http://kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2006/10/17/6002.shtml
US Fear of Future Muslim Russia
Blank fear is rising in the Islam-hating US about the rapidly changing face
of Russia after a government expert on Russian nationalities recently
predicted that Russia could have a Muslim majority within the next 30 years.
The city of Moscow has swelled to 10.4 million people, and one-fifth are
Muslims. The Russian capital has the biggest Muslim population of any city
in Europe.
Russia is the only major industrial nation that is losing population. Its
people are succumbing to one of the world's fastest-growing AIDS epidemics,
resurgent tuberculosis, rampant cardiovascular disease, alcohol and drug
abuse, smoking, suicide and the lethal effects of unchecked industrial
pollution.
In addition, abortions outpaced births last year by more than 100,000. An
estimated 10 million Russians of reproductive age are sterile because of
botched abortions or poor health. The public health-care system is
collapsing. And many parents in more prosperous urban areas say they cannot
afford homes big enough for the number of children they would like to have.
The country has lost the equivalent of a city of 700,000 people every year
since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, only partially offset by an
influx of people from other former Soviet republics.
Sergei Mironov, chairman of the Upper House of the Russian Parliament, said
last year that the population would fall to 52 million by 2080 if the trend
did not change.
"There will no longer be a great Russia," he said. "It will be torn apart
piece by piece and finally cease to exist."
There are serious questions about whether Russia will be able to hold on to
its Far East lands along the border with China over the next century or
field an army, let alone a workforce to support ill and elderly people.
US experts fear that a politically weak and physically unhealthy Russia
could destabilise Europe, making it harder to fight so-called "terrorism"
(i.e. Islam) and possibly opening the gates to a regional pandemic, The
<http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=29&ContentID=9866> West
Australian writes.
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