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Will the U.S. eventually become a majority Muslim country?

Posted - November 14, 2016

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  • No. realistically no.. it wouldn't happen.. you guys wouldn't let that happen.. and i think it's more scaremongering than anything in relation to the States.. People have said it of the UK though..and to be fair I think we have a way higher percentage per population of muslims here. but even so again, I think it's scaremongering.
      November 14, 2016 3:55 PM MST
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  • Anything's possible. It won't happen any time soon like much of the right-wing scare tactics predict, but it's not completely impossible. 
      November 14, 2016 3:59 PM MST
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  • 2327
    Highly unlikely. I think it is a possibility for some European countries tho...like France and the U.K...around another 100 years ish. 
      November 14, 2016 5:12 PM MST
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  • 33780
    No. The US birth rate is high enough we should not have to worry about that. 
    There are countries in Europe where the birth rate is like 1 per couple. The Muslims there are out having more children. They only have to bide their time and they will be the majority.
      November 14, 2016 5:22 PM MST
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  • 1029
    What will they do with all the Cathedrals?
      November 14, 2016 7:30 PM MST
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  • 5354
    They will just convert them. The Hagia Sophia cathedral in Istanbut (Turkey) was originally a Christian cathedral, then it became a Islamic mosque, and now it is a museum.
      November 14, 2016 7:49 PM MST
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  • 5354
    Sure, that is what the muslim's secret plan is all about  :P

    Nah, realistically I dont think so, even though Islam is as aggreesively missionary as Christianity. Back in Malcolm X's time a lot of black Americans converted to Islam, but I see that more as a search for a common African-American heritage, and a rebellion against a society they did not feel welcome in. I expect most of their kids have already converted back. This post was edited by JakobA the unAmerican. at November 14, 2016 7:43 PM MST
      November 14, 2016 7:33 PM MST
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  • 5451
    It's not likely.

    The US is on a different continent than the Muslim world but it's possible it could happen in Europe eventually.
      November 14, 2016 9:16 PM MST
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  • Polling data from the 2008 ARIS study:
    This study was essentially a repeat of the 2001 poll. It involved 54,461 respondents.

    Between 1990 and 2008, an interval of 18 years, some of the more notable changes were.

    The percentage of American adults identify themselves with a specific religion dropped from 89.5% to 79.9%:
    Americans who identify themselves as Christian dropped from 86.2 to 76.0 -- a loss of 10.2 percentage points in 18 years -- about 0.6 percentage points per year. A similar decline was observed in Canada.

    Americans identifying themselves as Protestant dropped from 60.0 to 50.9%.

    Catholics declined from 26.2% to 25.1%

    The Catholic population in the Northeast fell: From 1900 to 2008, it went from 50% in New England to 36%, and from 44% to 37% in New York state. Apparently to immigration, it rose during the same interval from 29% to 37% in California, and 23% to 32% in Texas.

    Religious Jews declined from 1.8% to 1.2%.

    Muslims increased from 0.5 to 0.6%.

    The fastest growing religion (in terms of percentage) is WICCA -- a Neopagan religion that is sometimes referred to as Witchcraft.
    From 1990 to 2001: Numbers of adherents went from 8,000 to 134,000. Their numbers of adherents doubled about every 30 months. 7,8 Wiccans in Australia have a very similar growth pattern, from fewer than 2,000 in 1996 to 9,000 in 2001. 11 In Canada, Wiccans and other Neopagans showed the greatest percentage growth of any faith group. They totaled 21,080 members in 1991, an increase of 281% from 1990.

    From 2001 to 2008: The ARIS website does not appear to have released any specific numbers. They give numbers only for New Religious Movement "NRM & Other Religions" -- a classification that includes Scientology, New Age, Eckankar, Spiritualist, Unitarian-Universalist, Deist, Wiccan, Pagan, Druid, Indian Religion, Santeria, and Rastafarian. However they state that: "Adherents of New Religious movements, including Wiccans and self-described pagans, have grown faster this decade than in the 1990s." 2 It is curious that they use the term "self-described" to refer to pagans, while they report Christians, Muslims, Jews, etc. without the qualifier.

    However, ReligionLink does have data available. They state:
    "Specifically, the number of Wiccans more than doubled from 2001 to 2008, from 134,000 to 342,000, and the same held true for neo-pagans, who went from 140,000 in 2001 to 340,000 in 2008."
    "Experts say the growth reflects not only increasing numbers of neo-pagans, but also a rise in the social acceptability of paganism. As a result, more respondents would be willing to identify themselves as followers of some pagan tradition.



    15.0% (14.1%) do not follow any organized religion. There are more Americans who say they are not affiliated with any organized religion than there are Episcopalians, Methodists, and Lutherans combined.

    looks like  us witches , naturalists  , shawmen,  etc.... will  be left in  the  end  ..  
    bet we aint lookin so  bad now  in contrast . ;-)
    everything seems to cycle  back to the original  . 
     
      November 14, 2016 10:08 PM MST
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  • 1029
    Wow!!
      November 15, 2016 3:34 PM MST
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