“The USA will remain the only superpower. China is becoming an economic giant. Europe is being Islamicized.”

— Frits Bolkestein

Address at the opening of courses at the University of Leiden (2004), as quoted in "Islamic Europe?" http://web.archive.org/web/20041010004408/http://www.theweeklystandard.com:80/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/004/685ozxcq.asp (4 October 2004), by Christopher Caldwell, The Weekly Standard 2000s

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