Christian fundamentalists argue we need more natalism and Christian nationalism because the Muslims will FLOOD OUR DEMOGRACY DEMOGRAPHICALLY AND ENACT SHARIA LAW!! !. The facts starkly disagree.
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Muslim Birthrates Falling Worldwide May 9, 2009
Posted by tkcollier in Geopolitics, Religion.
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Iran is experiencing what may be one of the most dramatic demographic shifts in human history. Thirty years ago, after the shah had been driven into exile and the Islamic Republic was being established, the fertility rate was 6.5. By the turn of the century, it had dropped to 2.2. Today, at 1.7, it has collapsed to European levels. The implications are profound for the politics and power games of the Middle East and the Persian Gulf, putting into doubt Iran’s dreams of being the regional superpower and altering the tense dynamics between the Sunni and Shiite wings of Islam. Equally important are the implications for the economic future of Iran, which by midcentury may have consumed all of its oil and will confront the challenge of organizing a society with few people of working age and many pensioners.
The decline of Muslim birthrates is a global phenomenon. Most analysts have focused on the remarkably high proportion of people under age 25 in the Arab countries, which has inspired some crude forecasts about what this implies for the future. Yet recent UN data suggest that Arab birthrates are falling fast, and that the number of births among women under the age of 20 is dropping even more sharply. Only two Arab countries still have high fertility rates: Yemen and the Palestinian territories.
via The World’s New Numbers.These sharp reductions in fertility among Muslim immigrants reflect important cultural shifts, which include universal female education, rising living standards, the inculcation of local mores, and widespread availability of contraception. Broadly speaking, birthrates among immigrants tend to rise or fall to the local statistical norm within two generations.
In some Muslim countries—Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Lebanon—fertility rates have already fallen to near-European levels. Algeria and Morocco, each with a fertility rate of 2.4, are both dropping fast toward such levels. Turkey is experiencing a similar trend.
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Now that we've cleared that, I see defenders of liberty and equality can now safely move on to preventing the threat of plutocrats and Christian nationalists seeking to disenfranchise (de jure or de facto) large segments of the population and instating reactionary policies to counter this supposed existential threat.
Christian nationalists, afterall, depend on low voter turnout (the 12.5% strategy) have such disproportional influence.
14 Jun 2010, 5:29 pm
