--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So if what some are saying comes true, and if 50-100 years France and > Germany become majority Muslim states, do you feel these states will > be better or worse off for non-Muslims and women? What about people > who are not "of the book", like , Atheists, Hindus and Buddhists? > What about human rights in general?
The Islamification of Europe Simon Kuper Financial Times, August 19 2007 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/123ade02-4e6f-11dc-85e7-0000779fd2ac.html Excerpts: ...Bernard Lewis, a scholar of Islam, cited the immigration from Muslim countries and relatively high birth-rates of immigrants as trends that mean "Europe will have Muslim majorities in the population by the end of the twenty-first century at the latest." Most academics who have analysed the demographics dismiss such predictions. Jytte Klausen, a professor of politics at Brandeis University who studies European Muslims, says: "It's being advocated by people who don't consult the numbers. All these claims are really emotional claims." Sometimes they are made by Muslim or far-right groups, who share an interest in exaggerating the numbers. Nominal Muslims whether religious or not account for 3-4 per cent of the European Union's total population of 493m. Their percentage should rise, but far more modestly than the extreme predictions. That is chiefly because Muslims, both in Europe and the main "emigrating countries" of Turkey and north Africa, are having fewer babies. [ ] The US National Intelligence Council predicts there will be between 23m and 38m Muslims in the EU in 2025 5-8 per cent of the population. But after 2025 the Muslim population should stop growing so quickly, given its falling birth-rate. In short, Islamicisation let alone sharia law is not a demographic prospect for Europe.
