Fastest growing religion

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Data for Islam reveals that the growing number of Muslims in the world is due primarily to the higher than average birth-rates, and consequent population growths of Muslim countries and communities.

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[edit] The Growth of Islam

  • In 2006, countries with a Muslim majority had an average population growth rate of 1.8% per year (when weighted by percentage Muslim and population size).[1] This compares with a world population growth rate of 1.12% per year.[2]
  • According to the World Christian Encyclopaedia, between 1990 and 2000, Islam received around 865,558 converts each year. This compares with an approximate 2,883,011 converts each year for Christianity during the same period.[3]
  • A United Nations' survey showed that between 1989 and 1998, Europe's Muslim population grew by more than 100 percent, due mainly to the effects of immigration from Muslim countries. Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance have an unsourced claim of 2.9% per year.

[edit] In America

Contrary to what Muslims claim, Islam is not the fastest growing religion in America, and quoting news broadcasters and politicians (who get their information from CAIR) does not make it true. Here are the facts from Adherents.com[4]

From the ARIS polls, 1990 and 2000, percent of change:

  1. Deity (Deist) +717%
  2. Sikhism +338%
  3. New Age +240%
  4. Hinduism +237%
  5. Baha'i +200%
  6. Buddhism +170%
  7. Native American Religion +119%
  8. Nonreligious/Secular +110%
  9. Islam +109%
  10. Taoist +74%
  11. Humanist +69%
  12. Eckankar +44%
  13. Unitarian Universalist +25%
  14. Scientology +22%
  15. Christianity +5%
  16. Judaism -10%
  17. Agnostic -16%
  • The American Religious Identification Survey gave Non-Religious groups the largest gain in terms of absolute numbers - 14,300,000 (8.4% of the population) to 29,400,000 (14.1% of the population) for the period 1990 to 2001 in the USA.[5] [6] Also, Americans with no religion were the fastest growing segment from 2001 to 2008. [7]
  • According to the Cultural Orientation Resource Center,[8] a massive 60% of all refugees admitted into the United States are from Muslim countries.
  • Contrary to the bloated figures provided by CAIR, and even the President of the United States, and in spite of the massive influx of Muslim refugees, a Pew survey carried-out in October, 2009 found the estimate for the total Muslim population of the U.S to be at only 2.454 million.[9] Percentage-wise, Islam represents a minuscule 0.8 percent of the United States religious make-up. About a third of what had previously been claimed and widely accepted by many apologists and media outlets.
  • According to research carried out by the respected Pakistani-born American Muslim Dr. Ilyas Ba-Yunus (1932 - 2007),[10] 75% of New Muslim Converts in the US leave Islam within a few years.

[edit] In Russia

There is a wide spread myth that there are around 20 million Russian Muslims and that vast amounts of Russians are converting to Islam. In reality, there are only about 7 to 9 million Muslims in Russia and less than 3,000 ethnic Russians have converted to Islam within the last fifteen years.

For the same period almost 2 million ethic Muslims have become Orthodox Christians. Over 400 Russian Orthodox clergy belong to traditionally Muslim ethnic groups, 20 percent of Tatars are Christian, and 70 percent of interfaith marriages result in the Muslim spouse conversion to Christianity.[11]

[edit] In Britain

Families headed by a Muslim are more likely than other families to have children living with them. Nearly three quarters (73 per cent) had at least one dependent child in the family in 2001, compared with two fifths of Jewish (41 per cent) and Christian (40 per cent) families.

Muslim families also had the largest number of children. Over a quarter (27 per cent) of Muslim families had three or more dependent children, compared with 14 per cent of Sikh, 8 per cent of Hindu, and 7 per cent of Christian families.

The larger proportion of families with children and larger family sizes is partly a reflection of the younger age structure of the Muslim population, but may also reflect their intentions to have larger families. Many Muslims have a Pakistani or Bangladeshi background and it has been shown that these ethnic groups intend to have on average over 3 children, compared with around 2 for the White population.[12]
April 2001

[edit] Logical Fallacy

Even if Islam were to be the fastest growing religion in the world then it would be an Argumentum ad populum to claim that that makes it the correct religion.

[edit] References

  1. ↑ Averaging of individual country figures from CIA factbook
  2. ↑ CIA Factbook
  3. ↑ Global statistics for all religions: 2001 AD. www.bible.ca. Accessed 2006-12-26.
  4. ↑ Largest Religious Groups in the United States of America - Adherents.com
  5. ↑ American Religious Identification Survey, Key Findings The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
  6. ↑ American Religious Identification Survey, Full PDF Document The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
  7. ↑ Fastest Growing Religion = No Religion (New Religious Identification Survey) (original pdf report | website)
  8. ↑ Cultural Orientation Resource Center - US Refugee Program: Current Fiscal Year Admission Statistics - Updated October 2009 cal.org
  9. ↑ Patrick Goodenough, International Editor - New Survey on Islam Calls Into Question Population Figure Used by Obama CNSNews.com - Friday, October 09, 2009
  10. ↑ Dr. Ilyas Ba-Yunus, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, State University of New York at Cortland
  11. ↑ 20Mln Muslims in Russia and mass conversion of ethnic Russians are myths - expert interfax-religion.com
  12. ↑ Muslim families most likely to have children - National Statistics, UK

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