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11-12-2009 , 02:51 AM
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In Russia they are aborting like 80% of pregnancies.

Couple that with the short life expectations and you have a superfast demographic decline.
In other news, people eating their dead mothers is also experiencing an alarming drop in frequency.
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11-12-2009 , 03:25 AM
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Originally Posted by jeansrun
First of all I think you are very wrong. I can appreciate your concerns, as these statements seem very harsh on someone who has not grasped the effect and the wild spreadnessness of "multilculturalism" and political correctness and blatant system abuse that comes with it.

If you start arguing that my post was racist, well then you have already lost this argument as islam and islamization has nothing to do with race.
You don't think people from other countries should immigrate to Europe. People from brown countries. You think they will **** up Europe. At the very least, you're xenophobic.

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The media has chosen to silence the critics and milden the facts. Hundreds of cars burning in France? Youths and employment problems. Press living under constant death threaths? Standard. Sharia in UK? Normal! Taxpayer subsizied polygamy? No problem! White flight? Well because they are racists!
Hundreds of cars burn in Athens? Youth and employment problems, not immigrants. Press living under constant death threats? *citation needed* Sharia in the UK? *citation needed* Taxpayer subsizied polygamy? *citation needed* White flight *description needed*

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Multiculturalism is a structural weakness of the West, and other cultures and forces are abusing it. The abuses we are taking are just a symptom of our own weakness, and thus the correct way to fix the solution would be to have more belief in ourselves and start reproducing again and making babies. For countries like France and Holland this seems to be too late.
Yes, back in the days when the west was all Christian, oh those were the peaceful times of Europe!

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One of the biggest problems is that once a countries population exceeds a certain % of muslims, it will not be a free country by Western standards. Only three countries that have just a 20% muslim population can be considered free: Serbia Montegero, Benin and Surinam. After that it is bye-bye women's rights, free speech and other human rights.
Yes, countries ruled by fundamentalist nuts of any religion kind of suck for freedom. See: Europe in the dark ages/medieval times. Countries with a clear separation of Church and State do much better. So my guess is, if we keep religion of any kind separate to the state, then we'll be ok.

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The UK muslims have stated that they would rather live under Sharia law than in Westminster type of government. This means that because they are having a tons of babies, they will be the majority one day, and then the UK will be a muslim country with sharia law. And if you are used to the luxuries of freedom of speech etc. you wont be living in the UK anymore.
*citation needed*

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Do you know why German schools on average score so bad on the PISA tests? Because too many of the kids can not read or write.
I can provide a citation for this one!

http://econpapers.repec.org/paper/knzhetero/0407.htm

bzzzt wrong answer. Germany is above average.


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Ok let's start with some numbers and some facts:
Refreshing change!



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UK:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/com...cle6898174.ece

(Labour losing political votes so it is immigrating millions and millions of people to be its future voters and not requiring to keep any quality control and effectively letting everyone in)
aaaand you cite an editorial. someone's opinion. Nice.


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Sweden:


Sweden, that has embraced multiculturalism and mass immigration from thirld world countries, is spending more of its government spending on immigration and costs relating to it than it is spending on pensions.

The establishment ignores the dangers of Islamization
by Jimmie Åkesson
http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/20...amization.html
Islam is the greatest threat to Sweden
http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/20...his-mouth.html
*checks gatesofveinna.blogspot.com*

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At the siege of Vienna in 1683 Islam seemed poised to overrun Christian Europe. We are in a new phase of a very old war.
Yes, this seems like an unbiased source of empirical evidence that has been peer reviewed by experts.


CBN... who are they.... christian broadcast network! Well, I'm sure they wouldn't say anything mean about other religions, I mean Christians have never marched into another religions heartland and slaughtered hundreds of thousands people, nor have they persecuted other religions... it would be so bizarre for Christians to be biased about a topic like another religion!

