3-day Eid break for UAE? Saudi, Qatar, Oman get 10-days

UAE residents wait with baited breath to know which will be first day of Eid Al Fitr

All their bags are packed, and they are ready to go.

But the suspense surrounding the duration of the upcoming Eid break is stretching out tighter than a spine-chilling thriller, even as other GCC nations announce a 10-day break for the public sector.

Neighbouring Oman is the latest country to announce a five-day Eid-Al-Fitr break for the government and public sector, which will give employees nine-day break in Oman; while employees of private sector will get six days.

Khalid bin Hilal bin Saud Al Busaidi, Minister of the Diwan of the Royal Court and Chairman of the Board of Civil Service, Oman, stated government, public sector and state employees will get their break from August 18 to 22, with work resuming on August 25.
Meanwhile, Qatar’s public bodies and institutions will remain closed from Thursday (August 16) to August 27 stated the Amiri Court.
However, financial institutions, including the central bank and bourse, will remain closed for only three days to be determined later.

Similarly, Saudi Arabia is following a similar breakdown for its Eid holidays, with bourse closed until August 24.

So when is Eid really?

Kuwaiti meteorologist and historian Adel Al-Saadoun told KUNA he predicts Eid-Al-Fitr will fall on Sunday, with Ramadan lasting a full 30 days this time around.

Al-Saadoun remarked that calculations at Al-Fintas observatory suggest it would be impossible to see the new crescent in any part of the Muslim World on Friday.

It will be possible to discern the crescent on Saturday, but in Saudi Arabia and countries other than Kuwait, due to specifics of position and time of setting of the sun.

Well-known Kuwaiti astronomer Saleh Al-Ujairi later Sunday also made the same prediction and said Eid Al-Fitr will fall on Sunday.

Dubai resident Yash Mahindra said: “I am booked to fly to Istanbul for the Eid break. But if the holidays are going to extend, I would hope I can alter my flight bookings for no charge.

“However, according to my office calculation, Eid will fall on Sunday so we will surely have Monday off also, right?”

Said Shakir Hussain, a Sharjah resident: “I am already booked on an Air Arabia flight to Pakistan, with my leave starting this Thursday itself.

“My office has assured me, it will adjust the dates to insure my annual leave doesn’t include the Eid break. However, everyone’s mentioned Sunday and Monday as a private sector holiday, so my leave starts from Tuesday officially.”

Meenakshi Gajodhar, who is staying in Dubai for the break, stated: “I don’t care about the number of days, really. As a homemaker, it’s all the same to me.”

Eid Al Fitr celebrations in UAE begin Saudi Arabia also celebrates Eid today

 

Hundreds of thousands of UAE residents began Eid Al Fitr celebrations today with prayers in mosques across the country.

UAE residents were outpouring in their gratitude and wishes for the leaders of the country, praying for and sending their best wishes to President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, and to Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.

The people also wished and thanked General Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, Their Highnesses Supreme Council Members and Rulers of Emirates, Deputies Ruler and Crown Princes on the occasion of Eid.

A day of family gatherings and sharing of Eid feasts beckoned as the UAE wore a festive look.
Several family hotspots across the country were also reparing for a deluge of visitors later in the day.

