The number of U.S. Muslims will more than double, so you are as likely to know a Muslim here in 20 years as you are to know someone Jewish or Episcopalian today.
Those are among key findings in “The Future of the Global Muslim Population,” the first comprehensive examination of Muslims, whose numbers have been growing at a faster rate than all other groups combined.
“We’re not surprised. Our mosques and schools are already overflowing,” says Imam Johari Abdul-Malik, outreach director of a mosque in Falls Church, Va.
The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life analyzed statistics from United Nations data and census material from more than 200 countries and studies by 50 international demographers.
If immigration patterns and Muslims’ comparatively higher birth rates continue, Pew projects:
•U.S. Muslims will go from a tiny minority now, less than 1% of the nation, to 1.7%. That’s a jump from 2.6 million people in 2010 to 6.2 million.
•Muslim immigration to the USA and Muslims’ share of all new legal permanent residents will continue to rise. Most of the immigrants will arrive from South Asia, the Middle East and Africa.
•Though 64.5% of U.S. Muslims today were born abroad, that percentage will fall to 55% as the number of native-born Muslims rises.
•Worldwide, Muslims will climb from 23.4% to 26.4% of the population, going from 1.6 billion people in 2010 to 2.2 billion in 2030, concentrated in Muslim-majority countries.
Just as now, about 3% of the global Muslim population will live in the world’s most developed regions.
In several northern and eastern European nations, the percentage of Muslims will near or pass 10%, raising their political and cultural clout, particularly in urban areas.
Alan Cooperman, Pew Forum associate director of research, says the Muslim rate is “growing but slowing” and political and economic uncertainties can make dramatic shifts in projections.
“The study does not project Muslims’ religiosity or their politics,” Cooperman says. “People will say, ‘I don’t care how many Muslims there will be, I care how many radical Muslim terrorists there will be.’ But no one knows that.”
Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, says, “We Muslims need to redouble our outreach efforts because of growing challenges from the vocal minority who see us as suspect.”
(Source: USA Today)
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You can thank Kennedy for his liberization of immigration laws that ENCOURAGED non-whites to immigrate. Bush II who claimed to fight terror allowed over 500,000 Muslims to immigrate to the US and they had as many kids since 9/11. Bush makes Carter look like a good president.
Look it’s very simple. Americans don’t have children, neither do Europeans–they seem to have a death wish.
–Abortion, Toeva–anything to prevent population increase.
The leading death-wish group, Planned parenthood, is funded by the U.S. Government to the tune of $300 million dollars a year.
Muslims believe in having children–lots of them. That’s all there is to it.
Now we have to get the halachic Jews to triple rather than halve in number.
A lot of Blacks (that is the politically correct term nowadays) convert to Islam and become quite radical while in prison. The prisons are the biggest breeding growns, because most of the Blacks in prison hate the US so they share a lot in common with radical islam to begin with.
This has also contributed to the growth of the muslim population in America.
nowecant says “..You can thank Kennedy for his liberization of immigration laws that ENCOURAGED non-whites to immigrate…”
That’s about as overtly racist a comment as I’ve ever seen here…would you include Sefardim in your “non-whites” classification of undesireable untermenchen?
I wonder if you are old enough to remember the heyday of the Klan and other right wing groups that included Jews as undesireables.
Disgusting
yswo – I work in a law enforcement/corrections environment. Your little knowledge has led you to painfully inaccurate exxagerations and misstatement. As I once said to a “Conservative” Jew mouthing off on Kashrus…learn the facts before you pontificate
Nowecant’s comment may be the worst comment I’ve ever seen on a Jewish site. The immigration law that was repealed in the 1960’s (under Johnson, not Kennedy) was the one that had made it impossible for people from Eastern and Southern Europe to immigrate during the 1930s and the 1940s. As a result, six million had nowhere to flee. In addition to being overtly racist, an attitude unknown to rabbinic Judaism (Jews come in all races) it is thus supportive of policies that contributed to the genocide of our people. The commenter might find that Nazi sites like Stormfront are more in line with his philosophy.