Woman Between Islam and Western Society
4. The Problems Facing Modern Civilization
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formative stage. Being one of this new breed of
fathers, he said, “I’m a convert to this way of life.”
Having reached the culmination of his ideology,
modern man is acknowledging his mistakes, but
due to the powerful domination of previous
concepts in modern society, the advocates of this
change in thinking do not dare to reveal their
names.
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THE PROBLEM OF POPULATION
A book published in the U.S., entitled
The Birth
Dearth,
has become a hot subject of discussion in
various circles. In the light of statistics, the author
showed that the population of the U.S. and other
western countries had decreased to a dangerous
extent. On the other hand the birth rate in the
socialist block was increasing. And so far as the
third world was concerned, its population will
double that of the western world in the next fifty
years. Consequently, America in the 21
st
century
will lose its world power status. Similarly the whole
western world will acquire second class status in
international politics. The solution, according to one
critic of the book, lies is slipping back to “the
