Expert on why the West recruits Muslims
by Paul Bremmer, World Net Daily:
Could Muslims become a majority in Europe by the middle of this century? That’s the prediction of French economist and financier Charles Gave in a paper published in early September on the website of Institut des Libertes.
Gave contended that with a fertility rate of 1.4 children per native European woman and 3.4 to 4 children per immigrant – which he interprets to mean “Muslim” women – and if the Muslim population is currently 10 percent of the total European population, it will take only 30 to 40 years for the Muslim population to become the majority.
There were problems with Gave’s analysis, however.
He was criticized by a French newspaper for overestimating Europe’s current Muslim population and underestimating the fertility rate of native Europeans.
On the other hand, he only considered births; he failed to account for Muslim immigration or the possibility that native Europeans may convert to Islam or current Muslims may leave the faith. Islam is an ideology, not a race, so people may choose to enter or leave it at any point in their lives.
But there is more than a grain of truth behind Gave’s concern.
As Belgian author Drieu Godefridi wrote at the Gatestone Institute, Europeans have been slowly diminishing their native populations for the past 40 years simply by not having babies. The fertility rate is below replacement level in all European Union member states.
In a closely related development, abortion is on the rise. In France, for example, there are 200,000 abortions per year versus about 750,000 births annually. That means the French are aborting more than one-fifth of their unborn babies.
[…] Author and filmmaker G.M. Davis has been studying Islam for many years. He pointed out hundreds of thousands of native Europeans have converted to Islam within the past decade, speeding the growth of the religion on the continent. He warns non-Muslims not to underestimate the appeal of Islam, especially when juxtaposed with modern Christianity.
“The traditional religions of, say, Britain, the Church of England – these really, when you look at them, they’re quite moribund,” Davis said in a recent interview with the “Prophecy Hour” radio program. “They have no fire anymore. They’ve become … politically correct. They fall over themselves not to affirm their own truth, but to try and get along with everybody else, whereas Islam will violently, even, assert itself, and for some people that is appealing.”
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