With the decline of birth rate in W Europe and the immigration from Turkey ,N. Africa would Europe be islamic?
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though islam is the fastest growing religion i dont think its the easy at least it wont happen in the next few generations
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I dont know where you got your data, but I will answer on the part of ramifications..\n\n\nSomeday soon, you might wake up to the call to prayer from a muezzin. Europeans already are. \n\nAnd liberals will still tell you that "diversity is our strength"—while Talibanic enforcers cruise Greenwich Village burning books and barber shops, the Supreme Court decides sharia law doesn’t violate the "separation of church and state," and the Hollywood Left decides to give up on gay rights in favor of the much safer charms of polygamy. \n\nIf you think this can’t happen, you haven’t been paying attention to demographics. All one has to do is watch and see what is going on in Europe, & Australia and much of the pacific rim. A radical Islam wave is changing the way the rest of those populations conduct law, and the freedoms they would otherwise enjoy.\n\nThe future, belongs to the fecund and the confident. And the Islamists are both, while the West—wedded to a multiculturalism that undercuts its own confidence, a welfare state that nudges it toward sloth and self-indulgence, and a childlessness that consigns it to oblivion—is looking ever more like the ruins of a civilization. \n\nIn the ongoing conflict between the West and Islam, both the demographics and the will to power favor the Islamists. That a country like Spain for example, with a birth rate of 1.15 children per adult women, will extinguish itself in a few generations, while immigrants from countries such as Pakistan (birth rate 4.53) will move in to fill the vacuum. \n\nToday an aggressive, unassimilated minority edges closer to a majority (as in France, with an estimated 30% Muslim population in the under 20 age group), the character of the democratic institutions will become more closely aligned with Islamic law and culture.
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None.\n\nHence why there is no such thing as the so-called "Muslim World." Muslims are every where.\n\nNote: for the record, there ARE Muslims in Australia. About 300,000 of them:\nhttp://www.dfat.gov.au/facts/islam_in_australia.html\n\nAlso from Wikipedia:\n"Only 18% of Muslims live in the Arab world; 20% are found in Sub-Saharan Africa, about 30% in the South Asian region of Pakistan, India and Bangladesh, and the world's largest single Muslim community (within the bounds of one nation) is in Indonesia. There are also significant Muslim populations in China, Europe, Central Asia, and Russia.\n\nFrance has the highest Muslim population of any nation in Western Europe, with up to 6 million Muslims (10% of the population [7]). Albania is said to have the highest proportion of Muslims as part of its population in Europe (70%), although this figure is only an estimate (see Islam in Albania). The number of Muslims in North America is variously estimated as anywhere from 1.8 to 7 million."
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Immigration.\n\nIf you go to the bbc news website and search for 'muslims in europe' they have a whole article talking about immigration from the former french colonies, and how these people have become isolated from the wider french society - forming muslim ghettos.\n\nIts very topical and interesting - plus all you have to do is rip-off the bbc's article if you wanted to!
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don't know if it's true, but islam is at home in uk, like in my country France. they are everywhere home this people soI wouldn't be surprised !
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Turkey is an ally and most friendly Muslim Country to most Western Countries.   So the answer is "YES"!
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Why not discuss the growth of the Islamic population in Europe and the potential impact upon European culture and government policies.
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Islam followed by Christinaity.
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Islam is a Intolorant religion.Most non Muslims move out of Muslim countries.Ask a Coptic who lives in Egypt what it is like living there.
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Turkey plays and important role nowadays because it is a gateway between the east in the west. The U.S. has a lot of interest there because it's a powerful country with an uncertain future. It might be swallowed in by Europe, but it could also become a more conservative muslim country.
