28 July 2010, 1:01 pm
I see several questions on here every day in this section in which Americans (I have checked - and they are ALWAYS Americans) say that Muslims are taking over Europe, and that soon there will be an Islamic majority in Europe. And all Europeans are supposedly in denial about this - that's what I get accused of when I point out the facts. Let's check said facts: The population of the EU is: 501,259,840. The number of Muslims in the EU is: 13,000,000. 13 million out of 501 million is less than 2.6 per cent of the population of the EU. And yet people claim they're taking over. Also, many of the people making these ridiculous claims seem to completely forget that there are actual European countries that have always been Muslim countries, like Albania, Kosovo and Turkey. Europe is very diverse when taken as a continent. It's not like the US, where Christians are the majority in every part. Even though there are countries in Europe which have been up to 90% Muslim for hundreds of years, when we take the European continent as a whole the facts are these: Population of Europe: 731,000,000 Muslims in Europe: 53,000,000 Percentage of Muslims in Europe: 7.25% So where on Earth does this madness come from?... Read More »
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