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More than 53 million Muslims in Europe
World Net Daily ^ | October 22, 2005 | Wolfgang Polzer

Posted on 10/22/2005 3:34:14 PM PDT by Conservative Coulter Fan

WETZLAR, Germany – More than 53 million Muslims live in Europe – 14 million of them in the European Union, according to newly released figures.

The Central Institute's Islam Archives in Soest, Germany, says the number of Muslims in Europe has increased by 800,000 over the last two years, reports the German evangelical news agency IDEA.

The institute’s director, Salim Abdullah, says that among the 25 EU states, France has the highest number of Muslims – 5.5 million – followed by Germany with 3.2 million, the United Kingdom with 1.5 million and Italy with 1 million.

Taking into account the whole continent, Russia has 25 million Muslims and the European part of Turkey 5.9 million. The Muslim population in Germany is mostly made up of Turkish migrants. But the number of Muslims holding a German passport has risen to almost 1 million.

Muslim worship in Germany is on the rise. Approximately 200,000 take part in daily prayers and 493,000 in Friday prayers at mosques and prayer houses – an increase of more than 10 percent over last year’s figures.

Islam in Germany is a "young religion," according to the institute, which counts 850,000 Muslims as minors. One in five Muslim adolescents worships regularly.

The number of converts to Islam has reached a new high in Germany. According to the institute, more than 1,100 people changed their religion to Islam between 2004 and 2005. Approximately 60 percent of the converts were women. Most converted because they married a Muslim.

But the reverse also is true: More and more Muslims in Germany are becoming Christians. Most are Iranians in exile, who left their country after the Islamic revolution of 1979. Iranian converts estimate that each year approximately 60 Muslims are baptized in Germany.

The institute believes that more than 100,000 Iranian Shiites have converted to the Christian faith since the Islamic revolution. Most live in the United States.


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1 posted on 10/22/2005 3:34:14 PM PDT by Conservative Coulter Fan
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To: Conservative Coulter Fan
The Battle of Tours marked a decisive defeat of an Islam on the march ( 632-650?) after Mohammed's death - the destruction of the Persian Empire...capture of Egypt, Palestine, and Syria - followed by a brief interlude - then sweeping from the outer reaches of China through North Africa - beseiging Constantinople's walls and defeating the Visgothic Kingdom in Spain only to be stopped by Charles Martel in a defeat of a Tours (in modern-day France) and Leo III's defeat of the weak forces beseiging his city. Of course the crusades were a response.

Now the Left Wing in Europe has surrendered without a fight...now we're left with Eurabia!
2 posted on 10/22/2005 3:39:15 PM PDT by Conservative Coulter Fan (One of the greatet conservative accomplishments would be the undoing of FDR’s big government.)
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To: Conservative Coulter Fan
Approximately 60 percent of the converts were women. Most converted because they married a Muslim.

Dying to wear a burka, be beaten and stay in the house.

3 posted on 10/22/2005 3:39:54 PM PDT by ncountylee (Dead terrorists smell like victory)
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To: Conservative Coulter Fan
Every time a Moslem woman gives birth in France the victory of Charles Martel at Tours is forfeited in piecemeal fashion.
4 posted on 10/22/2005 3:45:22 PM PDT by fallujah-nuker (Open Borders: The RINOcracy waging class warfare against America wage earners)
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To: Conservative Coulter Fan
Now the Left Wing in Europe has surrendered without a fight...now we're left with Eurabia!

Don't give up just yet. In many ways, Europe is more awake than the U.S.

Note my tagline. The truth is just now getting its pants...and Islam is indeed the Big Lie.

We can thank Islam for saving Europe from its left wing, secular dribble. The faithful will awaken and fill the vacuum of leadership.

We know how the story ends. We just don't know how it will unfold.

5 posted on 10/22/2005 3:47:38 PM PDT by Dark Skies ("A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants." -- Churchill)
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To: Dark Skies
I hope you are right. Many German's are furious with Schröder, Fischer and Jack Straw (Blair) for getting the Turkey ascension talks with the EU going.

