Demographic jihad
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Demographic jihad or population jihad{{Cite journal |last=Vala |first=Tadeáš |date=2021 |title=Jihad.cz: Interpreting Jihad, Sexual Jihad and Demographic Jihad in the Czech Anti-Islamic Milieu |journal=Religions |language=en |volume=12 |issue=12 |pages=1086 |doi=10.3390/rel12121086 |doi-access=free |issn=2077-1444|hdl=10195/79298 |hdl-access=free }} 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
{{See also|Love jihad conspiracy theory}}Hindu 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.{{Cite web |last=Sharma |first=Yashraj |title=Has India's Muslim population really exploded? |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/18/has-indias-muslim-population-really-exploded |access-date=2024-05-20 |website=Al Jazeera |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Sharma |first=Sreenivasan Jain, Mariyam Alavi & Supriya |date=2024-05-10 |title=The numbers show the idea of Muslim population explosion is nothing but political propaganda |url=https://scroll.in/article/1067694/the-numbers-show-that-the-idea-of-population-jihad-is-nothing-but-political-propaganda |access-date=2024-05-20 |website=Scroll.in |language=en}}
Southeast Asia
= Buddhist regions =
Significant 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.{{Citation |last=Frydenlund |first=Iselin |title=Buddhist Islamophobia: Actors, Tropes, Contexts |date=2018-09-24 |work=Handbook of Conspiracy Theory and Contemporary Religion |pages=279–302 |url=https://brill.com/display/book/edcoll/9789004382022/BP000016.xml |access-date=2024-03-13 |publisher=Brill |language=en |isbn=978-90-04-38202-2}}{{Cite journal |last=Frydenlund |first=Iselin |date=December 2021 |title=Protecting Buddhist Women from Muslim Men: "Love Jihad" and the Rise of Islamophobia in Myanmar |journal=Religions |language=en |volume=12 |issue=12 |pages=1082 |doi=10.3390/rel12121082 |doi-access=free |issn=2077-1444|hdl=11250/3023537 |hdl-access=free }}{{Cite journal |last1=Ganesh |first1=Bharath |last2=Frydenlund |first2=Iselin |last3=Brekke |first3=Torkel |date=2024-04-03 |title=Flows and modalities of global Islamophobia |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2023.2268192 |journal=Ethnic and Racial Studies |language=en |volume=47 |issue=5 |pages=895–906 |doi=10.1080/01419870.2023.2268192 |issn=0141-9870}}{{Cite journal |last=Frydenlund |first=Iselin |date=2024-04-03 |title=Theorizing Buddhist anti-Muslim nationalism as global Islamophobia |journal=Ethnic and Racial Studies |language=en |volume=47 |issue=5 |pages=1034–1056 |doi=10.1080/01419870.2023.2268209 |issn=0141-9870|doi-access=free }}
= Muslim regions =
The Jemaah Tarbiyah movement in Indonesia has advocated for the Islamization of society by encouraging the formation of Islamic families.{{Cite journal |last1=Asyari |first1=Suaidi |last2=Abid |first2=M. Husnul |date=2016-12-14 |title=Expanding the Indonesian Tarbiyah Movement through Ta'āruf and Marriage |url=https://aljamiah.or.id/index.php/AJIS/article/view/54204 |journal=Al-Jami'ah: Journal of Islamic Studies |language=en |volume=54 |issue=2 |pages=337–368 |doi=10.14421/ajis.2016.542.337-368 |issn=2338-557X|doi-access=free }}
The West
= Europe =
{{See also|Eurabia conspiracy theory}}
European 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;{{Cite book |last=Dahl |first=Göran |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rTDCEAAAQBAJ |title=The Nature of Identitarianism |date=2023-07-21 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-0-429-59454-0 |language=en}} it has been noted that these anti-Muslim sentiments are echoed historically by antisemitic sentiments within Europe.{{Cite journal |last1=Bracke |first1=Sarah |last2=Hernández Aguilar |first2=Luis Manuel |date=August 2022 |title=Thinking Europe's "Muslim Question": On Trojan Horses and the Problematization of Muslims |url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20503032211044430 |journal=Critical Research on Religion |language=en |volume=10 |issue=2 |pages=200–220 |doi=10.1177/20503032211044430 |issn=2050-3032|doi-access=free }}{{Cite journal |last1=Bracke |first1=Sarah |last2=Hernández Aguilar |first2=Luis Manuel |date=September 2020 |title="They love death as we love life": The "Muslim Question" and the biopolitics of replacement |journal=The British Journal of Sociology |language=en |volume=71 |issue=4 |pages=680–701 |doi=10.1111/1468-4446.12742 |issn=0007-1315 |pmc=7540673 |pmid=32100887}}
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.{{Cite journal |last=Vala |first=Tadeáš |date=December 2021 |title=Jihad.cz: Interpreting Jihad, Sexual Jihad and Demographic Jihad in the Czech Anti-Islamic Milieu |journal=Religions |language=en |volume=12 |issue=12 |pages=1086 |doi=10.3390/rel12121086 |doi-access=free |issn=2077-1444|hdl=10195/79298 |hdl-access=free }}
References
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Further reading
- [https://www.jstor.org/stable/48676240 “Baby Jihad”: Analyzing White Nationalist Fears of Changing Western Demographics]
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=VPbgEAAAQBAJ The Politics of Replacement: Demographic Fears, Conspiracy Theories, and Race Wars]