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• Buchanan On World War II And Its Consequences.
• Global warming not due to CO2.
• The UK, BNP, and the Modern McCarthyism.
• Regional differences in intelligence?
• Colder climates favor civilization even among Whites alone.
• How to blog, get tenure and prosper.
• The Migration History of Humans: DNA Study Traces Human Origins Across the Continents DNA furnishes an ever clearer picture of the multimillennial trek from Africa all the way to the tip of South America. Scientific American (non-print version), July 2008.
• Children as young as three should be reported for 'racism', Government-funded group claims.
• Muslims outraged at police advert featuring cute puppy sitting in policeman's hat.
• Islam is real threat to church, says Synod member.
• Straw Men and Their Followers: The return of biological race. By Evelynn M. Hammonds, Published on: Jun 07, 2006.
• A gene × gene interaction between DRD2 and DRD4 is associated with conduct disorder and antisocial behavior in males. Behavioral and Brain Functions, 2007; 3: 30. Kevin M Beaver, John Paul Wright, Matt DeLisi, Anthony Walsh, Michael G Vaughn, Danielle Boisvert, and Jamie Vaske.
• Europe and the Indo-European Languages. Essay by Fjordman, The Brussels Journal, 13.06.2008.
• Third World migrants behind our 2.3m population boom. Daily Mail, 03.06.2008.
• Europe Shall Bleed, Once Again. Global Politician 25.05.2008, by Amil Imani.
• The Blitzkrieg in the Kulturkampf Western Civilization Faces. Global Politician 21.05.2008, by Kyle Bristow.
• The secret letters of the Jonestown death cult. Spectator 14.05.2008.
• If Scotland is to be independent, then why not London?. Spectator 14.05.2008.
• Hamburg Sees Worst Rioting in Years. Spiegel Online 02.05.2008.
• An Anatomy of Surrender. Bruce Bawer in City Journal, Spring 2008. Motivated by fear and multiculturalism, too many Westerners are acquiescing to creeping sharia.
• The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World. Chapter 1 of David W. Anthony's book.
• Surrender, Genocide or What?. Global Politician 24.04.2008. What are Europe's options?
• Humans nearly wiped out 70,000 years ago, study says. CNN The new study looks at the mitochondrial DNA of the Khoi and San people in South Africa, who appear to have diverged from other people between 90,000 and 150,000 years ago.
• The Meaning of May 68: Population Replacement and Hatred of the West. The Brussels Journal 21.04.2008.
• Barack Obama Still Castigating Whites. Global politician 18.04.2008. By Elizabeth Wright.
• Muslim Whore. Gates of Vienna 19.03.2008. Islamophobia is the most dangerous ideology of our time and we must be brave enough to call a spade a spade*, Marte Michelet writes.
• To the Westerner who 'understands' the terrorist. By Bradley Burston.
• Thou shalt not sit with statisticians nor commit a social science. January 11, 2008.
• Black Men: They Could be Heroes - Part 1. Global Politician, 28.12.2007, Elizabeth Wright.
• Wanted: More Race Realism, Less Moralistic Fallacy. J. Philippe Rushton, vdare.com, 07.12.2005.
• I.Q.: Why Africa is Africa – and Haiti Haiti. J. Philippe Rushton, vdare.com, 10.03.2004.
• A Few Thoughts on IQ and the Wealth of Nations. Steve Sailer, vdare.com.
• Diversity Is Strength! It's Also… A "Powerful Coterie" Of Larcenous Lesbians. Steve Sailer, vdare.com, 01.10.2006.
• Jackie Mason vs. James Watson: IQ, Jews and ‘Shvartzers’. Global Politician, 14.12.2007, Prof. Nicholas Stix.
• Muslim Pilgrimage Exemplifies Believers' Equality Before God. Global Politician, 19.12.2007, by Ahmad Al-Akhras, Ph.D.
• Book Review: Robert Spencer’s “Religion of Peace”. Global Politician, 19.12.2007, by Fjordman.
• Feminism Leads to the Oppression of Women. Global Politician, 07.11.2007, by Fjordman.
• View from the lab: Race and intelligence in science. Science has nothing to say about race and intelligence, argues Prof Steve Jones. The Telegraph 23.10.2007.
• Cat Stevens Awarded EU Peace Prize. Global Politician, 06.10.2007, by Fjordman.
• Islam, the Greeks and the Scientific Revolution, part 1. Global Politician, 05.10.2007, by Fjordman.
• Islam, the Greeks and the Scientific Revolution, part 2. Global Politician, 05.10.2007, by Fjordman.
• Sweden Learns That Appeasement Doesn’t Pay. Global Politician, 04.10.2007, by Fjordman.
• How ethno-politics poisons democracy. National Post, Canada, July 31, 2007.
• Sweden: Collaboration, Then and Now. Fjordman, The Brussels Journal 10.08.2007. A group of Swedes spied for the Stasi, the secret police of the GDR, Communist East Germany. Some of the spies were journalists.
• There's Never Enough Blacks. Elizabeth Wright (African-American writer and editor), Global Politician, 10.08.2007.
• The Fall of Europe and the Contest for Africa. postpolitical.com, 26.06.2007.
• People Worry About Islam, Its Leaders About Islamophobia. Fjordman, The Brussels Journal 10.08.2007.
• The Demographic Future of Europe, North America, and Australia/New Zealand. Free republic, 12.05.2005.
