"One day soon, you might wake up to a muezzin's call to prayer. Europeans already are." America Alone: ​​The End of the World as We Know It, a New York Times bestseller, is a guide to a 2020 continent called Eurabia. Europe in 2020 looks very familiar, most of the old streets and cathedrals are still alive. However, the National Islamic Party has just won the French elections. European women are veiled. In America Alone, Mark Steyn, a conservative political commentator, argues that "much of what we loosely call the Western world will not survive into the 21st century, and much of it will effectively disappear within our lifetimes, including most, if not most, European countries. countries." Muslim immigration to European countries will bring about the end of current European culture. America, Steyn asserts, will have to fend for itself. The world will be divided between the United States and the rest of the world; and for the much of the Western population, America had better win Steyn attributes the inevitable downfall of the Western world to three factors: "demographic decline, the unsustainability of the advanced Western social democratic state, and civilizational exhaustion." .As for demographic decline, European countries have very low birth rates while Islamic countries have high birth rates. This poses several difficulties for European countries. First, European nations will lack ethnic Europeans to repopulate their countries. nations, and second, young people are more capable of bringing about a revolution than older people are capable of defending themselves against a revolution. To counter the low birth rate, European nations relied on mass immigration from the. overpopulated regions of the world, particularly Muslim. However, it is important to notice the difference between ... middle of paper ... Islamic threat since he wrote it, so some of the credit goes to him. American Alone by Mark Steyn is an excellent, argumentative and logical prediction of the end of the world, but only time will prove its correctness. Works Cited Steyn, Mark. America Alone: ​​The End of the World as We Know It. Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, 2006. Ghannoushi, Soumaya. “Many faces of Islamism.” The Guardian, October 4, 2005. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/oct/05/religion.uk.Power, Carla. “Muslim women demand an end to oppressive laws.” Time, February 17, 2009. http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1879864,00.html. Hari, Johann. “Apocalypse now?” New Statesman, March 12, 2007. http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2007/03/steyn-european-america-muslim.Steyn, Mark, perf. American alone. Internet. December 12. 2011. .