From: Ade Azurat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, January 31, 2000 07:03
Subject: [is-lam] [Fwd: SV: Converts in the West]
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Subject: SV: Converts in the West
Date: 29 Jan 2000 19:23:20 GMT
From: "Elisabeth Zanabi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Organization: Telenor Online Public Access
Newsgroups: soc.religion.islam,uk.religion.islam
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Coolbreeze wrote:
> I have no factual evaluation. I knowm, though, that in the San Francisco
> bay Area, California, that there were four or five masjids 15 years ago.
>
> Now there are easily 35 masjids, all full ( I mean brothers praying
outside
> for lack of space), Alhamdillah, and new acquisitions planned by several
> masjids to ease the stress for space and parking.
wow... a very similar growth to what we find in oslo, Norway, with a
population of about 500.000. We had very few moscs when I embraced islam
in
1988, but now, alhamdulillah, we have around 30 moscs..
....or, is it a sign of the lack of unity among the muslims?? :-/
BTW I was handed these statistics just a few minutes ago:
786
Salaams.
World Muslims.........................1,482,596,925 (1996)
Muslims in Asia.......................1,022,692,000 (1996)
Muslims in Africa.....................426,282,000 (1996)
Total World population................5,771,939,007 (1996)
% of Muslims..........................26% (1996)
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Islam annual growth rate (94-95)......6.40% (from U.N.)
Christianity growth rate (94-95)......1.46% (from U.N.)
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World Muslim population (1998)........1,678,442,000
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World Muslim population (Projected in 2000)........1,902,095,000
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Growth of Islam:
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North America (1989-1998)....................25%
Africa.......................................2.15%
Asia.........................................12.57%
Europe.......................................142.35%
Latin America................................4.73%
Australia....................................257.01%
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Among every four humans in the world, one of them is a Muslim.
Muslims have increased by over 235 percent in the last fifty years upto
nearly 1.6 billion.
By comparison, Christians have increased by only 47 percent.
Hinduism, 117 percent and
Buddhism by 63 percent.
Islam is the second largest religious group in France, Great Britain and
the US (Muslims in the US are ten million and Jews are six million)
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