Comedy

Daniel Pipes cracks me up:

"Some 5% of the E.U., or nearly 20 million persons, presently identify themselves as Muslims; should current trends continue, that number will reach 10% by 2020. If non-Muslims flee the new Islamic order, as seems likely, the continent could be majority-Muslim within decades.

"When that happens, grand cathedrals will appear as vestiges of a prior civilization — at least until a Saudi style regime transforms them into mosques or a Taliban-like regime blows them up. The great national cultures — Italian, French, English, and others — will likely wither, replaced by a new transnational Muslim identity that merges North African, Turkish, subcontinental, and other elements."

10% is less than the percentage of African-Americans in the United States, and we are far from a new African-American order in American civilization. It is, of course, a huge leap to assume that any 10% minority could come from a position of discrimination to dominate a civilization. This of course ignores stuff like acculturation. And why am I even bothering to refute this rubbish?

UPDATE: It seems reasonable to remind people here that not only did George Bush appoint Pipes to the US Institute of Peace, but he used a recess appointment to make sure he got on.