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December 29, 2006
"Muslims" Abandoning Islam?
Reader Paul sent me this interesting item on the decline in belief among Muslims in Russia. This latest research deals a severe blow to plans by Russian Muslim leaders to wrench concessions from the Kremlin. These Muslim leaders are pushing for the creation of a new high-ranking position in the government just for so-called `Muslim Affairs', and they are also trying to have Islamic law officially accepted in those areas of the country where ethnic Muslims dominate.This is very encouraging news if true. It may be that our real hope in this war is not the "moderate" muslim but the former muslim. What we need now is a survey team to go in and find out how this happened. Is it a local phenomenon or can it be replicated? Clayton Cramer thinks that Islam may have been a proxy for nationalism in those regions. With the Soviets gone no need for nationalism as a resistance movement, thus the decline of Islam. Certainly a testable thesis. If it is true it means that it is of limited application because our current problem is with transnational Islam. Cross Posted at Power and Control posted by Simon on 12.29.06 at 02:18 AM
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I have always believed that the real reason why the Russaians agreed to the breakup of the Soviet Union was Muslim demographics, not the collpase of Communism. Russia has the lowest birth rate on Earth, only one child per woman. Muslims from the old Soviet Union have 3 or 4. If the Russians hadn't broken up the Soviet Union, Muslims would have become the majority, something that ethnic Russians would have found unacceptable. Many Americans believe that Ronald Reagan or Pope John Paul II or Margaret Thatcher deserve the credit for the breakup of the Soviet Union, but it was really mainly demographics. Chocolatier · December 29, 2006 10:37 AM 20 million is what percent of 130 million and falling? Alan · December 31, 2006 04:59 AM It's 9 million and falling out of 148 million. Did you even read the article? Infidel753 · January 1, 2007 01:45 AM Post a comment
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Fascinating.