Malls and other entertainment centres announced extended timings.
Paying homage to the region’s traditions and culture, the Dubai Mall will host hospitality tents providing coffee and dates to visitors in the Arabian Court and The Souk, while passers-by can indulge in customary henna painting in designated tents.
Combining traditional Eid customs with carnival-like festivities appealing to kids, The Dubai Mall’s celebrations will encompass parades and crowd favourites such as balloon benders, face painters, stilt walkers, and clowns.
Children can participate in the various workshops at the Star Atrium, or join in the challenge at the ‘Big Boys’ stations. The celebrations will be taken to the next level with the Hamleys Parade featuring Freej characters and roaming Build-A-Bear mascots located on the second floor.
Dubai Mall has extended the daily operating hours from 10am-1am.
Children’s City has prepared an intensive programme under the slogan ‘Angry Bird Carnival’ in Creek Park for three days.
Naila Mansouri, head of Children’s City, said the celebration programme will continue for three days from the second day of Eid (Monday) from 10am-7pm.
The city is well prepared to provide maximum entertainment and fun, including a new area for recreation in a family setting.
“The programme, which has taken into account all types of tastes and age groups, includes Bouncing Castle, Snakes and Ladders, Magic Show, Arts and Crafts, Traditional Greeting, Murshid and Angry Bird Characters, Photo Shooting, Carnival Booth Games, Angry Bird Face Painting, Electronic Games, Glittered Workshop and other items,” Mansouri said.

Earlier, Minister of Justice and Chairman of the Committee Dr Hadef Al Dhaheri said, ''The Committee established, after observation and verification of all recognised methods of sighting the Shawaal crescent and after contacts with neighbouring countries, that Saturday, 18th August 2012, will be the 30th day of Ramadan 1433H and Sunday, 19th August 2012, will be the first day of Eid Al Fitr,'' he added.
On this glorious occasion, the minister offered best congratulations to President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Their Highnesses Supreme Council Members and Rulers of Emirates, General Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, and Crown Princes.
Al Dhaheri also congratulated the UAE people, expatriate residents and Muslims across the world on the happy occasion.

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Narrated Jabir:
Allah s Apostle said, "When you intend going to bed at night, put out
the lights, close the doors, tie the mouths of the water skins, and cover
your food and drinks." Hamrnam said, "I think he (the other narrator)
added, 'even with piece of wood across the utensil.'

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The Muslim population has grown from 1.65 million to 2.87 million since 2001, say researchers. What does this mean for liberal Britain?

There is a remarkable statistic in today's main Daily Telegraph leader:

The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life estimates that there are 2,869,000 Muslims in Britain, an increase of 74 per cent on its previous figure of 1,647,000, which was based on the 2001 census. No demographic statistics are reliable in an era of open borders, but such an expansion is unprecedented.

The figure of 2.87 million was first published by Pew in a little-noticed press release last September, announcing a report on Muslim Networks and Movements in Western Europe. The Pew Centre, based in Washington DC, is one of the most respected demographic research bodies in the world; its methodology is scrupulous and its approach non-partisan. The new total for British Muslims means that, so far as this country as concerned, Pew's major 2009 report Mapping the Global Muslim Population is already spectacularly out of date. Here's a map showing the updated distribution of the Muslim population in Europe:

The material about global Islam in the 2010 report is fascinating, but it's the revision of British figures that took me by surprise. Why was it not more widely reported in the autumn? And what are the implications for society? For an analysis that puts the statistics in context, let me recommend this article from the British Religion In Numbers website, which makes the point that the 2001 figure was probably an underestimate.

Pew’s UK figure for 2010 is 2,869,000, which is equivalent to 4.6% of the population. In absolute terms, the UK has the third largest Muslim community on the continent, after Germany (4,119,000) and France (3,574,000).
In percentage terms, the UK is in ninth position, after Belgium (6.0%), France, Austria and Switzerland (5.7%), The Netherlands (5.5%), Germany (5.0%), Sweden (4.9%) and Greece (4.7%). UK Muslims account for 16.8% of all Muslims in Western Europe.

There have been other indications of a dramatic increase in the numbers of British Muslims: the UK Labour Force Survey recorded a rise from 1,870,000 in 2004 to 2,422,000 in 2008. So Pew's findings aren't unsupported by independent data. Common sense suggests explanations for the increase: a high Muslim birth rate and large-scale immigration. But I'm not sure that common sense tells us what this demographic earthquake means in practice for British public life.

