Mark Steyn’s new book. I just finished reading it. Let me save you some trouble and torment.
Don’t buy it! Don’t read it! Instead, go bury your head in the sand. If you read this book, you’ll just get all knowledgeable about stuff and it’ll pi** you off and you’ll want to start nuking people.
I mean, after all, exactly how disturbed will you be if France becomes a Muslim country, or the rest of Europe, for that matter? Isn’t it kind of like watching some skanky slut climb in the back of a van driven by the local meth-heads, knowing that she’s headed for rape and worse?
Steyn’s book looks at the impact of changing demographics in Europe and the rising Muslim population and comes to the conclusion that Europe has become so “educated”, “cultured” and “civilized” that it lacks the will to avoid assimilation.
He does give us in America a bit more of a chance, but not at the hands of our our brand of pseudointellectual Euro-pu**ies.
It gives me cause to fear for the future my children will face. That makes me want to fight. And yes, it’s “for the children”….
Makes a convincing argument, does he?
Interesting that his description of France is so recently borne out by this story in the NYTimes, or this one from the London Times.
Things suq in France, and the rest of Europe isn’t far behind.
I haven’t read the Steyn book, and judging by what I have heard about it, and judging by his columns, I don’t think I will.
The big problem I have with Steyn is his seeming resignation and cynicism about the fate of the West. He seems to think it’s inevitable that not only Europe but the United States will be changed beyond recognition because of the changing demographics. His message seems to be that we’re doomed, and the only possible answer is to have more kids and outbreed the Moslems or whoever threatens to conquer us demographically.
He never mentions a word about getting borders under control, or anything about curbing the out-of-control immigration that has brought us all to this crisis. Curbing immigration seems to be too politically incorrect for Steyn and many of the others on the ‘right.’ Yet that would seem to be the first logical place to approach the problem facing Europe and the U.S.