In America Alone, author Mark Steyn lists “three strategies Islam deploys against a dying West.” These strategies are demography, conversion, and “the murky intertwining of modern technology and ancient hatreds” (2008, 138). Including demography and conversion in the same list of anti-West tactics shows their linkage in the mind of white nationalists. Furthermore, Steyn uses the word “deploy,” a word defined by Merriam Webster as “to extend (a military unit) especially in width.” The connotations of deploy invoke military action and violence. This word choice paints conversion as a weapon or tactic of war.

XREF: Connects to broader literatures on how white nationalist rhetoric weaponizes demographic and conversion language against the West.

Margaret Hodson, Baby Jihad, loc. 36