Fears of Muslim demographic dominance recycle early twentieth-century nativist rhetoric

Evidence

All these demographic scenarios take it for granted that the fertility ‘imbalance’ they predict will translate directly into cultural and political advantage for the Islamic hordes in the Middle East and the Maghreb, where fecundity is supposedly matched by religious fervour that will sweep away the last vestiges of ‘post-Christian Europe’. Once again, such fears are not entirely new. In 1923 Lothrop Stoddard, the president of the American Birth Control League, described in The New World of Islam the ‘mighty forces’ represented by ‘the 250,000,000 followers of the Prophet from Morocco to China and from Turkestan to the Congo’. — Matt Carr, You Are Now Entering Eurabia, 78

Categorization

• XREF: Pairs with the ‘immodesty’ article’s cross-cultural moral panic theme and with Stoddard-era eugenics reading. — connects to: Demographic replacement rhetoric targets Muslims as Europe’s version of the browning of America — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 310
• SEED: Angle: ‘The demographic time bomb is a hundred years old’ — tracing recycled nativist demographics from Stoddard to Eurabia.