1 in 4 are muslim

[Bob]

Report: Muslim population hits 1.57 billion - World Faith- msnbc.com updated 15 minutes ago

The global Muslim population stands at 1.57 billion, meaning that nearly 1 in 4 people in the world practice Islam, according to a report billed as the most comprehensive of its kind.

The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life report provides a precise number for a population whose size has long has been subject to guesswork, with estimates ranging anywhere from 1 billion to 1.8 billion.

The project, three years in the making, also presents a portrait of the Muslim world that might surprise some. For instance, Germany has more Muslims than Lebanon, China has more Muslims than Syria, Russia has more Muslims than Jordan and Libya combined, and Ethiopia has nearly as many Muslims as Afghanistan.
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"This whole idea that Muslims are Arabs and Arabs are Muslims is really just obliterated by this report," said Amaney Jamal, an assistant professor of politics at Princeton University who reviewed an advance copy.

Christianity boasts 2.2 billion followers
Pew officials call the report the most thorough on the size and distribution of adherents of the world's second largest religion behind Christianity, which has an estimated 2.1 billion to 2.2 billion followers.

 

[Beanstalk]

"This whole idea that Muslims are Arabs and Arabs are Muslims is really just obliterated by this report,"

As is assuming that the Majority of Americans are Christians.
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[Bob]

"This whole idea that Muslims are Arabs and Arabs are Muslims is really just obliterated by this report,"

As is assuming that the Majority of Americans are Christians.
:roll:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_the_United_StatesReligion in the United States is remarkable both in its high adherence level as well as its diversity. The First Amendment to the country's Constitution explicitly forbids any official religion, and guarantees the free exercise of all faiths. A majority of Americans report that religion plays a "very important" role in their lives, a proportion unusual among developed nations, though similar to other nations in the Americas.[1] Many faiths have flourished in the United States, including imports spanning the country's multicultural heritage as well as those founded within the country, and have led the United States to become the most religiously diverse country in the world.[2]

The majority of Americans identify themselves as Christians (76%) while non-Christian religions (including Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and others) collectively make up about 4% of the adult population.[3] Another 15% of the adult population identified as having no religious affiliation.[4] According to the American Religious Identification Survey, religious belief varies considerably across the country: 59% of Americans living in Western states report a belief in God, yet in the South (the "Bible Belt") the figure is as high as 86%.[5][6]
The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., is the largest Roman Catholic Church in the United States.

Several of the original Thirteen Colonies were established by English settlers who wished to practice their own religion without discrimination: the Massachusetts Bay Colony was established by Puritans, Pennsylvania by Quakers, and Maryland by Roman Catholics. Although some individual states retained established churches well into the nineteenth century, the United States was the first nation to have no official religion.[7] Modeling the provisions concerning religion within the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, the framers of the Constitution rejected any religious test for office, and the First Amendment specifically denied the federal government any power to enact any law respecting either an establishment of religion or prohibiting its free exercise. The decision was mainly influenced by Reformation ideals, but was also a consequence of the pragmatic concerns of minority religious groups and small states that did not want to be under the power or influence of a national religion that did not represent them.[8].....the majority say they are, just as most people say they exercise and watch what they eat.

 

[AlphaCrab]

"This whole idea that Muslims are Arabs and Arabs are Muslims is really just obliterated by this report,"

As is assuming that the Majority of Americans are Christians.
:roll:

Thanks Beanstalk, and thank you bob for useful information that helps to rid generalized, stereotypical images that many Americans harbor against Muslims, considering what the headlines seem to infer on the 24 hour news cycle.....hopefully.

Also, it appears as if as if soon Muslims will outnumber Christians in the World, possibly in my lifetime.

I have always known there are extreme, lunatic fringes in both Muslims and to Christians camps (as well as other organized religions). It is just that the Christian lunatics fringe folks all seem to have nice hair dos and get their own TV gigs. I am just saying.

 

[poppy]

Report: Muslim population hits 1.57 billion - World Faith- msnbc.com updated 15 minutes ago

The global Muslim population stands at 1.57 billion, meaning that nearly 1 in 4 people in the world practice Islam, according to a report billed as the most comprehensive of its kind.

The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life report provides a precise number for a population whose size has long has been subject to guesswork, with estimates ranging anywhere from 1 billion to 1.8 billion.

The project, three years in the making, also presents a portrait of the Muslim world that might surprise some. For instance, Germany has more Muslims than Lebanon, China has more Muslims than Syria, Russia has more Muslims than Jordan and Libya combined, and Ethiopia has nearly as many Muslims as Afghanistan.
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"This whole idea that Muslims are Arabs and Arabs are Muslims is really just obliterated by this report," said Amaney Jamal, an assistant professor of politics at Princeton University who reviewed an advance copy.

Christianity boasts 2.2 billion followers
Pew officials call the report the most thorough on the size and distribution of adherents of the world's second largest religion behind Christianity, which has an estimated 2.1 billion to 2.2 billion followers.

This is good news. With this many religious people in the world war should be a thing of the past.:roll:

 

[scooterbug44]

This is good news. With this many religious people in the world war should be a thing of the past.:roll:

Too bad more people are persecuted and killed in the name of religion than anything else.