Mark Steyn

Steyn began his career as a musical theatre critic for The Independent in 1986. He was appointed film critic for The Spectator in 1992. After writing predominantly about the arts, Steyn's focus shifted to political commentary and moved to the conservative broadsheet The Daily Telegraph which stopped carrying his column in 2006. Since then, he has written for a wide range of publications, including the Jerusalem Post , The Orange County Register , Chicago Sun-Times , National Review , The New York Sun , The Australian , Macleans , Irish Times , National Post , The Atlantic Monthly , Western Standard and New Criterion . Mark Steyn believes that Eurabia – a future where the European continent is dominated by Islam – is an imminent reality that cannot be reversed. 'The problem, after all, is not that the sons of Allah are 'long shots' but that they're certainties. Every Continental under the age of 40 – make that 60, if not 75 – is all but guaranteed to end his days living in an Islamified Europe.'[[3]]( 'Native white populations on the continent are aging and fading and being supplanted remorselessly by a young Muslim demographic.'[[4]]( Steyn claims that Muslims will account for perhaps 40 percent of the population by 2020.In his book America Alone , Steyn posits that Muslim population growth has already contributed to a modern European genocide: Why did Bosnia collapse into the worst slaughter in Europe since the second World War? In the thirty years before the meltdown, Bosnian Serbs had declined from 43 percent to 31 percent of the population, while Bosnian Muslims had increased from 26 percent to 44 percent. In a democratic age, you can't buck demography — except through civil war. The Serbs figured that out, as other Continentals will in the years ahead: if you cannot outbreed the enemy, cull 'em. The problem that Europe faces is that Bosnia's demographic profile is now the model for the entire continent.[[5]]( In a few years, as millions of Muslim teenagers are entering their voting booths, some European countries will not be living formally under sharia, but -- as much as parts of Nigeria, they will have reached an accommodation with their radicalized Islamic compatriots, who like many intolerant types are expert at exploiting the "tolerance" of pluralist societies.[[6]]( In 2006 Steyn's rabidly Islamophobic book America Alone became a New York Times bestseller, and also made it to George W. Bush's reading list. In the book Steyn lists three factors that have 'left Europe too enfeebled to resist its remorseless transformation into Eurabia and that call into question the future of much of the rest of the world...: demographic decline; the unsustainability of the social democratic state; and civilizational exhaustion.'In an overview of the book journalist Jim Lobe writes that it "[I]t's not merely that there's a global jihad lurking within this religion, but that the religion itself is a political project - and, in fact, an imperial project - in a way that modern Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, and Buddhism are not," he writes. "Furthermore, this particular religion is historically a somewhat bloodthirsty faith in which whatever's your bag violence-wise can almost certainly be justified." To deal with the threat, he calls for a familiar recipe of favourite neo-conservative policies, from "support women's rights in the Muslim world" and "wage ideological war", to "end the Iranian regime" and "strike militarily when the opportunity presents itself." [[7]]( The state has gradually annexed all the responsibilities of adulthood -- health care, child care, care of the elderly -- to the point where it's effectively severed its citizens from humanity's primal instincts, not least the survival instinct...Big government is a national security threat: it increases your vulnerability to threats like Islamism, and makes it less likely you'll be able to summon the will to rebuff it.[[8]]( For Steyn Muslims present a 'demographic