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"[G]o ahead and hate me if you want": KCOL's James suggested rising abortion to blame for “the rapid decline of ... civilization” [1]

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Date: 2023-07

Touting the new book America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It, by Mark Steyn, Fox News Radio 600 KCOL host and program director Scott James on June 19 asserted that “the civilization that you know ... will be overtaken by those who would like you to practice sharia law ... just by mass numbers” because “the European cheese weenies simply aren't breeding.” During his Ride Home With the James Gang broadcast, James further claimed, “You can do the math and see the rapid decline of ... civilization” and added that Europe's “birth rate declining, the abortion rate increasing. You do the math. You don't have the sanctity for the life like that, your society will simply extinguish.” Later, guest Steyn -- a Chicago Sun-Times columnist and National Review contributor -- repeated a conservative talking point by asserting that “there is a difference between Islam and most other religions in the world today, in that Islam is an explicitly political project.”

As Media Matters for America has noted, while guest hosting on the August 24, 2006, broadcast of the nationally syndicated The Rush Limbaugh Show, Steyn contrasted the threat posed by the “jihadists” today to that of “the gooks in Vietnam” during the Vietnam War. Steyn stated: "[B]asically, if you want to find an exit strategy for Iraq, then pretty soon, you're going to... have to be finding an exit strategy for a lot of other places because those jihadists, they're not like the gooks in Vietnam. They're not just going to be content to take over Vietnam."

Furthermore, during the April 19 edition of Fox News' Your World with Neil Cavuto, in the wake of the massacre at Virginia Tech, Steyn faulted the victims for not fighting back and blamed a “culture of passivity” at the school for the shootings that left 33 people dead.

During his broadcast, James claimed to be “fascinated” with Steyn, stating that “he is so dead right on about the situation with the religion that begins with an 'I' and ends with a 'slam,' as he says throughout his book.” James further noted that Steyn “makes a bunch of points about how -- the civilization that you know, that you enjoy, that you love, will be overtaken by those who would like you to practice sharia law, and it will do so just by mass numbers. Just by demographics alone, because so many of the European cheese weenies simply aren't breeding.” He then added, “Now, as crass as that may sound, how does a society replicate itself? How does a society sustain itself? It breeds.”

Later, after saying, "[G]o ahead and hate me if you want," James stated that, according to a "Times of London" article, “birth rates have declined so rapidly since we legalized abortion. More than 200,000 women had abortions in the United Kingdom last year. A rise of four percent.” James continued by saying, “Their birth rate declining, the abortion rate increasing. You do the math. You don't have the sanctity for the life like that, your society will simply extinguish. And of course, these European cheese-weenie countries -- what's their big thing? The nanny state.”

Later in the program, Steyn said that “there is a difference between Islam and most other religions in the world today, in that Islam is an explicitly political project.” As Media Matters has documented, Steyn's statement echoes a conservative talking point advanced by Pat Robertson, host of the Christian Broadcasting Network's The 700 Club, who baselessly stated on the June 12 edition of the program that “Islam ... is a worldwide political movement meant on domination of the world. And it is meant to subjugate all people under Islamic law.” As Colorado Media Matters has noted, Denver-based 630 KHOW-AM host Peter Boyles made the same point during his May 30 broadcast, asserting that Islam should be declared “a political ideology.”

From the June 19 broadcast of Fox News Radio 600 KCOL's Ride Home with The James Gang:

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