Modest Rise in Concern About Islamic Extremism

The public continues to express concern about the rise of Islamic extremism in the United States and abroad, but a survey taken shortly after the deadly Nov. 5 shootings at the Fort Hood Army base shows only a modest increase in these concerns since 2007.

Just more than half (52%) of Americans say they are very concerned about the possible rise of Islamic extremism in the United States. That is up from 46% in April 2007. The percentage that says they are somewhat worried dropped slightly from 32% in 2007 to 27%. There has been no significant change in the small percentages who say they are not too worried or not worried at all about the possible rise of Islamic extremism in the United States.
Public concerns about the rise of Islamic extremism around the world largely mirror levels measured in April 2007, according to the latest survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press and the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, conducted Nov. 12-15 among 1,003 Americans reached on landlines and cell phones. Today, 49% say they are very concerned about this, compared with 48% in April 2007. Nearly three-in-ten (29%) say they are somewhat concerned, compared with 33% in the 2007 survey.
In recent weeks, the public has paid close attention to the shootings at the Texas Army base that left 13 dead and a Muslim Army psychiatrist charged with the killings. According to the Pew Research Center's News Interest Index, the public followed the story more closely than any other news the week of the tragedy and continues to closely follow the investigation into the shooting in this week's News Interest Index.
The Fort Hood shootings came amid an increase in the past year in reports about alleged terror plots or actions undertaken by people within the U.S. said to oppose U.S. military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. In September, for example, an Afghan-born Muslim man and Denver resident - who reportedly received training and weapons from al-Qaeda in Pakistan - was arrested as part of an alleged bombmaking scheme.

Still, the survey shows no sea change in the population as a whole and only modest political and demographic changes in concerns over increasing Islamic extremism in the United States. Currently, a majority of political independents (55%) say they are very concerned by the possible rise of Islamic extremism in the U.S., up from 43% in 2007. About two-thirds of Republicans (65%) express this view, not much different from the 59% who said this two years ago. There has been virtually no change in opinions among Democrats (44% very concerned today, 46% in 2007).
Young people continue to express far lower levels of concern about the rise of Islamic extremism in the U.S. than do older age groups. Slightly more than a third of those younger than 30 (36%) say they are very concerned about this, compared with 60% of those 65 and older and 65% of those ages 50 to 64.
More than half of those with no college experience (55%) say they are very concerned about the possible rise of Islamic extremism in the U.S., compared with 46% of college graduates.

About the Survey

Results for this report are based on telephone interviews conducted under the direction of Princeton Survey Research Associates International among a nationwide sample of 1,003 adults, 18 years of age or older, from Nov. 12-15 (700 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 303 were interviewed on a cell phone, including 92 who had no landline telephone). Both the landline and cell phone samples were provided by Survey Sampling International.
The combined landline and cell phone sample are weighted using an iterative technique that matches gender, age, education, race/ethnicity, region, and population density to parameters from the March 2008 Census Bureau's Current Population Survey. The sample is also weighted to match current patterns of telephone status and relative usage of landline and cell phones (for those with both), based on extrapolations from the 2008 National Health Interview Survey. The weighting procedure also accounts for the fact that respondents with both landline and cell phones have a greater probability of being included in the combined sample and adjusts for household size within the landline sample.
The error attributable to sampling that would be expected at the 95% level of confidence for the total sample is plus or minus 4 percentage points. In addition to sampling error, one should bear in mind that question wording and practical difficulties in conducting surveys can introduce error or bias into the findings of opinion polls.

