[lit-ideas] Re: Europe's future, catastrophic or apocalyptic

  • From: "Lawrence Helm" <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 10:37:03 -0700

I think the alarmists are more worried about trends.  Here are some
two-year-old reports that probably indicate the sort of thing they are
worried about:

 

http://www.cbs.nl/en-GB/menu/themas/dossiers/allochtonen/publicaties/artikel
en/archief/2004/2004-1432-wm.htm 

http://www.cbs.nl/en-GB/menu/themas/dossiers/allochtonen/publicaties/artikel
en/archief/2004/2004-1543-wm.htm 

 

All this while Dutch birthrates decline.

 

Lawrence

 

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Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Europe's future, catastrophic or apocalyptic

 

LH>According to Daisy Sindelar a recently Dutch government study predicted
that not only would >Amsterdam and Rotterdam soon have Muslim majorities but
also The Hague and Utrecht.

 

I have 1.8 million as the population of Amsterdam and 700,000 for all
Muslims

in the Netherlands, and this:

 

>As of  <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005> 2005, 35% of the Amsterdam
population feels connected to 

>a religion or philosophy of life. 19% identify themselves as Christian

> ( <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic> Catholic 9%,
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Reformed> Dutch Reformed 3%,
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutheran> Lutheran 2%,
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reformed> Reformed 1%); 

>11% of the population identify themselves as
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim> Muslim. A further 2% is 

> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu> