Mark Steyn writes: ‘Kathy [Shaidle] reprises her celebrated line — Halt Muslim immigration to the west’

Now if only “celebrated” meant “showered in cash” and not “don’t tell anybody I read your blog”…

He adds:

It’s worth adding that, even if governments did this starting at midnight, the differences in birthrates among those already present would mean that within two generations Muslims in major European countries would still represent between a fifth and half of the general population and overwhelmingly dominate the major cities.

In other words, in terms of social tranquility, the best case scenario is somewhere between Ulster in the Seventies and Bosnia in the Nineties — and the worse ones are something closer to Tahrir Square filled with the “freedom-loving” “democrats” who sexually assaulted a CBS reporter while shouting “Jew! Jew!”

Nonetheless, getting a grip on mass immigration would at least signal to existing foreign residents that the west has ceased to fetishize civilizational suicide as moral narcissism. For Sarkozy, Merkel and Cameron to give speeches arguing that their societies have failed to turn immigrants into citizens to a degree that threatens social cohesion while simultaneously leaving the doors wide open suggests a certain lack of seriousness.