Posted on 10/08/2009 8:02:29 AM PDT by traumer
The global Muslim population stands at 1.57 billion, meaning that nearly 1 in 4 people in the world practise Islam, a landmark study has claimed.
Britain has a total of 1,647,000 Muslims - just 2.7 per cent of the British population, and 0.1 per cent of the global Muslim population, the report claimed.
The Pew Forum report also revealed that Germany has more Muslims than Lebanon - or North and South America combined.
It claimed that about five per cent of Europe's population practises Islam - and that there are more Muslims living in Asia than in the Middle East.
Until now, experts have largely been guessing at the precise number of Muslims in the world, with estimates from one billion to 1.8 billion.
But the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life report, released today, finally pinpoints the number of those practising the world's second largest religion, behind Christianity.
The three-year-long project also provided some surprising statistics. For instance, Germany has more Muslims than Lebanon, China has more Muslims than Syria, Russia has more Muslims than Jordan and Libya combined, and Ethiopia has nearly as many Muslims as Afghanistan.
'This whole idea that Muslims are Arabs and Arabs are Muslims is really just obliterated by this report,' said Amaney Jamal, an assistant professor of politics at Princeton University who reviewed an advance copy.
The report provides further evidence that while the heart of Islam might beat in the Middle East, its greatest numbers lie in Asia: More than 60 per cent of the world's Muslims live in Asia.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Muslim nations do not permit a freedom of religion.
It is like declaring how much Atheism was spreading around the world because the Soviets didn't tolerate Christianity or Judaism.
...and the british people are leaving by thousands each month.
We are told that the Jews need to "move on" and that it is wrong for Christians to try to renew Christianity in the Middle East (where it began) because these are "muslim lands".
When did Mohammed ever go to Asia?
The terrorists are among you, so be on guard.
What a blessing.
“Britain has a total of 1,647,000 Muslims - just 2.7 per cent of the British population, and 0.1 per cent of the global Muslim population, the report claimed.”
The degree to which britian changes law and practice to accomodate this population simply makes no sense to me in terms of %’s. From what is in the news, you would think the country was 25% muslim.
With that many, the Brits might as well head for the cliffs of Dover and jump. They have a very unstable minority.
It’s one thing for the Brits to turn over their culture to moslems, but they are harboring terrorist inciters and not allowing anyone to speak the truth against it. That has an effect on our safety.
At the pace they’re reproducing, in 20 years they will be able to elect a muslim president.
oh wait, they already have.
Yep...a very unstable minority. I call it a suicide pill.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.