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Holland:

Theo Van Gogh. Dead.
Pim Fourtyn. Dead.
Ayaan Hirsi-Ali. A muslim who had to escape to the USA from the islamists. She wasn't safe in Europe anymore.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Charles_Kopp

Pim Fortyn wasn't killed by Islamic extremists btw, he was killed by this guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkert_van_der_Graaf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayaan_Hirsi_Ali

Its perfectly conceivable that a small minority of extremists were making death threats. She was not harassed in public by angry mobs here. If you want to argue otherwise, provide a cite. If you want to argue about this, I'll start presenting people who had to go underground due to fundamentalist Christian death threats.


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Germany:

Just recently a Bundesbank high official was removed from his position after stating that certain Turks, Arabs had problems immigrating to Germany. He had the proof with the employment, welfare and education rates. But because everyone is so biased and multicultural that they would rather denounce the guy than face the facts.

http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/20...ans-fault.html
And your tirade in favor of the German board member; first of all, they are a private company and saying contreversial things, on either side of the fence for any debate, is not preferred. Companies don't like to get involved in this. Secondly,

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after the former Berlin finance senator said the city's Arab and Turkish populations had no productive function and had too many children.
He didn't criticise the integration, he spat in the face of immigrants. No productive function? How is that not inflammatory? and more:

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In the interview, Sarrazin said of Berlin, "A great many Arabs and Turks in this city, whose numbers have grown because of the wrong policies, have no productive function other than as fruit and vegetable sellers."

Sarrazin, a long-time member of the Social Democrats, said one of Berlin’s biggest problems is that “40 percent of all births take place in the lower class.”
This guy isn't just a racist, he's a classist too, probably even worse. Is this the kind of image a bank wants to have? You think this is wise? He wasn't even sacked, he was asked to quit, and I can't find a citation of him actually quitting yet! Explain how he was removed? You're twisting words.

For a guy who is uppity about the 'liberal bias', why don't you instead turn to peer reviewed, accredited journals with numbers you can use to support your position? Why are you turning to extreme right wing blogs? These are sources of opinion.

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Europeans blatanly chose 35-hour work weeks, studying until they were 30 and generous annual vacations and still chose not to have babies it is just too sad.
Europeans? You mean, only France? Also, the irony is, you know why birth rates have dropped? Because women have been getting a better education, and have put that education to use by working full time. Citation. Why spend 5 years at university if you're just going to pop out babies anyway? Oh, you think this is sad? I guess women right's is pretty sad....


The link rightwingnews.... they really don't care, do they?

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The European Continent isn't multicultural so much as bicultural. There are ageing native populations, and young Muslim populations, and that's it: "two solitudes", as they say in my beloved Quebec. If there's three, four or more cultures, you can all hold hands and sing We are the World. But if there's just two — you and the other — that's generally more fractious. Bicultural societies are among the least stable in the world, especially once it's no longer quite clear who is the majority and who is the minority — a situation that much of Europe is fast approaching, as you can see by visiting any French, Austrian, Belgian or Dutch maternity ward.
- Mark steyn from "The Telegraph"
Nice opinion, *citation needed*

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In France, President Sarkozy is proposing a very modest step — that those who retire before the age of 65 should not receive free health care — and the French are up in arms about it. He's being angrily denounced by 53-year-old retirees, a demographic hitherto unknown to functioning societies. You spend your first 25 years being educated, you work for two or three decades, and then you spend a third of a century living off a lavish pension, with the state picking up every health care expense. No society can make that math add up. And so, in a democratic system today's electors vote to keep the government gravy coming and leave it to tomorrow for "the children" to worry about. That's the real "war on children" – and every time you add a new entitlement to the budget you make it less and less likely they'll win it... Nothing makes a citizen more selfish than socially equitable communitarianism: Once a fellow's enjoying the fruits of Euro-style entitlements, he couldn't give a hoot about the general societal interest; he's got his, and who cares if it's going to bankrupt the state a generation hence?
- Mark Steyn form "The OC Register"
Yeah, the French hate it when their government tries to mess with them, for better or worse. Also, its interesting his little mathematics:

25 years educated + 30 years of working minus the average life expectancy in France of 80... That leaves 25 years. But wait, this guy said a 1/3 of a Century, that's 33 years... He's off by a factor of 10%. Also, that lavish pension? 87 euros a week. Damn, they have it easy!

