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February 12, 2013       Share:    

Source: http://pjmedia.com/spengler/2013/02/11/fertility-faith-and-the-decline-of-islam-strategic-implications/?singlepage=true

Fertility, Faith, and the Decline of Islam: Strategic Implications

(PJ Media) David P. Goldman - Iran's total fertility rate plunged to 1.6 in 2010, barely above Europe's rate of 1.5 children per female. In 1979, when the Islamists took power in Iran, the average woman bore seven children. Turkey's fertility rate is about the same as Iran's. Faith and fertility are linked inextricably. Iran may be one of the world's most secular countries; some reports put mosque attendance at just 2%, lower than Church of England attendance. A society that suddenly stops having children suffers from cultural despair.

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