About the Projects

This survey is a joint effort of the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press and the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life. Both organizations are sponsored by the Pew Charitable Trusts and are projects of the Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan "fact tank" that provides information on the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world.
The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press is an independent opinion research group that studies attitudes toward the press, politics and public policy issues. The Center's purpose is to serve as a forum for ideas on the media and public policy through public opinion research. In this role it serves as an important information resource for political leaders, journalists, scholars, and public interest organizations. All of the Center's current survey results are made available free of charge.
The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life seeks to promote a deeper understanding of issues at the intersection of religion and public affairs. It studies public opinion, demographics and other important aspects of religion and public life in the U.S. and around the world. It also provides a neutral venue for discussions of timely issues through roundtables and briefings.
This report is a collaborative product based on the input and analysis of the following individuals:
Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life
Luis Lugo, Director
Alan Cooperman and Sandra Stencel, Associate Directors
John C. Green and Gregory Smith, Senior Researchers
Allison Pond and Neha Sahgal, Research Associates
Scott Clement, Research Analyst
Tracy Miller and Hilary Ramp, Editors
Pew Research Center for the People & the Press
Andrew Kohut, Director
Scott Keeter, Director of Survey Research
Carroll Doherty and Michael Dimock, Associate Directors
Michael Remez, Senior Writer
Robert Suls, Shawn Neidorf, Leah Melani Christian, Jocelyn Kiley and Alec Tyson, Research Associates
Jacob Poushter, Research Analyst

The Future of the Global Muslim Population Projections for 2010-2030

Expected Growth of India’s Muslim Population

India is projected to have the third-largest Muslim population (in absolute numbers) in the world by 2030, following Pakistan and Indonesia. The Muslim population in India is projected to increase from 177.3 million in 2010 to 236.2 million in 2030. The Muslim share of India’s population is expected to increase from 14.6% in 2010 to 15.9% in 2030. More than one-in-ten of the world’s Muslims (10.8%) will live in India in 2030, about the same as in 2010.
India’s Muslim population is expected to grow at a slower rate in the next 20 years than it did in the previous two decades. The Muslim population in India increased by 76.4 million from 1990 to 2010; it is expected to grow by 58.9 million between 2010 and 2030.¹

Fertility rates for all populations in India have been declining in recent years, in part because of increasing use of birth control. However, Muslims in India continue to have more children on average than non-Muslims, mainly because Muslims’ use of birth control still falls below the national average. In 2005-2006, for example, 45.7% of Muslim couples used some form of birth control, compared with 56.3% of couples in the general population, according to an analysis of the National Family Health Survey.
Muslims in India are poorer and less educated than other religious groups. These characteristics are often associated with higher fertility rates. For instance, according to the 2001 census, only 3.6% of Muslims in India age 20 and older are college or university graduates, compared with 6.7% of all Indians in this age group. The literacy rate among Muslim women (50.1%) is lower than the rate among other women in India, including Hindus (53.2%) and Christians (76.2%).

Muslim women also are less likely to work outside the home than non-Muslim women, and employment is associated with lower fertility.
Muslims have lived in India since the advent of Islam. The country’s first mosque is said to have been established around 630 A.D., even before the death of the Prophet Muhammad. ² The number of Muslims in India declined in 1947 when India gained its independence and an estimated 7 million people migrated from India to Pakistan, but India’s Muslim population has been rising steadily since.
Muslims live throughout India. According to the 2001 census, a large concentration of Muslims lives in two of the largest and poorest states, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar; 35.6% of all the Muslims in India live in these two states. An additional 14.6% of the country’s Muslims live in West Bengal, which adjoins Bihar and borders Bangladesh. The remainder of the country’s Muslim population is scattered in more than 20 other states.
Although Muslims constitute a small minority in most Indian states, they make up roughly a third of the population in Assam (30.9%) and about a quarter of the population in both West Bengal and Kerala. Muslims constitute a majority of the population in the northernmost state of Jammu and Kashmir, where they make up 67.0% of the population.

s Croatia Demographic Jihad:9 statistics about the population growth of Muslims in the West which will make you nervous

Islam spreads in the West through migration of Muslims in the West,high fertility rate of Muslims in the West and the conversion of non-Muslims into Islam.This problem is getting worse by each year and the future might be dark for non-Muslims in Europe.It is estimated that across the European continent there are 54 million Muslims (link),but those numbers will double in 2015 (link),so if the non-Muslim population across the continent doesn’t begin the process of Rechristianization which will turn the tide of Muslim population growth,Europe in the next century will become a Muslim continent and will become the extension of the Muslim World which its center is the Middle East.Unfortunately,non-Muslim Europeans doesn’t seem to care about this,too many of them are brainwashed by the anti-Christian left-wing propaganda machine and Europe is dying.

