I hate to bring this up right before Christmas but…Europe is doomed.
A Sociology professor at the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium), Felice Dassetto has published a new book entitled “The Iris and the Crescent” and he’s saying that Islam is well on it’s way to becoming the most practiced religion in Europe, and will soon eclipse Christianity, according to the Examiner.com.
I’m just wondering – with Muslim’s infamous tolerance for all things Christian and especially their love for the Pope, I’m wondering how the Vatican will fare in a Muslim dominated Europe.
As cited in YNetNews, the number of Muslims has tripled over the past 30 years, all the while, fully 1/3d of all European children will be born to Muslim families by 2025. Check out this top ten list of doom:
1. Islam is the most practiced religion in the United Kingdom.
2. In London, more Muslims attend mosques on Friday than do Christians churches on Sunday.
3. The Oude Kerk, the oldest church in the city of Amsterdam, where the Kings of Holland were crowned, is now a museum.
4. The only “church” in the largest Dutch city that is crowded is the church of Scientology, a six-story building in the thick of the city center.
5. Only 7% of Dutch Catholics now go to Sunday Mass and 16% of children are baptized.
6. In Austria, which was 90% Catholic in the 20th Century, Islam will be the majority religion among Austrians aged under 15 by 2050.
7. The French case also shows that the often exaggerated “Eurabia” threat is more a quality phenomenon of religious attendance than of demographic takeover.
8. In France, there are now more Islamic mosques being build – and more frequently so – than Catholic churches, and there are more practicing Muslims than practicing Catholics in the country.
9. Overall, the total number of mosques in France has already doubled to more than 2,000 in the last 10 years.
10. The best known French Islamic leader, Dalil Boubakeur, Rector of the Great Mosque of Paris, recently suggested that the total number of mosques should double yet again, to 4,000, to meet the growing demand.
I’m thinking the Swiss guard is going to have its hands full in the decades to come. Alls I’m sayin’.
HT The Examiner
December 23, 2011 at 3:17 pm
I wonder what Margaret Sanger would have thought, to know that population control could work so well that the Europeans would be the ones to disappear.
I'm glad I've had the chance to visit some of the famous European shrines and cathedrals I've been able to see because I'm sure they'll go the way of so many Christian sites in Asia. I hope to get to Rome before it's too late. Not to mention historic sites that probably won't be around in 100 years (Anne Frank's House; Normandy beaches/cemeteries).
Gabrielle Syme
December 23, 2011 at 4:31 pm
I am not sure where I heard this but Al Kresta was talking to a specialist on Islam a few months ago and said to his knowledge, Muslims are not reproducing themselves just like the Christians. I don't know where he got that info but Al Kresta has a lot of commentaries on Islam, and I and he were both surprised at the suggestion that Islam will NOT overtake Europe as it is being widely believed. I have to look in the Ave Maria Archives on that. Perhaps it may be true, who knows.
December 23, 2011 at 5:12 pm
"I'm thinking the Swiss guard is going to have its hands full in the decades to come. Alls I'm sayin'."
I wonder how difficult it would be to relocate the Vatican to the Philippines? They should probably get started now.
"and I and he were both surprised at the suggestion that Islam will NOT overtake Europe as it is being widely believed."
There is some evidence that the birth rate of Muslim immigrants to Europe has slowed down. However, those who take solace from those statistics are missing the fact that the majority of new immigrants to Europe are also Muslim. Europeans had better start going back to Church and having children or their culture is going to disappear permanently.
December 23, 2011 at 5:13 pm
Belloc predicted that. God help our souls.
December 23, 2011 at 5:17 pm
"Belloc predicted that. God help our souls."
This may not be an exact quote, but basically: "When Europe ceases to be Christian it will cease to be Europe."
December 23, 2011 at 5:43 pm
Here's a Christmas carol about your post.
http://divine-ripples.blogspot.com/2011/12/in-europe-christmas-without-christ.html
In post Christian Europe, Christmas takes on a sordid turn. Watch to appreciate what we still have.
December 23, 2011 at 7:50 pm
I'm always suspicious of anything said about what will be popular with kids 15 and younger in 2050. Many of those kids' PARENTS have not yet been born.
