Ahmadinejad to Iranians: It’s baby-making time
posted at 5:42 pm on October 23, 2006 by Allahpundit
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One for mother, one for father, and one for the Hidden Imam:
Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has called for a baby boom to almost double the country’s population to 120 million and enable it to threaten the west…
Mr Ahmadinejad said: “I am against saying that two children are enough. Our country has a lot of capacity. It has the capacity for many children to grow in it. It even has the capacity for 120 million people. Westerners have got problems. Because their population growth is negative, they are worried and fear that if our population increases, we will triumph over them.”…
Critics reacted with alarm and said the president’s call was ill-judged at a time when Iran was struggling with surging inflation and rising unemployment, unofficially estimated at around 25%.
Is it? Maybe for a country like France that doesn’t know what to do with its surplus of unemployed young men. But for a rising power like Iran that’s soon to enjoy nuclear leverage over its regional rivals? I bet “Mahdi” can think of some ways to channel their restless energy.
The Saudis are sufficiently worried about Iranian expansionism as to have met recently with Abdul Halim Khaddam, the former Vice President of Syria who’s called publicly for Assad’s overthrow. Word of the meeting “leaked” out, probably at the Saudis’ behest to let Assad know they don’t appreciate Syria becoming an Iranian client state. Which prompts the question, what other provocative gestures will Sunni regimes make to rein in Iran’s influence?
As for the western side of the demography gap, opinion is split between whether repopulation can/will be engineered or whether, as Eric Kaufmann argues, we’ll have to wait for the secular humanists’ genetic lines to peter out so that religious Europeans have the field to themselves once again:
The pivotal question is where the balance lies between religious fertility and religious abandonment in the secular cutting-edge societies of France and Protestant Europe. The population balance in these countries stands at roughly 53 per cent non-religious to 47 per cent religious. My projections, based on demographic differences between the populations and current patterns of religious abandonment, suggest that the secular population will continue to grow at a decelerating rate for three or four more decades, to peak at around 55 per cent. The proportion of secular people will then begin to decline between 2035 and 2045. The momentum behind secularisation in the most secular countries is a reflection of the religious abandonment of the pre-1945 generations, which overwhelmed the fertility advantage of the faithful. The end of apostasy in more recent generations means a population more religious at the end of the 21st century than at its beginning. As in the case of the Mormons or early Christians, demography rather than mass conversion will be the main agent of change.
They don’t have that much time.
Meanwhile, in France, the best-laid plans of the socialist state collide with demographic reality as Mark Steyn laughs sinisterly from the sidelines.
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“Allah needs more suicide bombers!”
Plastic keys anyone?
Tony737 on October 23, 2006 at 5:45 PM
Can anyone say… Welfare State?
Fix this problem by throwing babies at it.
Kini on October 23, 2006 at 5:46 PM
To bad the french can’t figure out a way to export their “youth of undetermined ethnicity” to Iran.
Iblis on October 23, 2006 at 5:53 PM
Could this be the beginning of an another NAZI Lebensborn Program?
Wade on October 23, 2006 at 5:53 PM
I guess the Islamic religious leaders will have to stop having sex with boys and prepubescent girls.
BrunoMitchell on October 23, 2006 at 5:54 PM
My thought exactly.
Marvin on October 23, 2006 at 5:59 PM
yeah - sounds more and more like Hitler & the Grand Mufti whipped into one.
Editor on October 23, 2006 at 6:10 PM
baby boom and then they all move to the United States
Half the country goes to Mexico, half to iran
Defector01 on October 23, 2006 at 6:19 PM
Oh, AccccccccccccchmaDEEEEENejad! Just looking at you, I can barely refrain from touching myself inappropriately in the expressline at the supermarket…I hope if they make a movie about you, they call it Return of the Hidden Imam, and they get Matt Damon to play you. I saw him last night on Bourne Identity, I noticed how much he looked just like you…expecially in the biceptual areas. Sigh. Give us babies, oh wise ruler. I wonder if Hitler was this zeksually arrrousssink.
Jewel on October 23, 2006 at 6:29 PM
Ahhh, the pitter-patter of little terrorist feet around the house for the
worldUnited States to end up feeding.Valiant on October 23, 2006 at 6:37 PM
Prepare yourselves for terrorist anchor babies! Gotta love that 14 amendment.
NTWR on October 23, 2006 at 6:46 PM
Gives a whole new meaning to the term “baby boom” doesn’t it?
