“We will show them our signs in the horizons and in their own souls, until it appears to them that this is the truth”.(41:53)
The Pope and leaders of the European Commission realize that if Islam continues at the speed of growth at which it is moving, it will become the new majority, thus reshaping the European political landscape. Many European officials are stating publicly that the continent could be predominantly Muslim within decades.
Monsignor Carlo Liberati, Archbishop Emeritus of Pompeii, Italy, recently predicts Islam will soon become Europe’s main religion thanks to the huge number of Muslim migrants alongside the increasing secularism of native Europeans. “In 10 years we will all be Muslims because of our stupidity. Italy and Europe live in a pagan and atheist way, they make laws that go against God and they have traditions that are proper of paganism. “All of this moral and religious decadence favours Islam.”
Turkish President, Erdogan urged Muslims to have at least five children, Islamic imams are also urging the faithful to breed children to conquer Europe. Islamic supremacists are busily building a clash of civilizations in Europe’s midst and they depict their Western host countries collapsing: without population, without values and abandoning their own culture.
Mr. Amanullah Khan and his wife Sehrun emigrated from Pakistan to London in 1970. That migration marked the beginning of the current historic development in the centre of Europe, London and it points to the future of Islam in Europe. For 25 years, Amanullah Khan was plying the roads of London as a bus driver and an active union member of the bus union and got decent pay bare enough to train his eight children one of whom, Sadiq Khan who is now the Mayor of London, thus having a Muslim ruling the heart of London.
These three paragraphs summarises the reasons why soon, there shall be more Muslims in Europe than any other religion. A writer recently posits ‘Europe is committing suicide. Or at least its leaders have decided to commit suicide”, because “Europe today has little desire to reproduce itself, fight for itself or even take its own side in an argument”
Islam, shall make triumphant entry to European nations on three main pedestals Immigration, Procreation, and increasing secularism of native Europeans, many are no more religious or committed to the creed of their Christian beliefs. Analysts estimate that in Britain, for example, Islamic mosques host more worshippers each week than the Church of England! Filling the void of traditional Christianity is a robust, energetic and youthful movement afoot in Europe. If this continues at the present rate, cathedrals will appear as vestiges of a civilization of times past. The great national cultures of Italians, French, Germans and others may be replaced by a new transnational Muslim identity.
In the medieval periods, Islam flourishes in Europe. Islam has been a part of Europe for so long, first in Spain, then in the Balkans, and the extent to which it has contributed so much towards the European civilization.’ the swift advance of Islam across North Africa in the seventh and eighth century’s virtually extinguished Christianity there.
The Muslims conquered most of Spain and Portugal with little difficulty and in fact with little opposition by 720. The heartland of Muslim rule was Southern Spain or Andulusia. The Islamic rulers called the Iberian Peninsula “Al-Andalus”. That was the root for the name of the present-day region of Andalusia, the southernmost region of Spain and the name comes from the term Al-Andalus used by the Arabs, derived from the Vandals who had been settled in the region. One reason for the rapid Muslim success was the generous surrender terms that they offered the people, which contrasted with the harsh conditions imposed by the previous Visigoth rulers. In no time Islamic migrants from places as diverse as North Africa, Yemen, Syria and Iran invaded territories in the Iberian Peninsula.
Islamic Spain was a multi-cultural mix of Muslims, Christians and Jews. It brought a degree of civilisation to Europe that matched the heights of the Roman Empire and the Italian Renaissance. The period of the Caliphate is seen as the golden age of al-Andalus. Crops produced using irrigation, along with food imported from the Middle East, and provided the area around Córdoba and some other Andalusī cities with an agricultural economic sector that was the most advanced in Europe by far. Among European cities, Córdoba under the Caliphate, with a population of perhaps 500,000, eventually overtook Constantinople as the largest and most prosperous city in Europe. Within the Islamic world, Córdoba was one of the leading cultural centres. The work of its most important philosophers and scientists (notably Abulcasis and Averroes) had a major influence on the intellectual life of medieval Europe.
