Demographics: Why Islamic Societies are Dying
by Ibn Warraq (April 2016)
One of the most startling and original books I have read in the last five years is surely David P. Goldman’s How Civilizations Die (And Why Islam is Dying too).[1]
Right from the beginning of his Introduction, Goldman shatters so many of our strongly held beliefs that we are left reeling, and pondering the truly disturbing implications of his conclusions, which are all backed by statistics from recognized sources such as the United Nations. Here are some of his observations from his dramatic introduction, “For the first time in history, the birth rate of the whole developed world is well below replacement, and a significant part of it has passed the demographic point of no return.”
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But, as Goldman warns, population decline will cause violent upheavals, and already Iran is responding with aggression. “We love death, and you love life”[3] is the common attitude among various Islamic groups. Goldman continues, “A people facing cultural extinction may well choose war, if war offers even a slim chance of survival. That is just how radical Islamists view the predicament of traditional Muslim society in the face of modernity. The Islamists fear that if they fail, their religion and culture will disappear into the maelstorm of the modern world. Many of them would rather die fighting.”[4]
[7] Fertility in the Muslim world has declined two or three times faster than the world average.[8]
[9] per person of $30,000 in 2009, is wealthy enough to look after its elderly, at least to a certain extent. But “Egypt and Indonesia have less than a tenth of Europe’s per capita GDP. Algeria, like Iran, earns, $4,400 per capita, while Pakistan shows barely $1,000 per capita – half of Pakistanis live on $1 a day or less. Even Turkey, the one Muslim country with some semblance of a modern economy, generates only $8,000 per capita, about a quarter of Europe’s GDP.”[10]
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IRAN AND TURKEY
[12] While the then President Ahmadinejad of Iran said in 2010,
“Two children’ is a formula for the extinction of a nation, not the survival of a nation….The most recent data showing that there are only 18 children for every 10 Iranian couples should raise an alarm among the present generation….This is what is wrong with the West. Negative population growth will cause extinction of our identity and culture. The fact that we have accepted this places us on the wrong path. To want to consume more rather than having children is an act of genocide.”[13]
While fertility rates of Muslims in Europe are higher than that for other women, there is evidence that over time the differences diminish. There seems to be one exception: Great Britain. Her population will rise to 77 million in 2050, and more than half the new births will come from immigrant mothers.[14]
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
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What is the reason or cause of this difference or exceptionalism? Goldman replies, “It is not that Americans in general are having children, but that Americans of faith are having children, and there are more Americans of faith than citizens of any other industrial country…. [Briefly,] in both Europe and America those who practice a religion have more children than those who do not. It’s just that there are far more Americans than Europeans practicing a faith.”[16]
CONCLUSIONS
The State Department eventually granted Sister Diana a visa.
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[1] David P.Goldman, How Civlizations Die (and Why Islam is Dying Too), Washington, D.C. : Regnery Publishing , Inc.,2011
[2] David P.Goldman, How Civlizations Die (and Why Islam is Dying Too), Washington, D.C. : Regnery Publishing , Inc.,2011, Introduction, p.x.
[3] Daily Mail (UK), 9 July 2012, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2170816/Mohamed-Merah-Outrage-chilling-words-Toulouse-terrorist-broadcast-French-TV.html
See also al-Rahma TV (Egypt) 16 November, 2012, on MEMRI: http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/3644.htm
[4] David Goldman, op.cit.,p.xiv.
[5] Ibid.,p.XV
[7] Ibid.
[8] David Goldman, op.cit.,p.3
[10] David Goldman, op.cit.,p.3
[11] David Goldman, op.cit.,p.5
[13] David Goldman, op.cit.,p.9, citing http://mardomsalari.com?Template 1/News.aspx?NID=95289.
[14] David Goldman, op.cit.,pp.43-44.
[15] David Goldman, op.cit.,p.191.
[16] David Goldman, op.cit.,pp.191-192.
[17] See Daily Caller “Congressman: ‘Genocide’ Against Christians Going On In Iraq And White House Saying Nothing’ July, 29, 2015, http://councilonglobalsecurity.org/2014/07/29/congressman-genocide-against-christians-going-on-in-iraq-and-white-house-saying-nothing/ Council on Global Security, “Persecution of Christians by ISIS”, http://councilonglobalsecurity.org/2015/05/14/persecutions-christians-isis/
[18] Raymond Ibrahim, “U.S. State Dept. Bars Christians from Testifying about Persecution Muslim Persecution of Christians, May 2015”, Gatestone Institute, July 24, 2015. http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/6141/state-dept-bars-christian-testimony.
[19] Bill Maher, May 10, 2014 http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2014/05/10/maher_islamophobic_is_a_word __________________________________ . His webpage is here. To comment on this article, please click here. To help New English Review continue to publish scholarly and interesting articles such as this, please click here. If you have enjoyed this article by Ibn Warraq and would like to read more, please click here.
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