I just read that 300 000 ppl a year in the US become Muslims ! does that mean that in about 12-13 years?

Question

the US is going to be a muslim state???

Answer 1

But I've read that more than that in the U.S. are becoming atheists each year, so who gains in the long run?

Answer 2

At this point, the best statistics available on religion in the US comes from the "American Religious Identification Survey" which was conducted in 1990 and again in 2001.

During that time, Islam in the US grew from around 900,000 people to 1,800,000 people. That would average out to about 82,000 more Muslims in the US every year. However, most of these new Muslims are not due to conversion, but rather to immigration and birth rates.

As far as numerical growth in percentage terms, Muslims increased by 109.5% between the two surveys.

To compare that number with other faiths during that time:

Muslim= +109.5%
Christian = +5.3%
Jewish = -9.8%
Buddhist = +169.8%
Hindu = +237.4%
Atheist = +105.7%
Wiccan = +1675.0%

So, according to this, Islam is growing about as fast as Atheism.

Christianity is sort of limping along and Judaism is actually shrinking.

Hinduism and Buddhism are growing faster than Islam.

Wicca is growing at an HUGE rate, no other religion comes anywhere close to it's whopping 1675.0% growth!

So, from this study, it looks more like the United States is heading towards being a Wiccan country rather than an Islamic one. Apparently, in a few decades, our money might be saying "In Goddess We Trust".


The weirdest thing about the massive growth in Wicca is that Wicca does not enjoy the types of factors that normally produce growth in religions in the US.

1.) Most minority religions gain a lot of their growth from immigration. There really aren't many Wiccans that immigrate to the U.S.

2.) A lot of religions grow in number simply because of the number of children that are born into the religion and just stay with it. You aren't going to meet many people that were born into a Wiccan family, (although that might be changing soon).

3.) Religions like Christianity and Islam have an emphasis on converting people as part of their religious beliefs. Wicca doesn't encourage its followers to seek converts.

So, what is driving the huge increase in Wicca? There doesn't seem to be an obvious driving force behind the increase. Its almost like its just growing "magically".

Answer 3

It means that there will be less than 15 million Muslims out of a total population of over 300 million. How do we become a Muslim state when only 5% of the population is Muslim?

Answer 4

Doesn't mean that the Muslim population increases by 300 000. I wonder what the number of people who were Muslim and become non (Atheist, Christian whatever) is each year as well.

Answer 5

No, the US population is about 300,000,000. So in 12-13 years the mulim population will have grown by about 1%

Also the non-religious grew from 14,300,000 to 29,400,000 in the USA from 1990 to 2001, so about 1,370,000 a year.

So non-religion will excede Islam by about 4.5:1 in about 200 years.

Or it could be the scare mongering by the Christians who are scared of losing their #1 religion status. As if the number of belivers actually makes a religion true!

Answer 6

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Answer 7

I think that in US there is a "religion trend".
Some Americans change their religions every year. If Madonna is Jewish, they are Jewish, if a famous actor is Buddhist they change again in Buddhism. If there is a successful TV show like "Charmed" they want to be Wiccans . In the past Scientology was trendy , this year is Islam. Maybe because of the war in Iraq.

Of course most of the Americans remain in their religion.
So , in my opinion US will not be a Muslim country .

Answer 8

That sounds like a high number. But that number is small, compared to what comes over the border from Mexico. I don't think the Mexicans are going to tip the scale, by converting to Islam.

Answer 9

i think possibly muslims might be a more dominate population, because most muslims have alot of children just for the sake of bringing up the population of muslims. but i doubt the country as a whole will become muslims only if God wills. can you imagine how much more peaceul the world would be if it was. everyone would finally get along.

Answer 10

I think that whoever wrote that statistic is way off.
And anyway, there are also large numbers of people in the US becoming atheist, agnostic, Wiccan/neo-pagan, Hinduist, Buddhist... etc.

Personally, even if that statistic IS true, most Muslims are not radical suicide-bombing zealots. Those are the extremists; the Fred Phelpses of Islam, if you will.

Answer 11

The point needs to be that God speaks. It doesn't really matter what language, or what theology we cling to. I believe that God speaks to every one of us in the language we are best able to hear. Who are we, as mere humans, to limit the voice of God? God, I believe, sent the Christ, and the Buddah, and Mohammed, and thousands of others over the span of time to nurture, heal, and teach humankind. It is a human weakness to be an absolutist in any matter of faith.