America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It | Mark Steyn

America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It | Mark Steyn | The most disturbing book I've read this year

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	America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It Mark Steyn Regnery Publishing, 2008 - 224 pages average customer review:based on 509 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

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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The most disturbing book I've read this year

Mark Steyn is witty, snarky, rarely acidic, and always entertaining to read. However, America Alone is not entertainment. It's quite disturbing. From his description of Europe's swift demographic decline to his predictions of the rise of EUrabia due to the influx of Muslims to replace the dying cultures, he paints a pretty bleak picture of the future. Francis Fukuyama's "End of History" where liberal-democratic welfare states would be the Future of the World doesn't look like it's going to pan out as predicted.

As Steyn notes near the end, the book isn't about Islam, or the decline of the West, or terrorism, or any of the simple, trite soundbites that have been attributed to it. It's an argument for WILL, for the West to grow a spine, to reacquire our civilizational confidence. Lord Kenneth Clark in his BBC series "Civilization: A Personal View" said (and I paraphrase) that one of the most important feature of a civilization, if not the most, was confidence. Confidence that it will still be around next year, that it is worthwhile planting crops now, so they could be harvested next season. Confidence that soldiers won't suddenly appear on the horizon and destroy your farm. Confidence that an apple seed planted in your backyard will provide fruit for your grandchildren. That if you paint a fresco, the wall its on will still be standing in a century. That if you write a book, the language you use will still be understood half a millennia in the future. And that if you hauled stone for the great cathedral which had been building since before your father was born, and which your baby son might live to see completed if, the good Lord willing, he lived to be an old man; your efforts would be valued by subsequent generations stretching forward toward some unimaginably distant futurity. And above all, the self-confidence that you are part of something grander than yourself, something with roots in the past, and a glorious future of achievement ahead of it.

When the Romans lost that self confidence, when they began doubting their own purpose, they began to die.

Europe is, as Steyn illustrates, dying now from the lack of confidence, leaving only the U.S. to stand against an ideology that wants all the world to live under its crushing weight.

It's a book everyone should read.

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A must read for anyone curious about the war against Fascist Islam.

Mr. Steyn shows the thinking and tactics of how the Islamists plan on taking over and asserting power. Europe is dying and the English-speaking world, mainly the U.S., is the only thing preventing Islamist victory. The statistics are staggering and scary as hell.

America Alone - A must read

I purchased two additional copies of the book to give to friends. It is a very timely, well-written book. Get one before it's banned! Canada is trying to prevent it's sale there. It is enlightening and frightening at the same time. Regardless of where you stand on the issues, this book will get a reaction from you.

It's a time of change, take time to review Mark Steyn's perspective.

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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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