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by dijit 315 days ago
Feels weird to call them ethnically French, especially when the context being presented is religion.

The assumption being made is that they’ll ditch the religion after four generations? I don’t see data for that assumption, maybe it is not 100%, but its certainly not as low as 20% apostacy.

Thus I would take serious issue with that statement, it is evidence of an ethnic or religious replacement.

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Religion isn’t ethnicity. Did England become less British after Catholics fell from a vast majority to ~10% post-Reformation?

And the actual numbers still don’t show a majority shift. Even if every Muslim in France kept their religion, they’d be ~10% of the population — far from "replacement".

The real comparison, which idk why you didnt make, is the islamic control of iberia, to which the answer is, YES!

Also anglicism is like, catholicism without a pope... also it was created by the king, not imported from another continent.

Take that up with the author of the article.

Also, you missed the point entirely if the topic is “the population of x has gone from 1% to an estimated upper of 12.5% in 20 years” and your answer is “its below 10% right now”.

Not only are you potentially immediately wrong, since the number today could exceed 10%, it also doesn’t speak to how those demographics might be shaped by disparities in birthrates or continued migration.

But, you know that, you’re just trying to argue for some reason.

funny, my votes went from +4 to -1 inside of 5 minutes despite this comment being at +4 for 11 hours.

Either that’s a strong coincidence or vote manipulation is rife here.