Mark Steyn on America, Europe and Islam (3 of 4)

LOPEZ: You talk a lot about demographics and Muslims. Whats so wrong with more Muslims in the West?

STEYN: The short answer is: in theory, nothing. But were talking about immigrants with a strong sense of identity emigrating to countries with virtually no sense of their own identity. And the history of the last few decades in Europe is that, when youre raised in the nullity of cultural relativism and invited to despise the inheritance of the land whose citizenship you hold, you look elsewhere for identity: The modern multicultural identity is too weak to have any purchase on most people, and so some of them look elsewhere and find the jihad. Not all of them, but enough. The man behind the Daniel Pearl beheading, the Tube bombers, the Torontonians plotting to behead the Canadian prime minister: these are all citizens of the west — British subjects born and bred, second- and third-generation — but their primary identity is not British or French or Belgian. My book argues that Islamism is merely the first of many post-nationalist identities to threaten the nation state.

LOPEZ: The war on terror is a civil war in Europe already? Is there any hope for our friends across the pond?

STEYN: Yes, to this extent. The first Western European nation to collapse into total civic breakdown over its fundamentally contradictory bicultural tensions will, I hope, concentrate the minds of others. The best sign that youre about to go over the waterfall is if the canoe 200 yards ahead suddenly disappears. That gives you a chance at least to pull for shore.

LOPEZ: You say we need to end the Iranian regime. How?

STEYN: By internal destabilization. Theyre doing it to us in Iraq and we just sit back and take it. Just as theres a natural constituency for the mullahs in Iraq, so theres a natural constituency for reform and freedom and opportunity and womens rights in Iran. Radical Islam is bankrupt and all but exhausted there. If America cant apply serious internal pressure for the amount of money the Federal budget has on tap for these things, we might as well throw every dollar at that bridge to nowhere in Alaska.

LOPEZ: You also write in a list of ways we can help Muslims reform Islam — that we should Support womens rights — real rights, not feminist pieties — in the Muslim world. Are American feminist lefties mature enough to do that — and work with Mark Steyn on that endeavor?

STEYN: No. The trivia of identity-group politics in America is beyond parody: Women are now so dominant at, say, U.S. law schools that feminist groups are reduced to complaining about the lack of female pipe-fitters. If this keeps up, circa 2015 NOW will be complaining that there are too few female wait staff. And circa 2020 that there are too few female prostitutes. Meanwhile, in Afghanistan women were prevented by law from feeling sunlight on their faces and the only guy who did anything about it was George W Bush. We have honor killings now not just in Jordan and Pakistan, but in Britain and Germany and Scandinavia. Where are the feminists on that? This is the biggest lever we have in the Muslim world — the fact that half their populations are chattels. They dont want to be navel-pierced Britneyized slatterns but a lot of them want something other. Thats a huge opportunity.

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Abstract. For full interview and source: http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=Y2U1NzUwNzcyMmMwZmVlNjkzZmRmNzg0Y2EwZmYz...

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[WyattKaldenberg]

This is a great video.

[lyntonio]

@FLARE95127 you are a down right idiot

[smokesceen124]

people fear Islam because of the Rich demigods and Media mongols, also corrupt ambitions politicians portrayal of people from other culture because of the ordinary peoples lack of knowledge. that's how a society gets afraid and starts doing something stupid that's why peace is hard to find. all human society's are the same is just hard to accept fools that are proud of being dumb deaf and blind that annoys me?

I hope some day humanity finds light in the form of nuke.

And no not I'm not Muslim!

[Ducky888888]

We are nourishing the snake who is gonna bite us.

[IS8x57IS]

The problem is that though many of them learn nothing but Quoran they are all being treated with the western benefits from medicine, pharmacology and technology. Otherwise they'd die averagely during second childbirth....

[meechoman90]

"stupidity is a great enemy in this world." YES! Yes, it is. Fight ignorance. Ignorance is our enemy.

[meechoman90]

@TheEnemyIsIgnorance why we are falling? political. correctness. tolerance does not equal love.

[TheEnemyIsIgnorance]

Do you realize that the West must be the laughing stock of the entire world? How did this happen?

Was it just our gutless politicians? No. We are just as much to blame.

We showed the enemy acceptance & tolerance, and they kicked us in the teeth for it.

Now it’s our turn. Their behaviour is a virtual declaration of war.

DO NOT COOPERATE WITH THE ENEMY AT ALL, OR ANYONE WHO COOPERATES WITH THEM. BLOCKADE & STRANGLE THEIR WAY OF LIFE, BUT DO NOT USE VIOLENCE AGAINST THEM AT ALL – EVER.

[foamulator]

Women in the west need to start having babies, and stop having abortions.



[Xavicat14]

When in Europe we have politicians like the dutch prime minister mentioned who says that there would be nothing wrong with Sharia law if people decided for it it's very palpable that we Europeans have a problem. I love Europe and I don't want it losing its valus and its history.

[ManYtWol]

@FLARE95127 = DOWNRIGHT KNEE-JERK LIBERAL MORON.