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The average Joe muslim is copulating like a rabbit (religion prohibits contraception), have 8 kids while all 8 will make prison times at different stages of their lives, because the average Joe muslim can't (who can?) supervise all 8 of them, even with huge welfare amounts. Uneducated young generation, ghettoization consequences, lack of jobs, lack of school places and discipline, I believe the average Joe muslim multiplied by millions of Joe muslims is a threat. Different habits and morals values, different goals and priorities will lead to culture shock later or sooner. Is already there.

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: In general, it is permissible to use birth control to prevent pregnancy, and it is (also) permitted to use the (various) forms of birth control.

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Claim: The Muslim population in the West is growing fast and will soon become a majority in Europe.

Response: Saunders cites “…a revolution in the statistical understanding of Muslim immigrants in Europe and North America.” He provides detailed numbers from the “…largest and most comprehensive of these projections … conducted in 2011 by the Washington-based Pew Research Center.” (The report is footnoted for those who would like to refer directly.) The report concludes that although there have been increased percentages of Muslim inhabitants in Europe, if current trends continue, the maximum percentages of Muslim citizens in Europe would be about 9.5 percent by 2050 but more likely the percentage will be about 8 percent. As Saunders says, “This is not exactly exponential growth.” It is often argued that Muslim families have much higher birth rates than European families. The Pew report concludes that the birthrate of Muslim families in Europe by 2030 will be about 2.0 children per family and the European non-Muslim families will have a rate of about 1.6 children per family. “There are no signs of Muslims becoming a European majority or even a very large minority.”

In America, the study projects that the American Muslims will comprise about 1.7 percent of the population by 2030, hardly an alarming figure.

Claim: Islamic beliefs lead to higher birth rates.

Response: In the mid-decades of the 20th centuries, one could make this argument but it no longer holds true.

“Consider the case of Iran. In the mid-1980s, the world’s only Islamic theocracy had a fertility rate approaching 7 children per family. By 2010, Iranian average family size had fallen to 1.7 children—a lower rate than in Britain or France.” Saunders poses that this change was not brought about by any change in religious belief because Iran remains devoutly Muslim. It has rather been changed by rapid urbanization, increased literacy among women and a high rate of usage of contraception. “Islam does not feature Christianity’s scriptural instruction to ‘multiply and replenish the earth.’”

Claim: Muslim immigrants in the West are destined to reproduce faster than people around them.

Response: Statistics bear out the fact that when immigrants who come from a tradition of large families in their native countries arrive in a Western urban setting, they soon learn that they cannot afford to have a large family. After a generation, their birth rates are similar to those in their new country of residence.

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Britain's government is setting up a new terrorism task force to tackle radical preachers and extremism, officials said Sunday, days after suspects apparently linked to extremist Islamist activists brutally killed a British soldier in a London street.

Home Secretary Theresa May said the group will look at whether new powers and laws are needed to clamp down on religious leaders and organizations who promote extremist messages and who target potential recruits in jails, schools and mosques.

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Elodin is clueless on this issue except speculations. First, US muslim percentage is 1.7% while in many Europe countries it is near 12%. Comparing cerises with melons. Secondly, in his "study", did the author consider the natality welfare bonus? For each kid a family receives 300-400 euros/monthly, and there is no limit. The temptation is teasing low class immigrants, that's why I believe that immigration regulation does not go through expulsions or labels, but by removing/reconsidering the tainted fruit: the ridiculous welfare. When we see how passionated is Elodin about no-no welfare in US, how can he defend waves of immigrants in Europe which particularly LIVE from this welfare, abuses it and take the government for an idiot. Which is, btw.

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Hispanics will become the largest ethnic group in the nation’s most populous state early next year, the California Department of Finance said Thursday, marking a big milestone in a long-running demographic shift that has already deeply altered the political balance of power, the economy and culture.de

The prediction that Hispanics will equal the number of whites in California by the middle of this year and surpass them in early 2014 was disclosed in Gov. Jerry Brown’s budget proposal in early January, but the latest numbers offer a far more detailed portrait of how the shift will unfold across age groups and geographic regions over the next five decades. Whites and Hispanics each currently represent 39 percent of the state’s population.

In 2020, Hispanics will account for 40.7 percent of the population and whites will make up 36.6 percent. In 2030, the population will be 43.9 percent Hispanic and 34.1 percent white.

In 2060, Hispanics will make up 48 percent of the population compared to 30 percent white.

Blacks are expected to slip from nearly 6 percent in 2010 to just more than 4 percent by 2060, while the Asian population, now just below 13 percent, may grow slightly.

California becomes only the nation’s second state after New Mexico where Hispanics make up the largest racial or ethnic group. Whites currently lack a majority in only two states — Hawaii and New Mexico.

In Texas, Hispanics will likely become the largest group within 10 years, said Mark Lopez, associate director of the Pew Hispanic Center, which studies demographic trends. A long period of time will elapse before another state reaches that milestone, he said.

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