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| − | '''Adrian Michaels''' is the Group Foreign Editor at the Telegraph Media Group responsible for its network of correspondents and world news output. He previously worked with TMG editor-in-chief Will Lewis at the Financial Times, where he served for 15 years, the last four | + | '''Adrian Michaels''' is the Group Foreign Editor at the [[Telegraph Media Group]] responsible for its network of correspondents and world news output. He previously worked with TMG editor-in-chief Will Lewis at the ''Financial Times'', where he served for 15 years, the last four as its Milan correspondent.<ref>Stephen Brook, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/apr/22/dailytelegraph.sundaytelegraph Telegraph titles appoint world supremo], ''The Guardian'', 22 April 2008</ref> |
==Michaels Does Eurabia== | ==Michaels Does Eurabia== | ||
| − | On 8 August 2009 two articles appeared under | + | On 8 August 2009, two articles appeared under Michaels' byline characterizing Muslim Europeans as a 'demographic time bomb', who he claims will constitute one-fifth of the population by 2050. The first article attributes the claim to 'various sources', all of them unnamed.<ref>Adrian Michaels,[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/5994045/A-fifth-of-European-Union-will-be-Muslim-by-2005.html A fifth of European Union will be Muslim by 2050] , ''The Daily Telegraph'', 8 August 2009</ref> As the accompanying article reveals, the more outlandish claims come from neoconservative columnist [[Christopher Caldwell]]<ref>Adrian Michaels, [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/5994047/Muslim-Europe-the-demographic-time-bomb-transforming-our-continent.html Muslim Europe: the demographic time bomb transforming our continent], ''The Daily Telegraph'', 8 August 2009</ref> In the article he lamented: |
:Britain and the rest of the European Union are ignoring a demographic time bomb: a recent rush into the EU by migrants, including millions of Muslims, will change the continent beyond recognition over the next two decades, and almost no policy-makers are talking about it. | :Britain and the rest of the European Union are ignoring a demographic time bomb: a recent rush into the EU by migrants, including millions of Muslims, will change the continent beyond recognition over the next two decades, and almost no policy-makers are talking about it. | ||
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:But Muslims represent a particular set of issues beyond the fact that atrocities have been committed in the West in the name of Islam. | :But Muslims represent a particular set of issues beyond the fact that atrocities have been committed in the West in the name of Islam. | ||
| − | Michaels then goes on to quote Christopher Caldwell of the neoconservative ''Weekly Standard'' for claims such as: | + | Michaels then goes on to quote [[Christopher Caldwell]] of the neoconservative ''Weekly Standard'' for claims such as: |
:Whites will be in a minority in Birmingham by 2026, says [[Christopher Caldwell]], an American journalist, and even sooner in Leicester. Another forecast holds that Muslims could outnumber non-Muslims in France and perhaps in all of western Europe by mid-century. Austria was 90 per cent Catholic in the 20th century but Islam could be the majority religion among Austrians aged under 15 by 2050, says Mr Caldwell. | :Whites will be in a minority in Birmingham by 2026, says [[Christopher Caldwell]], an American journalist, and even sooner in Leicester. Another forecast holds that Muslims could outnumber non-Muslims in France and perhaps in all of western Europe by mid-century. Austria was 90 per cent Catholic in the 20th century but Islam could be the majority religion among Austrians aged under 15 by 2050, says Mr Caldwell. | ||
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Latest revision as of 08:09, 20 March 2018
Adrian Michaels is the Group Foreign Editor at the Telegraph Media Group responsible for its network of correspondents and world news output. He previously worked with TMG editor-in-chief Will Lewis at the Financial Times, where he served for 15 years, the last four as its Milan correspondent.[1]
Michaels Does Eurabia
On 8 August 2009, two articles appeared under Michaels' byline characterizing Muslim Europeans as a 'demographic time bomb', who he claims will constitute one-fifth of the population by 2050. The first article attributes the claim to 'various sources', all of them unnamed.[2] As the accompanying article reveals, the more outlandish claims come from neoconservative columnist Christopher Caldwell[3] In the article he lamented:
- Britain and the rest of the European Union are ignoring a demographic time bomb: a recent rush into the EU by migrants, including millions of Muslims, will change the continent beyond recognition over the next two decades, and almost no policy-makers are talking about it.
After acknowledging that Muslims aren't the only recent immigrants to Europe, Michaels adds:
- But Muslims represent a particular set of issues beyond the fact that atrocities have been committed in the West in the name of Islam.
Michaels then goes on to quote Christopher Caldwell of the neoconservative Weekly Standard for claims such as:
- Whites will be in a minority in Birmingham by 2026, says Christopher Caldwell, an American journalist, and even sooner in Leicester. Another forecast holds that Muslims could outnumber non-Muslims in France and perhaps in all of western Europe by mid-century. Austria was 90 per cent Catholic in the 20th century but Islam could be the majority religion among Austrians aged under 15 by 2050, says Mr Caldwell.
The article also uses Policy Exchange as a source.
Criticism
Inflammatory language such as 'timebomb' aside, these claims are based on neoconservative myths that have been repeatedly debunked, by Newsweek[4] and the BBC[5] among others. Commenting on Caldwell and Bruce Bawer (another proponent of the Eurabia myth) Eliot Weinberger writes in the London Review Blog, 'there are two sets of population statistics: those of the Islamophobes and those of everyone else'.
- The general consensus is that Muslims now make up merely 3.6 per cent of the population of Western Europe, and the fertility rate of European Muslims is a fraction of 1 per cent higher than that of Christians. Allowing that second and third and fourth generations of immigrants tend to be better educated and have higher incomes, and thus have less children, and that intermarriage is common, it doesn’t seem likely there will be ever be a muzzein at the top of the Eiffel Tower, let alone, as the I-phobes warn, Sharia law in Denmark and Britain.[6]
Contact
- Email: adrian.michaels@telegraph.co.uk.
Notes
- ↑ Stephen Brook, Telegraph titles appoint world supremo, The Guardian, 22 April 2008
- ↑ Adrian Michaels,A fifth of European Union will be Muslim by 2050 , The Daily Telegraph, 8 August 2009
- ↑ Adrian Michaels, Muslim Europe: the demographic time bomb transforming our continent, The Daily Telegraph, 8 August 2009
- ↑ William Underhill, Why Fears Of A Muslim Takeover Are All Wrong, Newsweek, 11 July 2009
- ↑ Debunking a YouTube hit , BBC News Magazine, 7 August 2009
- ↑ Eliot Weinberg, Muslim Shark Alert!, London Review Blog, 4 August 2009
