Monday, December 31, 2007

The ongoing Islamicization of Europe

Daniel Pipes has a fascinating entry in his blog, which can be found here: http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/812. It goes over the number of Muslims in major European cities, and he goes on to predict which European city will be the first to have a Muslim majority (his mone is on Stockholm or Malmo, in Sweden, with Moscow as a dark horse candidate).

Here are the numbers:

Marseilles - 25 percent (200,000 of 800,000)
Malmö - ~25 percent (67,000 of 270,000)
Amsterdam - 24 percent (180,000 of 750,000)
Stockholm - 20 percent (>155,000 of 771,038)
Brussels - ~20 percent (some say 33 percent)
Moscow - 16 percent-20 percent (2 million of 10-12 milllion)
London - 17 percent (1.3 million of 7.5 million)
Luton - 14.6 percent (26,963)
Birmingham 14.3 percent (139,771)
The Hague - 14.2 percent ( 67,896 of 475,580)
Utrecht - 13.2 percent (38,300 of 289,000)
Rotterdam - 13 percent (80,000 of 600,000)
Copenhagen - 12.6 percent (63,000 of 500,000)
Leicester - 11 percent (>30,000 of 280,000)
Aarhus - ~10 percent
Zaan district (Netherlands) - 8.8 percent
Paris - 7.38 percent (155,000 of 2.1 million)
Antwerp- 6.7 percent (>30,000 of >450,000)
Hamburg - 6.4 percent (>110,000 of 1.73 million)
Berlin - 5.9 percent (~200,000 of 3.40 million)

Pipes has sources for every number. What I found fascinating was that the vast majority of the cities--all but Marseilles, in fact--are northern European cities, and I had no idea that Moscow had that many Muslims.

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