If you're not going to stick to the facts but prefer to speculate wildly, please at least write your predictions in quatrains. That way they will be more entertaining to future generations.
December 23, 2011 at 8:38 pm
Re: Howard,
That may indeed turn out to be true, and I pray the trends do turn.
OTOH, the demographic observation has prophetic connections from both private revelation and Sacred Scripture. I note most particularly Yves Dupont's "Catholic Prophecy: The Coming Chastisement" from Tan Press. Mr. Dupont saw many of these revelations as having a theme of Muslim invasion of Europe after the Apostasy.
December 23, 2011 at 9:45 pm
BTW: The K from the "Katholieke Universiteit" of Louvain became just a "K" reminding the C from Christian, in case the name is written for Belgian citizens= KU Leuven. The international name will remain "Catholic University of Leuven" or the "University of Leuven".
This one changed faster …(:
December 23, 2011 at 11:30 pm
Europe was blessed by God with Christianity. Now Europe is rejecting God and Europe declines. No surprise there.
December 24, 2011 at 12:09 am
Postmodern Europe should be thrilled to be out from under Christian morality. Hope they like Islam better. It seems like a rather simplistic religion to me.
December 24, 2011 at 12:25 am
As sad as it is to say… Europe deserves to reap what it has sown. However, if it comes to a revolution in some moment of clarity, how many think the USA will join the correct side in aiding Europe? I doubt it.
December 24, 2011 at 2:44 am
Rick, I watchted your carol. That's three minutes of my life I won't get back.
Here's a question for you: when Islam moves in to fill the void in Europe, is the problem Islam, or the void?
Europe has doomed itself. I pray we don't follow suit.
December 24, 2011 at 3:40 am
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December 24, 2011 at 3:42 am
To Anonymous,
I think this is the article you were talking about on MercatorNet –
http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/why_islam_is_in_as_much_trouble_as_the_west_despite_the_hype
"Why Islam is in as much trouble as the West
Many countries in the Muslim world, including Iran, are also in demographic freefall."
December 24, 2011 at 5:42 am
Yeah, Islam is suffering greatly at the hands of secularism as well. Go over to Google and search for "Iran fertility rate". From there you can add countries. Go ahead and add much of the middle east. While the poorer countries still have high birth rates the heart of Islam has precipitously declining birth rates. If you a little further research and look at the rate of fertility decline in western countries it took about 200 years to get to where we are. The middle east appears to be headed towards accomplishing the task of becoming largely barren in a quarter of the time.
December 24, 2011 at 1:36 pm
Siobhan: "Here's a question for you: when Islam moves in to fill the void in Europe, is the problem Islam, or the void?"
Europe is like the prodigal son who leaves the safety of his father's house and gets exposed to the real world or the "void" and goes to NYC for a quick buck. Islam is like the pimp waiting at the bus stop to exploit the hungry and homeless runaway. The pimp takes over the runaway's life by hooking him on drugs and making him a sex slave to earn his food and keep – just like Islam when it enslaves it's adherents and imprisons them under threat of murder. Islam is the devil in disguise – much worse than emptiness.
December 24, 2011 at 2:15 pm
@Anonymous 11:13. Islam preaches, co-existence and tolerance but their game plan is total Sharia law. As the Triune God's plan is that all men become saints, Islam's plan is for all men to become Muslim. The Muslims do not believe in self-immolation, self-sacrifice. Allah has no son to love him and lay down his life for him. Allah has no Jesus Christ. It is unnatural that a mother does not lay down her life for her child.
December 26, 2011 at 5:00 am
Yes we in the West have done it to ourselves. We opposed Communism but are too weak to oppose Islam and its violent, vile founder and role model Mohamet. Secular atheists have allowed this to occur and they will be made to submit to Islam(trans "submission"). All non Moslems are in danger real danger. Europe exploited Turks after WWII. They fail to grasp that ethnic differences were at the root of Europe's instabilities. So they introduce Islam! When Iraq has a nuclear weapon or another islamic country we are sunk! They do not care about killing fellow Moslems as they are martyrs!
December 27, 2011 at 1:38 am
Yeah, because Christianity will save the fucking world you jackass. OH NOESSSSS THEYRE NOT BAPTIZEDDDDDDD THE HORROR.
Fuck you.