• ITALY: Integration with Arab immigrants declines. 11.07.2007. There is more fear and distrust in Italian cities about immigrants identified as 'Arab', or those coming from Islamic cultures.
• Islam: It's The Ideology, Stupid!. Global Politician 14.07.2007. The West’s propensity for ignorance is nothing short of astounding. Warner MacKenzie.
• Riding the Wave. oyvindstrommen.be. For a number of years Jared Taylor, of the pseudo-scientific racist magazine American Renaissance have been sponsoring a series of biennial conferences.
• The public know how these attacks happen — unlike the politicians. The Spectator 07.07.2007. By Rod Liddle.
• We are up against 20 years of planning. The Spectator 07.07.2007. By Saira Khan
• What kind of car would Jesus drive to take his girlfriend to an abortion clinic?. Intellectual Conservative 25.08.2006. The moral relativism of the Left can take us to some pretty strange places where Right and Wrong lose all meaning. By Phillip Ellis Jackson.
• The West is Losing Because It Thinks Itself The Enemy. Global Politician 19.06.2007. Why is the West losing the battle against radical Islamist and other forces in the Middle East? By Prof. Barry Rubin -
• Why the West must stay true to itself. Guardian 17.06.2007. The only way we can live together peaceably with Islam is if we don't compromise our own values. By Will Hutton.
• Wake Up, America! Wake Up Judeo-Christians! Wake Up Western Civilization!. It could not be more clear that radical Islam is on the warpath and has been for decades. By Peter Feaman, Family Security Matters.
• "Russia Is Slipping Back into an Authoritarian Empire". Russian author Vladimir Sorokin disscusses waning freedom of opinion in his country. Der Spiegel.
• The Barbarians at the Gates of Paris. By Theodore Dalrymple.
• Dhimmi News from Norway. Global Politician 09.04.2007. By Fjordman.
• When Blacks Reject Blacks. By David Yeagley, FrontPageMagazine.com | April 3, 2007. Free at last? Not so fast. Leftist black racists in Oklahoma don’t want other blacks to be free. Some 2,800 blacks in Oklahoma have just been racially rejected by the Black Caucus of the Oklahoma legislators.
• Why We Cannot Rely on Moderate Muslims. Global Politician 03.04.2007. According to Dr. Daniel Pipes, Omar Ahmad, the long-serving chairman of CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, reportedly told a crowd of California Muslims in July 1998, “Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran ... should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on earth.” By Fjordman.
• Why the Future May Not Belong to Islam. Global Politician 20.03.2007. Canadian writer Mark Steyn thinks “The future belongs to Islam.” The main reason for this, according to him, is demography, with massive population growth in Islamic countries and low birth rates in infidel nations. By Fjordman.
• Beware the Right, rising again in the East, Hungarian leader says. Times Online 02.03.2007. Eastern Europe, from Poland to the Balkans, could embrace radical nationalism as the region shies away from urgently needed reforms, the Hungarian Prime Minister has said.
• The Study of Political Islam. FrontPageMagazine 05.02.2007. Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Bill Warner, the director of the Center for the Study of Political Islam (CSPI). CSPI’s goal is to teach the doctrine of political Islam through its books and it has produced a series on its focus. Mr. Warner did not write the CSPI series, but he acts as the agent for a group of scholars who are the authors.
• Islamic finance and sharia, Europe’s suicide. AsiaNewsIt 31.01.2007. The plan to bring Islamic finance to Great Britain caters to a great bluff. But it is a sign of false European tolerance which is submitting itself ever more to sharia. The Catholic project alone can save what is good in the West.
• Islamic Europe?. Weekly Standard 04.10.2004. SELDOM HAS THE COURSE of European history been changed by a non-politician's throwaway remark in a German-language newspaper on a Wednesday in the dead of the summer doldrums. But on July 28, Princeton historian Bernard Lewis told the conservative Hamburg-based daily Die Welt that Europe would be Islamic by the end of this century "at the very latest," and continental politics has not been the same since.
• Father of Thirty Says “Give Me a Break”. The Brussels Journal 23.12.2006. Serge Régnier (as some readers may remember) is a 47-year old Belgian with three wives and thirty children. (about the welfare system of Belgium)
• FOX vs. CAIR, Round 2. By Joe Kaufman, FrontPageMagazine.com | December 8, 200.
• The Jihad: We're All in This Together. By Don Feder, FrontPageMagazine.com | December 8, 2006.
• Christian Fall, Muslim Rise. By Tom Bethell. Published 10/24/2006 This article is taken from the October 2006 issue of The American Spectator.
• It's ok to kill gays - British Imam. GCN 24 October 2006. The leading imam in Manchester, confirms that he thinks the execution of sexually active gay men is justified, the rights group Outrage reported.

