OpEd:Steyn on Sharia

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Author: Patrick Crozier

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Interesting article by Mark Steyn in Opinion Journal (hat tip Commonsense & Wonder). It's really an extended version of his usual line about how, in Europe, liberalism will give way to Sharia.

So, how's that then?

Muslims are having more children than the natives and Muslims are making up a high proportion of immigrants. Thus Muslims will eventually make up a majority and introduce Sharia

But hang about, Muslims are not the only non-ethnic Europeans and even if there is a majority why should that automatically lead to Sharia?

Certainly in Britain with its large Carribean, Hindu and (now) African communities (how I hate that word) things might be different. But apparently not elsewhere in Europe.

On the second point, apparently polls indicate that 60% of Muslims would like to see Sharia introduced right here and now. In other words, Muslims are not being Europeanised.

So, why are Muslims having more children than ethnic Europeans?

Good question. Steyn reckons it's to do with welfarism. I think so too but I've never been sure about the mechanism. He also reckons that Western self-loathing has a lot to do with it. Environmentalism tells us that we shouldn't exist at all and political correctness that we are all really bad people. (I'm reading between the lines here but I think this is what he thinks)

Oh, and Muslims can't be ethnic Europeans, huh?

I know, I know, it's a shorthand

But is Sharia really all that bad?

Well, as I understand it, it has little time for the rights of women, homosexuals (for which, I think, the punishment is death) or non-Muslims or the right to freedom of speech. It doesn't sound good.

So, what can be done about it?

Steyn doesn't have a whole load of ideas. He thinks its inevitable. As far as I am concerned I can't see much point in getting depressed about it. The answer, if there is to be one, is a lot more freedom and a lot less state plus a bit of self-belief. The only way to get that is to keep on spreading the ideas which is precisely what I and many others are trying to do.

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