Margaret Hodson — Baby Jihad

38 published claims from this book.

• Anti-immigration writers frame Muslim immigration as religious warfare on Western civilization
• Anti-Islam polemicists claim European Christians and Jews will face mass forced conversion
• Baby jihad is one strand within a broader web of Islamophobic anxieties.
• Baby jihad rhetoric links demographic change to Muslim conquest in populist propaganda.
• Corcoran describes hijra as the religious imperative of Muslims to wage ‘civilization jihad’ against non-Muslim societies through immigration. She writes, ‘Jihad is a struggle against unbelievers.…
• Demographic projections of Muslim growth are reframed as an intentional weapon against the West.
• Fertility and age structure dwarf conversion in shaping religious demographics.
• Islam will overtake Christianity in numbers through higher birth rates
• Marriage and fertility patterns shrank African-descended populations in Latin America
• Migration affects demographics less than fertility rates and age distribution.
• Migration drives roughly half of Europe’s projected Muslim population growth to 2050.
• Much like conversion, white nationalists view high Muslim fertility rates as a form of jihad. White nationalists use violent rhetoric such as “literal baby boom” (Steyn 2008, xviii) and “war…
• Muslim and Christian population shares will converge by 2060 due to divergent fertility rates.
• Muslim immigrants are a ‘fifth column’ of secret ‘stealth jihadists’ lying in wait to overthrow Western society and implement Sharia law, according to white nationalists.
• One in seven American ISIS converts are female, 30% teens.
• Practitioners contest the application, not the divine validity, of modesty norms
• Rates of religious switching do not reflect moral decay
• Religiosity is only one factor impacting fertility rates, and is intertwined with educational opportunities, economic development, and age of marriage amongst other factors.
• Religious disaffiliation is intertwined with economics and education, not merely a demographic cause.
• Religious population growth follows age structures, with Christianity aging out already in Europe.
• Religious switching barely affects global religious demographics.
• Religious switching had minimal impact on projected demographic changes, with conversions generating only 0.3% of Muslim growth.
• Similarly, analyzing ‘demography jihad’ can lend a greater understanding to current events including Brexit, the election of President Trump, and ‘Muslim Ban 2.0.’ The concept of baby jihad plays…
• Specifically, I will examine recent demographic data from the Pew Templeton Global Futures project Changing Global Religious Landscape Report published in April 2017. This report outlines…
• The demography-as-jihad variant of Islamophobia has been understudied
• There is indeed a perceived threat from within Western society due to religious switching, secularism, and lower fertility rates. However, the threat is also viewed as externally imposed on…
• Veiling functions for converts as emancipatory protection from sexual objectification.
• White nationalist rhetoric frames religious conversion as a military tactic
• White nationalist writers argue dechristianization will lead to Europe’s Islamization
• White nationalists believe this increase in switching to religiously unaffiliated causes lower fertility and birth rates for Western women. William Kilpatrick writes that ‘The decline of…
• White nationalists fear converts through distinct gendered threat narratives
• White nationalists frame Muslim demographic change as an existential threat
• White nationalists frame Muslim fertility and migration as demographic weapons against the West
• White nationalists frame Muslim fertility and motherhood as weapons of war
• White nationalists frame religious conversion as a weaponized demographic attack.
• White nationalists frame secularism as a moral decay that weakens Europe against Islam
• White nationalists fuse fears of immigration with fears of fertility
• White nationalists treat demographic change as externally imposed warfare.