• Islam and Western Democracies. February 2006, Legatus Summit, Naples, Florida U.S.A. By Cardinal George Pell, Archbishop of Sydney. If religion rarely influences personal behaviour in a significant way then the religious identity of migrants is irrelevant. I suspect that some anti-Christians, for example, the Spanish Socialists, might have seen Muslims as a useful counterweight to Catholicism, another factor to bring religion into public disrepute. Probably too they had been very confident that Western advertising forces would be too strong for such a primitive religious viewpoint, which would melt down like much of European Christianity. This could prove to be a spectacular misjudgement.

• It's the Demography, Stupid - The real reason the West is in danger of extinction. BY MARK STEYN, January 4, 2006. Most people reading this have strong stomachs, so let me lay it out as baldly as I can: Much of what we loosely call the Western world will not survive this century, and much of it will effectively disappear within our lifetimes, including many if not most Western European countries. There'll probably still be a geographical area on the map marked as Italy or the Netherlands--probably--just as in Istanbul there's still a building called St. Sophia's Cathedral. But it's not a cathedral; it's merely a designation for a piece of real estate. Likewise, Italy and the Netherlands will merely be designations for real estate. The challenge for those who reckon Western civilization is on balance better than the alternatives is to figure out a way to save at least some parts of the West.

• Social Constructs - Definitions of Key Race Relations Terms. Race relations. Definition: The American Anthropological Association’s statement on race states: “physical variations in the human species have no meaning except the social ones that humans put on them.”
• Studies contradict view that race doesn’t exist. World Science Jan. 31, 2005. Racial differences among people are real, new studies suggest, contradicting claims by some of the world’s leading scientists and scientific institutions that race doesn’t exist.
• New findings undermine basis of “race isn’t real” theory. World Science Sept. 8, 2004. New research casts doubt on the widely accepted belief that humans are 99.9 percent genetically identical. That statement has been used to argue that race isn't real.
• Race, Racism and the Law - Speaking Truth to Power!!. Ian F. Haney Lopez
• Ethnic group. Wikipedia. An ethnic group is a human population whose members identify with each other, usually on the basis of a presumed common genealogy or ancestry (Smith, 1986). Ethnic groups are also usually united by common cultural, behavioural, linguistic, or religious practices. In this sense, an ethnic group is also a cultural community.
• White Nationalism: A Symposium. By Jamie Glazov, FrontPageMagazine.com | January 10, 2003. Carol M. Swain, a professor of law and political science at Vanderbilt University, has just published her latest book, The New White Nationalism in America: Its Challenge to Integration. She argues that white nationalism is on the rise and offers many suggestions for defusing its appeal. Among other things, she recommends that her fellow African-Americans desist from supporting affirmative action and slavery reparations.
• Ethnicity, Race, and a Possible Humanity. By Arash Abizadeh. World Order 33.1 (2001): 23-34. Neither ethnicity nor race is genealogically or biologically determined; they are both social constructs. Shared genealogy cannot by itself determine ethnicity or race because one must arbitrarily choose which genealogical line to trace and how far back to locate the first ancestor. Similarly, shared biology must be arbitrarily fixed by picking out which particular traits are the relevant markers of difference. Racial categories are thus produced sociopolitically, via power-relations and social practices that offend human dignity. The transformation of these practices requires a positive anticipatory undertaking, centred on a vision of the oneness of humanity, that addresses the political, economic, and spiritual dynamics of racial production.
• The Evolution of One Person's Views on Racial Differences in Intelligence. By Lawrence Auster, February 1995. With the publication of The Bell Curve, we see the fascinating phenomenon of mainstream journalists and intellectuals wrestling, most of them for the first time, with the uncomfortable facts about race differences in intelligence.