Muslims and non-Muslims often came from abroad to study in the famous libraries and universities of al-Andalus and the establishment of translation institutions such as the Toledo School of Translators. The caliphate disintegrated during a civil war .the Fitna of al-Andalus between the descendants of the last caliph, Hisham II, and the successors of his hayib (court official), Al-Mansur. In 1031, after years of infighting, the caliphate fractured into a number of independent kingdoms- taifa thatfurther shattered Islamic unity thus Islam’s domination of Spain was ended for good. The Muslims finally lost all power in Spain in 1492. By 1502 the Christian rulers issued an order requiring all Muslims to convert to Christianity and when this did not work, they imposed brutal restrictions on the remaining Spanish Muslims, including turning the huge cordorba mosque to a cathedral.
Nevertheless, throughout modern history there has always been a constant presence of Muslims in Europe, her proximity to North Africa made Muslim presence in the continent inevitable. The voyage to go back to Europe has started and in the next couple of years it might get to all parts of Europe through natural occurrences as predicted by the quintenstial Pan African leader, the late Muhammad Gadaffi of Libya. He once said ‘’ There are signs that Allah will grant victory to Islam in Europe, without swords, without guns, without conquest.
Europe meant the world surrounding the Mediterranean, or Mare Nostrum (“Our Sea”), as the Romans famously called it, in the past included the North Africa coutries but the processs of colonizations, partintioning and wars, made the Mediterranean sea a fotress between the two sides. But Today, through process of Immigration, Procreation and fundanmental religious paradignm shift in European hearts, soon, the fortress might be broken.
In recent decades, immigration has resulted to resurgence of Islam, in Europe. Millions of Muslims are currently residing in different parts of Europe, significantly a portion of whom have obtained citizenship of the nations of Europe. Of those who are yet to obtain it the majority are from Moroccans; Iraqis, Pakistanis, Algerians, Senegalese, Egyptians, Afghanis, Syrians, Tunisians, Libyans, Sudanese, Indians, East Asians and Nigerians. The Arab springs of Northern Africa and protracted civil wars in Syria, Afganistan, Iraq, Yemen, Sudan, and Somalia are catalyst to the massive migration of Muslims to Europe.
Angela Merkel recently opened the doors of Germany to one million and half migrant’s majority of whom are Muslims on compassionate grounds as many of them are victims of brutal civil wars in many Muslims nations. Like droves through Turkey, Greece, Spain, Italy and Malta, Millions are entering Europe and hoping for a new life. evidently the massive influx of these migrants would change European societies probably forever.
Remarkably, the overall decline of religion in Europe has coincided with the arrival of five million migrants who tend to have more religious belief than Christians that populate the continents. These hundreds of thousands of Muslims that filters into Europe have no desire to be Christian but for economical reasons.
Analysts estimate that in Britain, for example, Islamic mosques host more worshippers each week than the Church of England! “We have a weak Christian faith,” he added. “The Church nowadays does not work well and seminaries are empty.“Parishes are the only thing still standing. All these pave the way to Islam. If this continues at the present rate, cathedrals will appear as vestiges of a civilization of times past. The great national cultures of Italians, French, Germans and others may be replaced by a new transnational Muslim identity.
In 1968 Enoch Powell in a book “Rivers of Blood,” warned that by allowing excess immigration, Europe was “heaping up its own funeral pyre, bringing major religious/cultural changes. Some observers are saying that Europe is becoming a post-Christian society with an ever-diminishing understanding of its historical Christian values. Many are calling this the “hallowing out” of traditional Christianity.
European countries in general have seen substantial declines, but it is the Netherlands leading the way. The Catholic Church predicts that two-thirds of its churches will be retired from holy service within a decade and 700 Protestant churches are expected to be decommissioned within four years. Pew Research Center data, presented by the Wall Street Journal, highlights the degree to which the European population reports no religious affiliation: France (28%), Germany (24.7%), Italy (12.4%), Netherlands (42.1%), and the United Kingdom (21.3%). The Netherlands at 42%! Yet the former Roman Catholic church of St. Joseph in Arnhem, Netherlands, has been converted into, of all things, a skate board park. Also Netherlands is projected to close 2/3 of its Roman Catholic churches in the next decade
The crushing Jack-boot to other religions in Europe is the procreation angle to the future of religions in Europe. Demographics in Europe are a disaster. Among native white Europeans they stand somewhere around 0.9 to 1.1. Back in 2006 an in depth study revealed countries like France having only 1.8 children per Christian family. Germany had a 1.3 rate and Italy 1.2. Throughout the entire European continent the child rate was only 1.38. Today the rate is worse than ever before.
