Steyn eviscerates this guy...

The following is a letter to Steyn:

FROM THE KEYBOARD OF CAPTAIN CAPS-LOCK

I WAS DISTRESSED TO READ READ YOUR LATEST PROMO ABOUT MUSLIMS AND HOW WE MIGHT BE HEARING THEIR CALLS TO PRAYER. AFTER CHECKING ON SOME FACTS THIS IS WHAT I CAME UP WITH. THERE ARE 830 MILLION PEOPLE IN EUROPE THERE ARE 53 MILLION MUSLIMS IN EUROPE
THAT EQUATES TO 6% OF THE TOTAL POPULATION SO I WONDER HOW THESE NUMBERS WERE CONVERETED TO YOU STATEMENTS ABOUT MUSLIMS AND HOW WE WILL BE HEARING THEIR
CALLS TO PRAYER IN THE NEAR FUTURE. I HAVE NO GREAT LOVE FOR HOW THE MUSLIM RELIGION WORKS AND HOW MOST OF THE COUNTRIES WITH THIS RELIGION ARE SOME TYPE OF DICTATORSHIP
I AM NOT A BLEEDING HEART...BUT I DO RESENT YOUR EFFORT TO SCARE PEOPLE INTO READING YOUR BOOK. IN HARD ECONOMIC TIMES EVERYBODY IS SCARED AND NERVOUS AND ARE WILLING TO BLAME OTHERS..OR..FOREIGNERS. I HAVE LIVED IN FIVE COUNTRIES INCLUDING MY BEST YEARS IN HAMILTON. ONTARIO.

THERE I FEEL BETTER.
DON PAICE

And here is Steyn's response:


MARK SAYS: Well, I'm glad all it requires is a couple of hundred words in CAPITAL LETTERS to make you FEEL BETTER. Unfortunately, you're heading for a distinctly lower case future.

I'm not entirely comfortable with screeching EN MAJESCULES for paragraph after paragraph but let me try and explain it in terms even you can understand. I don't agree with your numbers, but let's take them as ballpark figures. If, as you say, Islam represents six per cent of the population, how come in, say, the Antwerp public school system, 40 per cent of elementary school students choose Islam for their religious studies versus 26.5 per cent who choose Catholicism - and it's predicted to be a majority in 2012. As you might type it, THAT'S IN TWO YEARS' TIME!!!!!!!!!

Antwerp is not untypical. Brussels is on the brink of majority Muslim status. So are Amsterdam and Rotterdam, and Strasbourg, and Cologne, and many other major cities in western Europe from Malmo to Marseille. Islam is the principal engine of population growth in every city down the spine of England from Manchester and Leeds through Birmingham and Bristol to London. If Muslims are only six per cent of the population, how come they already form a majority of the governing caucus of the capital city of the European Union? If Muslims are only six per cent of the population, how come they accounted for 57 per cent of all births in Brussels in 2006? If Muslims are only six per cent of the population, how come they make up 20 per cent of Britain's university students?

Here's a clue for you, Captain Caps-Lock. Keep an eye on that grade-school figure. The 94 per cent of non-Muslims are very old, and the 6 per cent of believers are very young. According to the Vienna Institute of Demography, by mid-century Islam will be the majority religion among Austrians under the age of 15. And - HERE'S A CLUE AS TO WHERE YOU'RE GOING WRONG!!!!! - if a demographic is in the majority under the age of 15, that's the future of your society.

You, DON PAICE, are a fool. You spend two minutes Googling TWO BIG NUMBERS and three minutes TYPING IN BIG LETTERS, and you think that passes for research and knowledge. Populations are not static, and populations dependent on mass immigration are the most dynamic of all. In the United Kingdom, the Muslim population is growing ten times faster than the general population. In Austria, one of the few European countries whose government statistics office measures religion, the fertility rate for Muslims is over twice as high as for non-Muslims. In Belgium, the Moroccan community has a fertility rate over two-and-a-half times as high. Whenever I point out that Mohammed is the most popular name for newborn boys in, say, the four biggest cities in the Netherlands, someone always writes to point out that that is a uniquely dominant name among Muslim believers and so will always be over-represented: It's not like Tom, Dick or Harry. Comparisons are silly. Okay, here's the rest of the hit parade - the most popular newborn boys' names in Brussels in 2006: 2) Adam; 3) Rayan; 4) Ayoub; 5) Mehdi; 6) Amine; 7) Hamza... Get the picture? A six per cent present doesn't translate into a six per cent future.

Did you study math at school or just CAPITAL LETTERS? Let's make it simple. Suppose you have a population of 100,000 people. 90,000 are Ruritanians. 10,000 are Munchkins. The 90,000 have a fertility rate of 1.3 - which is what Germany, Greece, Italy, Spain and many other European countries are at (or below). The 10,000 have a fertility rate of 3.5, which is what the Muslim fertility rate in Europe is estimated to be at in the first and second generations. The 90,000 Ruritanians will have 38,025 grandchildren. The 10,000 Munchkins will have 30,625 grandchildren. In other words, the ten per cent will catch up with the 90 per cent within two generations. That process is well underway in Sweden, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Austria, Britain and elsewhere - hence those grade-school figures. And that math excludes immigration (Islam remains the principal supplier of new "Europeans"), emigration by young native Europeans (already underway), and further declines in the fertility rate: Thirty per cent of German women are childless; the fertility rate for non-religious Austrians is 0.86. What makes your letter especially obtuse is not just the SCREAMING CAPITALS but the pseudo-appeal to science and rationalism. Unless you are extremely old, you will live long enough to be embarrassed by this.