• Why Race Matters: a review of Michael Levin's latest book. The 1997 book, Why Race Matters: Race Differences and What They Mean by Michael Levin, is one of those rare books that will be slow to catch on because it will be ignored by the press due to its explosive treatment of intelligence and affirmative action. The book, part of the Praeger Press series Human Evolution, Behavior, and Intelligence (edited by Seymour Itzkoff) is in my estimation the most thorough treatment of race and intelligence I have come across to date.
• Suicide bombers follow Quran, concludes Pentagon briefing. Tasked with pinpointing motivation, analysts find terrorists 'rational actors' following 'holy book'. Posted: September 27, 2006. © 2006 WorldNetDaily.com
• Jihad and European Multiculturalism. By James McConalogue. The jihadists are clearly winning their battle over the British people. In the UK, the Labour government has shown that it is more than willing to jeopardise national security in favour of its oppressive multicultural agenda.
• Europe Must Find its Roots in America. By Paul Belien. Europe, however, is being overrun by barbarians. Its populations are dwindling, its welfare systems are collapsing and its old religion, Christianity, which the Europeans had cast aside, is being replaced by another one: Islam. If Europe is to be saved it must return to its old heritage which has survived in the land across the Ocean. We need to bring America’s values to Europe. These values are our own lost heritage
• The demographics of radical Islam. By Spengler. By no means does that imply that all of these 25 million [young men] will become suicide bombers, but a great many of them are likely to emigrate to Europe, including Eastern Europe, where populations are stagnant and about to decline. A Muslim takeover of Western Europe surely is a possible outcome.
• Census - demography and unity. By Dr D.P. Sharma. The pattern of population growth in India is glaringly uneven which needs a cool, dispassio-nate, and deeper analysis with special reference to its political implications.
• The Coming of Eurabia. By Mark Silverberg. For these and other reasons, several leading radical Islamic theologians like Yousef al-Qaradawi in Qatar and Sheikh Abd al-Rahman al-Sudais in Saudi Arabia speak of the Islamic conquest of Europe simply by allowing demographics and Muslim conversions to take their course. They see the adoption of the Muslim faith and the submission of Christian Europe to Islamic rule as inevitable.
• Eurabia?. By Niall Ferguson. In the 52nd chapter of his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon posed one of the great counterfactual questions of history: If the French had failed to defeat an invading Muslim army at the Battle of Poitiers in AD 732, would all of Western Europe have succumbed to Islam?
• The Muslims are Coming! The Muslims are Coming! By Daniel Pipes, National Review, November 19, 1990. Richard Condon, author of The Manchurian Candidate, recently declared: "Now that the Communists have been put to sleep, we are going to have to invent another terrible threat." This is, of course, complete nonsense.
• The Rebellion Against Reason and the Cult of Inconsistency. By of George Handlery on 2006-05-04. Arguably, the success of Western Civilization and of its derivates can be attributed to the triumph of reason over irrationality in the course of its development. [...] All through this there evolved a parallel and contrary trend.
• Europe's Chastisement? -- How the Abandonment of Christianity May Be Leading to Disaster. By Ed Vitagliano. American Family Association. 12 April 2006. As writer Mark Steyn glumly put it in The New Criterion, "Much of what we loosely call the Western world will not survive this century, and much of it will effectively disappear within our lifetimes, including many if not most Western European countries."
• Race is a Myth? The left distorts science for political purposes. American Renaissance, Vol 11, No 12, December 2000. By Michael Rienzi. Racial egalitarianism has failed to produce the “fair and just” society promised by social engineers. At the same time, there has been a marked reawakening of racial and ethnic identity in the post-Cold War world. In response, the left has adopted a new strategy: Deny the very existence of race! This is why we so frequently hear that “race is a social construct, with no biological validity” and that “science proves we are all the same.” Ironically, it is in connection with progress in understanding the human genome–progress in the very field that will definitively prove the biological reality of race–that we most often hear that race is nothing more than “superficial” surface characteristics.
