IF CURRENT DEMOGRAPHIC TRENDS PERSIST, EUROPE WILL BE MUSLIM
BY CENTURY’S END
originally published on this blog 18 Dec 2011
Islam is on its way to become the
most practiced religion in EUROPE. In a book published by the University of
Leuven, “The Iris and the Crescent,” sociologist Felice Dassetto says that
Muslims will comprise the majority of the population of Brussels by 2030. The
title of the book refers to the yellow flower symbol of Brussels’ region and to
the Islamic emblem: While the first is decaying, the second is growing.
MUSLIMS NOW MAKE UP ONE-QUARTER OF THE POPULATION OF THE
CAPITAL OF THE ENLIGHTENED EUROPE
and they are asking to use the empty
churches for Islamic prayers. Since 2008, the top seven baby boys’ names in
Brussels were Mohammed, Adam, Rayan, Ayoub, Mehdi, Amine and Hamza. Mohammed is
also the most popular name for baby boys in Belgium’s second-largest city,
Antwerp, where an estimated 40% of elementary school children are Muslim.
Antwerp is also home to BELGIUM’S
first Islamic Sharia law court.
Yet BELGIUM is not an isolate case
in fact there are warning signs looming on the horizon that Europe risks being
“overrun” by Islam. According to a recent report of the US Pew Center, Islam is
already “the fastest-growing religion in EUROPE,” where the number of Muslims
has tripled over the past 30 years. One third of all EUROPEAN children will be
born to Muslim families by 2025.
ISLAM IS THE MOST PRACTICED RELIGION IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.
Thus the UK government anti ISRAEL stance
comes as no surprise, as well as the tremendous support for arming the SYRIAN rebels.
In London, more Muslims attend
mosques on Friday than do Christians church on Sunday. The Oude Kerk, the
oldest church in the city of Amsterdam, where the kings of HOLLAND were
crowned, is now a museum. The only “church” in the largest DUTCH city that is
crowded is the church of Scientology, a six-story building in the thick of the
city center. Only 7% of DUTCH Catholics now go to Sunday Mass and 16% of
children are baptized.
EURABIA
In AUSTRIA, which was 90% Catholic
in the 20th Century, Islam will be the majority religion among AUSTRIANS aged
under 15 by 2050. The FRENCH case also shows that the often exaggerated “EURABIA”
threat is more a quality phenomenon of religious attendance than of demographic
takeover. In FRANCE, there are now more Islamic mosques being build - and more
frequently so - than Catholic churches, and there are more practicing Muslims
than practicing Catholics in the country.
Meanwhile, the Catholic Church in FRANCE
had only 20 new churches built in the last 10 years, and formally closed more
than 60 churches, many of which became mosques, according to research conducted
by the FRENCH Catholic daily La Croix.
Princeton University’s Bernard Lewis
once told the GERMAN daily Die Welt that “EUROPE will be Islamic by the end of
the century.” At the time, Brussels’ political and cultural elites expressed
outrage at the alarmist prediction. Yet if the current trends persist, Mr.
Lewis may yet be proven right.
Article written by Giulio Meotti
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