And you know how France makes the math add up? Immigration.
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11-12-2009 , 04:04 AM
gj Art I wouldn't have mustered up the courage to rebuke his ridiculous arguments but well done.
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11-12-2009 , 05:00 AM
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gj Art I wouldn't have mustered up the courage to read his ridiculous arguments but well done.
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11-12-2009 , 06:11 AM
Jim Rogers on largest debtor nations
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzK-q...eature=related

what happens to credit bubbles based on history
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_izvH...layer_embedded
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11-12-2009 , 09:21 AM
I think it's funny you cite Pim Fortuyn as a victim of the multicultural society when he was murdered by a white locally born non-muslim animal rights activist.

Also you say that multicultural society can not work. I would call the Ottoman Empire as an example of a society with a large group of different cultures and religions living peacefully together (especially for those times when Jews and Muslims were being killed by Christians).
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11-12-2009 , 09:33 AM
Or Russia, who is the most diverse of all the countries and seems to somehow stick together.
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11-12-2009 , 12:31 PM
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I would call the Ottoman Empire as an example of a society with a large group of different cultures and religions living peacefully together (especially for those times when Jews and Muslims were being killed by Christians).
I'd call this a mediocre example. Yes the population was multicultural but all non-muslims had to accept that muslims > non-muslims. Once they accept that they can live in peace. The Ottawa Empire was a tyranny and any rebellions were brutally put down by their enforces, the Kurds.

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Russia, who is the most diverse of all the countries and seems to somehow stick together.
For most of Russia's history it has been run as a brutal dictatorship by a small group of elites. They had a little experiment in the 1990s with 'democracy' but that pretty much fell apart and Russia is gradually shifting back to their old ways. The Russian people are well known to be extremely racist. There are tensions between all ethnic groups within their borders.

I'm a big believer in the melting pot. I think one of the best examples of this is the United States. No matter where you are from, what skin colour you are, what your background is, you can go to the U.S and make it big. It's about what you can do and what kind of results you can achieve. But I think this idea is coming to an end in the post 9/11 world.
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11-12-2009 , 01:26 PM
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I'd call this a mediocre example. Yes the population was multicultural but all non-muslims had to accept that muslims > non-muslims. Once they accept that they can live in peace. The Ottawa Empire was a tyranny and any rebellions were brutally put down by their enforces, the Kurds.
Sure, it's not perfect. But if you put it in the historical context it's not bad at all. Don't forget at the same time the Spanish were killing muslims and jews in Spain and north Africa. The Ottomans even actively took in Jews who were driven away by the christians.
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11-12-2009 , 01:33 PM
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Or Russia, who is the most diverse of all the countries and seems to somehow stick together.
Like how you're taking your life in your own hands going out into Moscow after dark if you're not white?

I suppose the KKK is quite diverse and sticks together as well.
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11-12-2009 , 01:36 PM
The problem with the mass immigration to Europe and the 'Islamization' of Europe is that European countries will eventually become islamic countries, due to the much higher birth rate of these immigrants. The islamic countries however will of course remain islamic countries, so what we're left with is basically the demise of European (white) culture, demographic sepuku I guess you can call it.
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11-12-2009 , 03:04 PM
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Or Russia, who is the most diverse of all the countries and seems to somehow stick together.


Not really following the argument but the line jumped out at me. "Russia" seems to shed territories like it's got the mange when it's not under totalitarian rule.