Here are nine statistics about the Muslim population growth in the West which will make you nervous:

1.In Austria in 1971 there were only 22200 Muslims (0.3%),today it is estimated that there are between 400000 and 500000 Muslims living in the country (6%) (link),already some parts of Vienna have a Muslim majority (link)

2.In Belgium in 2008 Islam has become the largest minority religion in the country with 628751 members (link) and the city of Brussels which is the capital of Belgium and the EU has a Muslim population of 25.5% (link) and Brussels will have a Muslim majority in 2030 (link)

3.France prohibits performing census based on religion and race,but it is estimated that the number of Muslims in the country is about 5-10% of the population (link) and the Muslim population of Marseille has reached 30-40% (link) which means it will become a Muslim-majority city in just a few years

4.In Germany the number of Muslims is currently estimated at 4.3 million (5.4%) of the population (link) and it is the largest minority religion in the country and it is estimated that Germany will become a Muslim state in 2050 (link)

5.In 1980 Norway had only 1006 Muslims,but in 2010 Muslims number 98953 (link) and the growth of the Muslim population in Norway which is not a member of the EU has caused a rape epidemic in Oslo where the majority of Muslims live (link)

6.Besides the Chechnya and the regions around (Dagestan and Ingushetia) which have a Muslim majority (link),in Moscow the number of Muslims is estimated at 1.5 million,while the whole country has a population of 20 million Muslims (link)

7.Spain has a Muslim population just over one million,but it will increase in 2030 by 82% (link),in 1992 the Spanish town of Salt had only 5% of Muslims,but in 2010 the Muslim population is 50% and crime has skyrocketed from 156 in 1992 to 5000 in 2010 (link)

8.Sweden has currently 400000 Muslims,while in 1930 only 15 (link),Malmo which is located in Southern Sweden has 25% Muslim population (link),that caused a Jewish exodus from Malmo (link),while the growth of the Muslim population across the country caused a rape epidemic (link).Danish journalist Lars Hedegaard said that Sweden will have a Muslim majority by 2049 (link)

9.Currently in the USA there are 2.6 million Muslims,but their number will double in 2030 when it will be 6.2 million (link)

So will the growth of the Muslim population stop?Of course not because they are migrating in large number to the West and they have a higher fertility rate,but our leaders are doing nothing to stop them,besides that Cameron,Sarkozy and Merkel claim that Multiculturalism failed and that there needs to be a policy change,but there isn’t any political will to stop the Muslim conquest of the West without guns and bombs.The responsibility is of course on the Christian church which is doing next to nothing,instead of evangelizing the Muslim population and Rechristianizing the non-Muslim Europeans which are slowly dying,the Church doesn’t seem to care about this besides that churches across the West are being turned into mosques.

But when the Muslim population grows enough then the real consequences will be seen and it will be a disaster for the non-Muslim Europeans which allowed it to happen.

Islam is the fastest growing religion and the second largest religion in the world

This report includes all the countries of the world and shows how many Muslims are in each one.

