[Dajjal]

There are ten million people in Moscow. Do you know how many of them are Muslim? Two and a half million. Or about a quarter of the population. The ethnic Russians are older; the Muslims are younger. The ethnic Russians are already in net population decline; the Muslim population in the country has increased by 40% in the last 15 years. Seven out of ten Russian pregnancies (according to some surveys) are aborted; in some Muslim communities, the fertility rate is ten babies per woman. Russian men have record rates of heart disease, liver disease, drug addiction and Aids; Muslims are the only guys in the country who aren’t face down in the vodka.

Faced with these trends, most experts extrapolate: thus, it’s generally accepted that by mid-century the Russian Federation will be majority Muslim. But you don’t really need to extrapolate when the future’s already checking in at reception. The Toronto Star (which is Canada’s biggest-selling newspaper and impeccably liberal) recently noted that by 2015 Muslims will make up a majority of Russia’s army.

Mark Steyn ping

[Dajjal]

If my requests are heeded, Russia will be converted, and there will be peace; if not, she will spread her errors throughout the world, causing wars and persecutions of the Church. The good will be martyred; the Holy Father will have much to suffer; various nations will be annihilated.
--Our Lady of Fatima, July 13, 1917, to the three children Francisco, Jacinta and Lucia

It is often assumed that Our Lady was referring only to materialistic, atheistic Communism. But she herself makes no such qualification. She simply predicts that Russia will be the source of errors and destruction.

[dennisw]

Stellar Steyn

[fat city]

"The Russia of 15 years ago is already ancient history."

Truer than any of us realize.

[blasater1960]

Not looking good for our children and grandchildren

[Dajjal]

Blogger: Thanks for the heads-up about this article.

[Cicero]

Steyn treats Russia only briefly in his book, but it's scary stuff. As is this article. Definitely a must read.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Sobering bump.

I had (Literally!) never considered this danger.

China? Yes. For a lone time.

But a "homegrown" Muslim danger from within? Had NOT thought it was this close.

[databoss]

We are literally "aborting" our future and our children's future - Roe v. Wade could be the epithat for the West, image a single court ruling has led to our decline, how many mathematicians, scientists, soldiers and statesman have vanished in the blink of an eye...

[databoss]

We are literally "aborting" our future and our children's future - Roe v. Wade could be the epithat for the West, image a single court ruling has led to our decline, how many mathematicians, scientists, soldiers and statesman have vanished in the blink of an eye...

[XR7]

Scary.
They'll control the Ruskie nukes.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Dajjal.

[RusIvan]

On his deathbed, the former KGB agent ==

FYI Litvinenko was never KGB agent no spy. Latter job requires the high intellect and education. Litvinenko didn't have both.
He once was the FSB operative for few years the high crimes department. Before that he was the officer of Warden service who guarded the prisoners in former Gulag. So you see.

[Berosus]

1,020 years ago, the Russian leader, Grand Prince Vladimir I, was looking for a modern religion, and eventually chose Orthodox Christianity. He turned down Islam because it would have meant giving up drinking: "Drinking is the joy of the Rus. We cannot exist without that pleasure." Oh, how the country has changed, if Russia is likely to become Moslem now (by demographics, if not by wholesale conversion).

[Capt. Tom]

As I always say, there is no “stability”. We thought we’d “contained” Soviet Communism. Instead, the social pathologies that took hold during the Russian people’s half-century of “containment” will have profound consequences for us and the rest of the world long after the last Commie is dead and buried.

An example of "Today's solution is tomorrow's problem." - tom

[Tailgunner Joe]

There are ten million people in Moscow. Do you know how many of them are Muslim? Two and a half million. Or about a quarter of the population.

The ratio of muslims is about the same for the country as a whole. Russia is estimated to be home to approximate 25 million muslims. That is why Putin says things like, "Russia has always been Islam's best friend."