{"id":1386,"date":"2011-01-27T22:00:40","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T03:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/deaconsbench\/?p=1386"},"modified":"2016-09-30T17:47:51","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T21:47:51","slug":"report-muslim-population-in-u-s-to-double-in-20-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2011\/01\/report-muslim-population-in-u-s-to-double-in-20-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Muslim population in U.S. to double in 20 years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

That, according to a study by the Pew Research Center.<\/p>\n

<\/a>\"\"<\/a>Details:<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

There are about 2.6 million Muslim adults and children in the United States (0.8 percent of the U.S. population) in 2010. That figure is expected to rise to 6.2 million (1.7 percent) in 2030, predicted the Pew Research Center\u2019s Forum on Religion & Public Life report released Thursday.<\/p>\n

Most of the growth will be due to immigration<\/a> and higher birth rates among Muslims. Christians are, however, expected to still make up by far the majority of the population. But by 2030, Muslims are predicted to be as numerous as Jews or Episcopalians are in the United States today.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Muslim population will double in the U.S., but the report cannot indicate what portion of the spectrum of Islam<\/a> will be practiced by American Muslims,\u201d pointed out Pastor Joel C. Hunter of Northland, A Church Distributed in Central Florida<\/a>, to The Christian Post.<\/p>\n

\u201cMuslims, like Christians, are not a uniform block of believers. The bridges built or burned between Christianity, Islam, and other religions are likely to profoundly affect its expression in this nation and around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hunter was a member of President Obama\u2019s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships and served on the Inter-Religious Cooperation taskforce. He is also on the board of the National Association of Evangelicals<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Future of the Global Muslim Population\u201d report also predicts that the Muslim population worldwide will increase by 35 percent, or from 1.6 billion in 2010 to 2.2 billion by 2030.<\/p>\n

This means that the worldwide Muslim population would be growing about twice the rate of the non-Muslim population. Based on this prediction, Muslims would make up slightly more than a quarter (26.4 percent) of the world\u2019s total projected population of 8.3 billion in 2030. In 2010, Muslims make up 23.4 percent of the world\u2019s population of 6.9 billion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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