[patent]

Islam is still weak, but it is growing. Never mind the terrorists; check the birthrates.

From the frequently posted article by Sobran, "Belloc's Prophecy." Sobran doesn't do his homework.

I’m confused here. The article mentions Iran’s birth rate, does it mention the birthrate for other Muslims?

Are you saying that Sobran is wrong when he states that Islam is growing? Even assuming Iran’s birthrate is almost below replacement (which it isn’t yet, but apparently will be soon), Iran is still growing, much less Islam as a whole. Unless I'm missing an entire section of this article, it doesn't even stand for the proposition that the statement you quoted above is wrong, much less prove it.

patent  +AMDG

[gusopol3]

Sobran offered relative birthrates as the rising tide of Islam. If that is the reason for the expectation that Islam will overtake the West, then the data presented generally, and specifically for Iran, make the outcome far less than a "slam dunk." It's sort of a "yellow peril" argument, and the West has held out for 150 years beyond that hasn't it?

[gusopol3]

Egypt is the only other predominantly Moslem country for which data is presented graphically, and their births per woman is about the same as ours, no doubt with a higher childhood mortality. Unless shown something to the contrary, I do assume that this state of affairs (Iran, Egypt) exists across the Islamic world.