Posted on 06/19/2017 1:51:04 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
During the last centuries, the number of Muslims in the world has been increasing steadily. Statistics for the year 2010 are telling us that the Muslim population is 1.6 billion. 1 In 1973 the Muslim population was only 0.5 billion. 2 Many Muslims believe that Islam will be the world’s religion in future, because Islam is growing. However new statistics show that Islam is dying a slow death. The following reasons:
1. Decline in birth rate under Muslims
For many centuries, Islam was growing because of a higher birth rate. However, since last decades birth rate is declining fast. From 1990-2010 the world birth rate declined from 3.40 to 2.56. A fall of 0.84 births per women or a birth rate decline of 25% over the 20 years. The average birth rate for the Muslim majority countries declined in the same period from 5.25 to 3.00. A Muslim birth rate decline of 43% over the 20 years. Extrapolation of the statistics shows that the Muslim birth rate will go below world average. The Birth rate of 49 Muslim countries is -40%, while worldwide average is -33%. There is an extraordinary decline in birth rate under Muslims.
The decline of the birth rate is visible in many Muslim countries, including Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, Tunisia and Turkey. Muslim birth rate decrease in Iran is one of the greatest records in history. There are many more Muslim countries with a birth rate decrease of 60% or more: Albania, Algeria, Bangladesh, Kuwait, Libya, Oman, Qatar, Tunisia, and the United Arab Emirates. A Muslim woman has today 2.6 less babies than her mother, which is a faster decline than worldwide average.
Extrapolation of the statistics show that Muslim growth rate will go down. A stable population needs a birth rate of 2.1 children. That means that the Muslim population will decrease both relative and absolute. It also means that it is the main reason that Islam is a fast dying religion. Unlike Christianity, Islam is not able to grow much by conversion, see next paragraph.
2. Low growth by conversion compared with Christianity
There are more conversions to Islam than conversions to most other religions. However, there are almost three times more conversions to Christianity than to Islam. For example, in Africa more than 6 million Muslims become a Christian 7. Therefore Islam is not able to grow faster than Christianity by conversions. Muslim converts leave Islam soon: Muslim sociologist Dr. Ilyas Ba-Yunus has published that 75% of New Muslim converts in the U.S. leave Islam within a 3 years. Because birth rate of Muslims went below world average and Islam cannot compensate with conversions, Islam is dying, while Christianity is growing.
3. Decline in marriage rate under Muslims
More and more Muslim women are marrying a husband who isn’t a Muslim. Lots of educated Muslims discover the weakness and barren elements of Islam. The higher education of Muslims and the improved information channels have brought about the slow death of Islam.
4. Muslim growth will be less than Christian growth in near future
India is one of the countries in the world with a large Muslim population. According to statistics of the Indian government, Muslims still have a higher growth rate than Christians, but the differences are lower every year.
What causes a higher growth? Higher fertility rates, higher immigration and lower mortality rate, but fertility rate is most important. What causes a high fertility rate? Low education of women and low budget. Muslims are the poorest group in India, while Christians belong to the most richest. Although Christians are rich and Muslims poor and Christians have a lower fertility rate than Muslims, the growth of Christians is the same as the average population in India. This is because of conversion of Hindus and Muslims to Christianity. From the Indian government statistics in 2015 we may expect that the growth of Christian will be higher than the groth of Muslims after 2030.
5. Islam is an anti-intellectual religion
Because a Muslim must accept only the Qur’an as source of truth since 12th century, free thinking is forbidden. The rise of the historical research and its application to the Qur’an and Islam in general means there is nothing new in the Qur’an that was not available before 7th century. The Qur’an is not able to withstand the onslaught of Western scientific thought. Many Christians have accepted the results of science, adjusted their beliefs accordingly. Muslims have yet to take even this first step.
Therefore Islam is against the intellect and a Muslim cannot get the same level of intellectual benefits as Christians.
6. Economic backwardness in Muslim countries
The forbidden free thinking stopped effective modernization of the economy of Muslim countries. The result is that there is economic poverty of most Muslim countries. The Sharia only reflects the social and economic conditions of the 7th century society in Arabia. Therefore, more and more Muslims come to the conclusion that the Qur’an is not the answer for all the problems in the modern world. The principles in the Qur’an are an obstacle to moral progress. Today, Muslim countries are the poorest in the world. Many Muslims immigrate to rich countries with many Christians.
7. Moral decline under Muslims
Muhammad cannot be put on the same moral plane as Jesus Christ or other great spiritual people. The worst legacy of Muhammad was his insistence that the Qur’an was the literal word of God, and once and for all, closing the possibility of new intellectual ideas and freedom of thought.
