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Great things are afoot, even if the intelligentsia of the West are more occupied with hyping up the myth of anthropogenic triggered global warming than with concerning themselves about what is happening in the lands of Islam.
The BBC reports that Iranian youth are leaving the land of their birth in droves because of the lack of work in Iran. There is a large cohort of youths in Iran who have no hope of achieving standing and wealth if they do not emigrate.
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Everyone in the class wants to go abroad.
"The main point for going out of Iran is we have no job security here and there is economic tension," says 32-year-old travel agent, Nazaneen.
The number of educated young Iranians trying to leave the country appears to have increased in the last year since President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took office judging by the numbers sitting the IELTS exam.
The figures have increased two-and-a-half times this year over the same period last year, according to the Australian administrators of the test.
Student dreams
A year ago, the International Monetary Fund said Iran had the highest rate of brain drain of 90 countries it measured.
"We work from morning till night and still we cannot live off the money we make but over there we can have a better life with less hours of work," said Shabanzade, a hairdresser in Tehran who wants to emigrate.
"There are economic problems and no job security and no freedom," says another student who hopes to go to Australia.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/middle_east/6240287.stm
This is significant. Iran is under tremendous demographic and economic duress and while the more intelligent and forward thinking Iranians are fleeing their country, the dimmer and more backward thinking Iranians are remaining behind.
There is no hope for youth in Iran for a better life without violence helping them achieve it. All of the money that the west pours in to Iran's coffers for its oil do not go to creating new industries or jobs, it is spent on global Jihad and grossly expensive programs to develop nuclear weapons.
Islam abhors innovation and modernization. (Except when it comes to weapons like Kalashnikov's, bomb-vests, rockets, IEDSs and nukes.)
If you doubt that, go ask the falafel vendors in Iraq.The violence will come.
On what real or perceived ill will it focus?
If the Mullahs can harness the youth by persuasively laying the blame for the discomfort that the youth feel on the decadent West, then woe betide the West. On the other hand, if the youth decide that it is the Mullahocracy and Islam that has impoverished them, then woe betide the Mullahs.
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Mr Heinsohn's point is not that the West is "outnumbered". Nor is it that a Malthusian battle for scarce resources is under way. In El Salvador, for instance, the explosion of political killing in the 1970s and 1980s was preceded by a 27 per cent rise in per capita income. The problem, rather, is that in a youth-bulge society there are not enough positions to provide all these young men with prestige and standing. Envy against older, inheriting brothers is unleashed. So is ambition. Military heroism presents itself as a time-honoured way for a second or third son to wrest a position of respectability from an otherwise indifferent society. Societies with a glut of young men become temperamentally different from "singleton societies" such as Europe's, where the prospect of sending an only child to war is almost unthinkable. Europe's pacifism since 1945, in Mr Heinsohn's view, reflects an inability to wage war, not a disinclination.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/652fa2f6-9d2a-11db-8ec6-0000779e2340.html
Will the Mullahs of Iran be able to persuade their youth to invest their pent-up rage and energy to their own ends?
Will the Mullahs of Iran be able to persuade their youth that the poverty and desperation that they suffer is the fault of the decadent West.
Will the Mullahs of Iran be able to persuade their youth that their best hope for a better life is through Jihad and confrontation with America and the Zionist entity?
The next decade will tell the tale.
