An anti-Islam video, Muslim Demographics, has been circulating around the right wing Christian community recently, going viral with over nine million views on YouTube. The video asserts Muslims are migrating to western countries in order to take over the culture, opening with the statement “In order for a culture to maintain itself for more than 25 years it must sustain a fertility rate of 2.11 children per family.” Fertility rates are broken down to demonstrate that countries the producers consider Christian are being overwhelmed by Muslim demographics.
The statistics suggest that the West will become Muslim in a generation at current rates, but some seem implausible and are not clearly sourced. Robert Parham, executive editor of EthicsDaily.com and executive director of its parent organization, the Baptist Center for Ethics provides a good statistical analysis of the video’s claims.
While the video could be dismissed as just another anti-immigration screed, common among the right wing, it appears to suggest that the takeover cannot be undone simply by limiting immigration. It is on this point that the message appears to be one of ethnic cleansing against Muslims, suggesting that the only way to undo the purported demographic shift is through conversion or elimination. The tone of the video clearly is not designed to proselytize Muslims; after all who is drawn to join a group that hates them?
Research to determine the video’s origin led to the right wing Christian group The Thomas More Law Center. The group was established by Domino’s Pizza founder Tom Monaghan and its advisory board includes extreme right wing gadfly Alan Keyes. The video was spotlighted on the group’s website on its front page under the heading ‘Featured Video” followed by the link “View more TMLC videos.” Clearly the group endorses the Muslim Demographics message by giving it such prominent placement but does not necessarily mean that the group produced each video it features. This report was held for one week in an attempt to receive a response from TMLC on the video’s origin. No response was received but the video was removed from the website. The removal could be taken as a repudiation of the content without comment, but a further exploration found the group promoting Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders.
According to the civil rights organization, The Council on American-Islamic Relations, Wilders along with Rep. Adam Hasner, the head of Florida’s House Republicans, recently co-hosted an event at which Wilder said Islam should not be recognized as a legitimate faith and Muslims should not have religious freedom.
According to CAIR’s report:
“In his address to the so-called “Free Speech Summit” in Delray Beach, Fla., Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders said: “Islam is not a religion. Islam is a totalitarian political ideologue. Islam [sic] heart lies at the Quran, and the Quran is a book that calls for hatred, that calls for violence, for murder, for terrorism, for war, and submission…We should also stop pretending that Islam is a religion...the right to religious freedom should not apply to Islam.”
Wilders also called for stopping Muslim immigration to the West, for removing Muslims from Western countries, for citizen loyalty oaths, for stopping the building of mosques, for closing down Islamic schools because they are ‘fascist’ institutions, and for getting rid of ‘weak leaders’.”
So the video’s removal does not seem to indicate a sanitizing of all anti-Islam propaganda from the TMLC website.
The self-described pro-life movement has long used the tactic of dehumanizing death row inmates, abortion providers and foreign soldiers among others, as permissible even biblically approved kills. The recent murder of health care provider Dr. George Tiller is just one recent example. The video concludes with the statement “This is a call to action.” So the question remains: how do right wing Christians respond to this video? Will they feel moved to follow the Great Commission of the Final Solution?
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Watching this kind of things are surreal. It makes me want to just give up and leave America. But I cannot go anywhere since America is my home as it is the home of thousands and thousands of Muslim who converted to Islam and millions who were born here. Does the Christian Right-Wing want us to walk in the Atlantic Ocean. Please don't be so cruel to us. We just came to your countries for a better life. Someday when we can have better life elsewhere, we will leave you. Then maybe, you might miss us.
This so called "Christian" crusade against Muslims is a cultural/holy war that they intend to win. They've infiltrated every part of our government, military, schools, etc. and freely spread the message of hate, and killing. Hate Crime Laws will go a long way in suppressing this along with "fairness in media" and other watch dog groups that refuse to let them win through divisiveness and ostraziation. They are no more Christian than my family dog.
Fundamentalist fear-mongering at its best. All religions are morally bankrupt if their believers won't stand up to the worst among themselves. If it's their intention to reduce church membership then they've done a good job of it. The proverbial stones are being cast, and certainly not by the meek.