8. Conclusion
Birth rate statistics, marriage rate are declining for Muslims and they are moving below world average. This means that Muslim population cannot grow faster than Christianity. Furthermore there are strong indications that the worldwide Muslim population is declining. Islam is outdated in 21th century and doesn't fit in our modern world. A Muslim has the option to select faith in Jesus Christ as way to Paradise, personal relation with God, and to be an ambassador for God's moral values.
1. Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life, The Future of the Global Muslim Population, 2011.
2. The CIA World Fact Book, Edition 2008.
3. Robert Spencer, Islam Unveiled. Disturbing questions about The World’s Fastest-Growing Faith, Encounter Books, San Francisco, 2002, p. 121-123.
4. Nicholas Eberstadt, Fertility Decline in the Muslim World: A Veritable Sea-Change, Still Curiously Unnoticed, 2012, http://www.aei.org/press/foreign-and-defense-policy/fertility-decline-in-the-muslim-world-a-veritable-sea-change-still-curiously-unnoticed-release/.
5. The CIA World Fact Book, Editions 1998-2009.
6. Nicholas Eberstadt and Apoorva Shah, Fertility Decline in the Muslim World, in: Policy Review, Hoover Institution Stanford University, June 1, 2012.
7.The Muslim Times, Six Million African Muslims Convert to Christianity Each Year?, http://themuslimtimes.info/2012/04/18/six-million-african-muslims-convert-to-christianity-each-year/.
8.Ilyas Ba-Yunus, Sociological and demographical survey of American Muslims.
9. Indian government, Census, NFHS, NSS, 2015. 10. Surjit S. Bhalla, Census, Christians, Conversions, The Indian Express, September 1, 2015.
11. Robert Spencer, Islam Unveiled. Disturbing questions about The World’s Fastest-Growing Faith, Encounter Books, San Francisco, 2002, p. 121-123.
12. Ibn Warraq, Why I am not a Muslim, Prometheus, New York, 1995, p. 33.
13. Ibid, p. 171.
14. Ibn Warraq, Why I am not a Muslim, Prometheus, New York, 1995, p. 350.
That Islam is intellectual has been one of the historical false narratives of our liberal relativist education system.
The people following mass-murdering, child-raping Moohammed should be as rare as those who worship Hitler.
Speaking of dying, and not to get off topic, but my mom just called me and told me Otto Warmbier had died, you know, the 22 year old student who was “arrested” on FALSE charges - kidnapped - by the North Koreans who PURPOSELY damaged his brain. I can’t seem to confirm this.
Yep, confirmed...SOB NORKS!!!!!! This is an American citizen KIDNAPPED AND MURDERED!!!
http://abcnews.go.com/US/otto-warmbier-american-student-detained-north-korea-17/story?id=48140700
for the good news...no other religious philosophy scares me as much as Islam may it one day be looked upon as the same way the worship of the Greek gods are today.
Well that’s a little good news. Now we just need to work on the “slow” part.
Life expectancy in poor countries is low compared to rich countries. Most mooselimbs therefore have a shorter life span than the typical Christian, and that does not even take into the account the mooselimb interest in killing themselves and others (other mooselimbs when Jews, Christians, Hindus, Buddhists are not available).
Simply put Islamic culture is simply not compatible with the values, practices and institutions that constitute modernity. since it cannot respond or adapt, Islamic regions are inherently unstable and violent. Even the enormously wealthy oil countries are politically and socially challenged. The barbaric jihadists are bewildered reactionaries that when challenged seek solace in the customs, practices and even dress of the 10th century. Islamic culture cannot transform, nor can it last.
BOOKMARK! This is the strategy to defeat Islam. Convert them to Jesus Christ.
It can’t come soon enough.
We should be more worried when mooooslims “stop destroying, and start building”.
Not saying that they can’t build, just that their doctrines and structure of their society are not conductive to such.
Fake news?
It’s morally dead, but the formula for world expansion is there and functioning well. They can have 4 wives and fertilize them all, producing multiple litters with multiple future jihadis. It mandates killing anyone who leaves. It orders members to murder in order to spread the filthy ideology.
I don’t see it as dead at all.
Islam may be dying, but unfortunately, it is determined to take everyone else with it.
Maybe our military can help with a much faster decline
Of course, there is an X-Factor not on the list - Islam is the only religion in the world where believers blow themselves up and kill fellow Muslims for religious reasons.
I can’t help wondering how many Muslims there would be if the penalty for apostasy wasn’t death (or worse).
Yeeeah boi!
Christians the only ones to show an increase in birth rat 2005-2010 on that little chart. Represent!
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