GOOGLE’S AI OVERVIEW IS GREAT. Ask a specific question and it will give an
accurate, sourced and specific answer.
Not that its sources will answer specifically, however. Asking for the population of the United Kingdom
will give a variable answer depending on which regions it includes. But when I asked Google AI for separate
population figures for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland in the
2001, 2011 and 2021 censuses I got exactly what I wanted and could assemble the
answers into a coherent whole.
I wanted to know what the rates of increase of Muslim and non-Muslim populations
of the UK were. It’s not possible to look
back further than 2001 since the 1991 census didn’t include a figure for religions. This is a pity in a way, since the equivalent
New Zealand figures show that the Islamic attack on New York’s Twin Towers had
a salutary effect on immigration policy.
The annual rate of increase in Muslim population dropped from 10% before
2001 to 5.4% afterwards. Just as
well. The ratio of Muslim growth fell
from a twenty year average of 24 times the non-Muslim growth rate to just under 5 times
post 9/11.
Here's the equivalent growth rate calculations for the United Kingdom:
The phrase “demographic bombing” is dismissed as
conspiratorial but is supported by these statistics. The causes are more diverse, and include the
chaos caused by Islamists in Africa and the Middle East forcing an exodus,
Islam’s telos of global theocracy and the Koranic injunction to migrate in the
cause of Allah (4:100, 8:72-75), and Europe’s Christian moral obligation to give
succour to migrants. The ‘pull’ factor
of Europe’s welfare system mustn’t be underestimated as it forms a major part of
migrant narrative and discourse.
