Posted on 06/19/2017 1:51:04 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
During the last centuries, the number of Muslims in the world has been increasing steadily. Statistics for the year 2010 are telling us that the Muslim population is 1.6 billion. 1 In 1973 the Muslim population was only 0.5 billion. 2 Many Muslims believe that Islam will be the world’s religion in future, because Islam is growing. However new statistics show that Islam is dying a slow death. The following reasons:
1. Decline in birth rate under Muslims
For many centuries, Islam was growing because of a higher birth rate. However, since last decades birth rate is declining fast. From 1990-2010 the world birth rate declined from 3.40 to 2.56. A fall of 0.84 births per women or a birth rate decline of 25% over the 20 years. The average birth rate for the Muslim majority countries declined in the same period from 5.25 to 3.00. A Muslim birth rate decline of 43% over the 20 years. Extrapolation of the statistics shows that the Muslim birth rate will go below world average. The Birth rate of 49 Muslim countries is -40%, while worldwide average is -33%. There is an extraordinary decline in birth rate under Muslims.
The decline of the birth rate is visible in many Muslim countries, including Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, Tunisia and Turkey. Muslim birth rate decrease in Iran is one of the greatest records in history. There are many more Muslim countries with a birth rate decrease of 60% or more: Albania, Algeria, Bangladesh, Kuwait, Libya, Oman, Qatar, Tunisia, and the United Arab Emirates. A Muslim woman has today 2.6 less babies than her mother, which is a faster decline than worldwide average.
Extrapolation of the statistics show that Muslim growth rate will go down. A stable population needs a birth rate of 2.1 children. That means that the Muslim population will decrease both relative and absolute. It also means that it is the main reason that Islam is a fast dying religion. Unlike Christianity, Islam is not able to grow much by conversion, see next paragraph.
2. Low growth by conversion compared with Christianity
There are more conversions to Islam than conversions to most other religions. However, there are almost three times more conversions to Christianity than to Islam. For example, in Africa more than 6 million Muslims become a Christian 7. Therefore Islam is not able to grow faster than Christianity by conversions. Muslim converts leave Islam soon: Muslim sociologist Dr. Ilyas Ba-Yunus has published that 75% of New Muslim converts in the U.S. leave Islam within a 3 years. Because birth rate of Muslims went below world average and Islam cannot compensate with conversions, Islam is dying, while Christianity is growing.
3. Decline in marriage rate under Muslims
More and more Muslim women are marrying a husband who isn’t a Muslim. Lots of educated Muslims discover the weakness and barren elements of Islam. The higher education of Muslims and the improved information channels have brought about the slow death of Islam.
4. Muslim growth will be less than Christian growth in near future
India is one of the countries in the world with a large Muslim population. According to statistics of the Indian government, Muslims still have a higher growth rate than Christians, but the differences are lower every year.
What causes a higher growth? Higher fertility rates, higher immigration and lower mortality rate, but fertility rate is most important. What causes a high fertility rate? Low education of women and low budget. Muslims are the poorest group in India, while Christians belong to the most richest. Although Christians are rich and Muslims poor and Christians have a lower fertility rate than Muslims, the growth of Christians is the same as the average population in India. This is because of conversion of Hindus and Muslims to Christianity. From the Indian government statistics in 2015 we may expect that the growth of Christian will be higher than the groth of Muslims after 2030.
5. Islam is an anti-intellectual religion
Because a Muslim must accept only the Qur’an as source of truth since 12th century, free thinking is forbidden. The rise of the historical research and its application to the Qur’an and Islam in general means there is nothing new in the Qur’an that was not available before 7th century. The Qur’an is not able to withstand the onslaught of Western scientific thought. Many Christians have accepted the results of science, adjusted their beliefs accordingly. Muslims have yet to take even this first step.
Therefore Islam is against the intellect and a Muslim cannot get the same level of intellectual benefits as Christians.
6. Economic backwardness in Muslim countries
The forbidden free thinking stopped effective modernization of the economy of Muslim countries. The result is that there is economic poverty of most Muslim countries. The Sharia only reflects the social and economic conditions of the 7th century society in Arabia. Therefore, more and more Muslims come to the conclusion that the Qur’an is not the answer for all the problems in the modern world. The principles in the Qur’an are an obstacle to moral progress. Today, Muslim countries are the poorest in the world. Many Muslims immigrate to rich countries with many Christians.
7. Moral decline under Muslims
Muhammad cannot be put on the same moral plane as Jesus Christ or other great spiritual people. The worst legacy of Muhammad was his insistence that the Qur’an was the literal word of God, and once and for all, closing the possibility of new intellectual ideas and freedom of thought.
8. Conclusion
Birth rate statistics, marriage rate are declining for Muslims and they are moving below world average. This means that Muslim population cannot grow faster than Christianity. Furthermore there are strong indications that the worldwide Muslim population is declining. Islam is outdated in 21th century and doesn't fit in our modern world. A Muslim has the option to select faith in Jesus Christ as way to Paradise, personal relation with God, and to be an ambassador for God's moral values.
1. Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life, The Future of the Global Muslim Population, 2011.
2. The CIA World Fact Book, Edition 2008.
3. Robert Spencer, Islam Unveiled. Disturbing questions about The World’s Fastest-Growing Faith, Encounter Books, San Francisco, 2002, p. 121-123.
