Muslim baptized by pope says life in danger

[Trex]

Originally Posted by SUBMAN1

That is 5.84 million of them per year. At that rate, Islam is dying a slow death.

There are various estimates of how many Muslims there are in the world, but let’s say for the purpose of this discussion 1 billion, which is kind of in the middle.

5.84 million divided by 1 billion is 0.00584 percent, or 5.84 per thousand (please correct my math if I have dropped a decimal).

Using the CIA World Factbook as a reference, Nigeria has a birth rate of 40.2 / 1,000 (not all Muslims, to be sure). Iran’s birth rate is 16.57 / 1,000, Iraq’s 41.44 and Saudi Arabia’s 29.1 / 1,000. (Just for comparison, Canada’s is 10.74, that of the USA 14.16 and that of the UK 10.67.)


Even if the 16K/day is in Africa alone and even recognizing that those are just some of the Islamic nations, it's unlikely that the religion as a whole is 'dying a slow death'. It's growing at a fairly substantial rate in terms of the numbers of adherents.

[SUBMAN1]

Originally Posted by Trex

There are various estimates of how many Muslims there are in the world, but let’s say for the purpose of this discussion 1 billion, which is kind of in the middle.

5.84 million divided by 1 billion is 0.00584 percent, or 5.84 per thousand (please correct my math if I have dropped a decimal).

Using the CIA World Factbook as a reference, Nigeria has a birth rate of 40.2 / 1,000 (not all Muslims, to be sure). Iran’s birth rate is 16.57 / 1,000, Iraq’s 41.44 and Saudi Arabia’s 29.1 / 1,000. (Just for comparison, Canada’s is 10.74, that of the USA 14.16 and that of the UK 10.67.)


Even if the 16K/day is in Africa alone and even recognizing that those are just some of the Islamic nations, it's unlikely that the religion as a whole is 'dying a slow death'. It's growing at a fairly substantial rate in terms of the numbers of adherents.

You forgot to include that part about Africa only having 300 mil muslims at the time of the interview, and it declined from a majority of Africa - which used to have what? 700 mil? DOwn to 300 mil? You tell me. - It doesn't take rocket science to figure out it is dying in Africa. Did you miss that part?

And this is just Africa.

-S