Spread of Islam over the world

The Hadith:The Prophet peace be upon him says: (The Islam will spread in all places that have day and night).

• The explanation of the Hadith:• This is an amazing prophetic miracle, the Prophet peace be

upon him tells us about the rapid spread of Islam and that this religion will cover all parts of the globe. And this is what we will learn through the recent statistics on the number of Muslims all over the world.

• Islam started 1400 years ago with only one man who is the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him and the number of Muslims today became more than one thousand and four hundred million Muslims!! So what is the secret of this amazing spreading, and what does the global statistics say on the number of Muslims in the world today?

Scientific facts:

• Today there are more than 4200 religions in the world! The statistics say that Islam is the fastest spreading among all religions in the world! In 1999, the number of Muslims in the world was 1200 million Muslims. But now Islam is spreading in all continents of the world, as the number of Muslims in 1997 inthe six continents was: 780 million in Asia, 308 million in Africa, 32 million in Europe, 7 million in America and 385 thousand in Australia.

• In 1900, the number of Muslims all over the world was less than half the number of Christians but in 2025, the number of Muslims will become greater than the number of Christians because of the significant growth of Islamic religion. And this is the highest rate of growth in the world!

• The Prophet peace be upon him talked about an amazing prophetic miracle that Islam will spread in all parts of the earth, He peace be upon him says: (The Islam will spread in all places that have day and night). And this means that Islam will reach any area of land that has day and night and this is what really happened as nowadays there are Muslims all over the world

Muslim Populations in Europe

• Europe comprises 55 countries and territories; some 710,000,000, or about 11% of the world’s population with probably 94 major languages. There are 12 countries with significant Muslim populations and another 5 with a well-established Islam presence. About 5% of the EU (25 countries in the European Union which alone have 21 official languages) identify themselves as Muslims. The U.N. estimates Europe will be 55% Muslim by 2040.

Country | Population | Percentage of Muslims

• Albania | 3,639,453 | 70%• Bosnia and Herzegovina | 4,613,414 | 40%• Macedonia | 2,066,718 | 33.3%• Bulgaria | 7,204,687 | 12.2%• France | 64,420,070 | 5 – 10%• Switzerland | 7,604,467 | 4.3%• Germany | 82,329,758 | 3.7%• UK (United Kingdom) | 61,113,205 | 2.7%• Denmark | 5,500,510 | 2%• Finland | 5,250,275 | 0.2%

Islam in USA• According to this research, America now has about 1,209 mosques,

most of which were constructed very recently. Thirty percent of these mosques were built in the 1990s, and 32% were built in the 1980s. Other statistics show that in 1994, the total number of mosques in America was 962; in 2000, there was a 25% increase in this number.

• These data show a natural parallel with the growing number of Muslims. For example, according to determinations made in 1994, the number of Muslims attending mosque services was 500,000; in 2000, this figure had increased to 2 million—an approximately 300% increase. A significant part of this number is composed of people who converted to Islam. The same research shows that about 30% of those worshippers are converts. According to these data, about 20,000 Americans accept Islam every year , 75% Of Them Women

In this chart we see the ethnic distribution of American Muslims. The great majority of America's Muslim population is South-Central Asian.

This chart on the right shows the rising mosque attendance rates by American Muslims. There has been a 77% increase. The fact sheet below, prepared by the U.S. Department of State, includes the main figures about Muslim life in America.

The above graphic representation shows the rising numbers of mosques in America. Below we see

pictures of mosques in various states.

A Florida Times report, "Finding Faith in Islam," tells about the converts' thoughts and ideas. A Seattle Times article entitled "Mosque overflows with faithful" reports that Seattle Muslims are crowding into their mosques.

(below) A report on the American Ministry of Defense's Internet site, entitled "Islam Growing in America," gives an account of the Muslims' increasing influence in American social life and introduces basic Islamic values.

The above report in the August 4, 2001, edition of the Associated Press news agency states that many more Americans are attending mosques than ever before. According to this report, "Growing Islam," an investigation led by Ihsan Bagby, a faculty member of Shaw University, revealed that American Muslims are far more active in mosque-related activities today than they were in the past.(1)According to this chart in the October 1, 2001, edition of Newsweek, in 1994 there were 962 mosques in America and 485 Muslims per mosque, with a total of 500,000 affiliated Muslims. In 2000, the number of mosques was 1,209, 1,625 Muslims per mosque, and a total affiliation of 2 million. (2)

How Life Changed for Muslim Americans After Sept. 11

• After Sept. 11, 2001, hate crimes against Muslims soared. This was a racial issue as much as a religious one, considering that anyone perceived to be Arab or South Asian suddenly became the enemy in the eyes of some Americans. Given this, it's no surprise that 55 percent of U.S. Muslims say that the terrorist attacks made life more difficult them, according to the Pew Research Center. Moreover, 78 percent of Americans overall say that the terrorist attacks have resulted in Muslims being unfairly singled out, according to a CBS News/New York Times poll. Anyone who's heard about the Koran burnings and volatile protests against the building of Islamic centers would be hard pressed to disagree

DEFINING "ISLAMOPHOBIA"

• The term "Islamophobia" was first introduced as a concept in a 1991 Runnymede Trust Report and defined as "unfounded hostility towards Muslims, and therefore fear or dislike of all or most Muslims." The term was coined in the context of Muslims in the UK in particular and Europe in general, and formulated based on the more common "xenophobia" framework

• The report pointed to prevailing attitudes that incorporate the following beliefs:

• Islam is monolithic and cannot adapt to new realities

• Islam does not share common values with other major faiths

• Islam as a religion is inferior to the West. It is archaic, barbaric, and irrational.

• Islam is a religion of violence and supports terrorism.

• Islam is a violent political ideology

• For the purposes of anchoring the current research and documentation project, we provide the following working definition:

• Islamophobia is a contrived fear or prejudice fomented by the existing Eurocentric and Orientalist global power structure. It is directed at a perceived or real Muslim threat through the maintenance and extension of existing disparities in economic, political, social and cultural relations, while rationalizing the necessity to deploy violence as a tool to achieve "civilizational rehab" of the target communities (Muslim or otherwise). Islamophobia reintroduces and reaffirms a global racial structure through which resource distribution disparities are maintained and extended