The Demographics causing Terrorism
Ever wonder why almost all of the terrorists are men? Several sites have pointed out the demographics of the Muslim world that practices infanticide, honor killings, and devalues women.
I know, I know. We are no better than them and who are we to judge a society that completely devalues women. Multiculturalism and our own since of self loathing, especially among those on the left, will somehow blame the US and our corporations for causing the devaluing of women in these societies, if it even were wrong. Either it is OK or we caused it. But leaving aside the multiculturalist BS arguments for a moment, let's look at the real demographic impacts of what happens when young men have no prospects for marriage and families due to huge imbalances in male to female ratios. {Think going to ladies night at the bar and there are 10 guys for every woman and let's see how the love life does.}
Astute bloger writes about the demographic trends.
The chart I found most interesting is one of three on the page; it's called, "Most male populations." It's sub-titled, "Number of males per 100 females." Of the thirty (30) nations on the list (being the thirty with the greatest IMBALANCE, with far more men than women - and far more than might be expected if there were no intervention - 20 of them are predominantly Muslim (or with a very large Muslim segment of the population).The most imbalanced is (at #1) the UAE [189 males per 100 females], followed by Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia [117 males /100 females], and then non-Muslim Guam, followed by #8 Jordan, followed by non-Arab - but Muslim Brunei, Sri Lanka, Libya, and then non-Muslim Polynesian & Papua, followed by Muslim (but non-Arab) Afghanistan, followed by India (which has a very large Muslim population), and then China [where we KNOW they practice female infanticide - 106 males/100 females], then Muslim Bangladesh, non-Muslim New Caledonia, then Muslim Pakistan, Muslim and European Albania, non-Muslim Nepal, then Cote d'Ivoire (which has a significant Muslim population), and then Taiwan and Costa Rica and Fiji, then Muslim Gaza and Muslim West Bank, Muslim Iran, Muslim Malaysia, and Muslim Yemen [103 males/100 females] .
Twenty of the thirty nations with severe imbalances -- which cannot be explained by natural forces, but which are most likley the result of direct, human intervention -- are Muslim. Another indication that there is a connection between this imbalance and Islam is the fact that (according to another chart on the same page in the same booklet) of thirty (30) nations with imbalances which FAVOR women, only ONE (1) is predominantly Muslim or has a significant Muslim minority.
If there were no correlation between this imbalance and Islam then we would expect that there would be fewer Muslim nations on the chart which shows the nations with imbalances which favor men, and more on the chart which shows nations with imbalances which favor women. Therefore, it is reasonable to conclude that there is some relationship betweeen Islam and gender-imbalances in the national populations which favor men. Could it be female infanticide? Or "honor killings?" Some people think so - at leasst they think that the horrific practice is very widespread.
But that is only half of the story. The other half does not rely on postulating on the cause of whay Muslim countries have more men than women. But rather takes the facts as laid out above and looks at the effects of having a society where there is a large imbalance between males and females. Add in the fact that on top of having gross imbalances in population between men and women, that Islam in many of these countries allows polygamy where one man (usually older) marries multiple women, you further aggrivate things.
Polygamy is all good for rich old men, but sucks for the teenage boys that normally would be taking Bobby Sue to the Harvest Moon Ball. I won't get into the ills of polygamy here, but my new condo is about 45 miles north of the polygamous communities of Colorado City and Hilldale that sit on the Utah-Arizona border where the famed "Short Creek Raid" took place in the 1950's. My wife's family is actually from that area and so is my wife's. (that was a joke)
The following book available via Amazon, Bare Branches : The Security Implications of Asia's Surplus Male Population (BCSIA Studies in International Security), discusses the problem in detail.
What happens to a society that has too many men? In this provocative book, Valerie Hudson and Andrea den Boer argue that, historically, high male-to-female ratios often trigger domestic and international violence. Most violent crime is committed by young unmarried males who lack stable social bonds. Although there is not always a direct cause-and-effect relationship, these surplus men often play a crucial role in making violence prevalent within society. Governments sometimes respond to this problem by enlisting young surplus males in military campaigns and high-risk public works projects. Countries with high male-to-female ratios also tend to develop authoritarian political systems.Hudson and den Boer suggest that the sex ratios of many Asian countries, particularly China and India -- which represent almost 40 percent of the world's population -- are being skewed in favor of males on a scale that may be unprecedented in human history. Through offspring sex selection (often in the form of sex-selective abortion and female infanticide), these countries are acquiring a disproportionate number of low-status young adult males, called "bare branches" by the Chinese.
Hudson and den Boer argue that this surplus male population in Asia's largest countries threatens domestic stability and international security. The prospects for peace and democracy are dimmed by the growth of bare branches in China and India, and, they maintain, the sex ratios of these countries will have global implications in the twenty-first century.
Yep, pulling out of Iraq is going to keep them young men from being angry. Short of airlifting millions of women into these areas or dropping something in the water supply that makes men stop thinking about the fact that at the Singles Bar called the Middle East, the only way they are getting a virgin is to blow themselves up and hope for the 73 waiting in Paradise.
