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The Fall of Europe and the Contest for Africa

Posted by: Ion | July 27th, 2008 · 3:44 PM

As we’ve previously discussed here on PP, we believe the 21st century will be conditioned by two major economic, political and military events which would have sounded preposterous only twenty years ago (and which still do to many today). The first is the Steynian atrophy and demographic collapse of (coherent) European power, through a lethally toxic combination of mass immigration and low domestic birth rates. Although we won’t live to see a “Eurabia” those forces will destabilize and damage European prospects for effective competition on the world stage to a vast degree in this still young century.

The second and even more unexpected event, will be the rise of Christian sub-Saharan Africa as an economic, military and political power of substantial consequence. While most people in the West focus on Africa’s manifest problems with disease, poverty and unstable autocratic governments, these problems have never looked more like pre-war Asia than they do today.

Africa is changing and changing rapidly. Despite the horror stories you hear, Sub-Saharan African economic growth routinely doubles or triples Western European rates, unlike Europe its population is still growing prodigiously, its governments there are increasingly transforming into more stable market-states and the population is consolidating under a new faith: In 1900 Africa’s Christian population was 8%, today it’s 45% and still expanding. It is already roughly equal to the Muslim population of North Africa and is poised to leave it far behind.

But those events are a long way away. At present, the contest for Africa has a different locus. As with Asia in the 20th Century, resources and labor needs are driving the great powers into Africa. In the 21st century “great powers” means the United States and China.

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Herald of a Storm

Posted by: Ion | June 25th, 2007 · 3:02 PM

(image: Pro Köln)

Well, it’s apparently Fall of Europe category day at PP. But you know Muslim infiltration of Europe has reached a troublesome state of decision, when Jews and Neo-Nazis can be persuaded to reduce their differences in order to unite against the construction of a mosque.

Yet such a bizarre event has come to pass is in Cologne, Germany. The mosque in question will be the largest in the country (seating 2,000) and has provoked resistance from both German nationalists and Jewish intellectuals:

“It’s not a popular plan,” said Joerg Uckermann, the district’s deputy mayor. “We don’t want to build a Turkish ghetto in Ehrenfeld. I know about Londonistan and I don’t want that here.”

Mr Uckermann is part of a curious coalition of protest that has united Jewish intellectuals and neo-Nazis. Leading the charge is Ralph Giordano, a prominent Jewish author, who wrote recently that Germany was witnessing a “clash of two completely different cultures” and questioned whether they could ever be reconciled.
(Daily Telegraph via American Israeli Patriot)

Granted Mr. Giordano is no fan of the Pro Cologne movement (which mounted the street protest pictured above), but that hasn’t stopped them from trying to recruit him. An odd event to put it mildly.

Preeti Aroon puts the issue in the proper context, as an early flare out of a simmering underground cultural fire:

With Europe’s low birthrates and growing immigrant population, it won’t at all be surprising to see far-right groups gain in popularity. When a people feel that they and their culture are essentially “going extinct” and being displaced by another group, expect extreme reactions. Already, Germany’s population has been decreasing, and wolves are even reclaiming sparsely populated areas. With the rise of the far right, let’s hope that Germany doesn’t end up going the way it did in 1933.
(FP Passport)

A slim hope given the realities. European nationalism has been asleep under the aegis of US military protection for a long while now. But the growth of internal and immigrant Muslim populations within (and its contingent threat to collective cultural identity), is a conflict that the United States cannot protect Europe from. Indeed, it’s the first such test of European nationalism since 1945.

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Fry Muhammad

Posted by: Ion | · 2:11 PM

(photo: marknicodemo.mu)

On Saturday, Baron Bodissey at Gates of Vienna picked up a report from SIAD in Denmark, that there was a plan afoot to modify the traditional burning of an effigy of a witch, on St. Hans Day.

According to SIAD, a previously secret group is planning to burn an effigy of Mohammed instead of a witch, to symbolize the need to rid Western Europe of a new kind of evil. Tomorrow the group will release a video of tonight’s Midsummer bonfire.

I’m sure the “Muslim street” is not going to take this one lying down, so now is a good time to buy stock in Danish flag manufacturers and the butane lighter companies.
(Gates of Vienna)

Well, it appears that they did just that.

I have just heard from a reliable source in Denmark that the burning did indeed occur, and that he (and the Danish media) are awaiting the video of the event with great anticipation.
(Gates of Vienna)

A provocative deed. As we have seen, the ferocity of Muslim reaction to Western insults of the prophet, is rarely mitigated by the relative obscurity of the offending parties. If word spreads of this, expect the usual chanting, vandalism and petrol bomb street parties. I trust our ubiquitous Rage Boy will be in attendance.

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War for Norway: A Letter From a Sanguinary Future

Posted by: Ion | · 1:04 PM

(photo Stift)

Atlas has a troubling letter from a Norwegian about demographic replacement in his country. He writes that immigration from Muslim countries to Norway is now approaching 35,000 annually. Given the high birthrates of Muslim immigrants, that’s a very large influx in view that Norway’s entire population is less than that of Colorado (4.6 million).

