Sure is crowded in here! (1)

Maurice Mizzi keeps getting mired in a swamp of his own prejudices. In his broad-stroking letter, he labels my words and intentions "senseless" and goes on to accuse me of living in a time-capsule. Coming from a man who has made a mockery of free-forming debate, this is altogether rich and should not be favoured with comment. One other assertion of his - however - is so flaccid and crusted-up in its payload of received "truth" that it deserves to be lanced like a boil: "Muslims normally procreate at a rate of six to eight kids per family. As Professor Emeritus Bernard Lewis of Princeton University, a leading scholar of Islam, has said, 'The current leading trend shows that Europe will have a Muslim majority by the end of the century'."

Muslim wombs are shooting out kids like slides at a water park, while Christian wombs are standing idle! *GASP!* Where's a diaphragm when you need it!?

This will probably come as a rude awakening to Mr Mizzi, but overpopulation is a problem no matter who is doing the overpopulating.

To saddle a race, a nation or a culture with the blame for the spiralling headcount is a white-trash and feeble-minded way of addressing the problem, and achieves nothing. Mr Mizzi take note: Am I to accept the argument that Muslims squeezing out kids by the dozen is a social evil but Christians doing the same is all fine and dandy? That if an immigrant has 15 kids I should hiss and boo, but if my next-door neighbour turns his wife into a baby-plantation I should do a little happy dance and wave a flag?

This country is certainly starting to resemble a clown car but that is hardly the fault of a few hundred immigrants who drifted here looking for a better life. Open your eyes, will you? The people thronging the streets with shopping bags surgically attached to their arms are all Maltese. So are the drivers of the automobiles, motorbikes and mopeds who clog up the thoroughfares and pollute our air. All the hawkers, hustlers and punters on local TV are as white as their consciences, as are all the gussied-up high-rollers and skeezers who frequent nightclubs and pretend they know what the hell they're doing with their lives.

If you're going to argue a point, then do it consistently, and do it right.