With the Briexit this week in desperation people are resorting to scare tactics to win over undecided voters. Here is one example trying to get people to vote to leave the EU. In a race baiting video on Facebook, Britain First reported that birth rates were declining across Europe. They showed a number of countries include Germany whose reproduction rate was at 1.38. To reproduce your population you need 2.11. What this means is for every female you need to have at least 2 live births, one birth for replacement of each partner, and a little extra to account for illness and early death. Their claim is than that the western world is in decline by this falling birthrate. The Muslims are going to take over Europe and the Hispanics will take over America simply by out producing the so called “Home Team.” Coming just days after a Britain First supporter, or someone shouting their slogan, was accused of murdering Jo Cox, A British Labor MP, shows extremely poor timing. The simple fact is this; Britain First should stick with comedy because propaganda is not their thing. The only person who killed Jo Cox did not have an Islamic agenda. Britain First most certainly does have an agenda. The killer of Jo Cox was not shouting out “God is Great…” But even within their ramblings we can see this video’s failings most clearly. First, they assume all Muslims, of which there are 1.6 to 1.8 billion of them, will act with one will, one voice or even one thought. This is facile to start with but if it were the case, we would already have been overrun. We also the question of reproduction, the fertility numbers used in this video lie on their face as the average for all people means that all people are included, such that the people who arrived yesterday are lumped in with the people who arrive 200 years ago. When you migrate, you assimilate. Those numbers that Britain First used include Muslim and Hispanics and Africans who are coming but also the ones who have already come in. In other words, all this fear and trembling by racists groups like Britain First for their so-called “invasion” by these so-called “Others” are silly, as If the battle of the birth canal was merely the importation of raw demographic numbers from one country to another. Forgetting that the people involved might have something to say about it. They might have something to do about when they learn they have a choice in these matters. Where even if the first generation are longing for their lost land, the next generation and all who come after, call this new land, home, Islamophobia merely shows an irrational hatred of Muslims in this case, or any other groups they don’t like. They arrive; they assimilate and disappear into the bed rock of society where they become the newest wave of protectors of the very bedrock they belong to. Think Irish and Italians in the United States, often portrayed as the criminal class such as the Mafia. Yet American law enforcement is filled with both ethnic groups because it is their family tradition. Here are three further examples to show how silly Britain First is; First Germany in the late 1960 and 70s, wave after wave of Turkish Muslims arrived as migrant workers to Germany. They came in with the same high levels of birthing, 8 children per female that BF is using to threaten us with today. And so what happened? By now they should have over run all of Germany. Missed that on the news? What happened is this. They arrived, they assimilated and they became “German.” The women stopped having so many babies, they got jobs and education, the same as German women had done before them. And with that they stopped having kids, because women with choices, i.e. not barefoot and pregnant, do not have as many children. The girls do not identify themselves as Turkish. They speak fluent German. Their children are as foreign to Islam as the blond hair blue eyed friend they are playing soccer within the local field. And ironically of all, the birth rate for all of Germany also includes these Muslim immigrants as well. So if these immigrants had kept up the same proliferation, they should have a marked increase in the birthrate? But they did not. Because that is what happens to people when they move; they adopt the ways of their new world, country or city to feel at home in where they live. Not some other place they do not know. Second example; the mayor of London, a Muslin named Sadiq Khan, born in London and educated in that city; same for the mayor of Calgary, Alberta, Naheed Nenshi. Both men are respectively British or Canadian. They are not Muslim then something else. In a similar vein if slightly different, Donald Trump calling out judge Gonzalo Curiel, the man who is presiding over Trump in his legal dispute regarding Trump University, as being a Mexican. This judge was born in American. His parents as well. We have to go back to his grandparents to see who last lived in Mexico. His family has been American longer then Trump’s own family. Yet he is the Mexican who is biased according to Trump. Our last example; when the offices of Charle Hebdo were attacked, the first police officer on the scene, there to restore order, protect the innocent and arrest the guilty, was brutally slaughtered by the gunmen for the uniform he wore, because he was one of their so called “oppressors”, of their so called “Islamic revolution”. Definition of a hero is someone who runs towards gunfire instead of away from it. This man, this hero, his name was Ahmed Merabet. He was 42 years old and he was a Muslim. Thus in the most ironic twist of fate, a so called Muslim coward killed a real Muslim hero on that day in front of the office of Charlie Hebdo. Isn’t that interesting, the people we are told to fear, are the ones who ran to their death trying to rescue us outside those offices. Remember that the next time you hear the words “Je Suis Charlie”
Just like the successive waves of Eastern Europeans, Irish, and Hispanics to the shores of the USA, just as they have previously done and so too will others continue to do. People will move around this world and will assimilate into the culture of where they live. They will in fact become embodiments of that culture. They will change it and be change by it, making it a living breathing thing that belongs to them as well as to the other people. This lack of live birth shows government needs to produce more female friendly policies such as time off work, family support, day care support and economic incentives to have children. Not foster irrational hatred of other people for having been born different from the present “norm.” Cultural biases against women such as occurred in China, where males vastly outnumber females, due to their one child policy and cultural valuation of male heirs, have created a rapidly aging population that threatens the very survive of the Chinese people into the 21 century. India’s treatment of women, seen in the all too frequent headlines of gang rape and child molestations, all because they were girls and of lesser value in the mind of their attackers, shows the horrors of third world women. When they escape those shores for a haven of hope, while not perfect, we allow women their choices. Including when and where to have children, how many to have and so on. This is the core of western civilization. The British First movement may live in England, they cannot be said to belong to anything other than to their narrow racist bigotry. Vote as you want for Briexit. But vote with a clear head not clouded in racist fears and bad demographics.
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