12-30-2006, 07:15 PM
i would also like to make a correction. You said there are one billion Muslims.
Actually there are 1.5 or more Muslims. I compiled a list of statistics a while back:
-209,020,000, (1935), World Almanac and Book of Facts
-700,000,000, (1983), Readers Digest Almanac and Yearbook
-0.951 billion, (1993), The Cambridge Factfinder
-0.700 billion or more, (1993), Barnes & Noble Encyclopedia
-0.817 billion, (1996), The Universal Almanac
-1,126,325,000, (1996), 1997 Britannica Book of the Year.
-1.100 billion, (1997), The World Almanac*
-1.200 billion, (1999), CAIR (Council on American-Islamic relations)
-1,188,242,789, (2000), David A. Barrett, World Christian Encyclopedia,
2001, p 13-15 (according to bible.ca)
-1,500,000,000, (2006)
*note: these figures are randomly taken from different sources. At no point did Islam start loosing Muslims more than it gained. It's a difference of statistics. If i claim 1.3 Muslims in the world and you claim 1.2 next year, it does not mean they decreased.
The word population growth per year: 1.14% (2000) (figure obtained from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_population)
The Muslim population growth per year: 2.96%** (figures 2000 and 2006 used to find population growth.)
So the Muslim population is growing faster than the world population.
may Allah bless you all.