(I use scare quotes because Russia is a pretty amorphous entity in historical terms.)
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11-12-2009 , 03:21 PM
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Originally Posted by vilemerchant
The problem with the mass immigration to Europe and the 'Islamization' of Europe is that European countries will eventually become islamic countries, due to the much higher birth rate of these immigrants. The islamic countries however will of course remain islamic countries, so what we're left with is basically the demise of European (white) culture, demographic sepuku I guess you can call it.

I have two problems with this argument.

First I believe it's pretty well established that first generation immigrants (from all cultures) have very high fertility rates, which dramatically decline through the generations as the standard of living rises.

Second though Europe surely will lose some of it's traditional culture and acquire some Islamic culture, it's really nothing more than irrational fear to hold this up as an inherently bad thing.

The EXACT same arguments have been made in this country against, Germans, Chinese, Irish, Polish, and Mexican immigrants. Cultures are not static, just because every generation waxes nostalgic over the way things were doesn't mean they were actually better.

I admit the current Islamic immigration issue in Europe has a different wrinkle in that: (1) there has been a historical enmity between Islam and Europe, and (2) there are clearly aspects of Islam that are incompatible with basic Western values.

I'm not an authority obviously but both of those points seem quite overstated to me. The reason is modernism/capitalism has a way of coopting religion.

*All* religions are radical at their foundational core... but look at how many Westerners who call themselves Christians or Jews live lives that are completely incompatible with the teachings of Jesus or the law recorded by Abraham.

Islam is easily susceptible to getting steam rolled by modernism the way every other ancient creed has. Nothing like commercialism and pop culture to take the fire out of a zealot's belly.


/Was one phone during this post, hope it's coherent.
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11-12-2009 , 03:34 PM
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Originally Posted by vilemerchant
The problem with the mass immigration to Europe and the 'Islamization' of Europe is that European countries will eventually become islamic countries, due to the much higher birth rate of these immigrants. The islamic countries however will of course remain islamic countries, so what we're left with is basically the demise of European (white) culture, demographic sepuku I guess you can call it.
You assume that there will be mass immigration in the future and the same birth rate for future generations. I highly doubt this will be the case.
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11-12-2009 , 03:46 PM
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though Europe surely will lose some of it's traditional culture and acquire some Islamic culture, it's really nothing more than irrational fear to hold this up as an inherently bad thing.
It's a bad thing because it's completely one-way. Islamic countries will remain islamic, western countries will become islamic.


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The EXACT same arguments have been made in this country against, Germans, Chinese, Irish, Polish, and Mexican immigrants. Cultures are not static, just because every generation waxes nostalgic over the way things were doesn't mean they were actually better.
What is 'this country'? USA? Has and always will be a melting pot, i'm not talking about the USA. European culture and influence has basically shaped the world as it is now. Its politicians seem prepared to just give it all up, get out-bred and out-migrated to the point where their own people become a minority and they will hand their entire continent, it's history and cultures over to another.

White lands become Islamic, Islamic lands remain Islamic. What a fantastic idea, for islam.
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11-12-2009 , 04:09 PM
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It's a bad thing because it's completely one-way. Islamic countries will remain islamic, western countries will become islamic.

This is plainly not true though. Is there a single Islamic country that has not been dramatically influenced by modernity or Western values? Afghanistan seems like the least Westernized Islamic country, and even it is technically a democracy for the moment.

Even Iran which is the most politically anti-Western Islamic country has a strong pro-Western middle class and liberal student movements all that. It also has a radical absolutist government that only came to power in violent (but popular to be fair) revolution.

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What is 'this country'? USA? Has and always will be a melting pot, i'm not talking about the USA. European culture and influence has basically shaped the world as it is now. Its politicians seem prepared to just give it all up, get out-bred and out-migrated to the point where their own people become a minority and they will hand their entire continent, it's history and cultures over to another.
The USA has had vicious anti-immigrant movements in response to every major wave of immigration in its history. And always with the same arguments: they will corrupt our language, our Protestant traditions, they will procreate wildly and sully our cities, their first loyalty will be to the pope/Germany/the tsar/etc.

