…from Fallaci’s book [The Force of Reason]: “In 1974 [Algerian President] Houari Boumedienne, the man who ousted Ben Bella three years after Algerian independence, spoke before the General Assembly of the United Nations. And without circumlocutions he said: ‘One day millions of men will leave the southern hemisphere of this planet to burst into the northern one. But not as friends. Because they will burst in to conquer, and they will conquer by populating it with their children. Victory will come to us from the wombs of our women.’”

Such a bald statement of purpose by a nation’s president before an international forum seems incredible. Yet even in British journalist Adam LeBor’s A Heart Turned East (1997), a work of profound, almost supine sympathy for the plight of Muslim immigrants in the West, a London-based mullah is quoted as saying, “We cannot conquer these people with tanks and troops, so we have got to overcome them by force of numbers.” In fact, such remarks are commonplace. Just this week, Mullah Krekar, a Muslim supremacist living in Oslo, informed the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten that Muslims would change Norway, not the other way around. “Just look at the development within Europe, where the number of Muslims is expanding like mosquitoes,” he said. “By 2050, 30 percent of the population in Europe will be Muslim.”

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“The stage was set for the three-fold drama of Plato, Ceaser and Christ.” It’s fricken epic.

I skipped to the end and it almost ruined the first book. Who wouldn’t want to read history involving Plato and Ceaser with a dash of Jesus.

The last paragraph, by which I take Mike to mean the end of ch. 31, The New Japan, is a bit long to quote but in it Durant, writing in 1934, predicts a war with Japan & names economic competition as the root cause.

Mike, I warn you, by taking up “Our Oriental Heritage” you may be compelled, as I was, to read the entire series. The books are extremely easy to read. My favorites are the first 3 books but rest assured the quality never flags throughout. Scholarly research coupled with a clear writing style puts the Durants into the upper tier of historians. I also recommend Durant’s “The Story of Philosophy.”

We may come nearer to understanding them if we remember that the fall of Rome, like her rise, had not one cause but many, and was not an event but a process spread over 300 years. Some nations have not lasted as long as Rome fell.

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within. The essential causes of Rome’s decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars.

According to Durant the type of demographics discussed by neo played a significant role in Rome’s slow wasting. He writes of the mingling of fast breeding German & Oriental immigrant-derived populations with the limited-family social trends of native Italians:

The rapidly breeding Germans could not understand the classic culture, did not accept it, did not transmit it; the rapidly breeding Orientals were mostly of a mind to destroy that culture; the Romans, possessing it, sacrificed it to the comforts of sterility. Rome was conquered not by barbarian invasion from without, but by barbarian multiplication within.

Dr. Wafa Sultan’s characterization of the current Western/Islamic conflict as a clash between civilization & barbarism comes to mind. In the last sentence substitute “Europe” for “Rome.” A Sharia-ridden Europe may be inevitable.

some commenters get it

even neo is inching toward it

faster please