Editor,
Most European nations have been boasting of having made unparallel strides in their respective spheres of socio-economic prosperity, wealth, medical, health science, technological know-how and in every field of advancements imaginable, thereby they believe to have created an exclusive paradise of their ingenuity. For this mind-boggling make-over, the Europeans largely credit or attribute to their having adopted rigorous measures of birth control; the question of infertility is, therefore far from truth. Gone are the days, say, in the pre-world War-II when we hear that European families had had no less than six to seven siblings to their credit, but the same has now become a taboo.
To parent more than 2(two) children is rare. This family limitation widely prevalent now in European households for several decades must have been keenly monitored and analyzed on the sly by the ever burgeoning population of the Muslim world of Middle east and north Africa where their religious beliefs allow a man to own more than one spouse whereby population boom is but a natural corollary. Hence, following the Arab Springs of 2010 which initiated in Tunisia and thereafter gripping most of the Muslim world, a large chunk of the population falling under the embattled countries grab the golden opportunity to make good their escape to prosperous Europe having discerned that the declining and aged population of Europe shall best serve as a perfect level playing field for their exploitations. Consequently, the ongoing unstoppable inflow of migrants into Europe has made this beautiful Continent to be literally on the verge of collapse in the face of this unarmed onslaught assuming the scale of Kafkaesque nightmare.
It appears that the unfinished agenda of the Ottoman caliphate to turn Europe into a Muslim majority hub in the 15th & 16th centuries is now being re-enacted. Seeing this grim demographic catastrophe at hand, Europe must be ruing for having adopted a small family regime! Coming nearer home this predilection for the small size family regimen has been gaining currency in our own land of Hynniewtrep since the last few decades through the systematic use of birth control methods but this may similarly spell a doom for the Jaitbynriew which is already dubbed as a microscopic minority in this planet earth; and I’m afraid that the same fate is awaiting us as the present European nations. Thus, late Mother Teresa couldn’t have been more right in asserting that abortion is downright murder! Incidentally, I too, couldn’t have agreed more with Fr. S. Sngi Lyngdoh and Mr. H. S. Shylla, ex – CEM of KHADC, the two prominent figures of ours who had once announced financial incentives to any Hynniewtrep family who could bear more off-springs and against which a vast majority of our denizens have vehemently disapproved as the latter opined that such concept propounded by the said duo was out and out regressive in nature. But I beg to differ from such oppositions, whereas I see Fr. S. S. Lyngdoh and Mr. H. S. Shylla as great visionaries of this land of Hynniewtrep. In fact they had anticipated far ahead of the Shiv. Sena party, who too had announced such incentives in order to maintain the perhaps dwindling population of the Marathis.
Yours etc.,
Jerome Diengdoh
Shillong -2