• Today Kosovo - Tomorrow Israel and the West. By Miroljub Jevtic, Ph.D. Negotiations regarding the future status of Kosovo have begun and it is increasingly clear that the overwhelming majority of the world media, not to mention the government of the United States and its allies, favor giving independence to the Serbian province of Kosovo, which since the 1999 war has been administered by the United Nations under NATO military control. In effect, the western world is in favor of detaching Kosovo from (Christian) Serbia by fiat of power and making it into an independent Muslim state.
• Europe's migrant elephant. By MARTIN WALKER. 18.12.2005, UPI. The world is becoming a less welcoming and less friendly place, but Europe in general and France in particular are seeing a shift in public attitudes that will be far more profound in kits effect than the high-profile disputes over the European budget that dominated the politics and the media of Europe in recent days.
• Tolerance or Death! By Bruce Bawer. ReasonOnline, 30.11.2005.
  European culture leaders should smack down fanatical Islamists. Instead, they're bending over for them. It's been a tough year for freedom of expression in Europe.
• Family stories show immigrants are not all melting in that pot, by Jill Yablonski, EurekAlert, 22.11.2005. "Published in the latest issue of Family Process, the study confirms that among the newest immigrants, transnationalism is replacing the "melting pot" dynamic of the United States."
• Why Some Riot and Some Do Not, by Paul Belien, IntellectualConservative.com, 07 November 2005: "While Paris burns, Poland does not. Isn’t that strange? The Poles have an unemployment rate which is as high as the unemployment rates in French suburbs. Yet while 'angry French youths' burn down their neighborhoods, including their public transport buses and schools, Polish plumbers, construction workers and nurses are too busy to be angry."
• A Civil War Underway in Old Europe, by Filip van Laenen, The Brussels Journal, 2005-10-30: "An urban guerilla has been going on in Clichy-sous-Bois, a suburb of Paris, with hundreds of 'French youths' battling the police and fire fighters [...] "
• Islamophobia?, by Daniel Pipes, New York Sun, October 25, 2005. An Islamist group named Hizb ut-Tahrir seeks to bring the world under Islamic law and advocates suicide attacks against Israelis. Facing proscription in Great Britain, it opened a clandestine front operation at British universities called "Stop Islamophobia," the Sunday Times has disclosed.
• Why Corporations Fund Radical Islam, by Daniel Pipes, FrontPageMagazine.com, September 2, 2005. How does the Council on American-Islamic Relations (and others in the Islamist victimization industry) fare so well when it complains to a corporation?
• Islamists, Get Out, by Daniel Pipes, New York Sun, August 30, 2005. As the full implications of the London terrorist attacks by domestic jihadis sink in, Westerners are speaking out about the problem of radical Islam with new clarity and boldness.
• A British Jihadist. Hassan Butt, a 25 year old from Manchester, helped recruit Muslims to fight in Afghanistan. Like most of the London bombers, he is a British Pakistani who journeyed from rootlessness to radical Islam. He dismisses as "rubbish" the idea that the rise of extremism among British Muslims is rooted in economic disadvantage and discrimination. He is confident that the world will come "under the banner of Islam", but suspects that this will not happen without "a lot of killing". Prospect Magazine, August 2005.
• How Terrorism Obstructs Radical Islam, by Daniel Pipes, New York Sun, August 23, 2005. Do terrorist atrocities in the West, such as the attacks of September 11, 2001 and those in Bali, Madrid, Beslan, and London, help radical Islam achieve its goal of gaining power? No, they are counterproductive.
• Sharia in Northern Nigeria. Religious Law Is Extended in Islamic State of Kano. By Craig Timberg, Washington Post Foreign Service, August 23, 2005.
• In Pakistan's Public Schools, Jihad Still Part of Lesson Plan. Los Angeles Times, 18.08.2005.
• What al-Qaida Really Wants, Der Spiegel Online (English), 12.08.2005.If there is anyone who might possibly have an inkling as to what al-Qaida are up to, it is the Jordanian journalist Fouad Hussein. He has not only spent time in prison with al-Zarqawi, but has also managed to make contact with many of the network's leaders. Based on correspondence with these sources, he has now brought out a book detailing the organization's master plan.