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Most certainly... consider some of the following:\n\nOttoman Empire:\n"In the 16th and 17th centuries, the Ottoman Empire was among the world's most powerful political entities... On several occasions, the Ottoman army invaded central Europe, laying siege to Vienna in 1529 and again in 1683 in an attempt to conquer the Habsburg domain, and was finally repulsed only by great coalitions of European powers at sea and on land... \n\nOttomans: Adoption of Islam:\nBefore adopting Islam—a process that was greatly facilitated by the Abbasid victory at the 751 CE Battle of Talas, which ensured Abbasid influence in Central Asia—the Turkic peoples practised a variety of shamanism. After this battle, many of the various Turkic tribes—including the Oghuz Turks, who were the ancestors of both the Seljuks and the Ottomans—gradually converted to Islam, and brought the religion with them to Anatolia beginning in the 11th century CE...\n\nOttomans: Diversity\n...One of the successes of the Ottoman Empire was the unity that it brought about among its highly varied population. While the main reason was the military might and heavyhandedness in newly invaded territories, one other indirect source of this unity was allowed for by the laws of Islam, which stated that Muslims, Christians, and Jews—who constituted the vast majority of the Ottoman population—were all related in that they were "People of the Book" (Arabic: اهل الكتاب; ahl al-Kitâb). \n\nOttomans: Slavery\nOttomans were coming from a nomadic nation, in which slavery was very distant to the social structure. Also, from the Islamic perspective, the Kuran specifically states "everyone is same", although the practice showed differences based on cultures, which Islam and Slavery covers these perspectives, specifically Ottoman application on their domain was not approved. However, the ottomans policies were based on millet perspective which each millet had the right to govern their own domain. Trafficking in slaves is expressly forbidden by the Ottoman application of sharia, or Islamic law. For example, by the terms of the sharia, any slaves who were taken could not be kept in the status of slaves if they converted to Islam. It was, in fact, considered an insult to term an Ottoman man as a slave-master, and there were incidents in which Ottomans responded unsympathetically to any who even mentioned the idea of slavery to them.\n-------------------------------------\n-------------------------------------\n\nOther views on "Muslim Imperialism":\n\n"No single definition prevails, but here is a good one: Jihadism engages in or supports the use of force to expand the rule of Islamic law. In other words, it is violent Islamic imperialism. It stands, as one scholar put it 90 years ago, for "the extension by force of arms of the authority of the Muslim state."\n-Jonathan Rauch (www.reason.com)\n\n\nExcerpts from Islamic Imperialism: A History, by Efraim Karsh:\n\n"The birth of Islam," writes Karsh, "was inextricably linked with the creation of a world empire, and its universalism was inherently imperialist." Karsh cites, for example, the Prophet's farewell address to his followers: "I was ordered to fight all men until they say, 'There is no god but Allah.' " Muhammad, Karsh writes, spent his last decade fighting to unify Arabia under his reign; within a decade of his death, Islamic conquest had already built an Arab-Muslim empire, "one of the most remarkable examples of empire-building in world history."\n\n---------------------------\n\nMuslim Invasion of India (18th & 19th Century):\n\n"The Muslim chieftains were inviting other Islamic imperialists from across the border to come and rescue the earlier Islamic imperialists out of the morass...\n\n...On the eve of the Islamic invasion, India was witnessing a number of Hindu princes fighting among themselves for supremac
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Yes. Islam is the latest in history, which was preached through rulers' patronage either by invasions or by conversion. So, St. Pittsburgh was a place of Christians which got converted to Islam at one stage of history. Within first 100 years of Muhammad's death 90%  of European population was converted on point of sword to Islam, but later again through wars they got reconverted to their original faith.
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nobody really cares that much about Islam in the west.\n\nJust a fact.
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Europe, Asia and Africa
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Islam is a religion not a culture. But it is hard to separated them in many middle east countries.
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There will be more mosques in europe than churches (it is true)
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I actually read a book based on that premise, called Prayers for the Assassin, where America was now a divided country - a bible belt Christian nation, and an Islamic nation. In any case, it is Islams professed goal to convert everyone into Islam - either convert by preaching, convert by inducement, convert by coersion, or simply outpopulate them by breeding.\n\nThis trend is somewhat visible in europe - with its more liberal immigration policy. In countries like Norway, Itali, Sweden etc., the only ones comming in (legally or illegaly) are predominantly muslims from Africa/ South Asia, and the only ones producing 5-10 children are also muslims.\n\nI am not sure whether Islam is a true or false religion, or in fact, if there is even any true religion. But I am sure that Islamic jurisprudence (based on Sharia) is a false jurisprudence. It relies too much on unproven, or false theologies, is much too barbaric for modern standards, does not allow for any growth and is certainly discriminatory towards women. \n\nI dont have any issues with people professing their religion at their homes in private, but I certainly would not want the laws of the land to be based on one. And even if some mosques are being built in Michigan, I dont think US is in danger of becoming an Islamic country (any time soon).