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Line 49: − − As noted in my prior essay [[Essay: 10 reasons the Republicans should end funding the war in Ukraine|10 reasons the Republicans should end funding the war in Ukraine]], according to ''USA Today'': [https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2022/04/13/ukraine-war-poverty-hunger-united-nations/7302438001/ Ukraine war threatens to push 1.7 billion people across the world into hunger and poverty]. − − How much of a strain is the war in Ukraine and other recent misfortunes causing in economically developing regions/countries such as [[North Africa]], the [[Middle East]] and [[Afghanistan]] which contain many Muslims? The USA Today article indicates: "Many developing countries are still struggling to recover from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, coupled with historic debt burdens and soaring inflation."<ref>[https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2022/04/13/ukraine-war-poverty-hunger-united-nations/7302438001/ Ukraine war threatens to push 1.7 billion people across the world into hunger and poverty], USA Today, 2022</ref>
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Professor [[Eric Kaufmann]] says about a graph showing the correlation between the projected growth of the Muslim propulation and the rise of right-wing nationalism in a country:
Professor [[Eric Kaufmann]] says about a graph showing the correlation between the projected growth of the Muslim propulation and the rise of right-wing nationalism in a country:
{{Cquote|Figure 1 shows an important relationship between projected Muslim population share in 2030 and support for the populist right across 16 countries in Western Europe. Having worked with IIASA World Population Program researchers who generated cohort-component projections of Europe’s Muslim population for Pew in 2011, I am confident their projections are the most accurate and rigorous available. I put this together with election and polling data for the main West European populist right parties using the highest vote share or polling result I could find. Note the striking 78 percent correlation (R2 of .61) between projected Muslim share in 2030, a measure of both the level and rate of change of the Muslim population, and the best national result each country’s populist right has attained."<ref>[https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2017/03/18/why-the-fear-of-islamization-is-driving-populist-right-support-and-what-to-do-about-it/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Europp+%28EUROPP+-+European+Politics+and+Policy+at+LSE%29 Why the fear of Islamization is driving populist right support – and what to do about it], Eric Kaufmann</ref>}}
{{Cquote|Figure 1 shows an important relationship between projected Muslim population share in 2030 and support for the populist right across 16 countries in Western Europe. Having worked with IIASA World Population Program researchers who generated cohort-component projections of Europe’s Muslim population for Pew in 2011, I am confident their projections are the most accurate and rigorous available. I put this together with election and polling data for the main West European populist right parties using the highest vote share or polling result I could find. Note the striking 78 percent correlation (R2 of .61) between projected Muslim share in 2030, a measure of both the level and rate of change of the Muslim population, and the best national result each country’s populist right has attained."<ref>[https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2017/03/18/why-the-fear-of-islamization-is-driving-populist-right-support-and-what-to-do-about-it/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Europp+%28EUROPP+-+European+Politics+and+Policy+at+LSE%29 Why the fear of Islamization is driving populist right support – and what to do about it], Eric Kaufmann</ref>}}
National Public Radio wrote about a refugee ship that arrived in a French port in 2022:
National Public Radio wrote about a refugee ship that arrived in a French port in 2022: