Opinions are like assholes... everyone's got one.

So in the last week, I've twice heard of this new terror that white people face: an ultimate Brown-slamic takeover. Initially in this post I was going to tackle exactly what I think of this idiocy by quoting from what people have said to me, but I think what I'll do instead is address this video, which I have a feeling may be the root of all this completely baseless terror.




I'll just get this right out of the way at the beginning - I laughed really hard at the waaay over dramatic music and the sinister, shadowy text. We must be watching something REALLY serious if they were able to get a Michael-Moore-meets-Zeitgeist look and feel. This youtube clip must be absolutely legit.

Ok. Moving on.

"According to research..." You know, I learned while writing my thesis last year that when you use a phrase like "according to research," you should probably provide evidence that this research actually exists. Because, really, otherwise I could say things like "According to research, being a racist will make your toenails fall off," and people - silly people - people who will believe anything you tell them amidst shadowy text and ominous music - might acutally think it was the truth when (unfortunately) it isn't. Saying that something is backed up by research without providing a citation of that research is like me telling you I bought you a birthday gift and that it's in the mail... and then it never showing up.

"In order for a culture to maintain itself for more than 25 years, there must be a fertility rate of 2.11 children per family... As of 2007, the fertility rate in France was 1.8; England, 1.6; Greece, 1.3... Across the entire European Union of 31 countries, the fertility rate is a mere 1.38."

Hmm. Weird. Because it says here that the fertility rate in Canada has been no higher than 1.7 since 1980... which, if I'm not mistaken was 30 years ago, and I'm pretty sure Canada still has people in it... Well, here's some clarity:

"Yet the population of Europe is not declining. Why? Immigration. Islamic Immigration."

Ok, so we can have a low fertility rate of less than 1.7, and the population won't shrink because immigration will fill the gap.

...But, doesn't it make sense that some Muslims were here already? And that they were having babies within Canada and that births of those babies contributed to the fertility rate that you cited before? So isn't it skewed when you're talking about the fertility rate of a whole country, but claiming to exclude a particular race or religion? It seems to me that we're trying to talk about the fertility rate of white people in a country, and then using the overall statistic for the whole land mass to lump all people together. Isn't that a little convenient?

And, let's be honest, it is white people we're talking about here, right? What about immigration Asian countries? Or how about African countries? Surely they aren't all Muslim, so maybe we should count them in there as well? No? Oh, right. Because we're talking about white people here. We aren't talking about the survival of non-Muslims - we're talking about the survival of the whites. Really, the fertility rate for white Canadians might actually be much lower than the 1.7, or it could be much higher and we don't know from this video, because the fact is that the fertility rates that they've cited for whole countries include citizens of all ethnicities and religions.

When you think about it, if a population can't survive for more than 25 years with a fertility rate of less than 2.11/family, and Canada still has a diverse population after 30 years with an overall birth rate of less than 1.7/family, and there are still white people in Canada... then it stands to reason that either a) the fertility rate for whites is actually higher than 2.11 and this has been hidden by this video's use of a larger statistic, or b) immigration of white people to Canada has been enough to fill the gap caused by the fertility deficit. Either way, this situation doesn't seem quite as "dire" as this video would have us believe.

"Between 2001 and 2006 Canada's population incresed by 1.6 million, 1.2 of those - immigration."
But Islamic immigration? Or just plain old immigration? Do you have any idea what percentage of the population of Canada are immigrants? Or whose parents were immigrants? People move all over the world... it's what happened when boats and planes were invented. Also, you do understand that whites weren't the first ones here, don't you? I'm sure that back in the days of Columbus, the American Native peoples were thinking that they didn't really want the Europeans to come colonize them - but colonize them we did, and treat them like crap we still do. And it looks like we're back to my favorite blog-ism - we need to LOOK AT OURSELVES before we start pointing the finger at other groups and labelling them a problem.

Further in the video we're told that apparently there was a meeting of 24 Islamic organizations in Chicago, during which someone said, "We must prepare ourselves for the reality that in 30 years there will be 50 million Muslims living in America." It doesn't, however, specify how we should prepare. Perhaps the Islamic organizations were talking about how to further educate people about ethnodiversity so that we could quash some of the rampant racism that's going to divide nations instead of uniting them, and that's going to make life very unpleasant for those 50 million Muslims.

"In 5-7 years [Islam] will be the dominant religion of the world." So? Right now it's some other religion - and I'll bet the HUGE OPPRESSIVE ISSUES you're dealing with because of that religion are about the same in scope as the HUGE OPPRESSIVE ISSUES you'll deal with when (if) Islam becomes dominant.

Not to mention, can we remember for a second that not all Muslims who move to Canada are actively practicing religion, and that many people who do move here from other countries make an effort to assimilate? And hell, even if they do continue to practice their religion - which is entirely within their rights - there's no need to fear Muslims. Save for a few outliers, Muslims are NOT terrorists, extremists, or suicide bombers. They are not out to convert you or oppress your wife, daughter, mother or girlfriend. They aren't out to stone you to death. They just want to live their lives in peace.

The video ends with this gem:
"As believers we call upon you to join the effort, share the gospel message with the changing world. This is a call to action."
Uhh... a call to action? What action would that be? I'm assuming that when you say you want me to share this message, you're hoping that the message I share will be the call to action for others - so what exactly are you hoping to do? This sounds threatening... this sounds like it could be violent. And, if I'm not mistaken, the threat of violence was what started all of this ridiculous, unwarranted fear in the first place.

Still terrified? Check this out. With information taken from Statistics Canada.

I just want to throw it out there right now, that in the past, people oppressed Jews... and now are humiliated about it. People oppressed blacks... and are now humiliated about it. People oppressed Aboriginal peoples... and now, for the most part, are humiliated about it. Always in hindsight, racism becomes a stain on a culture - and a few years from now, white people will be absolutely humiliated that the racist wool was pulled over their eyes once again, and that once again they punished an entire group by virtue of their skin colour.

The definition of Racism is NOT limited to 'hatred of blacks'. The definition of Racism is much larger.