Is Islam going to dominate the world? Nearly 1 in 4 people worldwide is Muslim, report says

Nearly one in four people worldwide is Muslim — and they are not necessarily where you might think, according to an extensive new study that aims to map the global Muslim population. India, a majority-Hindu country, has more Muslims than any country except for Indonesia and Pakistan, and more than twice as many as Egypt.

China has more Muslims than Syria.

Germany has more Muslims than Lebanon.

And Russia has more Muslims than Jordan and Libya put together.

Nearly two out of three of the world’s Muslims are in Asia, stretching from Turkey to Indonesia.

The Middle East and north Africa, which together are home to about one in five of the world’s Muslims, trail a very distant second.

There are about 1.57 billion Muslims in the world, according to the report, “Mapping the Global Muslim Population,” by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life. That represents about 23 percent of the total global population of 6.8 billion.

There are about 2.25 billion Christians, based on projections from the 2005 World Religions Database.

Brian Grim, the senior researcher on the Pew Forum project, was slightly surprised at the number of Muslims in the world, he told CNN.

“Overall, the number is higher than I expected,” he said, noting that earlier estimates of the global Muslim population have ranged from 1 billion to 1.8 billion.

The report can — and should — have implications for United States policy, said Reza Aslan, the best-selling Iranian-American author of “No God but God.”

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com


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So what? If it weren’t religion that we fought over it would be nationality, and if not that then something else. People are people - and we are all good and we are all evil.

What this describes is the current wave of Muslim peoples that were ordered by their prophet Mohammed to go out and seize control of nations for Islam. The first wave went out from what is now Saudi Arabia while he was still alive, conquering by the sword. This has ALWAYS been the major thrust of their religion - to dominate. No one and nothing comes before their version of God. This is why you see large movements of Muslim people settling in places like Britain, Scandinavia, the Americas. No place is off-limits to them, they don’t need to stay in the Middle East since their God travels with them. And all these nations stupidly let them in. They have every intention of taking over and have no compunction about lying through their teeth to your face to do it. You mean nothing to them. What people don’t understand is that religion does not like competition so science and business take a back seat to religion in the countries they do dominate. That means no scientific advances and little wealth created. They aim for a global caliphate with all the wealth aimed upwards not downwards. The people who will run things are not very bright and certainly not creative. Art and literature will be stifled and rigidly controlled.
Is that the kind of world we want to have?

Wow Carole, you sound like a Nazi. I don’t know where you get your facts, but you are FOS. Perhaps you should actually look into what is a Muslim rather than getting your facts from Fox news. Or is doing your own homework too hard? I guess you would rather be spoon fed.

1 in 4 world wide is a Muslim? Does this mean that misogynists are winning? that religions which propagate the rape, killing, lack of rights, be quiet and use the “non-existent” black dress is more appealing to men? cause this is a report of what MEN want, what MEN wish and they wish to dominate their women. In the over all ALL religions known to MEN are WRONG as in the SEPARATISM all religions brainwash their members: My book about God is better than yours, My Group of Humans is the ONLY BELOVED by God, MY choice of the name I use for God is the REAL ONE not yours, MY GOD LOVES MY GROUP and HATES YOURS. etc… So, the real question is WHEN are STUPID HUMANS going to REALIZE that IF there is a LIMITLESS GOD they so respect and love then EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE EXISTS WITHIN the Limitlessness of it ALL- and GOD loves us ALL not just this or that stupid group.

Carole, for a person who comments on intelligence, art, creativity, you by far have demonstrated you own any of the attributes yourself. Have you ever read the Quaran ( Islam’s holy book)? Do you know there was more science governance in that book then any before it? Do you understand that mathematics, especially alegebra and geometry stemmed from present day Iraq under Muslim rule? Have you ever considered that Muslims are not just brown people who wear a head covering, they are asian, european / caucasian, black, white, different people of different heritages who decided that Islam was a religion they wanted for themselves, not a sword wheelin dictator who made them convert? Do you realize that the prophet Muhammed (Islam’s prophet) never conquered a land / territory that belonged to others outside of the Muslim faith? Do your research. And to finally to answer your last question “Is that the kind of world we want to have?” Ask yourself the more important question ; In a society that provides knowledge literally at your fingertips, is there any room for continued ignorance like you have displayed in our world? Wake up to what is around you, arm yourself with knowledge, replace your ignorance with intelligence.

to Carole Clarke,

you wrote : “The first wave went out from what is now Saudi Arabia while he was still alive, conquering by the sword. This has ALWAYS been the major thrust of their religion “.
Do you know how Islam was introduces in Indonesia “the largest Muslim country in the world” ??? it wasn’t by sword as you have mentioned. do your research if you are interested in knowing facts rather than imagination.

The way they treat Women I’m suprised there’s that there’s
that many. Oh that’s right, if the Woman doesn’t want sex
the Husbands entitled to dose her with acid.

To traitors ben, aziz and Mark

A follower of Omar Bakri Mohammed, the exiled British cleric, claims that the U.S. & Britain will be overthrown by Muslims from within or conquered by Muslims from without. The links in his sidebar clear show that “Duaat” is a Bakri follower, including links to several “Ahlus Sunnah wal jama’ah” organizations and a direct link to Barki’s own webpage.

You’ll most likely remember Bakri’s followers through their U.S. branch at The Islamic Thinkers Society holding up this sign, “Islam will dominate the world, freedom go to hell”

Hizb ut Tahrir, a worlwide political organization declares thus…

So how will Islam dominate the world? Most likely by force! If the people do not embrace Islam and implement the Sharee’ah on their own accord, it becomes an obligation upon the Muslims to fight and implement Islam. In countries such as Britain and America, their people have clearly rejected to embrace Islam and will never choose to live by the Sharee’ah.
Therefore, the only two ways in which these countries [ed: ie, Britain and America] can become under the domain of Islam is by the last two options, a group of Muslims rise and overthrow the government, or an Islamic state is established elsewhere and comes to conquer these nations.

end quote…

Therefore you have been decieved by the muslims and are a tool of their nazi propaganda. They are the real nazis…. for they declared “Prepare for the REAL holocaust”

So accusing my comrades in freedom nazis is just another leftist slurr from the real intollerable neo nazis… the Muslims and their blood sucking supoporters.

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