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Country Name	Total Population	Muslims Percentage	Number of Muslims
Afghanistan	22,664,136	100%	22,664,136
Albania	3,249,136	75%	2,436,852
Algeria	29,183,032	99%	28,891,202
Angola	10,342,899	25%	2,585,725
Antigua and Barbuda	65,647	n/a
Argentina	34,672,997	2	693,460
Aruba	67,794	5	3,390
Australia	18,260,863	2.09	382,000
Azerbaijan	7,676,953	93.4	7,170,274
Bahrain	590,042	100	590,042
Benin	5,709,529	15	856,429
Bangladesh	123,062,800	85	104,603,380
Bhutan	1,822,625	5	91,131
Bosnia and Herzegovina	2,656,240	40	1,062,496
Botswana	1,477,630	5	73,882
Brazil	162,661,214	0.6	1,000,000
Brunei	299,939	63	188,962
Bulgaria	8,612,757	14	1,205,786
Burkina Faso	10,623,323	50	5,311,662
Burma	45,975,625	10	4,597,563
Burundi	5,943,057	20	1,188,611
Cambodia	10,861,218	1	108,612
Cameroon	14,261,557	55	7,843,856
Canada	28,820,671	1.48	400,000
Central African Republic	3,274,426	55	1,800,934
Chad	6,976,845	85	5,930,318
China	1,210,004,956	11	133,100,545
Christmas Island	813	10	81
Cocos (Keeling) Island	609	57	347
Comoros	569,237	86	489,544
Congo	2,527,841	15	379,176
Cote d'Ivoire	14,762,445	60	8,857,467
Croatia	5,004,112	1.2	60,049
Cyprus	744,609	33	245,721
Djibouti	427,642	94	401,983
Egypt	63,575,107	94	59,760,601
Equatorial Guinea	431,282	25	107,821
Eritrea	3,427,883	80	2,742,306
Ethiopia	57,171,662	65	37,161,580
Fiji	782,381	11	86,062
France	58,317,450	7	4,082,222
Gabon	1,172,798	1	11,728
Gambia	1,204,984	90	1,084,486
Gaza Strip	923,940	98.7	911,929
Georgia	5,219,810	11	574,179
Germany	83,536,115	3.4	2,840,228
Ghana	17,698,271	30	5,309,481
Gibraltar	28,765	8	2,301
Greece	10,538,594	1.5	158,079
Guinea	7,411,981	95	7,041,382
Guinea-Bissau	1,151,330	70	805,931
Guyana	712,091	15	106,814
Hong Kong	6,305,413	1	63,054
India	952,107,694	14	133,295,077
Indonesia	206,611,600	95	196,281,020
Iran	66,094,264	99	65,433,321
Iraq	21,422,292	97	20,779,623
Israel	5,421,995	14	759,079
Italy	57,460,274	1	574,603
Japan	125,449,703	1	1,254,497
Jordan	4,212,152	95	4,001,544
Kazakstan	16,916,463	51.2	8,661,229
Kenya	28,176,686	29.5	8,312,122
Kuwait	1,950,047	89	1,735,542
Kyrgyzstan	4,529,648	76.1	3,447,062
Lebanon	3,776,317	70	2,643,422
Liberia	2,109,789	30	632,937
Libya	5,445,436	100	5,445,436
Lesotho	1,970,781	10	197,078
Macedonia	2,104,035	30	631,211
Madagascar	13,670,507	20	2,734,101
Malawi	9,452,844	35	3,308,495
Malaysia	19,962,893	52	10,380,704
Maldives	270,758	100	270,758
Mali	9,653,261	90	8,687,935
Malta	375,576	14	52,581
Mauritania	2,336,048	100	2,336,048
Mauritius	1,140,256	19.5	222,350
Mayotte	100,838	99	99,830
Mongolia	2,496,617	4	99,865
Morocco	29,779,156	98.7	29,392,027
Mozambique	17,877,927	29	5,184,599
Namibia	1,677,243	5	83,862
Nepal	22,094,033	4	883,761
Netherlands	15,568,034	3	467,041
Niger	9,113,001	91	8,292,831
Nigeria	103,912,489	75	77,934,367
Norway	4,438,547	1.5	66,578
Oman	2,186,548	100	2,186,548
Pakistan	129,275,660	97	125,397,390
Panama	2,655,094	4	106,204
Philippines	74,480,848	14	10,427,319
Qatar	547,761	100	547,761
Reunion	679,198	20	135,840
Romania	21,657,162	20	4,331,432
Russia	148,178,487	18	26,672,127
Rwanda	6,853,359	1	68,534
Saudi Arabia	19,409,058	100	19,409,058
Senegal	9,092,749	95	8,638,112
Serbia and Montenegro	10,614,558	19	2,016,766
Sierra Leone	4,793,121	65	3,115,529
Singapore	3,396,924	17	577,477
Slovenia	1,951,443	1	19,514
Somalia	9,639,151	100	9,639,151
South Africa	41,743,459	2	834,869
Sri Lanka	18,553,074	9	1,669,777
Sudan	31,547,543	85	26,815,412
Suriname	436,418	25	109,105
Swaziland	998,730	10	99,873
Sweden	9,800,000	3.6	320,000
Syria	15,608,648	90	14,047,783
Tajikistan	5,916,373	85	5,028,917
Tanzania	29,058,470	65	18,888,006
Thailand	58,851,357	14	8,239,190
Togo	4,570,530	55	2,513,792
Trinidad and Tobago	1,272,385	12	152,686
Tunisia	9,019,687	98	8,839,293
Turkey	62,484,478	99.8	62,359,509
Turkmenistan	4,149,283	87	3,609,876
Uganda	20,158,176	36	7,256,943
United Arab Emirates	3,057,337	96	2,935,044
United Kingdom	58,489,975	2.7	1,579,229
United States	266,476,278	3.75	9,992,860
Uzbekistan	23,418,381	88	20,608,175
West Bank	1,427,741	75	1,070,806
Western Sahara	222,631	100	222,631
Yemen	13,483,178	99	13,348,346
Zaire	46,498,539	10	4,649,854
Zambia	9,159,072	15	1,373,861
Zimbabwe	11,271,314	15	1,690,697

