{UAH} 5 facts about the Muslim population in Europe
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5 facts about the Muslim population in Europe
Recent killings in Paris as well as the arrival of hundreds of thousands of mostly Muslim refugees in Europe have drawn renewed attention to the continent's Muslim population. In many European countries, including France, Belgium, Germany, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, concerns about growing Muslim communities have led to calls for restrictions on immigration. But just how large is Europe's Muslim population, and how fast is it growing?
1Germany and France have the largest Muslim populations among European Union member countries. As of 2010, there were 4.8 million Muslims in Germany (5.8% of the country's population) and 4.7 million Muslims in France (7.5%). In Europe overall, however, Russia's population of 14 million Muslims (10%) is the largest on the continent.
2The Muslim share of Europe's total population has been increasing steadily. In recent decades, the Muslim share of the population throughout Europe grew about 1 percentage point a decade, from 4% in 1990 to 6% in 2010. This pattern is expected to continue through 2030, when Muslims are projected to make up 8% of Europe's population.
3Muslims are younger than other Europeans. In 2010, the median age of Muslims throughout Europe was 32, eight years younger than the median for all Europeans (40). By contrast, the median age of religiously unaffiliated people in Europe, including atheists, agnostics and those with no religion in particular, was 37. The median age of European Christians was 42.
4Views of Muslims vary widely across European countries. A Pew Research Center survey conducted this spring in 10 nations found that in eastern and southern Europe, negative views prevailed. However, the majority of respondents in the UK, Germany, France, Sweden and the Netherlands gave Muslims a favorable rating. Views about Muslims are tied to ideology. While 47% of Germans on the political right give Muslims an unfavorable rating, just 17% on the left do so. The gap between left and right is also roughly 30 percentage points in Italy and Greece.
5As of 2010, the European Union was home to about 13 million Muslim immigrants. The foreign-born Muslim population in Germany is primarily made up of Turkish immigrants, but also includes many born in Kosovo, Iraq, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Morocco. The roughly 3 million foreign-born Muslims in France are largely from France's former colonies of Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia.
Note: This is an update of a post originally published on Jan. 15, 2015.
Category: 5 Facts
Topics: Europe, Muslims and Islam
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Anonymous • 6 months ago
If 1% are radicalized, there will be >1 million jihadists in Europe by 2016, and the number grow quickly due to birth rate and radicalized theology.
Dale Maddison • 6 months ago
History tells at 40 percent or above genocide is committed by the muslim population this has happened in every country that was once Christian in the middle east the latest being the Armenian massacre by Muslim Turks today the genocide goes on and the Western media is in denial. Importing these male migrants of fighting age is madness the left liberal and political correctness the Wests greatest weakness is used against us by islamists and Islams plan of conquest in Europe. Our leaders are weak Isis is winning the War weather the califate falls or not as the case may be we Europeans or most would not die for our beliefs Muslims will and do that is that difference . Since the time of their prophet Islam has been at War with us its time for the uneducated liberals and leftists and cultural marxists to wake up to the reality of Islam before we condemn our children and their children to live under the took of Islam.
Dale Maddison • 6 months ago
Thankyou for your real input amazing work keep it up all concerned ,Thank you.
Anonymous • 6 months ago
Most of them will be potential terrorists
I suppose integration of muslims in to EU society and way of life is zero 0%.
Anonymous • 6 months ago
Why is Hungary at the top? And why is Poland third?
Few know that the church bells noon toll around the world originates in 1456 when Pope Callixtus III ordered it after the Johns Hunyadi and Capistrano defeated the turks at Nándorfehérvár, ie todays Belgrade. Many churches in Hungary, and I am talking greater historical Hungary, carry the sarcophagi of the heroes who died fighting the islamists.
Then in 1683 it was John III Sobieski, the peasant king of Poland who saved the depraved western nobility's axxes at the battle of Vienna. BTW king Władysław III of Varna also died in 1456 in the preamble to the battle of Belgrade.
The are just two examples of the centuries of fight against Islamic subjugation at the edge of Europe.
The current problem is that the leftist liberal governments in W Europe care more about benefits and vacation than realizing that the country will soon belong to those who work in it, it makes more sense to get on welfare than work for many degenerates around the old continent.
… Read moreWake up Europe before it is too late! And next time you stuff your mouth leasurely on lunch break at the bistro, remember why those bells call, and think how different it would have been if Belgrade in 1456 or Vienna in 1529. And history repeats itself faster when your memory is short.
Anonymous • 6 months ago
Consider the facts:
1) A number of Islamic countries base their legal systems on Sharia. A Hindu is prohibited from carrying religious idols into the Maldives in his aeroplane baggage. Homosexuality is a capital crime in Iran. Apostasy is punishable by death in Saudi Arabia. A woman's testimony is worth half of that of a man. We are not talking about one or two countries, but a huge swathe of the Islamic world en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharia#/me…
2) For refugees from Islamic countries, Sharia and Islam in general, is 'normal'.
3) Cultural and religious mores relating to the display of female body parts, and female sexuality are vastly different than in the West. Naturally, in such cultures, the default assumption is that a woman who doesn't cover up is 'asking for it'.
4) The rich elite of these Islamic have value systems that are more liberal and more accepting of what's there in the West. But refugees come from the poorer, less educated, far more conservative section of society.
… Read moreThere are two ways that integration can happen – the host society adopts Islamic values, particularly in respect of the regulation of female sexuality, or the guest group adopts the values of the host society. While the latter is possible, it takes generations (abandoning Islam, which is a way of life more than a religious philosophy, is not easy for a Muslim), and can go horribly wrong, as the case of France demonstrates.
It is far safer for Europe to stop accepting refugees. There is nothing remotely good that can come out of acting otherwise.
Anonymous • 6 months ago
Europe is about to change into something great! Look how well muslim countries are doing all over the world! Just great!
Stupidity, misplaced guilt and a sweet but overly naive disney-culture will be our downfall – and then Europe can be just as great as the other muslim countries! Wohoo!
Jake McGrew • 6 months ago
This is absolutely correct. I hope the people and leaders of Europe wake up ASAP.
Nasir Memon • 6 months ago
Nice Blog Post
Anonymous • 6 months ago
Sorry American patriots. The two comments I posted yesterday were ignored and kept out.
MSGT JOHN CORREA
USAF (RET)
Anonymous • 6 months ago
2010?? I want to see a 2016 data.