I hope world leaders have read this book, especially the liberal ones.

My first read of Mark Steyn's work | America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It | Mark Steyn

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	• America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It Mark Steyn Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2006 - 214 pages average customer review:based on 502 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Fascinating Doomsday Prophecy

I am utterly fascinated and bewildered by the information contained in this book. While I have no way of knowing if the statistics used are valid--I presume they are--this creates a feeling in me that I may have done the wrong thing in bringing 3 children into the world, which will clearly be a different place before they leave it. This book is humorous and enlightening and should be required reading for everyone in America, especially the attendees at the Democrat Convention. Of course, they wouldn't believe it. A goodly number would probably welcome Mr. Steyn's description of the world at the end of the century. God help them!

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I hope world leaders have read this book, especially the liberal ones.

Facts have a way of enlightening how we examine the past, and this book is written in a fascinating manner that weaves facts in between some very humorous passages, yet does not miss the point of warning the West and free market democracies everywhere that culture matters; population momentum is shifting in ways that will and are shrinking the world's centers of positive improvement for humans on this planet, and all you need to prove this point is to look at who is breeding and who isn't.

My first read of Mark Steyn's work

Mr. Steyn's view points concerning the dangers of Islam are shared by a large number of my Indian national colleagues. India is a secular religious-tolerant country with a rising Muslim poplulation of over 130 million.

It appears many in the educated Hindu, Jain and Sikh populations share Mr. Steyn's views of Islam as a 7th century religious and political system bent on enforcing its archaic dictums upon democratic societies. Two major concerns here are the birth rate of Muslim families substanially exceeding the birth rate of other groups, and the silent moderate Muslim majority's failure to publically denounce Islamic extremist atrocities. These are also Mr. Steyn's concerns on a global basis.

Mr. Steyn provides compelling arguements concerning the exportation of Western Popular Culture being ineffective in combating the Islamic menance, but rather the exportation of the benefits of American culture concerning self-reliance and independence from what Mr. Steyn calls "Nanny Governments," as effective means to defeat Islamic radicals.

From a literary point of view, Mr. Steyn is second to none in his ability to turn a phase. I found myself laughing out loud reading his verbiage about this serious and dark subject. Whether or not a reader agrees with Mr. Steyn's opinions, this book provides splendid and entertaining arguements which make an interesting and provocative read for all.

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A magnificient masterpiece of future prediction

This book is a marvelous masterpiece of future prediction. The author weaves important facts to show how the world is changing. He has many sayings in the book that would be very witty but for the fact that 'these truths may sound like jokes, but they are not funny'-- the facts are deadly serious, and with a much higher degree of accuracy than most people realize. He does have a bias against granola, as if it were a liberal icon,but the skill of integration is remarkable. Mark Steyn points out that 9/11/2001 was not "the day everything changed" but rather "the day that showed how much had all ready changed" [it sounds good sung to the chorus of "The Day the Music Died"]. The book points out three great factors that will shape history in the 21st century, and pose a real crisis for Western civilzation

1. Demographic Decline [I call it the Population Neutron Bomb]-- the fact that so few babies are being born to natives of the developed world that its native population is going to fall off the cliff 2. Unsustainability of the welfare state-- the fact that the welfare state destroys a people's will to survive by eliminating responsibilities from adults and costs too much with an aging and cratering population 3. Civilizational exhaustion-- The modern social democratic countries have nothing to die for, and thus nothing to live for.

He points out that Islam has youth and fairly solid population growth, global ambitions, and something to believe in -- theocratic conquest of the World. All of this is steadily advancing to fill the vacuum of meaninglessness and emptiness that plagues the West. He shares the truth about Islam being a theocratic, political religion at its core, but the book is more about us (the West) than about Islam.

He correctly points out that the core of the problem is secular progressivism's multiculturalism, which has the goal "not to celebrate all cultures, but to deny [the West's] own"- and thus is the real suicide bomb. Mark Steyn points out that multiculturalism inhibits even moderate Muslims from assimilating with Western Culture. With a massive and growing need for immigrants to compensate for the falling native population (and the Muslim world the main source of them) this will result in the end of Europe as we know it -- Europe will become like Saudi Arabia (in laws, customs, etc. ) if changes are not made.

Concerning the demographic facts, Mark Steyn is quite accurate-- Bangladesh is a country the slightly smaller than Iowa, but has 140 million Muslims - more people than Germany and France combined. Egypt's population is about twice that of California, but 99% lives in an area the size of Mass. and Conn. together. Yemen has a total farmland area the size of Conn. and Rhode Island, but has more people than New York and Conn., and its population will double in the next 20 years. If these people decide to colonize Europe, Europe will be changed.

Concerning will, look at this excerpt from wikipedia about what the terrorists said about the bombings in Delhi India on 13 September 2008.

The "Indian Mujahideen" sent an e-mail to all major TV channels, informing them of the blasts just after the first one occurred.[18] In the case of the bomb blasts in Jaipur, and Ahmedabad, e-mails were sent before the blasts.
" Indian Mujahideen strikes back once more. Within 5 minutes from now... This time with the Message of Death, dreadfully terrorising you for your sins. And thus our promise will be fulfilled. Inshallah...Do whatever you want and stop us if you can[14]"

Doesn't sound like they lack self-confidence, do they? And the book points out that the terrorists are the dumb ones, the more peaceful muslims have the more effective strategy.

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Unlike statistics, hard numbers don't lie

I don't recommend reading this book as a night time reader - it is too scary! Unlike most books that use statistics to justify their point, Mr. Steyn presents numbers from various nations and demographic subsets that are revealing for the future of Western Europe and America. When in brief conversations on airplanes, airports, restaurants, etc. (all anecdotal) the stories are backed up by real people's real experiences. Don't believe what the media tell you, backup your arguments with the facts. I would recommend a companion book to read by Thomas Sowell, Advanced Economics - Thinking Beyond Stage one.

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