Tuesday, May 27, 2008

European Muslim birth rate latest

Scan the net and you'll find that a fairly common trope amongst certain types is that the birth rate of Europe's Muslim immigrant communities means that in a few decades the European continent will have fallen to the fundies.

As always, the people who believe this guff have forgotten Orwell's line about how you should never assume that present trends will inevitably continue.

It now appears as if the Muslim communities of Europe are following their host communities lead when it comes to birth rates and family size:

http://www.prb.org/Articles/2008/muslimsineurope.aspx

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