Demographic jihad or population jihad[1] is a purported phenomenon in which Muslims migrate to or have many children in a particular region in order to demographically and otherwise dominate it.
India
editHindu nationalists often claim that Muslim population growth is greatly outstripping the Hindu majority's population growth in India; however, the data suggests that Muslim population growth rates are converging rapidly with Hindu population growth rates.[2][3]
Southeast Asia
editBuddhist regions
editSignificant violence has occurred against Muslim minorities in Buddhist nations within Southeast Asia, with a common rationale being the fear that Muslims are trying to outbreed the Buddhist population, including by raping Buddhist women.[4][5][6][7]
Muslim regions
editThe Jemaah Tarbiyah movement in Indonesia has advocated for the Islamization of society by encouraging the formation of Islamic families.[8]
The West
editIslamophobia in general has mobilized voters in European countries, and united far-right groups across various Western nations.[9]
Europe
editEuropean countries have taken in many refugees and migrants from Muslim-majority countries in recent decades, with far-right groups alleging that Muslim immigration will overwhelm Europe's historically Christian demographics;[10] it has been noted that these anti-Muslim sentiments are echoed historically by antisemitic sentiments within Europe.[11][12]
In the Czech Republic, some groups have alleged that demographic jihad against Europe is being assisted by European NGOs and corrupt politicians, with two-thirds of Czechs seeing Islam as a threat.[13]
References
edit- ^ Vala, Tadeáš (2021). "Jihad.cz: Interpreting Jihad, Sexual Jihad and Demographic Jihad in the Czech Anti-Islamic Milieu". Religions. 12 (12): 1086. doi:10.3390/rel12121086. hdl:10195/79298. ISSN 2077-1444.
- ^ Sharma, Yashraj. "Has India's Muslim population really exploded?". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 2024-05-20.
- ^ Sharma, Sreenivasan Jain, Mariyam Alavi & Supriya (2024-05-10). "The numbers show the idea of Muslim population explosion is nothing but political propaganda". Scroll.in. Retrieved 2024-05-20.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Frydenlund, Iselin (2018-09-24), "Buddhist Islamophobia: Actors, Tropes, Contexts", Handbook of Conspiracy Theory and Contemporary Religion, Brill, pp. 279–302, ISBN 978-90-04-38202-2, retrieved 2024-03-13
- ^ Frydenlund, Iselin (December 2021). "Protecting Buddhist Women from Muslim Men: "Love Jihad" and the Rise of Islamophobia in Myanmar". Religions. 12 (12): 1082. doi:10.3390/rel12121082. hdl:11250/3023537. ISSN 2077-1444.
- ^ Ganesh, Bharath; Frydenlund, Iselin; Brekke, Torkel (2024-04-03). "Flows and modalities of global Islamophobia". Ethnic and Racial Studies. 47 (5): 895–906. doi:10.1080/01419870.2023.2268192. ISSN 0141-9870.
- ^ Frydenlund, Iselin (2024-04-03). "Theorizing Buddhist anti-Muslim nationalism as global Islamophobia". Ethnic and Racial Studies. 47 (5): 1034–1056. doi:10.1080/01419870.2023.2268209. ISSN 0141-9870.
- ^ Asyari, Suaidi; Abid, M. Husnul (2016-12-14). "Expanding the Indonesian Tarbiyah Movement through Ta'āruf and Marriage". Al-Jami'ah: Journal of Islamic Studies. 54 (2): 337–368. doi:10.14421/ajis.2016.542.337-368. ISSN 2338-557X.
- ^ Hafez, Farid (2014-10-20). "Shifting borders: Islamophobia as common ground for building pan-European right-wing unity". Patterns of Prejudice. 48 (5): 479–499. doi:10.1080/0031322X.2014.965877. ISSN 0031-322X. S2CID 143843693.
- ^ Dahl, Göran (2023-07-21). The Nature of Identitarianism. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-0-429-59454-0.
- ^ Bracke, Sarah; Hernández Aguilar, Luis Manuel (August 2022). "Thinking Europe's "Muslim Question": On Trojan Horses and the Problematization of Muslims". Critical Research on Religion. 10 (2): 200–220. doi:10.1177/20503032211044430. ISSN 2050-3032.
- ^ Bracke, Sarah; Hernández Aguilar, Luis Manuel (September 2020). ""They love death as we love life": The "Muslim Question" and the biopolitics of replacement". The British Journal of Sociology. 71 (4): 680–701. doi:10.1111/1468-4446.12742. ISSN 0007-1315. PMC 7540673. PMID 32100887.
- ^ Vala, Tadeáš (December 2021). "Jihad.cz: Interpreting Jihad, Sexual Jihad and Demographic Jihad in the Czech Anti-Islamic Milieu". Religions. 12 (12): 1086. doi:10.3390/rel12121086. hdl:10195/79298. ISSN 2077-1444.