• Europe's Angry Muslims, by Robert S. Leiken, Foreign Affairs, July/August 2005. Summary: Radical Islam is spreading across Europe among descendants of Muslim immigrants. Disenfranchised and disillusioned by the failure of integration, some European Muslims have taken up jihad against the West. They are dangerous and committed -- and can enter the United States without a visa.
• Undercover in the academy of hatred. Times Online, 07.08.2005. While London reeled under attack, the teachers of extremism were celebrating — and a Sunday Times reporter was recording every word.
• Islamic Extremism: Common Concern for Muslim and Western Publics. Support for Terror Wanes Among Muslim Publics. Pew Global, 14.07.2005.
• The Next London Bombing, by Daniel Pipes, FrontPageMagazine.com, July 11, 2005. In a confidential report, Young Muslims and Extremism, prepared jointly by the Home and Foreign offices in mid-2004 and presented to Prime Minister Tony Blair, we learn something about the inner thinking of the British government. [...] That the British authorities do not recognize that they should worry about thousands of terrorists in their midst is reason to worry what planet they inhabit. Their waffling, myopia, and general incompetence make one despair for their country.
• Ayaan Hirsi Ali on the “Left” and “Multiculturalism”. Transatlantic Intelligencer, 24 May 2005. The Somali-born Dutch parliamentarian Ayaan Hirsi Ali has long been the object of death threats from Dutch Islamists. Since the murder last November 8 of Theo Van Gogh, she is under 24 hour police protection. Says she: "This multiculturalism is a disaster"
• The Norwegian Inquisition - Sunset in the Land of the Midnight Sun. 19 May 2005. Essay by the Norwegian blogger Fjordman. "Stortinget, the Norwegian parliament, in April 2005 passed a new Discrimination Act. The act says in pretty clear words that in cases of suspected direct or indirect discrimination due to religion or ethnicity, Norwegians are guilty until proven otherwise."
• Stoned to death... why Europe is starting to lose its faith in Islam. Times Online, 04.12.2004, by Charles Bremner. "Islamic fundamentalism is causing a 'clash of civilisations' between liberal democracies and Muslims. DAYS before she was due to be married, Ghofrane Haddaoui, 23, refused the advances of a teenage boy and paid with her life. Lured to waste ground near her home in Marseilles, the Tunisian-born Frenchwoman was stoned to death, her skull smashed by rocks hurled by at least two young men, according to police."
• Europeans Fleeing Eurabia. Daniel Pipes 10.10.2004.
• Eurabia. Interview with Bat Ye'or. "Eurabia represents a geo-political reality envisaged in 1973 through a system of informal alliances between, on the one hand, the nine countries of the European Community (EC)which, enlarged, became the European Union (EU) in 1992 and on the other hand, the Mediterranean Arab countries."
• Human Righst: A General Survey. "Human rights are those rights which are considered very basic and fundamental inherent to the existence of human being. The notion of human rights sees every born man in this world shall possess the same rights exercisable by himself. Those rights are fundamental because they guarantee the human’s enjoyment of life –and quality of life, for that matter, to be preserved."
• Islam and Human Rights. "There are widely conflicting views in the Islamic world on the issue of human rights, and in particular on women’s rights, freedom of expression, and freedom of religion. Views range from the liberal to the most repressively conservative. Whilst many Islamic countries (Saudi Arabia in fact being the only exception) signed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in 1948, many of them have since modified their stance."
• Muhammad Asad's Journey into Islam. "Two roads diverged in Berlin in the 1920's: a well-worn one to the West, the other, rarely traveled, to the East. Leopold Weiss, a gifted young writer, traveler and linguist with a thorough knowledge of the Bible and the Talmud and with deep roots in European culture, took the road eastward to Makkah. He traveled that road as Muhammad Asad, and his name now figures prominently on the roll of 20th-century English-language Muslim scholars and thinkers."
• Muhammad Asad - The Road from Mecca. "In August 1954, there appeared in America a remarkable book, written by an author named Muhammad Asad and bearing the title The Road to Mecca. The book, a combination of memoir and travelogue, told the story of a convert to Islam who had crossed the spiritual deserts of Europe and the sand deserts of Arabia, on a trek that brought him ultimately to the oasis of Islamic belief. The book immediately won critical acclaim, most notably in the prestige press of New York, where Simon and Schuster had published it."

