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Russia sees Muslim population boom
2007-01-17
Low domestic birth rates and rising immigration from the former Soviet republics have produced an explosive growth in Russia's Muslim community. At the same time Russia's overall population is in crisis. Short life spans and low birth rates among ethnic Russians mean the population is declining by 700,000 people a year.
And that's accelerating as the low birth rate will be lower in the future, and the death rate will increase due to rampant alcoholism, tuberculosis and HIV.
The return of long-denied religious freedoms in Russia has seen Islam flourish. As a result, many ethnic Russians fear their country is losing its national identity.

There are around 25 million Muslims in Russia today, a rise of 40 per cent since 1989.
By 2020, with the continued growth rate, Muslims will account for one-fifth of the entire population. Their numbers continue to grow, fed by immigration from largely Muslim, former Soviet republics in the North Caucasus and Central Asia.

Islamic leaders have said that Russia is a haven for Muslim immigrants, keen to work and build on their growing community, and they discount the rise of hostile nationalist sentiment. "Some irresponsible politicians want to achieve electoral success by creating nationalist waves," said Damir Gizatullin, from the Council of Muftis. "When they say Russia is for Russians, it's a mistaken path that could lead to the break-up of the Russian Federation."

Many ethnic Russians are terrified at the prospect of becoming a minority in their own country.
But not enough to stop aborting 60% of fetuses conceived by Russian woman, and not enough to build a society in which child-bearing and children have a viable future.
"History is a fight between races and religions," Alexander Belov, from the Movement Against Illegal Immigration, said. "It's the law of nature ... people are used to being with people like themselves, speaking the language their mothers taught them."

The Orthodox Church, restored since the Soviet collapse, remains dominant in Russia. But with the rise of Islam, coupled with the negative growth in Russia's ethnic Slav population, dramatic change is under way. If the trend continues, the Muslim population could outnumber ethnic Russians within 30 years.
Russia will end up either majority Muslim or majority Chinese. The Slavic population will collapse because they don't see themselves having any sort of future.
Posted by:Steve White

#7  "Many ethnic Russians are terrified at the prospect of becoming a minority in their own country."

And well they should be. Anyone see "Children of Men"? Picture that, except with all the Mohammedans having babies. That's pretty much it.

When any society trashes its children, through abortion, infanticide, HIV, alcoholism, or by catering to one's own wants and needs exclusively, their indigenous population will disappear. 1+1=2.
Posted by: ex-lib   2007-01-17 15:22  

#6  Significant chunks of "Russia" were historically Muslim between the Mongol invasions & early modernity, from the middle Ukraine & middle Volga eastwards. The Cossackifaction of the eastern steppe is a relatively recent phenomenon, roughly contemporaneous with the settling of the North American colonies.

How much is this a Muslim wave, and how much is it the receding of an earlier European demographic wave?
Posted by: Mitch H.   2007-01-17 14:40  

#5  Islamic leaders have said that Russia is a haven for Muslim immigrants, keen to work and build on their growing community, and they discount the rise of hostile nationalist sentiment. "Some irresponsible politicians want to achieve electoral success by creating nationalist waves," said Damir Gizatullin, from the Council of Muftis. "When they say Russia is for Russians, it's a mistaken path that could lead to the break-up of the Russian Federation."

Islamist everywhere tell their men to keep their women at home and produce offspring as much as possible without working!!!!




Posted by: Ebbolump Glomotle9608   2007-01-17 12:24  

#4  I heard an interview with Mark Steyn on the radio the other day about his book on demographics and the West and its values. Basically his premise is what we have been talking about on the Burg for years.

The Russians are doomed, all right. The Chinese will take over Siberia, and the Muzzies will overrun the rest. And who, pray tell, will safeguard ex-USSR nuclear weapons?
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2007-01-17 09:52  

#3  MARK STEYN and others are already convinced that despite the breakup of the former USSR, UNLESS SOMETHING CHANGES NOW, NOT TOMORROW OR LATER, Russia vv its declining demography will likely in LT be unable to escape becoming a Muslim-majority nation, NO MATTER WHAT IT DOES. Russian Christians will flee to America or what remains of Christian Europe. *WOT > as much a war for the shifting of historical global dominance from the USA-Western Europe to lessor, aggressive "Young Turk" nations, USA-Euros includ "Asia MInor/ME" to Central- and ultimately East-South Asia, from the so-called FIRST WORLD to SECOND OR THIRD, FROM NORTHERN HEMISPHERE TO SOUTHERN, WEstern Democracy includ Democratic SOcilaism to Asian Communism-Socialism, etc. AND REGARDLESS OF THE MERITS.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2007-01-17 02:23  

#2  Muslims are overbreeding everywhere while they are ethnic cleansing their home countries. Even our media is cultivating sympathy for our mortal enemy. Last I heard, less than 28% of Americans distrust Muslims. The figure should be 90%.
Posted by: Sneaze Shaiting3550   2007-01-17 01:15  

#1  If the ethnic Russian population is declining by 700,000 per year, it's been in a state of collapse for some time. It is as if that culture is committing suicide. Russia will vanish.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2007-01-17 00:52  

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