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Islam is the fastest growing religion and the second largest religion in the world

Muslims in Asia (1996)	1,022,692,000 (30%)
Muslims in Africa (1996)	426,282,000 (59%)
Total Number of Muslims on the Earth (1996)	1,482,596,925
Total Number of People on the Earth (1996)	5,771,939,007
Percentage of Muslims (1996)	26%
Islam annual growth rate (1994-1995) from U.N.	6.40%
Christianity growth rate (1994-1995) from U.N.	1.46%
Total Number of Muslims on the Earth (1998)	1,678,442,000
Expected Number of Muslims on the Earth (2000)	1,902,095,000

This table below shows the growth of Islam:

North America (1989-1998)	25%
Africa	2.15%
Asia	12.57%
Europe	142.35%
Latin America	-4.73%
Australia	257.01%

Among every four humans in the world, one of them is Muslim. Muslims have increased by over 235 percent in the last fifty years up to nearly 1.6 billion. By comparison, Christians have increased by only 47 percent, Hinduism, 117 percent, and Buddhism by 63 percent. Islam is the second largest religious group in France, Great Britain and USA (Muslims in USA are 10 millions and Jews are 6 millions).

The number of the total population has been taken from The CIA World's Facts Book which can be found at: http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook
The CIA World's Facts Book was used it to verify the total number of population in every country. But since it lacks the percentage of Muslims in each country, we used another statistic located at: http://www.flash.net/~royal/country.html
In 1986, the Muslim Education Trust organization (MET) located in the United Kingdom and directed by Ghulam Sarwar, obtained the 1971 census and information given by Embassies of the respective countries in London. The 1971 census showed the Independent Muslim countries population was around 784.5 Million and the Muslim Minorities countries had around 308 Million Muslim.
As for the U.N., the Briticana Encyclopidia for 1994 and for 1995 was used to get the growth rates. Briticana took those statistics from the U.N.
The final numbers were obtained by plugging in the percentage of Muslims (taken from MET) and the number of people (taken from CIA) in each country using Microsoft Excel.