Comments on: Muslim Demographics: We’re Taking Over the World?

By: Samantha

Samantha — Wed, 20 May 2009 19:37:17 +0000

I am a Christian and I personally am not afraid of Islam. I am afraid of the false believers that hide behind the faith. If you are a true follower of any religion I believe there must compassion and caring for each other no matter your religion.
I think many Americans are afraid simply because of the Taliban hiding behind Islam and why shouldn't they be? The Taliban does not want to educate their people, they envoke fear and destruction.

By: Samantha

Samantha — Wed, 20 May 2009 13:37:17 +0000

By: Guest

Guest — Fri, 15 May 2009 16:41:08 +0000

funny how none of these comments acutlly comes up with any facts to direpute the videos claims,just its obviously bias or obviously wrong.

By: @Spartz

@Spartz — Tue, 05 May 2009 15:39:30 +0000

I hope by that time we’ll see that the dominance of one group of people over another is not the way. I also wonder what it means for the development of Islam as a religion. Look at the many sects of Christianity – what will the growth of Islam mean for the various Sufist streams, Sunnism, Shiitism (?), Bahai, strict conservativists or moderate Muslims that might lean towards secularism?

It will be an interesting time and possibly with more Muslim-on-Muslim violence. (eg. Iraq, Pakistan, some Northern African states).

I’m happy to have lived in Istanbul, so that I’m at least a little prepared for the changing demographics

By: ibn ayyub

ibn ayyub — Sun, 03 May 2009 18:45:05 +0000

As-salamu `alaykum,

Thanks for posting this!

BarakAllahu feekum

ibn ayyub

By: Perplxintexan

Perplxintexan — Fri, 01 May 2009 23:43:40 +0000

I found that video to be slightly amusing, which is proabably not the best thing. Much of the infromation was either obvioulsy biased or false. I hate to be the one to say it but, could fertility and increase in Islamic marriages possibly be cause for the recent spike? I vote yes. But, this is not to deny the many converts that continue to introduce a positive Islam to thier families,co-workers, and neighbors.

By: phil

phil — Fri, 01 May 2009 21:22:12 +0000

One of the interesting things ive seen in stuff written at the turn of the 19/20 century is that at that time the estimated number of muslims was 200-300 million.

But yeah, we should remember the lesson from the prophetic era that numbers by themselves will not give us success/victory.

Reminds me of a saying from a book i am reading, “Islam is a religion without men/people and Christianity is people without a religion”.

By: Hamza

Hamza — Fri, 01 May 2009 20:06:05 +0000

thanks, very interesting, where are you getting your stats from?

By: Kiran

Kiran — Fri, 01 May 2009 13:58:50 +0000

The video is not that accurate. Currently over 32% of the world population is Christian. The Christian world community is growing with 1.8% per year, which is just a little under the growth rate of the world population 1.85%. The Muslim world population is currently 23% and growing at over 2.5% a year. Islam is the only world religion (not counting Bahai or Zoroastrians) which beat the generic growth of world population. Islam will attain parity with Christianity between 2035 and 2040, not before.

However, the growth is largely driven by fertility rate, whereas the Christian growth is sustained by larger conversion rates than Muslims. For instance, in year 1900 only 10% of Africa was Christian. In year 2000 45% of Africa was Christian. In year 2010 Africa will be 50% Christian. Muslim da’wa is in other words well behind Christian missionary efforts.