By Selwyn Duke
It's not a new story anymore, but late last year columnist Mark Steyn was summoned to appear before two Canadian "human-rights" tribunals (how is that for an Orwellian euphemism?) to discuss hate-crime charges. At issue was his piece "The Future Belongs to Islam," which appeared in Macleans magazine and is an excerpt from his book America Alone. But while I hope that this piques your interest, it's not why you should read the piece. No, it's a must-read because in it Steyn does an almost nonpareil job of illustrating how political correctness and civilizational ennui are imperiling the West. Here are the first two paragraphs:
Sept. 11, 2001, was not "the day everything changed," but the day that revealed how much had already changed. On Sept. 10, how many journalists had the Council of American-Islamic Relations or the Canadian Islamic Congress or the Muslim Council of Britain in their Rolodexes? If you'd said that whether something does or does not cause offence to Muslims would be the early 21st century's principal political dynamic in Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands, Belgium, France and the United Kingdom, most folks would have thought you were crazy. Yet on that Tuesday morning the top of the iceberg bobbed up and toppled the Twin Towers.
This is about the seven-eighths below the surface -- the larger forces at play in the developed world that have left Europe too enfeebled to resist its remorseless transformation into Eurabia and that call into question the future of much of the rest of the world. The key factors are: demographic decline; the unsustainability of the social democratic state; and civilizational exhaustion.
Read the rest here.
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