Posted on 09/28/2012 6:55:09 AM PDT by doug from upland
A new survey reveals the dramatically changing face of religion in America, with the number of Muslims in the U.S. soaring 67% in the decade since the 9/11 attacks.
Data released Tuesday from the 2010 U.S. Religion Census shows Islam was the fastest growing religion in America in the last 10 years, with 2.6 million living in the U.S. today, up from 1 million in 2000.
Mormonism too saw remarkable growth, with a 45% increase in adherents. It added nearly 2 million members since 2000, bringing their number in the U.S. to 6.1 million. Ads by Google
"Both of these groups entered more than 200 counties that they weren't in 10 years ago," said Dale Jones, data analyst and mapping specialist for the Religion Census.
The findings represent religious people who attend services. Census surveyors collected data on congregational adherents of 236 religious groups, including full members, their children and others who regularly attend services, with a 5% margin of error.
In the Midwest and parts of the South there are now more Muslims than Jews for the first time. Immigration from parts of the Muslim world and a small rise in conversions are the driving force behind the growth, researchers said. Jones also speculated that the burst of anti-Islam sentiment after the 9/11 attacks could have done more to grow the religion's presence in the U.S. than slow it. Those on the fence about converting to Islam may have decided to do so on principle.
"Persecution is sometimes good for a religious group — in the sense of being able to attract more followers, for some reason," Jones said. "Rarely is opposition a very effective tool in stopping the growth of a movement."
Dr. Ihsan Bagby, associate proessor of Islamic studies at the University of Kentucky, agreed that any negative sentiments against Islam has only built up resiliance in the Muslim community. "You get stronger with resistance,” he said. “If everything is just peachy keen, it's hard to grow. I think the anti-Muslim atmosphere in certain segments of the public square have actually made Muslims more religious.”
The Mormon faith, formally called Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, spread beyond the "Mormon Corridor” of Utah, Idaho and parts of Nevada and Arizona, the study also found.
Christianity and Catholicism both saw a small decrease in membership, while the number of Americans who don't identify with any organized religion grew considerably, the report showed.
More than 158 million Americans fell into the “unclaimed” category — more than triple the amount of even the most popular religions in the country.
The data was collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies and released by the Association of Religion Data Archives. The full report and detailed maps are available on the ARDA website.
The Diversity Green Card Lottery Program has got to GO!
It’s gonna get us killed.
314,473,042
COMPONENT SETTINGS FOR SEPTEMBER 2012
One birth every 7 seconds
One death every 13 seconds
One international migrant (net) every 44 seconds
Net gain of one person every 12 seconds
The scary fact is that the growth in Muslim conversions has primarily been among American black Christians. And the growth in Mormon conversions have been primarily among illegal aliens from Latin America. The LDS has totally corrupted its own precepts to welcome in these lawbreakers, and many, many victims have resulted.
Most notable, a deadly incident in India against the Brits. Could the Islamist be planning such for other countries. They have alluded to it.
Isn’t a big reason for this being that after 9/11, the ME was not a very safe place, and those that could, came here to be safe?
And the infestation continues. Won’t be long now until we are discussing Sharia in place of the Constitution.
That was one of my first thoughts.
tage 1:
Start immigrating - move into a country quietly
Stage 2:
Begin starting churches: “learning centers”
community helps: food etc.
Stage 3:
Political activism: demanding rights, denounce
derogatory comments/press etc.
Stage 4:
Get elected, pass laws favoring rights etc. move toward
political majority
Stage 5:
Political control, Sharia Law
Thats it, concise and true.
They hate the West.
Why are they here ?
mark
At what size does it become logistically impossible to round up all these bastards and deport them?
These are indeed frightening statisics.
Islam was ONCE the minority “religion” in nearly every country in which it currently exists.
Didn’t Obama give an extra 80,000 visas to muslims a year or 2 ago? Anyone remember that?
To spread the Umma - the Community of “Believers” - by conversion or extermination.
Its how Islam has always acted in the past and is still operating in Ethiopia, Nigeria, the Sudan, the Phillipines and many other areas.
Yeah, and most of them live in areas where those recent converts are most likley to be found. Seems like a normal social progression.
It must have some appeal that I don’t see.
To finish what old Mo started 1400 years ago, take over the world for him.
Perhaps those that are here, don’t hate the west.
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