White nationalists frame Muslim fertility as a weapon of war [causal]
William Kilpatrick builds upon Ibrahim's description of baby jihad in A Politically Incorrect Guide to Jihad. Kilpatrick uses the term “war of the wombs” along with baby jihad. He coins the terminology “war of the wombs” from a quote attributed to Algerian President Houari Boumedienne. Kilpatrick writes that “In 1974, when Algerian president Houari Boumedienne predicted mass migration from the Southern to the Northern hemisphere 'to conquer it,' he also made an additional threat: 'And they will conquer it with their sons. The wombs of our women will give us victory.'” (Kilpatrick 2016, 131). The language used by Kilpatrick turns Muslim babies into instruments of war. Fertility rates become weapons. Steyn echoes this argument in America Alone, writing that “those self-detonating Islamists in London and Gaza are a literal baby boom” (2008, xviii). Steyn thus links the demographic concept of a baby boom with violent extremism. Another example: “over the next generation, that population of excitable young men will explode—demographically I mean, though very literally if the more severe mullahs have their way.” (Steyn 2008, 19). These quotes clearly show that white nationalists view demography— specifically motherhood, fertility, and babies—as a form of violent jihad.
XREF: Relates to demographic panic narratives and how white nationalist rhetoric weaponizes motherhood and fertility rates across multiple authors (Kilpatrick, Steyn).
Builds on: "White nationalists weaponize demographic fears about Muslim fertility"
Margaret Hodson, Baby Jihad, loc. 28