Wednesday, April 27, 2005

Future of Europe

Found this satirical map.

Note the provenance (I was doing research by the way. I know that's the Pete Townshend defence, but it's the truth your honour.)

Anyway, how far removed from some Pipes and Steyn comments do y'all think it is?

3 comments:

dan said...

Had some problems with the links to start with. If it didn't make sense from the original notification please visit the post again. Should all be working now.

JP said...

Your Steyn link (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1122405/posts) should be required reading - thought-provoking and LOL funny in equal measure.

Here's one thought-provoking excerpt:

What will London — or Paris, or Amsterdam (for she is after all a citizen of the European Union) — be like in the mid-Thirties? On present demographic projections, it will be far more Muslim — how far depends on whether European politicians make any serious attempt this decade to wean the populace off their unsustainable 35-hour weeks, etc. If they make no attempt at all, then to keep the present level of pensions and health benefits the EU will need to import so many workers from North Africa and the Middle East that it will be well on its way to majority Muslim by 2035. Can a society become increasingly Islamic in its demographic character without becoming increasingly Islamic in its political character?

A few weeks back I was strolling along the Boulevard de Maisonneuve in Montreal when I saw a Muslim woman across the street, all in black, covered head to toe, the full hejab. She was passing a condom boutique, its window filled with various revolting novelty prophylactics, ‘cum rags’, etc. It was a perfect snapshot of the internal contradictions of multicultural diversity. In 30 years’ time, either the Arab lady will still be there, or the condom store, but not both. Which would you bet on?

dan said...

What if any conclusion do you draw from the overlap between Pipes, Steyn, and the BNP?