Quote of the day - Mark Steyn

While Britain and other former colonial powers turned a blind eye to Africa, the likes of Mugabe looted their governments’ treasuries, their countries’ resources, their peoples’ wealth, and western taxpayers’ bountiful “development” funds. To this day, you still hear African leaders demanding to know why America won’t launch a “Marshall plan for Africa”, which conveniently overlooks the fact that since 1960 the west has sunk the cost of the Marshall plan many times over into the Dark Continent with nothing to show for it other than a few extra zeroes on the Swiss bank balances of the dictators-for-life. While the west snoozed complacently, the Afro-Marxist kleptocrats ransacked a continent.

Mark Steyn

Islam in Africa - something else to help you sleep at night

I found a version of this map at Pamela's Atlas Shrugs page:



The green area is "predominantly muslim." The shaded area is going to be predominantly muslim soon. The shaded area and the southern green areas are where the most violence takes place now. Those areas also have the most oil (and the most genital mutilation). The more green Africa gets, the higher the price of oil.

[The whole red state/blue state thing doesn't seem so bad now, does it?]

[Actually, yes it does. If we didn't have blue states in the U.S., we could do more to confront the Green States in Africa and elsewhere.]

Pamela advocates her own solutions, which may be a good start.

I bet if we seriously reversed the flow of Islam anywhere in the world, it would appear less "inevitable" to its followers and the flow of Islam across Africa would slow. In order for that to happen, we would need to seriously re-think our own multiculturalism.