I Always Did Like That Welshman
We’ve been rewatching the Indiana Jones
Wikipedia - John Rhys-Davies (Sallah, “the best digger in Egypt”)
Political views
Rhys-Davies is a member of the UK Conservative Party. As a university student in the 1960s, he was a radical leftist, but he started to change his views when he went to heckle a young local member of parliament, Margaret Thatcher. Rhys-Davies says that “she shot down the first two hecklers in such brilliant fashion that I decided I ought for once to shut up and listen.”
In 2004, Rhys-Davies faced harsh criticism because of a magazine interview in which he compared the theme of The Lord of the Rings with the current situation of Western Europe, whose culture he described as being diminished by Islam. His comments were enthusiastically endorsed by the British National Party, although Rhys-Davies declared that it was “distressing to find yourself on a BNP leaflet.
He had stated:
“There is a demographic catastrophe happening in Europe that nobody wants to talk about, that we daren’t bring up because we are so cagey about not offending people racially. And rightly we should be. But there is a cultural thing as well… By 2020, fifty percent of the children in Holland under the age of 18 will be of Muslim descent… “And don’t forget, coupled with this there is this collapse of numbers. Western Europeans are not having any babies. The population of Germany at the end of the century is going to be 56% of what it is now. The populations of France, 52% of what it is now. The population of Italy is going to be down 7 million people. Recognizing the fundamental politically incorrect nature of his words, he concluded by saying, “I am for dead white male culture” — utilizing a derogatory catchphrase used on college campuses to describe Western Culture.” - US weekly magazine ‘World’, 20th December 2003.
Now, could that not put Mark Steyn to shame, but spoken four years ago, and while publicizing a movie?
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