4. Nicholas Eberstadt, Fertility Decline in the Muslim World: A Veritable Sea-Change, Still Curiously Unnoticed, 2012, http://www.aei.org/press/foreign-and-defense-policy/fertility-decline-in-the-muslim-world-a-veritable-sea-change-still-curiously-unnoticed-release/.
5. The CIA World Fact Book, Editions 1998-2009.
6. Nicholas Eberstadt and Apoorva Shah, Fertility Decline in the Muslim World, in: Policy Review, Hoover Institution Stanford University, June 1, 2012.
7.The Muslim Times, Six Million African Muslims Convert to Christianity Each Year?, http://themuslimtimes.info/2012/04/18/six-million-african-muslims-convert-to-christianity-each-year/.
8.Ilyas Ba-Yunus, Sociological and demographical survey of American Muslims.
9. Indian government, Census, NFHS, NSS, 2015. 10. Surjit S. Bhalla, Census, Christians, Conversions, The Indian Express, September 1, 2015.
11. Robert Spencer, Islam Unveiled. Disturbing questions about The World’s Fastest-Growing Faith, Encounter Books, San Francisco, 2002, p. 121-123.
12. Ibn Warraq, Why I am not a Muslim, Prometheus, New York, 1995, p. 33.
13. Ibid, p. 171.
14. Ibn Warraq, Why I am not a Muslim, Prometheus, New York, 1995, p. 350.
Pollyanna post.
The sooner it’s dead, the better.
The sooner it’s dead, the better.
Not dead. On a dying trajectory.
Many Christians have accepted the results of science, adjusted their beliefs accordingly. “””
Oh, really? The Church regarded Science as the means by which God’s secrets were uncovered. So they were pretty much down with whatever science uncovered.
I say we should help it decline...drastically.
They must have forgotten to check Canada. They’re coming out of the woodwork up here.
The future must not belong to those who deny the true nature of Islam
John Quincy Adams on Islam
In the seventh century of the Christian era, a wandering Arab of the lineage of Hagar, the Egyptian, combining the powers of transcendent genius, with the preternatural energy of a fanatic, and the fraudulent spirit of an impostor, proclaimed himself as a messenger from Heaven, and spread desolation and delusion over an extensive portion of the earth. Adopting from the sublime conception of the Mosaic law, the doctrine of one omnipotent God; he connected indissolubly with it, the audacious falsehood, that he was himself his prophet and apostle. Adopting from the new Revelation of Jesus, the faith and hope of immortal life, and of future retribution, he humbled it to the dust, by adapting all the rewards and sanctions of his religion to the gratification of the sexual passion. He poisoned the sources of human felicity at the fountain, by degrading the condition of the female sex, and the allowance of polygamy; and he declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind. THE ESSENCE OF HIS DOCTRINE WAS VIOLENCE AND LUST: TO EXALT THE BRUTAL OVER THE SPIRITUAL PART OF HUMAN NATURE.
Between these two religions, thus contrasted in their characters, a war of twelve hundred years has already raged. That war is yet flagrant; nor can it cease but by the extinction of that imposture, which has been permitted by Providence to prolong the degeneracy of man. While the merciless and dissolute dogmas of the false prophet shall furnish motives to human action, there can never be peace upon earth, and good will towards men. The hand of Ishmael will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him. It is, indeed, amongst the mysterious dealings of God, that this delusion should have been suffered for so many ages, and during so many generations of human kind, to prevail over the doctrines of the meek and peaceful and benevolent Jesus (Blunt, 1830,
There needs to be a massive campaign to foment distrust and anger among the various muzzie sects by saying that the other sects are very very close to perpetrating massive attacks on them in the very near future on their home soil. In the name of Allah, of course. Then sit back and watch as they take each other out in big numbers. Sunni, Shia and Wahhabists all going jihad on each other.
Those who attribute the intellectual atmosphere of those days to something in Islam have to do so by ignoring where it in fact originated (pagan and later Christian Rome and Byzantium) and that there's been literally no advancement beyond them for almost a thousand years. At its heart Islam is the most anti-intellectual and rigidly superstitious religion on Earth, its followers willing to subscribe to incredibly ignorant and stupid beliefs (flying horses, desert demons, flat Earth ....).
I’m 50 years, will there be any religion at all?
Fake news! Those animals are reproducing like rabbits and they teach them to hate at the same age they learn to walk.
Is the adverse genetic effect of first-cousin marriage a factor in the decline of the muslim birth rate?
I think you are being incredibly naive. Islam has been around 1400 years, and the West and Christianity defeated them in 1571. Lefist has been around a little over 100 years. And leftism has almost completely destroyed Western ideas and Christianity and killed many more people. Islam is not a threat., leftism is.
mohammedanism is anti-reality, anti-human nature, and repulsive to reason. Good riddance to bad rubbish
Probably not. Belief in the Greek gods is less dangerous and created more civil societies than Islam.
** there are almost three times more conversions to Christianity than to Islam. **
Lots of evangelizing for all Christians (Catholics too) to do!
There is nothing in Christian dogma that needs to be “adjusted” in response to science. Unless one holds the unscientific dogma that “science” proves that a man cannot rise from the dead.
Most Muslims are MINO’s. They go to mosque due to peer pressure. Much of it is cultural. They are Muslim because their parents are Muslim.
We have 2 mosques here because they can’t get along. They drink like fish and the men have sex with other men. And they love bacon. It’s nothing like you expect. There is no expectation of piety.
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