But the solution is a spiritual revival in Germany. Can't see it yet...
7 posted on 10/22/2005 3:58:50 PM PDT by seppel
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To: Conservative Coulter Fan
"More and more Muslims...are becoming Christians."

They'd better keep it a secret. Their fellow Muslims will kill them.

8 posted on 10/22/2005 3:59:53 PM PDT by Savage Beast (The internet is the newspaper of record.)
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To: Conservative Coulter Fan; All
Crosslinked:

Islam, The Alleged Religion of Peace® ( TARP™ )? Click this picture:

No, I am not exaggerating. Click the pic, go to "last," and read backwards.
If you are not informed about this stuff, you will be made sick. If you are informed, you will be made mad, all over again.

9 posted on 10/22/2005 4:02:03 PM PDT by backhoe (The 1990's? The Decade of Fraud(s)™...)
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To: Conservative Coulter Fan

There was another thread this weekend about Russia's population dropping to 143 million. So if 25 million are Muslim, then Russia is 1/6 Muslim. No wonder Putin walks carefully around Muslim issues.


10 posted on 10/22/2005 4:02:15 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: seppel

I don't actually have any evidence, but the laws of physics and human behavior require the filling of a vacuum with the appropriately-charged matter. The attack of Islam has a negative charge. Only Judeo/Christian faith can fill the opposing void.


11 posted on 10/22/2005 4:03:47 PM PDT by Dark Skies ("A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants." -- Churchill)
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To: Conservative Coulter Fan
Dante's Inferno come to life! Wow and this is the bunch the ratmedia and the evil donkey want us to emulate.
Puleeeeeeeeeze!
12 posted on 10/22/2005 4:15:49 PM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Bring the troops home means bring the war home.)
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To: seppel
" But the solution is a spiritual revival in Germany. Can't see it yet.."

- No, and you won't until something catastrophic happens, like if a major European city is nuked by the Islamofascists. At that point (which will certainly occur as soon as the fanatics can get their hands on a device from Iran or North Korea) the Europeans will suddenly rediscover Christianity in a big way as a means of justifying the expulsion, persecution and/ or massacre of European Muslims which will then take place.
You might be amazed at how religious some people can get if they think that their lives are threatened, and you can't fight radical Islam if your dominate belief is based on secular humanism, as it is now.
13 posted on 10/22/2005 4:16:34 PM PDT by finnigan2 (I)
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To: finnigan2

Liberals have a long history of denying or rationalizing what is in front of their face. In many ways, the essence of liberalism is to make men either forget, or be ashamed, that they are men. For this reason, I'm not sure what, if anything, will halt the Islamification of Europe.


14 posted on 10/22/2005 4:21:14 PM PDT by rbg81
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To: Conservative Coulter Fan
14 million of them in the European Union

Pretty silly to include Russia and "Turkey's european part"

15 posted on 10/22/2005 4:22:45 PM PDT by neutrality
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To: Conservative Coulter Fan
"Muslim worship in Germany is on the rise"

It's bad enough they have muslims, but they worship them too?

16 posted on 10/22/2005 4:29:42 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: Conservative Coulter Fan

btt


17 posted on 10/22/2005 4:36:18 PM PDT by Ciexyz (Let us always remember, the Lord is in control.)
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To: Conservative Coulter Fan

Tony Blankley has a new book out on this subject-"The West's Last Chance". He said-The Nazis failed to take over Europe, but Militant Islam might.


18 posted on 10/22/2005 4:38:16 PM PDT by TracyPA
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To: fallujah-nuker
Every time a Moslem woman gives birth in France the victory of Charles Martel at Tours is forfeited in piecemeal fashion.

They don't call them Islamic baby factories for nothing. They have far more children than the native Europeans so will swamp them via demographics. Just a matter of time.

19 posted on 10/22/2005 4:55:21 PM PDT by dennisw (You shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you - Bob Dylan)
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To: ncountylee

I doubt any of them really understand what they have coming to them.


20 posted on 10/22/2005 4:55:44 PM PDT by thoughtomator
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