• What About Our Human Rights? For years Britain has allowed dangerous men to stay here as asylum seekers. There is only one way to end this madness – to withdraw from the Convention on Human Rights. By Sir Andrew Green, Chairman, Migration Watch UK, The Daily Mail, London, 27July, 2005.

• A Crescent Over Europe?, by Peter Grier. Air Force Magazine Online, July 2005, Vol 88, No 7. "Incredible as it might seem, some experts predict that Europe will have an Islamic majority sometime well before the end of this century. [...] Historian Niall Ferguson of New York University notes, 'The whole of Western Europe is entering a new era of demographic transformation without parallel in modern times.' [...] This uneasiness was stoked further last summer by Bernard Lewis of Princeton University, the eminent scholar of Islamic and Middle Eastern studies. In an interview with Germany’s Die Welt, Lewis predicted, 'Europe will be part of the Arabic west, of the Maghreb,' and added that Europe would be Islamic by the end of this century 'at the very latest.' [...] What is important, say analysts, is not so much the raw population totals but rather the demographic trends."

• Europe and Islam: Crescent Waxing, Cultures Clashing, by Timothy M. Savage. (C) 2004 by The Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The Washington Quarterly • 27:3 pp. 25–50 (pdf). "Looking further ahead, conservative projections estimate that, compared to today’s 5 percent, Muslims will comprise at least 20 percent of Europe’s population by 2050. Some even predict that one-fourth of France’s population could be Muslim by 2025 and that, if trends continue, Muslims could outnumber non-Muslims in France and perhaps in all of western Europe by mid-century. Although these projections seem incredible at first glance, they may not be far off the mark."

• Islam in France: The French Way of Life Is in Danger, by Michel Gurfinkiel, The Middle East Quarterly, March 1997. "Extrapolating from these numbers, the low Muslim-population scenario (low immigration, diminishing birthrate, few conversoins) results in a 50 percent increase over twenty years; between 4.5 and 6 million Muslims in France by the year 2016, out of 60 million French, or 7 to 10 percent of the total population. The high-number scenario (rampant immigration, higher birthrate for Muslims than for non-Muslims, and a higher share of young people in the Muslim population than among non-Muslims) points to a 100 percent or even a 200 percent increase: 6 to 12 million Muslims by 2016, or 10 to 20 percent of the total population. Then there is the superhigh scenario, in which a rapidly expanding, young, and assertive Muslim community simply outpaces a declining, aging, and unsure non-Muslim community."

• Continental Clash. Harvard Political Review. By Paul Davis and Daniel Krauthammer. "As cultural tensions mount, Europe's aging population must deal with an influx of Muslims. On the evening of Nov. 2, 2004, a murder took place in the bike lane of an Amsterdam street. The victim, Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, had just released a film criticizing Islamic fundamentalism and traditional Muslim culture. Among his many wounds, a knife pinned a note to his chest. Written in Dutch and Arabic, it contained an ominous warning: "Hair-raising screams will be squeezed from the lungs of the nonbelievers." The murderer was a second-generation Muslim immigrant. This murder, like that of the Dutch anti-immigration politician Pim Fortuyn two years prior, has awakened a sense of urgency in the Netherlands-and across much of Europe-that something must be done to confront increasing Muslim immigration and the problems of non-integration. With a native population on the decline, and with foreign replacements unwilling to embrace the liberal cultural values held by local populations, Europe's leaders are beginning to think more critically about toleration and the impact of immigration on national identities." Read the entire article on hpronline.org.

• Muslim Europe. An article about the demographic development of Europe, by Daniel Pipes (available in multiple languages). "'Europe becomes more and more a province of Islam, a colony of Islam.' So declares Oriana Fallaci in her new book, La Forza della Ragione, or, 'The Force of Reason.' And the famed Italian journalist is right: Christianity's ancient stronghold of Europe is rapidly giving way to Islam.

  [...]

  Into the void are coming Islam and Muslims. As Christianity falters, Islam is robust, assertive, and ambitious. As Europeans underreproduce at advanced ages, Muslims do so in large numbers while young.

  Some 5% of the E.U., or nearly 20 million persons, presently identify themselves as Muslims; should current trends continue, that number will reach 10% by 2020. If non-Muslims flee the new Islamic order, as seems likely, the continent could be majority-Muslim within decades."
  Read the entire article at danielpipes.org.

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