John Rhys-Davies, bedre kjent som Gimli i Lord of the Rings, har gitt et meget frittalende intervju til amerikansk presse, der han er dypt bekymret for at muslimer vil overta Europa på grunn av deres høye barnetall.

‘If it just means the replacement of one genetic stock with another genetic stock, that does not matter too much. But if it involves the replacement of Western civilisation by a different civilisation with different cultural values, then it is something we really ought to discuss – because, goddammit, I am for dead white male culture.’

Rhys-Davies er bekymret for de lave fødselstallene for innfødte europeere, og de høye for innvandrere, særlig muslimer:

‘By 2020, 50 percent of the children in Holland under the age of 18 will be of Muslim descent. Western Europeans are not having any babies. The population of Germany at the end of the century is going to be 56 per cent of what it is now. The population of France, 52 per cent of what it is now. There is a change happening in the very complexion of Western civilisation in Europe that we should think about at least and argue about.

Det ytterliggående British National Party har tatt Gimlis ord og slått dem stort opp, og ber europeere forberede seg på en skjebneRingenes Herre-type.

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Kritikerne har kastet seg over Rhys-Davies, særlig fordi hans ord er utnyttet av BNP. Men Rhys-Davies tar det hele med ro og står fast ved sine meninger.

Speaking from Los Angeles yesterday, Rhys-Davies shrugged off the row and stuck to his guns: ‘There is a radical plunge in indigenous populations unequalled since the Black Death. The baby-boomers are ageing and the families are not producing enough children. The immigrant population, being younger and committed to family life, are having a higher proportion of babies. If you project these lines into the future, we’re talking about a Europe that will be predominantly Muslim in the next two to three decades.’

He continued: ‘You can only welcome it if you’re a fundamentalist Muslim, not even if you’re a moderate Muslim. I have a lot of respect for aspects of Islam but I would not choose to live in a theocratically organised Muslim society.’