There are Now Towns in Northern England Where Cousin Marriage is the Norm
It seems that author Mark Steyn is an alarmist for pointing out a few things that are happening in Europe. Apparently, in Europe, telling an uncomfortable truth makes one an alarmist.My book's thesis — that most of the Western world is on course to become at least semi-Islamic in its political and cultural disposition within a very short time — is "alarmist."...The question then arises: fair enough, guys, what would it take to alarm you?
...Last week, the British and Ontario governments confirmed within days of each other that thousands of polygamous men in their jurisdictions receive welfare payments for each of their wives.
...What does it mean when 57 per cent of Pakistani Britons are married to first cousins and 70 per cent are married to relatives? At the very least, it tells you that this community is strongly resistant to traditional immigrant assimilation patterns.
...Is sharia, polygamy, routine first-cousin marriage in the interests of Canada or Britain or Europe? Oh, dear, even to raise the subject is to tiptoe into all kinds of uncomfortable terrain for the multicultural mindset.___Macleans
What about honour killings, stoning adulterers, killing of apostates, genital mutilation, and the general, run-of-the-mill religious bigotry, hatred, and failure to assimilate?
Without pressure to conform to the norms of a larger society, immigrant muslims will form their own internal power structures--a state within a state. It is inevitable, given the totalitarian nature of Islamic life. Religion, family, government--all wrapped into one set of rules, Sharia. If the secular western government is too reticent to insist upon compliance with civil and criminal law, Muslim law will fill the void.
While leftist multiculturalism claims to view all cultures as at least as good as western culture, the only way for multiculturalists to tolerate the misogyny, homophobic violence, and religious intolerance of Islam, is for them to pretend it does not exist. So they do--pretend. And pretend, and pretend, and pretend. But to what end?
Here is a simple multi-cultural math question. One million male muslim immigrants each marry four female first cousins, from the old country. Each wife has four children, and collects her own welfare check for her household. If the fertility rate for indigenous English girls is close to 1 child per woman, how long before everyone in England is muslim, and living on welfare checks?
Research shows that when third world people move to the first world, the fertility rate of at least the first generation of immigrants goes up. In the case of muslims in Europe, every generation is the first generation, since muslim males send back to the old country for girl cousins to marry.
Labels: european decline, immigration, Islam
posted by al fin at 3:26 pm
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The research showing that first generation immigrants have fertility rates which go up; is that compared with the home country at the current time or as compared with the home country at the time when the original immigrant left? I have heard that fertility rates quickly approach local levels over a couple of generations. It has been stated by some that the major immigration of Muslims to Europe occurred in the 1970s and 80s and that continued increases in the population is due to this original wave now having children at a higher than native rate but with falling rates, meaning that their demographic potential for growth.
It is difficult for me to evaluate the information that is presented for demographic analysis given that it is not my field so it is not impossible that I have been mislead on the issue. I have noticed however, that Muslim population sizes and growth rates are often criticized after release for being highly overestimated. They are rarely if ever criticized for being too low. It often seems as if they are inflated to give added political weight to the population being measured, or to encourage compromises such as "land for peace" to preserve the Jewish majority in remaining areas of Israel.
I don't know if Muslim immigrants continue to practice sex selection through ultrasound screening as many do in the Islamic world but between honour violence (which more often kill or alienate females), the birth defects - and, one would assume, fertility problems - associated with the first cousin marriages, high incarceration rates, and the recruiting of youth to wage Jihad in Central Asia, I am slightly skeptical of the Demographic potential of Western Muslims. Certainly the falling fertility rates of Middle East/North African peoples show that the fertility rates of these populations are not intrinsic or immutable.
Also, religious adherence rates for Muslim immigrants (or any Muslim populations) is so politically sensitive as to be virtually non existent. Radicalization shows up well in anecdotal evidence since it is easy to find an people who will proudly report their extreme beliefs but apostates and nominal Muslims are neither as interesting to the public or as willing to talk.
I don't take this position to advocate complacency. Efforts to confront the erosion of Western institutions and principles to theocratic and leftist ideologies are crucial. But between archbishops advocating surrender and others advocating European evacuation, I think that an overly negative assessment could be counter productive if it is not justified. Highly accurate information about trends and their rates of change is vital.
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"If a religious fanatic/terrorist has too low an IQ they wouldn't have the cognitive ability to carry out a terrorist attack."
True, but from what I have seen in Afghanistan and Iraq, there seem to be some jihadis who are willing to help mentally challenged folk into a bomb vest and even detonate them remotely if they can not understand the concept.
It may be that IQ is an indirect agent in promoting secularism, with basic education and literacy having the primary effect and IQ being a determining factor as to how much effort and how many resources need to be expended to achieve that education. If so, raising IQ would not be immediately necessary as improving education levels could promote secularism. While education and communications technologies do not prevent individuals from becoming terrorists or theocratic zealots, they do increase the degree to which ideas can move through a culture in the same way that printing technology and literacy helped Europe rid itself of some primitive concepts and adopt some more sophisticated ones.
Since literacy (especially female literacy) seems to kick start the demographic transition from a high fertility culture to a low one, it would be wise to focus on literacy in the Middle East and North Africa. Ironically, but not inexplicably, many of the originating cultures are more secular than their immigrant communities in the West. Saudi clerics and insulation from the larger cultures of both origin and destination are contributing factors. But this "traditionalism" is not necessarily a permanent state and can be combated.
Thanks for the comments.
Immigration of muslims into Europe is having multiple simultaneous effects, which together guarantee a more Islamic Europe within 50 years time.
1. The birthrate among immigrant muslim women is up to 5 times the birth rate of indigenous European women.
2. Muslim men may marry up to four or more girls who are brought directly from the old country--accelerated secondary immigration due to polygamous marriage to outsiders. Each of these uneducated third world girls has the "birthing philosophy" of the old world.
3. An increasing number of Europeans are choosing to leave Europe for other countries with less Islamogenic hatred and violence. This further tips the balance toward muslims.
4. High birthrates among poor muslim immigrants are expedited by welfare payments and state-medical care.
5. Muslim women are encouraged by muslim clerics and their husbands and families to produce a lot of babies.
6. Lack of assimilation--isolation of the muslim women from the outside world--guaranties they will not be educated nor will the different customs and mores of non-muslim women filter into their thinking or actions.
7. The thuggish nature of muslim interaction with non-muslim Europeans (gang rape, riots, car burning, looting, terrorism, etc) tends to make European governments pander to muslims, in many ways.
So that long before muslims achieve a majority, their dominance of political and public life is achieved.
US, New Zealand, Canadian, and Australian residents should understand how populations that make up a relatively small proportion of the population can have a hugely disproportionate impact upon the body politic, and almost every aspect of public life.
Europe will experience this impact, and suffer from it far more than the far-flung Anglosphere has done.
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