Tony737 on October 23, 2006 at 6:54 PM
Bring more children into a world he wants to destroy through Armageddon.
Hitler encouraged the same thing among the blonde and blue-eyed.
doingwhatican on October 23, 2006 at 6:59 PM
Looks like he read Mr. Steyn’s latest book.
Entelechy on October 23, 2006 at 7:01 PM
Subsidize grain exports, subsidize Sharia. By now it seems plain that American price supports for grain farmers tend to support muslim population growth and, therefore, the muslim immigration, Islamic terrorism, and Western submission to imams and Sharia. I’ve lately come to see Americans’ turning grain into ethanol as much more favorable to the Americans’ wellbeing than I did formerly, inasmuch as it appears it would both reduce American payments to muslim nations for oil and reduce or eliminates the American contribution to the muslim baby boom. It seems Americans must see to it that America’s being “Breadbasket to the World” either comes to an end. It appears, though, that Republicans will have to see to it that midwestern, Republican farmers are not harmed; subsidies on ethanol production change their market rather than merely destroy it.
It seems to me that the Americans should re-examine the studies that have deprecated ethanol/gasoline mixtures as not cost-efficient or energy-efficient. Oil-producing, muslim countries with big, growing populations have two reasons to subvert studies of ethanol as a fuel source, in order to make sure Americans keep buying oil and to make sure they keep growing and selling grain to be eaten, rather than fermented.
Kralizec on October 23, 2006 at 7:21 PM
I didn’t proofread my comment thoroughly and left a few mistakes in it. Please read “muslim immigration” instead of “the muslim immigration” in lines 2-3. Read “eliminate” instead of “eliminates” in line 6. Read “comes to” instead of “either comes to” in line 7. Thanks.
Kralizec on October 23, 2006 at 7:28 PM
I wonder what the birth rate in France is when you start breaking it down by religeon. What is the birth rate of Muslims in France? What is the birth rate of Christians in France? And what is the birth rate of athiests in France?
EFG on October 23, 2006 at 7:29 PM
That photo of him is hysterical! The perfect shot of a moron in heat.
Zorro on October 23, 2006 at 7:29 PM
Another original idea from a middle-eastern dictator. I wonder where he got the idea to have more children. It certainly couldn’t have been all the western pundits discussing the declining western fertility rate and wondering if the clash of civilizations would be won through demographics and not through battles.
There’s just one problem - in the west, we have the resources to take care of an increasing population. Iran can’t currently sustain the population that they have. Adding more people into the mix is not going to help him. There are only so many people that can be appeased by shouting “Death to the Great Satan”.
JadeNYU on October 23, 2006 at 7:37 PM
There goes “Man Pleaser Thursdays”…Ask any Iraq vet what that means, and be at the ready with a vomit bag…Mark Foley’s got nothing on those Muslim freak shows.
seejanemom on October 23, 2006 at 7:38 PM
Better hope the Iranian men aren’t using their cell phones too much.
tiekitwist on October 23, 2006 at 7:59 PM
Tiekitwist,
Better yet, let’s hope they are :)
wytammic on October 23, 2006 at 8:03 PM
Oh, duh. Good point. I guess I meant that Ahmadinejad better hope they aren’t.
tiekitwist on October 23, 2006 at 8:05 PM
I have two questions:
Is that three per wife or just three all together?
Is he wearing his Kramer jacket?
bloggless on October 23, 2006 at 11:09 PM
With a face like Mahmoud’s, I think it’s time for Muslim women to insist on veils for men.
He looks like Yoda and the CGI thing in the Lord of the Rings mated. Poorly.
profitsbeard on October 23, 2006 at 11:40 PM
Do you think his head may have been caught in a vice at one time?
bloggless on October 23, 2006 at 11:48 PM
Spengler at Asia Times has a series of posts about Iran and demographics though two in particluar “The demographics of radical Islam” and “Demographics and Iran’s imperial design” are very relevant.
esperpento on October 24, 2006 at 12:49 AM
Now THAT was funny!
I say, bring out the sniper.
shooter on October 24, 2006 at 10:52 AM
to be sure, I meant OUR sniper
shooter on October 24, 2006 at 11:08 AM
Ahmadinejad to Iranians: It’s baby-making time. A totally anal statement. What are all the young boys going to do while these guys try to figure out how to “do it” with a woman.
BobK on October 24, 2006 at 1:18 PM