So many here are just flat out BIGOTS! Religious BIGOTS who would in no way talk of any other group like they do against anyone who has religion.
Those "hate crime" laws one of the BIGOTS, drrobert, talks of can be used AGAINST bigots like you too! Just remember that "dr"!
What bumpf and buncombe. ALL the sky-god religions, Judaism, Christianity, Islam are vulnerable to abuse by empire. The idea is to provide domestic support for conquest and empire. Sure, US protestant evangelicals are lined up on the side of their militaristic and corporate rulers. But were the shoe on the other foot, so would official and officious Muslims support Saudi princes in their attempt to overcome the West. Of course, good Jews all support the idea of a Greater Israel.
Empire is the problem: Its subsidies to rich and hypocrite priests. Not personal, humble and real religious faith. I had the honor to meet Martin Luther King, Jr and the Berrigan brothers. Pray for the dead of the White Rose.
Chris Herz, Vheadline.com
I've seen that video, I don't see where it encourages ethnic cleansing in the slightest. My guess is that those who've commented here haven't actually watched this video.
I've seen the video. I'm a Muslim. From my desk the videos looks like a call to arm to exterminate me. I want to meet these people and ask them, "Do you want to hurt me, do you want to slice my arm?" I want to ask in front of everyone if they'd like to see me suffer simply because I am Muslim and immigrant. I would like them to stare into my eye and say they want to hurt me.
I don't think Euro Americans want violence. I think we simply concede that the two ideologies cannot exist side by side, never have, never will. The answer is to peacefully return Muslims to the homelands of Islam.
Providing immigrant status to Muslims was a huge mistake, but not one we ought to die for making.
Unless Muslims stop the ethnic cleansing of Christians/Jews/Bahai/Zorostrians in the Middle East and North Africa, we can only conclude that in time you'll come for us.
You are blind to the rise of an Islamic supremacist reformation which is drawning millions of Muslims to violent Wahabbism and Binladenism.
To SimpleMuslim, since there is no way for us to know which Muslims support political murder, how do we protect ourselves from a fifth column developing in North America? Unless that problem can be solved, I believe we should suspend Muslim immigration, except for compassionate reasons.
As for walking across the Atlantic, if things get really problematic ie. some Muslims nuke an American city, I suspect that boats will be provided. You're community should find a way to stop this violent Islamic reformation or you may regrettably be caught up in the tidal forces of history. I pray this does not happen.
To you muslims: how are christians supposed to react when christians cant even read a bible in saudi arabia, or iran and all the other islamic countries? I know that the bible says Jesus is God, and the koran does not, I believe the bible. Does islam teach that christians are infidels,, well does it? there is your answer, i believe that the one true God is the God of the bible, therefore the islamist are of a false religion.
To all Muslims, know this...Christianity will not bow down nor convert to your idol worshiping ways! I say change your faith for it leads only to eternal hellfire! To this I say freely, Jesus our Lord and Savior is the only true way! I wish for nothing more than peace but even Jesus has said his coming would bring division. Moses spoke that there is a time for war and a time for peace. If any more Islamic extremists continue murdering innocent Christians, know that an army of Christian soldiers will arise to protect our brothers and sisters from such retaliation. Leave us in peace and we shall leave you in peace, attack us...and we will attack you!
So much for those so called freethinkers who justify abortions,contraceptives and all kinds of child-murder techniques. Wake up people of Europe and America. Understand the holiness of marriage. Appreciate it! Stop your adultery! Follow the Gospel!
One of the funniest videos I've seen. Oh well! they're reaping what they did sow. Keep spreading hatred against Muslims, that actually leads your OWN people to learn about Islam :D
What causes low ferility rate in western countries?
If it was about jews, do we conclude anti-semities or what?
Do you recommend violance against Muslim childern?
What happens to the idea os human rights?
What is the role of immigration in economic growth of western countries?
Please do not make a social mater personal and do not preach,
Does anybody bother to investigate the accuracy of these figures?
Did you know that Indonesia is the most populeted islamic country? What is the social similarity between indonasian and Chechens or Saudi Arabian or North African muslims?
Fake info makes false ideas and War is always STUPID.
christanity says jesus was children of gos that is fase jesus was prophet and human god not a
man and not women to born human
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