UK Women’s Future Under Sharia Law, By Richard Miller (Londonistan)
The Telegraph piece hinges on a demographic shift: British women are having kids later, if at all, driving a fertility crisis that's forcing the UK to lean on immigration to keep the population afloat. Sarah Harper, an Oxford gerontology professor, told the Lords' economic affairs committee that the UK's fertility rate—1.44 births per woman in England and Wales (ONS, 2023)—is way below the 2.1 replacement rate needed to sustain the population without external help. The average age of motherhood's climbed from 26.4 in 1975 to 30.9 in 2022, the highest ever. Meanwhile, births to UK-born mothers have crashed by a quarter in 15 years, while foreign-born mothers (mostly from poorer, Third World countries) are picking up the slack, hitting a fertility rate of 2.03—close to replacement.
This isn't just numbers—it's a cultural swap. The ONS projects the UK population will hit 72.5 million by 2032, with net migration (4.9 million) driving all growth; native births and deaths cancel out at 6.8 million each. White British women chase careers, Third World women fill the void. The article suggests white women, especially the educated middle class, are delaying or ditching motherhood for "brilliant careers," leaving a gap that immigrants—often from South Asia, Africa, or the Middle East—are filling. A Telegraph piece from January 29, 2025, notes foreign-born mothers' births are 31 percent higher than UK-born, with countries like Pakistan, Nigeria, and India leading inflows.
Displacement's the kicker. In cities like London, Birmingham, or Bradford, native white populations are shrinking—down 10 percent in London since 2001 (ONS)—while immigrant communities boom. Schools reflect it: the share of pupils with English as a second language has tripled since the '90s (Telegraph, February 1, 2024). Jobs-wise, low-skilled roles—care work, retail, construction—once local staples, now skew heavily migrant. A Telegraph report (March 13, 2025) cites 2.5 million newcomers in 2023-24, many low-skilled, undercutting wages and sidelining working-class whites who can't or won't compete. The narrative's brutal: white women's career chase—think law, finance, tech—empties the cradle, so Third World families flood in, reshaping streets, schools, and labour.
The "brilliant careers" bit's tied to a cultural shift. Feminism, education, and economic pressure push white British women—especially graduates—toward professional glory over domesticity. A Guardian analysis (March 10, 2025) shows 40 percent of UK women with degrees delay childbirth past 35, versus 15 percent of non-graduates. Roles like corporate lawyer (median salary £80k), NHS consultant (£120k), or tech manager (£90k) demand years of grind—degrees, late nights, networking—leaving little room for kids. White women want boardrooms, not babies. Harper notes a one-child norm's setting in—society's geared for small families, making two or three kids feel alien. Add soaring housing costs (£300k average home, ONS) and childcare (£15k/year), and the maths doesn't work for many.
Now, flip it—what happens to those "brilliant careers" under Sharia law, as some fear with rising Muslim immigration (6 percent of UK now, doubling in 20 years, Telegraph, March 22, 2025)? Sharia's not uniform, Saudi's strict, Malaysia's looser, but let's take a conservative cut, like the Taliban's playbook or strict Hanbali interpretations, since that's the dystopian angle to really worry about.
Corporate Lawyer: Gone. Women's public roles shrink under strict Sharia. In Taliban Afghanistan (2022 edicts), women can't practice law or appear in court—men handle disputes. Saudi Arabia allows female lawyers since 2013, but they're rare, veiled, and need male guardians for travel or contracts. Your £80k gig? Maybe a clerk at home, if you're lucky, under a male boss.
NHS Consultant: Toast. Women can be medics in some Sharia states—Pakistan's got female doctors—but strict versions ban mixed-gender work. Taliban bars women from treating men; Saudi segregates wards. No leading surgeries or late shifts—£120k becomes charity nursing, chaperoned, if permitted at all.
Tech Manager: Dead. Tech's male-dominated under strict Sharia—women's education stops early (Taliban bans past primary, 2022). Malaysia's milder—women code—but in hardline zones, you're homebound. No Zoom calls, no £90k—just teaching kids Qur'an, if that.
The kicker? These women's career sacrifices, furling Britain's Third World influx, could vanish under the very cultures replacing them. A Spiked piece (March 24, 2025) quips: "Diversity trades your corner office for a burqa." It's hyperbolic—UK's not under Sharia—but the irony stings: White women ditch families for freedom, only to risk a future where neither's an option.
The Telegraph paints a Britain where white women's career chase guts the birth rate, inviting Third World migrants who don't just fill jobs but displace natives—culturally, economically, demographically. Under Sharia, those hard-won careers crumble into domestic shadows. It's a bleak trade-off: brilliant feminist-inspired career today, burka tomorrow.
"A rise in women choosing to have children later in life means Britain must rely on immigration to boost its birth rate, an ageing expert has warned.
Sarah Harper, professor of gerontology at Oxford University, told the Lords' economic affairs committee that the replacement rate of at least 2.1 children per mother, which the UK needs to sustain its population, is unlikely to ever return.
Instead, the UK and other ageing nations must turn to foreign-born mothers to boost population growth, she said.
The official fertility rate in England and Wales is at a record low of 1.44 births per woman. Figures published at the end of last year showed that the number of children born to British mothers has fallen by a quarter in 15 years.
Meanwhile, the fertility rate for foreign-born mothers has jumped to past two years to 2.03 children per woman, close to the UK's replacement rate.
Prof Harper said: "We have to accept that we are going to be in low-fertility societies. And the only we can compensate for that is by looking at migration.
"We have a growing group of women who want to have children later, and they maybe only want to have one child.
"The idea that we are going to be able to replace ourselves by births alone, I really cannot see that coming back."
The ageing expert said there had been a generational shift as "a lot of women who would have previously believed that to be adult and female was probably to have children are now reconsidering this".
Experts have suggested that more women are choosing to prioritise careers or buying a house over having a baby, meaning many are having children later in life or not at all.
In the UK the average age at which mothers give birth has risen from 26.4 in 1975 to 30.9 in 2022, the highest since records began. At the same time, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has projected that the number of people aged over 85 will nearly double to 3.3m by 2047.
Prof Harper's comments comes days after Andrew Bailey, the Governor of the Bank of England, warned that Britain's ageing population poses a major obstacles to growth.
Prof Harper noted that even in countries which have introduced policies to boost births, fertility rates have continued to plunge.
The ONS said earlier this year that the UK population is projected to hit 72.5m by 2032, driven by a 4.9m increase in net migration. Meanwhile the non-immigrant population is expected to remain flat, with 6.8m births and 6.8m deaths.
However, Prof Harper warned that Britain cannot rely on migration in the long term as "almost the whole world is going to be ageing", meaning the UK will be forced to compete with other countries for younger workers.
Asked whether there was a birth rate level where the "red lights really start flashing" on the sustainability of a population, Prof Harper said: "We used to say 1.5. The reason is, if societies dip down below 1.5, they went from a two-child norm to a one-child norm."
She said this means people "grow up in a society where everyone has one child, so your society is geared up to having just one child" which can make it "very difficult to rise up to have two or three children".
Prof Harper said the "real fear" is the speed at which the change is happening. She added: "In single generations you're having women who maybe had several siblings and they're having one or no children."
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