I missed these pearls of wisdom. So you think African people are lazy?

Nice touch, Mr. Hendler.

Africa is the untamed, undeveloped expanse as North America was before America’s Manifest Destiny.

Before “America’s Manifest Destiny” people had to be forcibly removed from their ancestral lands and thrown into reservations. I don’t know what books you’ve been reading lately, but they surely mention several decades of Indian wars, don’t they?

Is this the kind of ethnic cleansing you envision for Africa? The British already tried in South Africa and failed.

What I gather is that your concern for genocide in Darfur is less about saving those non industrious black people then about containing “Muslim expansionism”. You don’t like Africans, but you like Muslims even less.

We can conclude only one thing: the fact that Muslims live in Africa can ONLY mean that they want the whole continent for themselves. If they DIDN’T want to have total control over the continent of Africa, what other reason could they have for having lived there for generations?

That presupposes open-border policies in the host countries, and movements half-way across the globe of Indians and Chinese by the boat and planeloads.

There is also the historical trends: Most Indians who emigrate choose to move to either the US, the UK, or South Africa. The Chinese move to the Philipines, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, or the US.

Moreover, for your prediction to be true, fertility rates have to fall below replacement levels -and keep in mind sub-Saharan Africa has the highest fertility rates in the world. Also, that Indians and Chinese have the numbers doesn’t mean they will want to move en masse or even have the capacity to do it. That’s your speculation.

To all – you only need look where the genocide is occurring in Africa to understand the means by which muslims in Africa are willing to seize control of territory.

Ah, so this is where you are trying to get: Those big bad Muslims, and their big bad expansion.

Out of the four countries you mentioned, three already have sizable Muslim populations and have had for quite some time. Your “Muslim takeover” does not ring true in any of them. Lastly, Ethiopia does not have a Muslim insurgency as much as it had a separatist movement in Eritrea, which -by the way- is roughly half Muslim and half Christian.

You may choose to ignore it, since it is not in your backyard, but I find it striking that the mainstream media still pays little or no attention to these conflicts and their root causes.

Just to mention one case: The root cause in Sudan is a separatist movement that pitted African tribes against the Muslim government of Khartoum (Muslims running an African country!? gasp!). By the way, the Sudanese government has been fighting a Christian insurgency in the South -I guess the real danger in Sudan is Christian expansionism.

I have no desire to talk you out of your activism. It has actually defeated the Clinton, Emanuel, Schumer wing of the Democratic Party, so that now we have an honest debate. After a few election cycles of you guys trying to sell your brand of Democracy, another group will come along to displace Progressives with a more centrist set of policies. Market forces work every time.

Black Africans are the majority of the 25 million with AIDS in Africa, which is expected to rise to 100 million by the end of the century. Arabs are pressing in from the north, and Indians and Chinese from the East – all three are far more industrious and equally prolific in birthrate. Africa is the untamed, undeveloped expanse as North America was before America’s Manifest Destiny.

#91, Gregor,

Chinese and Indian populations don’t need exlosive birthrates, just large immigration movements to Africa. Given that both countries have current populations over 1 billion, there ability to emmigrate en masse alone is staggering.

To all – you only need look where the genocide is occurring in Africa to understand the means by which muslims in Africa are willing to seize control of territory. You may choose to ignore it, since it is not in your backyard, but I find it striking that the mainstream media still pays little or no attention to these conflicts and their root causes. I believe it is because it portrays muslims in the appropriate bad light, which runs against the mainstream media’s current template of making the US’s war against muslim terrorists look bad.

You talk about Islam as if it were brand new to those those African countries, or Muslims a tiny minority on the rise. Islam is not a brand new religion in Sub-Saharan Africa.

In all four countries you mention, Islam was introduced around the 7th-8th centuries. Muslim represent about 33% of the population in Ethiopia, 100% in Somalia, 50% in Chad, and 65% in Sudan.
Wikipedia: Islam in Africa

So many insurgent movements in those countries are Islamic simply because so many people are Muslim.

Your comment “you can how far Islam has since spread into Somalia” is absolutely silly. Somalia is not in danger of being drawn into Islam. It already is a Muslim nation.

I predict that Africa will eventually be mostly Arab, Chinese and Indian by the end of this century. It is not racist to extrapolate current trends.

I have to love the way you gain knowledge and make the most outlandish of “predictions” based on anecdotal evidence.

From memory, I knew that the largest Indian community in Africa is found in South Africa. I looked it up and the Indian & Chinese communities represent about 3% of the total population. In Kenya, non-Africans represent about 1% of the population and the same is true in Tanzania. The rest of the countries in East Africa have about the same or lower percentages of non-Africans as those two.

Now, imagine the staggering mortality rate among their native population those countries would need to endure for your prediction to come true. The non-African population would also need to have a huge birth rate, or newcomers would need to move to the African continent in amazing numbers. On top of all this, you have to assume non-African populations and immigrants never, ever contract AIDS.

Such an amazing demographic replacement, although possible, is not very likely.

John McCain will be 70 in 9 days. By 1/20/09 McCain will be more than 2 years older than Ronald Reagan was when he became President. He would be almost as old as Bob Dole would have been.

Thank you for this helpful advice. I’ll quit, now that you’ve convinced me my efforts have been wasted. Better to just passively let right-wing Republicans roll through another round of elections uncontested.

For a better understanding of my commentary on Africa, please view this map:

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/africa/africa_islam_87.jpg

It is almost 20 years old, so you can well imagine how far Islam has since spread into Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan and Chad, where the bloodiest Islamic insurgencies are currently occurring. Further, having spoken with people from Kenya, who can attest to the influx of Chinese and Indian immigrants into eastern sub-Saharan Africa, coupled with the high AIDS infection rates among the indiginous African population, I predict that Africa will eventually be mostly Arab, Chinese and Indian by the end of this century. It is not racist to extrapolate current trends.

#80 & #81, Bris,

Break down the numbers any way you want, but in the general election, Joe Lieberman will beat Lamont Sanford by 10 or more points, since registered Democrats never turn out for elections. Progressive movements only defeat Democrats in primaries, not candidates in general elections.

Oh dear God, let him NOT become the next president!!!! Please!