Muslim World Faces Devastating Fertility Decline

[Stylteralmaldo]

NEW YORK, July 6 (C-FAM) Fertility rates of Muslim populations around the world have almost literally fallen off a cliff, so steep has been their decline. Policy makers at the UN and elsewhere have barely noticed this.

“There remains a widely perceived notion — still commonly held within intellectual, academic, and policy circles in the West and elsewhere — that ‘Muslim’ societies are especially resistant to embarking upon the path of demographic and familial change that has transformed population profiles in Europe, North America, and other ‘more developed’ areas,” write Nicholas Eberstadt and Apoorva Shah in the June 1 issue of Policy Review.
It is generally thought that Muslim fertility rates are growing by leaps and bounds. This has fed into the panic about growing Muslim influence, especially in Europe. While Eberstadt and Shah do not deal specifically with Muslims in Europe, they do point out that fertility rates have declined all over the Muslim world and that predominantly Muslim countries have taken a steeper dive than any countries in history.

More:
c-fam.org/fridayfax/volume-15/muslim-world-faces-devastating-fertility-decline.html

 

[MugenOne]

“In the absence of religious faith, if our culture dies, our hope of transcending mere physical existence dies with it. Individuals trapped in a dying culture live in a twilight world. They embrace death through infertility, concupiscence, and war.” This quote is from Spengler (The fifth horseman of the apocalypse) who writes extensively about the decline of Western societies and Islam and infertility.

For Islam and Muslim: If you see nothing to live for, beyond your own desires, you may become aggressive, irrational, dangerous. Hints the rise of suicide bombers and political Islam.

One of the countries which has seen the steepest drop in birth rates is Iran. It may be no coincidence that Iran today is the most aggressive nation in the world’s most volatile region.

 

[Rich_Olszewski]

For Islam and Muslim: If you see nothing to live for, beyond your own desires, you may become aggressive, irrational, dangerous.

Good advice for Christians as well. One hopes that Moslems and Christians both see the reason for living as transcending mere carnal appetites.

 

[Nelka]

"It may be no coincidence that Iran today is the most aggressive nation in the world’s most volatile region.

More aggresive than America, Israel or Somalia?

Islam is growing because they have lots of children and anyone who wants to leave Islam walks on very think ice.

 

[Ridgerunner]

The article never does tell us what the birth rates are for those countries.

 

[jwakja]

Be a follower of Jesus Christ NOT a disbeliever in order to attain Heaven. He controls the gate to eternity!

 

[Rich_Olszewski]

Be a follower of Jesus Christ NOT a disbeliever in order to attain Heaven. He controls the gate to eternity!

Isn’t St. Peter the gatekeeper?

 

[Gods_Peace]

Good advice for Christians as well. One hopes that **Moslems **and Christians both see the reason for living as transcending mere carnal appetites.

They like to be called Muslims, and you should treat them with some dignity, they are fellow men who have the right to belief.

 

[TheRealJuliane]

More aggresive than America, Israel or Somalia?

Islam is growing because they have lots of children and anyone who wants to leave Islam walks on very think ice.

Without America’s “aggression,” Europe would be speaking German right now.

And Israel is a tiny nation under siege at all times. HOW DARE YOU call Israel aggressive?? This sounds like anti-Semitism.

 

[SamH]

The article never does tell us what the birth rates are for those countries.

You noticed that too?

Interesting fact, in 20 years Vietnam will have a larger population than Russia.

 

[austenbosten]

Without America’s “aggression,” Europe would be speaking German right now.

And Israel is a tiny nation under siege at all times. HOW DARE YOU call Israel aggressive?? This sounds like anti-Semitism.

Survey says…Anti-Semitism DING DING DING DING!..What do we have for her Johnny?

 

[gilliam]

The report being cited is here:
hoover.org/publications/policy-review/article/118261

The declines are here:
http://media.hoover.org/sites/default/files/images/ten-declines-fertility-table1-201205241243.jpg

Fertility rates are here (if you can read it)
http://media.hoover.org/sites/default/files/images/fertility-decline-muslim-figure2-201205241249.jpg

 

[TheRealJuliane]

Survey says…Anti-Semitism DING DING DING DING!..What do we have for her Johnny?

I’ll take the pink Menorah, please!



May God forever bless and keep Israel, His First People.

 

[gilliam]

Fertility rates

County 1985 / 2010
Oman 8.3 / 2.3
Maldives 7.2 / 1.75
Kuwait 4.24 / 2.3
Iran 6.23 / 1.67
Singapore 1.61 / 1.15
Algeria 5.93 / 2.26
Mongolia 5.38 / 2.5
Libya 6.51 / 2.56
Vietnam 4.43 / 1.82
Mauritius 2.02 / 1.47

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USA 1.84 / 2.1
UK 1.8 / 1.94
Japan 1.76 / 1.39
China 2.64 / 1.6
Israel 3.06 / 3.03
Worldwide 3.51 / 2.45

Source: CIA World Factbook

To replace the current population you need a fertility rate of 2.1

 

[Rich_Olszewski]

Without America’s “aggression,” Europe would be speaking German right now.

Give us a break, Juliane. Germany never forced any country it conquered to speak German. People keep repeating this falsehood and it gets old awfully quickly. Even the Soviet Union, whose influence lasted longer than Germany’s, didn’t demand that its satellites all start speaking Russian.

HOW DARE YOU call Israel aggressive??

Since when have you been the Official CAF Censor of what other posters can say or not say?

This sounds like anti-Semitism.

Easy to say. Every time there is any criticism of Israel, its boosters start crying “anti-semitism.” There are Catholic Near East organizations who state that some of what Israel does to the Palestinians is indeed aggressive.

 

[irishpatrick]

We already know who has won the victory.

 

[TheRealJuliane]

Give us a break, Juliane. Germany never forced any country it conquered to speak German. People keep repeating this falsehood and it gets old awfully quickly. Even the Soviet Union, whose influence lasted longer than Germany’s, didn’t demand that its satellites all start speaking Russian.

Since when have you been the Official CAF Censor of what other posters can say or not say?

Easy to say. Every time there is any criticism of Israel, its boosters start crying “anti-semitism.” There are Catholic Near East organizations who state that some of what Israel does to the Palestinians is indeed aggressive.

Not going to get into a long debate with you Rich. You know what I meant and you understand why I said it. You always have to jump to someone’s defense, and since you always seem to be on the wrong side, I’m just gong to ignore you. Feel free to do the same to me.

 

[Robert_Bay]

MODERATOR NOTE

This thread is wandering. Please keep the discussion to demographics.

 

[austenbosten]

Not going to get into a long debate with you Rich. You know what I meant and you understand why I said it. You always have to jump to someone’s defense, and since you always seem to be on the wrong side, I’m just gong to ignore you. Feel free to do the same to me.

The smartest thing a person in Realville can do with a Leftist

 

[gilliam]

Usually as a country’s medical facilities improve the fertility rate decreases because less die in childhood and there is not as much of a need for having a lot of babies.