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White lands become Islamic, Islamic lands remain Islamic. What a fantastic idea, for islam.

This ignores that being 'Muslim' implies almost nothing in the way of political affiliation.

Do you think the Berbers in North Africa, the Shiiites in Iran, the Taliban in Afghanistan, the Uyghur in China, Dave Chapelle in the US represent a unitary political faction that will rise up and join hands as soon as they have reached critical mas in enough countries?

Just as nominal Christians in Europe didn't hesitate for a moment to massacre each other by the millions during World Wars 1 and 2.
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11-12-2009 , 05:34 PM
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White lands become Islamic, Islamic lands remain Islamic. What a fantastic idea, for islam.
Its really obvious you've never been to 'Islamic lands'.
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11-12-2009 , 05:37 PM
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It's a bad thing because it's completely one-way. Islamic countries will remain islamic, western countries will become islamic.
This is a myth, though. First of all, immigrants are nearly always completely assimilated by the 3rd generation. Even if they still listed Islam as a religion, it would be the same as most 'Europeans' listing Christianity.

I remember watching a report on 60 minutes back in 1978(I think?) in Australia that said Australia was going to be 40% Asian by 2018 and a totally different society. Its fear mongering. The math doesn't add up, the way culture assimilate isn't how they say, and in the end it just creates the division like a self fulfilling prophecy.
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11-12-2009 , 06:00 PM
I don't know if this has been mentioned yet but as this forum is US-heavy you might not know this:

One difference between the waves of (see list above) immigrants into the US and the Marocco/Turkey immigrants in Europe is that the M/T immigrants tend to import their brides, which generally come out of backward regions in Turkey/Marocco and they don't speak Dutch. Thus the children of the 4th generation start in the exact same spot as the children of the second generation: a mother that doens't speak the language of the country they are living in, and a father that tends to (as in a lot of families across all cultures) tends to care far less about school then the mother. But when the mother doesn't speak the language, can't read school documents, can't talk to the teacher etc, well, it's not hard to imagine what happens to those kids in school.

I don't want to look it up out of laziness, but it's pretty evident when you look at the 4th generation of immigrants in Flanders. I can't imagine it being the same with all European immigrants in the USA or even hispanics in the USA.

One point missing in an otherwise pretty sweet debunk art
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11-12-2009 , 07:06 PM
Required language ldo.

lol Nordic countries
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11-12-2009 , 07:12 PM
Except what you're claiming isn't based on facts. Marrying brides from the point of origin has been declining for years (as the xth generation is being assimilated) and the birth rate has been declining.

http://www.cbs.nl/NR/rdonlyres/DBA56...onitor2008.pdf it's in Dutch and most of these numbers are for the Netherlands only.
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11-12-2009 , 07:22 PM
unless my seach is failing that's one line in a 300 page document, not even showing any numbers

a decline from say 80 to 60 over 40 years would still be something to worry a lot about, a decline from 80 to 5 wouldn't be, obv
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11-12-2009 , 07:24 PM
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Required language ldo.

lol Nordic countries
I don't find that so ldo. I don't think the idea of a Leitkultur is something that is as easily unitable with democracy as a lot of people think.
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11-12-2009 , 08:05 PM
Your search is failing.

For Turkey and Morocco marrying brides from the country of origin fell from 50% in 2001 to 25% in 2006.

Moroccan women are having about 4,4 children against 7+ in the eighties. Turkish women are having 3,1 children. Dutch women are having 1,8 children. And as a site note: women from Suriname and Netherlands Antilles (big non European group) are having less children than Dutch women.
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11-12-2009 , 11:29 PM
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I don't find that so ldo. I don't think the idea of a Leitkultur is something that is as easily unitable with democracy as a lot of people think.
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