Europe’s most important leaders are all childless: German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte and the French president Emmanuel Macron, Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven, Luxembourg’s Prime Minister Xavier Bettel and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.
Their childless status mirrors European society. According to a new study published, a quarter of European women born in the 1970s may remain childless. 30% of German women have not had children, according to European Union statistics, with the figure rising among female university graduates to 40%. Similarly, one in nine women born in England and Wales in 1940 was childless at the age of 45, compared to one in five of those born in 1967. Whereas according to the demographic data, the number of Moslems will continue to steadily rise due to a high birth rate and the continued mass immigrations.
The words of Allah and His prophets are golden. Perhaps because there is no other religion acceptable to Allah, more than Isaloam, people of Europe nagates the fundamentals of creation which is procreation. It is that, that Islam in the words of the Prophet that shall give it victory. “Marry those who are loving and fertile, for I will be proud of your great numbers before the other nations.” Classed as saheeh by al-Albaani in Irwa’ al-Ghaleel, 1784. “Our Lord! Bestow on us from our wives and our offspring the comfort of our eyes, and make us leaders of the pious.” (Quran 25: 74)
This hadeeth and Qur’an indicates that it is encouraged to marry women who are fertile, so that the numbers of the ummah will increase, and so the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) will feel proud of his ummah before all other nations.
Children are a blessing whom people love and on whom even Prophets of Allah pin their hopes. Ibraaheem (peace be upon him) prayed to his Lord, saying “My Lord! Grant me (offspring) from the righteous”[al-Saafaat 37:100] Who shall inherit me, and inherit (also) the posterity of Ya’qoob (Jacob) (inheritance of the religious knowledge and Prophethood, not of wealth). And make him, my Lord, one with whom You are Well-Pleased!’
Today in Europe, Childless white Europe is dying right before their eyes and Muslims shall soon inherit their lands. In all major regions where there is a sizable Muslim population, Muslim fertility exceeds non-Muslim fertility. Muslims do not have the problem of ageing populations unlike in the West – with the median age being 23 as opposed to 30 for the rest of the world. In 2010, the median age of Muslims throughout Europe was 32, eight years younger than the median for all Europeans (40). By contrast, the median age of religiously unaffiliated people in Europe, including atheists, agnostics and those with no religion in particular, was 37. The median age of European Christians was 42.
The Pope and leaders of the European Commission realize that if Islam continues at the speed of growth at which it is moving, it will become the new majority, thus reshaping the European political landscape. Many European officials are stating publicly that the continent could be predominantly Muslim within decades.
There are many factors that contributed to this modern reality. The closing of Europe’s churches is a result of flagging faith and empty pews, but it is mostly Christians who are losing their faith and having less children. Several other religions have not experienced the same decline. Islam has actually grown. This means that such a rise could be the increased influence Moslems have on the shape of Europe in the future.”
In addition, some argues in Europe, the old marriage of religion and culture has ended in divorce. The societies offer no clear values that appeal to young people looking for meaning, religiously minded youths turn to the world beyond our borders where religion remains such a compelling force. Islam offers, the sharpest, clearest voices they are hearing.
Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world and is expected to outstrip Christianity by the end of the century. The number of Muslims will grow more than twice as fast as the world’s population from now until 2050, the Pew Research Center has said. While the world’s population is projected to grow 35 per cent before the middle of the century, the number of Muslims is expected to increase by 73 per cent – from 1.6 billion in 2010 to 2.8 billion The number of Muslims will grow more than twice as fast as the world’s population from now until 2050, the Pew Research Center has said.
The Spectator a British Newspaper recently published a cover story about what it called “the death rattle” of Christianity in Britain, it speculated that “Anglicanism will disappear from Britain in 2033; citing British Social Attitudes surveys, which suggest that the number of Anglicans here “fell from 40% of the population in 1983 to 29% in 2004 to 17% last year”.
“ We have sent thee (O Muhammad) except as a universal (messenger) to the whole of mankind, as a giver of glad tidings, and as a warner, but still the majority of mankind still do not know” (34:28)
The researchers said the main reason for Islam’s growth was “simple demographics” .They said: “To begin with, Muslims have more children than members of the seven other major religious groups analysed in the study.”Each Muslim woman has an average of 3.1 children, significantly above the next-highest group (Christians at 2.7) and the average of all non-Muslims (2.3).