The nations capital is already 50% muslim, and they ALL go there after entering Norway. Adding the 1.2 births per woman per year from Muslim women, there will be 300 000+ Muslims out of the then 480 000 inhabitants of that city.Orders from Libya and Iran say that Oslo will be known as Medina at the latest in 2010, although I consider this a PR-stunt nevertheless it is their plan.
(Atlas Shrugs)

All very true* and troubling (*note: 50% figure for Oslo is exaggerated, it’s about half that as of now). But then the letter turns militant and apocalyptic, with fears that Armageddon is at hand. From our contemporary time and place one’s “militia kook” alarm goes off instantly with this stuff. But in Europe, the author is perhaps only an early convert to an argument which will become increasingly persuasive, as the Muslim to Christian ratio continues to tilt heavily in favor of an Islamic majority:

We are stockpiling and caching weapons, ammunition and equipment. This is going to happen fast.

[…]

Oslo and the southeast may fall easily, but there are other lines than “state”-borders drawn across this country since long before there was even a single Muslim in the world, and we have held them this long, against everyone else too. We are entering a new golden age for my people, and those of a handful other countries, but only through struggle.
(Atlas Shrugs)

Presumably he means withdrawal to the north into the Jotunheimen, for a defense of the Gudbrandsdal Valley. A sound short-term strategy that has worked in the past, but ultimately an untenable position against a force that controlled the southern North Sea ports. Losing Oslo means losing the interior by pieces.

They’d have to defend Trondheim and Namsos against an amphibious assault which would cut the country in half (again the southern ports become permanent threats to the north). But the primary problem would be to defend the Hedmark, against land encirclement by Muslim advance up the Glomma. Both of these moves were employed successfully by the Germans in Operation Weserübung and could be done so again.

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Invasion Without Journalism

Posted by: Ion | May 18th, 2007 · 12:06 PM

Demographic wars are lost decades before they’re fought, if they ever are. In more instances than not, they never emerge into the cruelty of ethnic cleansing and civil war. More commonly they sneak up too suddenly on the victim for all of that.

I stumbled across this proportional visualization of Muslim immigration to Europe from 1985-1992 on Cartographie. An invasion, largely unreported at the time. There are few or no photographs like those turned out by combat photographers in military invasions, of the arriving armies and falling city defense. Here the material for demographic replacement seeped in quietly, often welcomed rather than opposed. The common response was indifference. Little in European newspapers portrayed the struggle, less still on television and virtually nothing in the popular imagination as Europe fretted over social models and Communism.

And yet the victory these lines portend, is as comprehensive in effect as the thick driving lines of Tecumseh Sherman’s Savannah Campaign bisecting Georgia and sealing the fate of the Confederacy south of Virginia. An arresting image:

(Souce: Cartographie)

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The Fall of Europe

Posted by: Ion | May 11th, 2007 · 11:03 PM

America Alone? Not quite, but a new alliance structure is clearly on the horizon. This dramatic visualization illustrates projected demographic decline in Europe between 1995 and 2025, quite starkly. While you frequently hear the figures, it’s shocking to see cartographically, how entire Western cultures are being erased due to low birth rates.

Note the high population growth in the United States and Christian (sub-Saharan) Africa, as well as the high growth in the Islamic world, particularly in the Middle East. For these two antagonists, the fight will go on long after Europe has folded up her affairs and retired. The contest for Asia looks to be sporting between India and China as well.

The image comes from a navigable PDF on Anthropology.net, which contains a truly breathtaking level of detail when zoomed in. It is definitely worth an extended tour. (Alert: the pdf is a very large file and is very slow loading).
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Civilizational Opportunities in Wolfowitz’s African Support

Posted by: Ion | April 16th, 2007 · 11:35 AM

The deepening scandal at the World Bank over Paul Wolfowitz’s nepotism for his unlikely Persian temptress Shaha Riza, is making his position as president of the Bank look increasingly untenable. True to form he remains defiant, despite concerted efforts to force his resignation.

In mounting an international defense of his job, Wolfowitz has pursued an interesting strategy, by linking US with sub-Saharan African support. Joshua Wanyama smartly picks up on the mild disconcertion this is causing in African capitals:

Wolfowitz’s support comes mainly from the US administration where he last served as a US deputy defense secretary and in Africa where he has concentrated his energies since becoming president. While African leaders seem to support him, they also resent his appeal to use their support to keep his job.

Unnamed bank officials stated that Wolfowitz is using the African base as a political support to counter growing resentment from European leaders who seem to resent his policies especially over his anticorruption campaign.
(AfricanPath)

The conventional worry would be that this strains the delicate balance of relations that exist in Africa and potentially endangers many of the Bank’s African initiatives, if Wolfowitz is ultimately replaced by the board. But it could be argued that from an American perspective, this is actually a classic blessing in disguise.

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European Social Regulation as Collective Masochism

Posted by: Ion | April 4th, 2007 · 7:58 PM

Jens Jessen, in a translated piece from Die Zeit, comments on the recent wave of social control laws in Germany, which seek to regulate or abolish virtually every personal indulgence from cigarettes to pets. The motives for the increasing curtailment of personal liberty are said to be globalist, moral or environmental.

But Jessen speculates that the surge in support for restrictions and prohibitions, is a masochistic impulse driven by European futility with slow or declining economic growth and productivity, in the face of expanding globalization. Faced with a world which has largely failed to embrace their values and powerless to force international compliance, Europeans have taken to exacting revenge on themselves. It’s an interesting thought:

There’s something recognizably auto-aggressive in this new prohibition orgy. It’s as though the European rage at the Chinese or Americans, who are not to be converted to environmentalism, is now being aimed at the Europeans themselves - like the obscure emotional process that brings the victim to mutilate himself if he can’t avenge himself on his tormentor. This is implied in the strictly symbolic quality of much environmental protection – like recycling separation, which could be done much more efficiently in factories than in homes.
(Sign&Sight)