The German birth statistics show that, once again, fewer babies were born in Germany last year.
Nach Angaben des Statistischen Bundesamtes wurden 712.000 Kinder
geboren. Das waren 3000 oder 0,5 Prozent weniger als im Vorjahr. Die
Geburten gehen seit 1991 mit Ausnahme der Jahre 1996 und 1997 zurück.
This news fuels the anti-European sentiment among some in the US press. Columnist Mark Steyn looks forward to sitting back and watching Europe implode. And a Christian United States will find an Islamic Europe much easier to deal with:
Europe’s problems
— its unaffordable social programs, its deathbed demographics, its
dependence on immigration numbers that no stable nation (not even
America in the Ellis Island era) has ever successfully absorbed — are
all of Europe’s making. By some projections, the EU’s population will
be 40 percent Muslim by 2025. Already, more people each week attend
Friday prayers at British mosques than Sunday service at Christian
churches — and in a country where Anglican bishops have permanent
seats in the national legislature.Some of us think an
Islamic Europe will be easier for America to deal with than the present
Europe of cynical, wily, duplicitous pseudo-allies. But getting there
is certain to be messy, and violent.Until the shape of the
new Europe begins to emerge, there’s no point picking fights with the
terminally ill. The old Europe is dying, and Mr. Bush did the
diplomatic equivalent of the Oscar night lifetime-achievement tribute
at which the current stars salute a once glamorous old-timer whose
fading aura is no threat to them. The 21st century is being built
elsewhere.
I guess Turkey will be a shoo-in for the EU when this happens.
