Islamophobia

In a new post on the Anti-war blog, Pat Buchanan points out the misguided focus of the right-liberal Islamophobes who claim Arab terrorism is a mortal threat to western states.

“For all the blather of a restored caliphate, the “Islamofascists,” as the neo-cons call them, cannot create or run a modern state, or pose a mortal threat to America. The GNP of the entire Arab world is not equal to Spain’s.”

The real threat posed by Islam is not terrorism but demography. In the absence of strong economies, Middle Eastern states only really have one weapon with which to seriously threaten the West and that’s an expanding population.

One reason why there’s been little progress in improving relations between Israel and Palestine is because of Palestine’s burgeoning population. In Israel’s eyes, Palestine is waging a pretty successful demographic war, and unless growth in the Palestinian population slows pretty sharply, Israel isn't likely to come out with an olive branch anytime soon.

France is now getting a taste of what may be in store for the rest of Europe as it’s economy labours under the weight of a rapidly growing Muslim underclass.

In the wider scheme of things, terrorism is only a major threat to the West if the West falls prey to its own ideological delusions.

Al Qaeda’s ongoing strategy seems to revolve around goading America and Britain into getting involved in protracted wars in the Middle East with the aim of slowly bleeding their indebted economies and turning western public opinion against interventionist strategies.

The West should take a lesson from Israel’s predicament and limit Muslim immigration to a small number of skilled immigrants who will follow the middle class pattern of, for want of a better term, "small family values."