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The rest of the world is noticing the West’s pronoun madness, trans madness, grooming madness, and other evils, and is drawing the obvious conclusions. The deputy commander-in-chief for coordination of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), General Mohammad-Reza Naghdi, said in a recent interview on Iranian TV that Europeans were losing the sense of their own national identity, and that the Western lifestyle had placed European societies on the path to extinction. He could have said exactly the same thing about the United States of America.
The March 31 exchange on Iran’s Ofogh TV began when an interviewer asked Naghdi: “If I am not mistaken, you expressed an opinion about the French national soccer team. You said that out of the 23 team members, 15 were Africans, and that of the 12 members of their national basketball team, ten were Africans. You inferred that France has no national identity.” It was an interesting question, because if an interviewer had asked it in France or any other country in Europe, or in the U.S., he or she would have been excoriated as a “racist” and likely fired, simply for asking the question. When a topic, any topic, can be more freely discussed on Iranian TV than on American TV, you know there is something wrong.
Naghdi didn’t berate the interviewer for “bigotry.” Instead, he answered: “The West delineates a certain lifestyle for societies, and how we should live. What has this done to the West itself? It has caused negative population growth, which forces them to import population from abroad. European societies will reach a point, within several decades, where you will have to search for a single person of the European race in France or in England, for example.” Well, yes, and not just France or England. Germany’s Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) recently conducted a “micro-census” that found that fully twenty-five percent of the people in the country have a “migrant background.” Given the low birth rates of native Europeans all across the continent, it isn’t hard to see where this is tending. As far back as 2005, the renowned historian Bernard Lewis said that Europe would be Islamic by the end of this century, “at the very latest.”
Naghdi continued: “In this situation, there is no more meaning to national identity. According to statistics, if you hold free elections in England in 2060, a Pakistani or an Indian will be the prime minister, and [British] Parliament will be filled with [immigrants] from Iraq, India, and so on. What will be the meaning of national identity there? There will be no such thing as the English people anymore. This will be a different nation and different society.”
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Mike says
anything Iran or for that fact is said out of hate for the world the way it is any way of life that is not Islam is not acceptable. anyone know if there is anyway to share the planet with these people all I see is the radical’s are out to control the world in there view. Who long will the western world put up with it before there defend our way of life
Infidel says
According to Naghdi, the concept of naturalization does not exist. I agree that there is a big percentage of immigrant populations who’ve imported their home countries to the countries they’ve immigrated to for economic or political, rather than cultural reasons, and who do not belong there. But the idea that someone who’s moved to a Western country can’t become a native of that country is… interesting
This particularly for a country that is only 50% of its native population – Farsi, and the other ethnic groups in the country – Arabs, Kurds, Balochs, Azeris, Turkmen… are all descendants of invaders. Wonder how Naghdi would feel if it was pointed out that various leaders of Iran have been Azeri, and that they could one day get an Arab or a Hazara Grand Ayatollah? Particularly since Iran is a country shi’a muslims who fear persecution from sunnis flee to
James Lincoln says
Infidel,
Non-muslim multiethnic groups that assimilate into the larger culture of the host nation are desirable, i.e., melting pot. When this happens, the ethnic groups may preserve some of their culture (cuisine, art, dance, etc.) but maintain total respect the laws and culture of the host nation. They learn the language of the host nation, become productive citizens, and assimilate. And their religion does not conflict with the laws of the host nation.
As we know, muslims do not do this because islam does not allow this.
But you knew this already…
gravenimage says
Generally so, James.
gravenimage says
Does the Western Lifestyle Put Societies on the Path to Extinction?
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Depends what you mean by “Western lifestyle”. Most of this idiocy is *very* recent, and is in my opinion *not* an intrinsic part of Western values.
Then of course Iran is crowing over the supposed immanent demise of the West–including many factors that Muslims themselves have demanded, like allowing in hordes of violent Mohammedans.
The West *is* in trouble right now–but Islam will make everything much, much worse.