miamiair /forum/images/avatars/gallery/first/user54/1.png offline (netAirspace FAA) 02 Jun 09, 14:34
Mark wrote:It's gonna suck having call to prayer being screamed over PA systems multiple times a day.
Bitched about the whacky Christian Right? Now you're going to get an earful.
And let's get one thing straight. There's a big difference between a pilot and an aviator. One is a technician; the other is an artist in love with flight. — E. B. Jeppesen
Zak /forum/images/avatars/gallery/first/user2/2.png offline (netAirspace FAA) 02 Jun 09, 15:11
I don't like any fundamentally religious folks, no matter which corner they come from.
But the changing demographics is indeed probably the biggest challenge for our societies. Not only because of the (undoubted) strengthening of the Islam. It's also testing the limits of our social security systems. With average life expectancy growing steadily, the ratio of workers vs. pensioneers is constantly shifting as well.
Ideology: The mistaken belief that your beliefs are neither beliefs nor mistaken.
Arniepie /forum/images/avatars/gallery/first/default.png offline 02 Jun 09, 16:14
There are indeed to few children born in Europe these days to maintain the current population levels but the numbers used in this video are way of.
For instance , there are 350.000-400.000 Muslims in Belgium (out of a population of 10 million+) which makes about 3.5% of the population, also 2nd and third generation Muslims also don't get as many children as they got in their countries of origin, numbers are in line with the rest of the population, the Turkish-origin young families even get fewer kids than our country's average.
There is a problem, but nowhere as imminent as stated in this fear mongering video, besides the decline in birth rates has more to do with the high population density that exists in Europe and was unsustainable.
Also what they didn't mention in this video is that , after Central Africa, Europe is the place where Muslims are most likely to divert from their faith and factually become humanists, their is a rapidly growing number of mainly higher educated native born Muslims that choose not to practise their faith anymore, this has become a big point of worry within the league for Muslim's so much so that they are actively promoting a newer more modern Islam but still they keep loosing ground with aforementioned groups of ex-Muslims.
It all comes down to what culture is the strongest and has the best ideas, we got rid of the shackles of the ( Catholic ) church and the same faith is coming for the Muslim faith and all other kind of fairytale religions.
Our ideas are better, our results are better and our lives are better because of it.
Humanism and "faith" in rational thought and science are the way of the future, religion is for the weak of mind.
