LONDON – Most of the demographic experts predict the number of population growth European Muslim will increased rapidly in recent decades. Daily Telegraph UK, said Islamonline.net, reported the Muslim in Europe in the year 2050 is estimated to be 20% of the continent’s population is increasing because of immigration and the birth of the reduced number of European native.
According to experts demographic data gathered by the newspaper, the Muslim population of the total population of 27 countries in Europe will increase to 20%, in the year 2050. From 27 countries who have indicated will be higher proportion of Muslims in the near future is English, Spanish, and Dutch.
UK, which currently has a population of 20 million fewer than Germany, also projected the state will be the most populous in Europe in the year 2060 with a population of 77 million.
In 2009, the number of Muslims in France to reach 9% of the total population. In cities such as Marseilles and Rotterdam, number reached 25%. In London and Copenhagen, Muslim population of 10% of the total population.
Spain is a country with the increasing number of the largest Muslim population with the inclusion of one million immigrants to the country of Morocco in the last few years.
Meanwhile, in Belgium, the names most often found is the name of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad as, Adam, Royan, Ayyub, Mahdi, Amin, and Hamzah.
Demographic data about the growth rate of Islam shows that the increasing number of Muslim countries in the non-Muslims due to immigration, especially by (in the Western countries) and the birthrate is higher (in the world).
In 2006, countries with majority Muslim population growth has a number of average 1.8% per year. Compare the numbers of the world population growth is only 1:12% per year.
Demographic Time bomb called Islam
Results of the survey like reported by Daily Telegraph has triggered accusations that it failed policies against challenges from the “demographic time bomb.” Experts say there is less discussion of how population changes will affect areas of life ranging from education and housing to foreign policy and a pension.
Estimated, the politicians, especially the European Union the right to seek the stopping of Muslim imigrants inclusion in the near future in order to maintain a balance atsmosfer countries the European Union.
“The EU is a political need for the policy problem for the progress of immigrants, without the thorns that will be a problem in the future,” said Angel Goergia, Secretary General of Organization Assistance and Economic Growth.
According to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, The World Christian Database in 2007 with the estimate of six religious growth is most rapid Islam (1.8%), confidence Bahai’i flow (1.7%), Sikhism (1.62%), Jainism (1.57%), Hinduism (1.52%), and Christian (1.32%). The high number of birth referred to as the cause of the growth is.
Monsignor Vittorio Formenti, who prepared Vatican yearbook, said in an interview with the Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano that “For the first time in history, we no longer are in the top Muslim friction has been our position.” He said that the number of people Catholics are 17.4% of the total world population, while Muslims reached 19.2%. “It is true that the Muslim families, as is already known, continue to bear many offspring, rather, a little more Christian families have children,” he said.
Also mentioned in a number of claims that the increase in the number of Muslims due to the many people who enter Islam. However, the number of converted data are difficult to verify.
For example, the New York Times has claimed that 25% Muslim United States is converted. In the UK, there are also claims that around 10,000 to 20,000 people converted to Islam each year.
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