THE DEMOGRAPHIC DANGER ... 1

THE DEMOGRAPHIC DANGER ... 1

The demographic Hindu-Muslim balance is not shifting so much because of illegal immigration from Bangladesh as it is doing so because of a significantly higher fertility rate of Muslim women relative to Hindu women. Besides this, conversion and illegal immigration from Bangladesh and elsewhere are adding to the shift. Early marriage, polygamy, compulsory marriage, non-use of birth control tools and the Islamic scriptural mandate to Muslim women to conceive more and deliver by way of pleasing the Prophet but effectively increasing the population base of the Ummah lend to Muslims outnumbering the adherents of all other faiths by far. By the end of the curent century Muslims are expected to be the most populous faith-community in the world, relegating Christians to second place, this as per PEW research analysis. Here in India this will lend itself to a repetition of the demographic problem prior to Partition. How things will finally shape out and how Hindus will combat this civilisational challenge remains to be seen. Upon it depends the future of the Hindu race and the life of the nation in its deepest cultural sense.

Written by Sugata Bose