Rushdie Paraphrased

"What I fear most is that, when we look back in 25 years' time at this moment, what we will have seen is the surrender of America to immigration's unarmed invasion, without a shot being fired. They'll say that in the name of tolerance and acceptance, we tied our own hands and slit our own throats. One of the things that have made me live my entire life in America is because I love the way people live here, the quality of life and the standard of living. All that will change for the worse as legal immigrants and illegal aliens and their progeny result in unfettered population growth, the destruction of social solidarity in communities affected by high degrees of ethnic and racial diversity, the depletion of natural resources, increased pollution, more traffic congestion, extinction of species, climate change and gasoline at $10/gallon. All this we can lay at the feet of our shortsighted politicians and their tax and immigration policies, and to the disloyal, complicit immigrant sympathizers and their fellow travelers."