Some muddled thinking is evident among those who think rapid
Islamification of a nation cannot occur. They perhaps look at graphs of
exponential growth of the Muslim percentage in the general population and think
the rate surely must slow down and stop, either before a Muslim majority is
reached or at least well before 100%.
Not so.
These incomplete arguments are based on assuming that the only
factors that can meaningfully contribute to the growth in the Muslim proportion
of the population are new births of Muslims and Muslim immigrants, which
collectively must far outpace births and immigration from non-Muslims.
What these views overlook are the equally important mechanisms of
conversion and mass migration, which often "kick in" once some
critical mass of a Muslim population is reached.
Conversion means we do not need to create or import new Muslims to
very quickly increase their population. And once a tipping point is
reached toward Islamification, conversion will be forced (see, e.g.,
ISIS-controlled territory).
But even before that, large-scale conversion can occur
voluntarily. To Osama bin Laden is attributed an appropriate quote:
When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, they will
naturally want to side with the strong horse. When people of the world look
upon the confusion and atheism of the West, they see that Islam is the strong
horse.
A self-fulfilling prophecy, or more generally a positive feedback
loop, is set up. The more popular Islam is, the more popular it becomes
and the more converts it attracts. Voluntary conversion can also occur to
avoid the jizyah (poll tax) against dhimmis.
Mass population influxes and effluxes also take place during and
after an Islamic revolution. Such revolutions can be triggered at Muslim
proportions far less than 100%, and they act to rapidly drive up the Muslim
percentage of the general population from the point of revolution (say, 50%) to
a value near 100%.
We see evidence of these mechanisms at work throughout the
historical record, clearly overwhelming any type of traditional birth/death
and/or normal immigration/emigration impacts.
Between 1960 and 1978, the percentage of Muslims within the total
population for North Cyprus increased from 18% to >98%, with most of the
increase taking place between 1973 (32%) and 1978 (>98%).
In Turkey, the Muslim proportion of the general population
increased from 80% to >97% between 1914 and 1927.
From 1941 to 1951, the percentage of Muslims in Pakistan increased
from 79% to >97%.
In Mali, the Muslim proportion went from just 30% in 1910 to 93%
in 1987.
Over a half-century between 1910 and 1960, Niger's Muslim
proportion increased from 56% to 99%.
Tunisia saw a move from 90% to effectively 100% in less than a
decade during the 1950s and 1960s.
Burkina Faso went from 1% to 61% in a little over a century.
Senegal increased from 45% to 75% between 1910 and 1921, moving up to 90%
by 1961. Sierra Leone transitioned from 35% Muslim in 1963 to 60% by 1980
and 77% by 2004.
An abundance of mechanisms exist to continue rapidly expanding the
Muslim proportion of the population after the relative influence of the early
stage birth/death and net immigration factors begin to wane. Consider
these other mechanisms the second- and third-stage rockets that propel the
Muslim population up past the majority benchmark and toward totality.
They are real, they have been active throughout history, and they are
active today.
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/03/conversion_and_mass_migration_the_oftoverlooked_mechanisms_of_rapid_islamification.html#ixzz43exL9uaU
