two trends that, unfortunately are mutually reinforcing. On the one hand, we have in the West now got a demographic deficit because, for a number of reasons, our women are no longer having enough children to replace our population. And on the other hand, one specific group of immigrants—Muslims—are continuing to have large families.

This could have worked our peacefully and positively if not for two things: 1) Muslim immigrants are continuing to retain their social cohesion, religion and culture after they migrate to the West, and 2) Western Progressives are bending over backward to encourage them to do so under the false god of multiculturalism.

This combination has created a demographic bomb by which Western society will be destroyed just as completely, and just as permanently, as if it had been assaulted with atomic weapons.

Fortunately a few, a very few, voices have been raised to warn of the approaching cataclysm.

Mark Steyn with his book America Alone laid it out for anyone to read and understand. If you haven't read the book, read this piece in the National Post. Michael Mannheimer, a German journalist, made the same case even more forcibly at a rally for free speech in Amsterdam. Here's a transcript from Gates of Vienna:

I lived in Buddhist countries sixteen years. I lived in Hindu countries many, many years. I know the Christian and the Jewish. This is unique. No other country has an order to kill those who criticize their religion. And there is another order: killing those who abandon their religion, meaning Islam. So both these things are far and away against the human rights of Europe. The human rights of free speech and the human rights of free choices of human individuals to choose what they want. And this has nothing to do with the freedom of religion, which also involves the freedom having no religion.

And another:

1945 there were only 645,000 Muslims in Europe. Now in the year 2010 we already have 55 million Muslims, a number which is growing by one million immigrants from Muslim countries every year, and we will even get more by the Lisbon treaties, which demand more, one hundred million. I repeat, one hundred million Muslims by the year 2030. Of all immigrants since 1990, in the twenty years up to today the portion of Muslim immigrants was 90%. This is the information which you cannot read in the newspapers, and you will not hear that from politicians. In Sweden alone, in the capital of Sweden, there are twenty suburbs that have over 70% Muslims; by their increasing numbers, in five years most of them will have 100% Muslims.

 As you can see, it's not a perfect translation, but that's because it was done by amateurs on the fly. No official organ, no professional translating company, no news agency would touch this kind of speech with a barge pole. That's not because of laws against hate speech; it's because they're afraid of the consequences. Fear on the part of our elites is another part of the problem.

Let me give you another name, also German: Thilo Sarrazin, a former board member of the Bundesbank. He wrote a very influential book earlier this year, Germany Abolishes Itself: How we Put our Country at Risk (Deutschland schafft sich ab: Wie wir unser Land aufs Spiel setzen). That book, and the popular response to it, was the reason for the speech recently by Chancellor Merkel, in which she said Multiculturalism had 'utterly failed.'

Well, of course it has failed, what was surprising was that she actually admitted it. It wouldn't have been possible without Sarrazin speaking up first.

In the United States there is Thomas Sowell, who writes in Dismantling America that the West is modeling itself on the Roman Empire in its decline. Consider this one of his comments on the book in an interview at RightWingNews.

For example, at one time being a Roman citizen was a source of great pride. Towards the end of the Empire, all sorts of people had been made Roman citizens who had no commitment to Rome and it was just a convenience for them to be able to get the benefits of being a Roman citizen without themselves reciprocating it in any way. And so you had a lot of people with no real commitment to the Empire out there supposedly defending the Empire. You also had something that we have now, that is, at one time the elite of the Roman Empire would lead the Roman legions into battle when the Empire was threatened. And in later times, the elites sat on the sidelines and let other people fight their wars.

'People  with no commitment to Rome,' that's the issue. Muslims with no commitment to Judeo-Christian values; that's the problem.

In Canada we had, and still have, the sterling example of Ezra Levant who published the Mohammad cartoons and was then taken to the Alberta Human Rights Commission by a militant Muslim. This points to another example of how we're being attacked, by 'lawfare.' The most recent example was this week in Oklahoma, where a proposition banning consideration of other legal codes (read Sharia) is being challenged by yes another militant Muslim.

We also have Lowell Green whose new book on immigration and multiculturalism is appropriately titled Mayday! Mayday!  I've ordered it and will review it as soon as it arrives.

Who, among our ruling parties, has explained any of this to the public?  Who, in Canada, understands it?  One leader who is part way there is Jim Hnatiuk of the Christian Heritage Party, but even that party, which opposes Sharia, has not gone the next step to oppose immigration by people who support Sharia law.

I should mention the Mayor of Hérouxville, Quebec, Martin Périgny, who has posted his town charter on his website. It's a declaration that Western community standards, and laws, will be maintained and not altered to suit newcomers. The town council has indeed made an heroic stand but it is but one light in an ocean of darkness in Canada.

And also worth highlighting is the work of Martin Collacott and others at the Centre for Immigration Policy Reform, which, while it is not specifically concerned about Muslim assimilation, has opened the debate on immigration in general. This is an important first step because without the CIPR, there would be no debate on this pressing issue.

The Government, the opposition and the media are all of them (with the notable exception of the National Post) blind to the problem, blind to the danger, blind, blind, blind.

Who can we look to in the future?  Who will recognize the threat and galvanize the public to meet it?  Who will be our new Charles Martel?

I'll leave that for another post.

In the meantime don't think this issue is going to go away. Don't think you can personally dodge it by ignoring it. Don't think it won't come knocking on your door.

We're all in this boat together, and right at the moment, it's sinking.