It seems to me that the West[1] is undergoing a transformational change the like of which it has never seen before. It might compare with the Mughal conquests, Islam’s conquest of the Levant and North Africa, or the expansion of the USSR, with lower mortality. It is a change wrought by ideologies[2], yet most Westerners seem insensitive to them, or acquiesce without demur. In this journal I aim to act as witness to this unopposed revolution.
August 2024
A FRIEND EMAILED ME with a link
to a tweet of a German Muslim stating that "when Muslims become the
majority, we will take over Germany by force. German laws will be replaced by
Sharia law.” Well, that’s Islam’s goal
so nothing new there. Then my friend
checked the Muslim population of Germany and had second thoughts, at 4% he
considered “it's a bit premature for a revolution yet!” Well, not really, as I replied:
It's better to describe Islamic conquest as incremental
rather than revolutionary. It's also better to consider the increase in Muslim population
in the West in terms of proportional increase, rather than
absolute.
Doctrinally, Muslims are expected to migrate in what's called hijrah.
Here's a
definition. Koran 4:100 - "Whoso migrateth for the cause of Allah
will find much refuge and abundance in the earth, and whoso forsaketh his home,
a fugitive unto Allah and His messenger, and death overtaketh him, his reward
is then incumbent on Allah." Muhammad said "The reward of deeds
depends upon the intentions and every person will get the reward according to
what he has intended. So whoever emigrated for worldly benefits or for a woman
to marry, his emigration was for what he emigrated for." Thus,
migration redeems a Muslim's previous sins and increases his or her chances of
entering paradise. Martyrdom - dying while killing unbelievers in the
name of Islam - guarantees this.
Nasty British jihadist Anjem Choudary was a former spokesman for al-Muhajiroun, which is Arabic for The
Emigrants (that's the 'haj' part of Muhajiroun). Known as ALM or the Islamic Thinkers
Society, it is proscribed as a terrorist group, and Choudary’s role as director
led him to be convicted in July 2024 and sentenced to life imprisonment.
That is, spending the rest of his life converting other prisoners, by force if
necessary, to Islam.
Statistically, Muslim populations grow much faster than total
populations, meaning that at some time in the distant future Muslims will
outnumber non-Muslims in the West, which is precisely what happened in the Middle East,
formerly majority Christian. I only have accurate figures for NZ, which are based
on censuses. For example, the average annual growth rate from 1976
(Muslim population 1,341) to 2018 (Muslim population 57,726) is 9.1%.
NZ's non-Muslim population growth for the same period is 0.91% per annum,
meaning the rate of Muslim population growth over 42 years is 10.3 times that
of non-Muslims. Extrapolate that! It's fair to assume other Western
countries will see similar rates. I'll update these figures once the 2023
census 'religious affiliation' stats are available.
And it's not just migration that increases the Muslim population.
Conversion to Islam is extremely easy; leaving Islam incurs the death penalty - the deterrent effect of this should not be underestimated. Conversion occurs for many reasons but
the main ones are likely to be for purposes of marriage, or for an easier life
in prison. Other reasons include voluntary or spontaneous conversion, but
I think an undeclared reason, acting as an explanation for the greater
proportion of women converting, is that Islam is a very patriarchal way of
life, in contrast to the increasingly feminised West. It is also strongly
rules-based (fatwas), rather than ethics-based, which suits people who think
Western morality is too far out of kilter, or who feel the need for fixed rules
to live by.
Demographically, the problem is a lot more serious. One thing that
Muslims have that no other religion, ideology or political system has is the ummah,
the nationhood of Muslims. This is extremely powerful, given that
Muslims tend towards greater piety than Gloriavale, though do it in public. We
can see this in the way that UK Muslims, who tend to co-locate in electoral
districts, had a powerful effect on this year's election, based on ant-Israel
sentiment. And that will get more significant as the proportion of Muslims increases.
There is something called 'the percentage rule', which takes two forms.
First is a paper
by Harvard polsci prof Erica Chenoweth saying that it only takes 3.5% activists
in a population to effect a change. Second is one which states that as
the proportion of Muslims in the population rises, certain effects become
noticeable. Violence
increases and Islam's supremacism
takes control.
Then there's the tipping point. A research
paper
shows that when 10 per cent of a population are strongly committed to a
viewpoint, the view rapidly becomes the majority.
Premature, you ask? When does one start to oppose the
inevitable? Or does one accept capitulation, as many in the West seem
happy to do?
