Bill Maher Spells It Out

[Thumpalumpacus]

Simplistic argument stays simplistic. Wanna bet on population growth, as far as Asia versus the Middle East is concerned. A bet I'm taking anytime you like.

A group either reproduces or they die out. Simple math is simple.

Silly. Religion, transmissible by culture, is not so far as we know genetically predisposed. Indeed, a big issue amongst American Muslims is that their children, raised here, are also falling away from their own faith. Simple math is not really so simple, thanks to non-mathematical thinking.

Do you have money to lose?

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/201...ous-group/

The expected growth of Islam around the world is perhaps the most striking finding in the recent Pew Research Center report projecting the future of religious groups. Indeed, Muslims will grow more than twice as fast as the overall world population between 2010 and 2050 and, in the second half of this century, will likely surpass Christians as the world’s largest religious group.

Islam Growing FastestWhile the world’s population is projected to grow 35% in the coming decades, the number of Muslims is expected to increase by 73% – from 1.6 billion in 2010 to 2.8 billion in 2050. In 2010, Muslims made up 23.2% of the global population. Four decades later, they are expected to make up about three-in-ten of the world’s people (29.7%).

Do these projections take into account the current war between Shia'a and Sunni -- a conflict bound to alienate youngsters grown up in war-zones and tired or the shooting? And -- being in the countries where they are, how much influence might they wield in the wider world?

The fact is that the vast majority of victims of Muslim terrorism are themselves Muslim. How do you think they might assail the outer world while at the same time they're involved in internecine warfare?