Invasion By Immigration

Invasion By Immigration

Cal Thomas
Thursday, August 13, 2009

PORTSTEWART, NORTHERN IRELAND -- The Daily Telegraph's headline is
meant to shock, or at least get the attention of Europeans apathetic
about the threat they face: "A Fifth of European Union Will Be Muslim
by 2050."

In a related article "Muslim Europe: the Demographic Time Bomb
Transforming Our Continent," The Telegraph's lead sentence summarizes
the problem: "Britain and the rest of the European Union are ignoring
a demographic time bomb: a recent rush into the EU by migrants,
including millions of Muslims, will change the continent beyond
recognition over the next two decades, and almost no policymakers are
talking about it."



The late British parliamentarian Enoch Powell warned more than 40
years ago that Britain had to be mad to allow in 50,000 dependents of
immigrants every year. Powell, who was denounced as a racist and a
xenophobe by the intellectual elites, compared it to watching a nation
busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.

In retrospect, Powell looks like a prophet. According to Oxford
demographer David Coleman, Britain's non-white population is on course
"to grow from 9 percent at the last census in 2001 to 29 percent by
the year 2051." Coleman estimates that if Britain continues at its
current level of immigration -- 191,000 per year by 1999 reports --
its population could increase by 15 million by 2050, which will bring
change most Britons don't believe in.

In his new book, "Reflections on the Revolution in Europe:
Immigration, Islam and the West," Financial Times and Weekly Standard
columnist Christopher Caldwell lays out in undisputable terms and with
irrefutable facts the threat faced by the West. He says it is worse
than anything al-Qaida can deliver. Caldwell cites numerous reasons
for the predicament faced by Europe (and the United States), including
the idea of a European Union, which is quickly eliminating individual
identity, culture and money (the one size fits all Euro). Without an
identifiable culture, immigrants cannot be assimilated, even if they
want to be, which in the case of radical Muslims, argues Caldwell,
they don't.

In addition to massive immigration, Caldwell says, the high birth rate
among immigrants, coupled with the low birth rate among white
Europeans (barely enough in some countries to replace those who are
dying) means that soon 20 percent of Europe's population would be
Muslim.

The rapid population change, writes Caldwell, is startling when you
consider that as recently as the mid-20th century there were virtually
no Muslims in Western Europe. At the turn of this century, there were
between 15 million and 17 million Muslims in Western Europe, including
5 million in France, 4 million in Germany and 2 million in Britain.
What is the attraction of these countries, which to some Islamic minds
are full of idolatry, hedonism and secularism? All one need do is
listen to the radical sermons and the vitriolic statements of certain
Islamic leaders and spokesmen and to the radical Islamic media. They
say their goal is to subjugate Europe and America to their religion.

At a recent conference near Chicago called "The Fall of Capitalism and
the Rise of Islam," Imam Jaleel Abdul Razek responded to a question
from the audience about whether the U.S. Constitution or Sharia law
should rule the United States when Islam is in control. Razek said
Sharia would rule and that the Constitution would have to go.

Caldwell writes that uncontrolled immigration without assimilation
"exacts a steep price in freedom. The multiculturalism that has been
Europe's main way of managing mass immigration requires the sacrifice
of liberties that natives once thought of as rights."

Those who support immigration without assimilation claim the West
needs more brainy people to run their computers and discover cures for
diseases. Why can't our school systems produce more intelligent people
without having to import them? More than "brains" are coming to the
West. Those with a radical theological and political agenda are
infiltrating us more effectively than our enemies of the 20th century
ever dreamed of doing.

Twice in the last century America has delivered Europe from homegrown
evil. It won't be able to do so again when that evil is imported and
when America is dealing with immigration problems of its own.



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