Mark Steyn

Mark Steyn

Mark Steyn has a penchant for using ethnic slurs, including "chinks" and "japs" (Spectator, 3/24/01), but he is at his most prolific and poisonous on the subject of Muslims. In his 2006 New York Times best seller, America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It, Steyn warns of the "demographic decline" posed by Europe's emerging Muslim population, and suggests there are lessons for Europeans in the Balkan example of ethnic cleansing. As he explains, "You can't buck demography--except through civil war":

The Serbs figured that out--as other Continentals will in the years ahead: If you can't outbreed the enemy, cull 'em. The problem that Europe faces is that Bosnia's demographic profile is now the model for the entire continent.

It's enough to make one wonder what Steyn has in mind when he insists that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is "a Muslim" (Chicago Sun-Times, 1/21/07).

Islamophobic rants on Europe's demographic decline and "grim Eurostatistics" (National Review, 6/2/08) are a regular feature of Steyn's columns, which run in the National Review and New York Sun. In addition to writing frequently in other major U.S. outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, Chicago Sun-Times and Atlantic Monthly, Steyn often substitutes for talkshow hosts Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity.