To paraphrase the investment firms, past performance is a pretty good indicator of future results. The demographic trends Steyn notes in Europe have been in place a long time. This does not guarantee they won’t change, but it would take something extremely dramatic to cause them to.

And, frankly, Steyn’s analysis seems a lot less “facile” than Peters’ simplistic declarations that, well, Europe had violent ethnic nationalism in the past, so they will again. Europe has changed. And the talk about Viking descendents is a little silly. These people think “cowboy” is a perjorative, for Pete’s sake.

BTW, the Germans haven’t changed a bit. IMO Peters was correct that the lucky Muslims will be those who are only deported.

I’ve been saying that Dr. Who (or whoever with the time machine) should have gone back and flush the first koran years ago.

The math is simple. Europe is depopulating. That doesn’t make Eurabia inevitable–only more likely.

Certainly, Europeans can be a bloody bunch. Verdun saw almost a million casualties, but old or absent fascists aren’t very effective. In 20 years most Spaniards will be old or dead. Italians, too. The new Mussolini better be a geriatrician.

Sounds like they are readying for “1984″.

In the meantime, rather than hold their breath waiting for the Vikings to save them, they’ll order prayer rugs in bulk online. Just to hedge their bets, dontcha know?

How could one predict an outcome that did not conform with one’s notion of reality? That’s called science fiction or magical realism or delusion, no? Hence I predict the Vikings will stumble on a time machine, invented by Nikolai Tesla and abandoned in medieval Sweden, and use it to transport themselves to contemporary Europe to kick Muslim butt.

Peters isn’t just cynical about Europeans he’s seething with bitter hatred for them. (In fact all his articles seem to be written whilst in a state of rage). He reduces all of Europe’s diverse people and long history to the Holocaust and maybe the Spanish Inquisition. Last year he said Americans should side with Muslims against “the effete bigots on the banks of the Seine” during the “French intifada” then he all but sided with angry Muslims against the Danes during the cartoon controversy.

He’s always been a ranter but recently I think he’s come unhinged. His attack a couple of months ago on Americans for their supposed anti-Muslim bigotry was a jaw-dropper.

I think Steyn is too pessimistic about Europe’s demise – even though Steyn occasionally sounds happy about it. But at least he’s capable of calm assessment. Peters needs to calm down if he expects people to take his views seriously.