The Looming Shadow: It's time to confront an uncomfortable truth, unchecked Islamic expansion poses an existential threat to Western civilization

American Thinker ^ | 11/01/2025 | Kevin Finn

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It's time to confront an uncomfortable truth: unchecked Islamic expansion poses an existential threat to Western civilization. Islam operates less as a religion and more as a totalitarian ideology cloaked in faith, demanding submission while rejecting assimilation. This "religion of intolerance" fosters violence and cultural conquest, exploiting democratic openness to erode the very freedoms that enable it.

Islam is the world's fastest-growing faith -- surging by 347 million adherents from 2010 to 2020 alone, outpacing all others combined. Action is imperative to safeguard our heritage. By 2050, Muslims will number nearly 2.8 billion, comprising 30% of the global population, up from 23% in 2010 -- a 73% increase driven by high fertility rates, youthful demographics, and migration. In Europe, the Muslim share could reach 10-14% by mid-century, with countries like France, Belgium, and Sweden approaching double digits by 2030 and beyond.

The United States, once a distant outlier at 0.8% Muslim in 2010, will see its numbers surge to 8.1 million (2.1%) by 2050, rivaling Episcopalians in influence. While non-Western nations like India, Nigeria, and Indonesia top lists for absolute growth -- adding tens of millions each -- these shifts are expanding westward.

This not benign diversity, but a slow-motion invasion, where higher birth rates (averaging 2.9 children per Muslim woman versus 2.6 for non-Muslims) and chain migration outpace native populations, tilting societies toward Sharia's shadow. Dr. Peter Hammond's seminal analysis in Slavery, Terrorism and Islam.The Historical Roots and Contemporary Threat illuminates the mechanics of this takeover, outlining a chilling progression tied to population thresholds.

Below 2%, Muslims appear as peaceful minorities, as in the U.S. (now at +1%). But crossing 2-5% -- seen in the U.K. (2.7%) and Germany (3.7%) -- triggers recruitment in prisons and gangs, halal demands in schools, and subtle supremacism.

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At 5-10%, as in France (8-10%), riots erupt over cartoons or hijab bans, with car burnings in Paris suburbs signaling lawlessness as protest. By 20%, jihad militias form, churches burn, and sporadic murders target "infidels," echoing Ethiopia's 32% Muslim volatility. Hammond's stages culminate in 60-80% dominance, where Sharia enforces jizya taxes on non-believers, ethnic cleansing rages, and freedoms vanish -- witness Lebanon's slide from Christian plurality to Hezb’allah's grip or Sudan's genocidal purges.

Europe, now the canary in the coal mine, exemplifies this peril. In Birmingham, a 30% Muslim city, Jews face bans from districts, harbingers of a "no-go" caliphate.

[Williams]

Bingo and even Duh!

[TexasFreeper2009]

islam was created by evil satan worshipers to take advantage of Christians call to turn the other cheek

[woweeitsme]

What about Dearbornistan? Is is a harbinger of things to come to the US? Heck, NYC is gonna elect a Muslim mayor! Imagine if I told you that on 9/12/2001?

[reasonisfaith]

“It’s time to confront an uncomfortable truth: unchecked Islamic expansion poses an existential threat to Western civilization.”

Excellent observation. Although we on this site have been confronting it for more than two decades.

[Apparatchik]

This is a necessary development for the approaching end time. False religion promoted by Satan becomes the most popular in the world and Christians begun being persecuted and even hunted down.

[reasonisfaith]

And let’s not forget. The globalist expansion poses an existential threat to the entire globe.

[RossA]

Don’t forget: at 10% dogs disappear.

[Islander7]

Gee, Kevin, where have you been for last 1,000 years?

[irishjuggler]

“..., rivaling Episcopalians in influence. “

Cute that the author thinks that Episcopalians are still relevant. Sure, Kevin, maybe in 1955. Never mind 2050. There are way more Muslims in mosques NOW than there are Episcopalians in churches. Seriously, how many Episcopalians will turn up to church on Sunday in the U.S.? 200,000, 300K? There are easily 10x that many Muslims in mosques.

[Uncle Miltie]

islam is a totalitarian death cult founded by a child rapist.

I’ve been posting that for well over a decade.

I’ve been to Israel to volunteer inside the IDF to defend Western Civilization against this mortal threat.

Europe is gone.

Will we be next?

[cymbeline]

The uncomfortable truth is that western civilization is becoming too wimpy.

[drypowder]

unchecked Islamic expansion poses an existential threat to Western civilization

Anyone with a working rational brain can see the undeniable and absolute truth in this statement. Death to America from inside its gate has never been so serious.

[MacNaughton]

[phormer phrog phlyer]

The religion of peace doing what they do for 1400 years.

[from occupied ga]

Nothing new here. In 1453 Constantinople fell to the Muslim hordes of the Ottoman empire. They still have the same Koran, the same attitude toward non-muslims, the same attitude toward women, etc. In short they're the same.

They need to be treated the same as they were at the gates of Vienna in 1683. Two hundred and 30 years they continued to try and conquer Europe. Does anyone thing that they've changed their minds about world conquest today? If you do Move to NYC and vote for Mamdani

[Dr. Franklin]

Polish King Jan II Sobieski defeated the Turks before the walls of Vienna, and now the elites in Europe invited them back as economic refugees. Now, Europe’s women aren’t safe on the streets from the Muzzie rapists.

[Bigg Red]

mark

[MayflowerMadam]

Really. They’re just figuring this out NOW? We’ve been aware for decades.

[Varda]

Europe is gone because they refused to make families (husband and wife) and have children. I was walking around in Europe 25 years ago and I could see it was a dead man walking.
Anywhere you looked, the cafe's, the parks, churches was all adults, zero to few children.
Complaining about Muslims is like complaining about the rats that come to eat the dead bodies during a war.

Is the US next? Maybe if the excuses I see on FR are any indication. “Wives have to work, “takes two salaries” , “90k income needs health subsidies”
All these mean people are valuing other things over children. There are cheaper options to live but they're further away from cities, aren't near relatives and don't have “good” schools.
So yes if conservatives who have more children than liberals believe this than the US is next.