London's mayor has banned 'unrealistic body images' from transport advertising

[bryant.coleman]

You are right about qatar

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=birthrate+turkey&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b&gfe_rd=cr&ei=oB9jV96LFerW8gf5vIGYDA

Turkey is below replacement rate which is 2.1 and the direction of travel is for even lower rates.

The Google link is showing the TFR for 2012. However, recently, there has been a spike in the birth rate there. In 2014, according to government stats, the TFR was 2.18. Not surprising, considering the president is making such statements:

http://time.com/4357867/turkey-women-children-incomplete-president-erdogan-islam/

The graphs you show for each country show figures for immigrants as well as settled Muslims.  They still show that Muslims are below replacement rate in most countries and again the direction of travel is that as they get settled it gets even lower.

Birth rate was always low for Muslims in Bosnia and Romania. The same can't be said about immigrants from Pakistan and Afghanistan. Unfortunately for countries such as the UK, the vast majority of the Muslims are from the non-European nations.

[Hawker]

You are right about qatar

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=birthrate+turkey&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b&gfe_rd=cr&ei=oB9jV96LFerW8gf5vIGYDA

Turkey is below replacement rate which is 2.1 and the direction of travel is for even lower rates.

The Google link is showing the TFR for 2012. However, recently, there has been a spike in the birth rate there. In 2014, according to government stats, the TFR was 2.18. Not surprising, considering the president is making such statements:

http://time.com/4357867/turkey-women-children-incomplete-president-erdogan-islam/

The graphs you show for each country show figures for immigrants as well as settled Muslims.  They still show that Muslims are below replacement rate in most countries and again the direction of travel is that as they get settled it gets even lower.

Birth rate was always low for Muslims in Bosnia and Romania. The same can't be said about immigrants from Pakistan and Afghanistan. Unfortunately for countries such as the UK, the vast majority of the Muslims are from the non-European nations.

Turkey since 2012 has taken in millions of immigrants from Syria which pushes up the figure.  The native Turks are not reaching their own replacement rate.  That's why Erdogan is in such a funk about contraception - he doesn't fancy being the leader on whose watch the Turkish nation goes into permanent decline.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population

All the projections are for rich countries populations to fall over next century.  The broad picture shows that modern lifestyles with our nice cities, good medical care and vast entertainment industries cause people that would otherwise be having lots of kids to instead have a comfortable life with fewer kids.  Unless something terrible happens and our standard of living falls to the point where we think we need lots of kids to look after us in our old age, we don't need to worry about any race or religion out-breeding us.

[bryant.coleman]

Turkey since 2012 has taken in millions of immigrants from Syria which pushes up the figure.  The native Turks are not reaching their own replacement rate.  That's why Erdogan is in such a funk about contraception - he doesn't fancy being the leader on whose watch the Turkish nation goes into permanent decline.

Take a look at this article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependent_territories_by_fertility_rate

There are at least 100 countries in this world, whose TFR is lower than that in Turkey. The Turkish population is very young. Even if the TFR is less than 1.00, the population would still grow, thanks to the age structure. The "permanent decline" may happen in 2060 or 2070, and not before that.

[designerusa]

Seems perfectly reasonable to me. Public property shouldn't be displaying oversexualized and unrealistic body images, it hurts self esteem and promotes a "bikini body" culture that harms those who don't have perfect bodies (fat shaming). And even then, this is a response to massive popular backlash; I don't really see why it's a concern?

it is pretty obvious that  this act is very logical for me too because few people have got  a body like a super model. people dont have to have  skinny legs, tiny belly etc. as society , we want to see normal people in advertisments for sure. there is no wrong thing with this decision..

[Masha Sha]

Seems perfectly reasonable to me. Public property shouldn't be displaying oversexualized and unrealistic body images, it hurts self esteem and promotes a "bikini body" culture that harms those who don't have perfect bodies (fat shaming). And even then, this is a response to massive popular backlash; I don't really see why it's a concern?

it is pretty obvious that  this act is very logical for me too because few people have got  a body like a super model. people dont have to have  skinny legs, tiny belly etc. as society , we want to see normal people in advertisments for sure. there is no wrong thing with this decision..

No WE don't want to see advertisement, what ever fatty or skinny! WE don't want to have OUR precious brain cycle parasited by stupid ads influencing OUR emotions and OUR MOOD.

WE the people want ads free public space! WE the people don't want OUR children influenced by others.

WE see that some people only write using WE, WE believe that they have been contaminated by the WEit.

WE understand the WEit as a form of mental illness linked to overexposure to ads creating a false sense of WEism.

WE are afraid of the WEists.

OUR gov must save US.

Time to declare the war on ads and WEism.

WE the Ipeople!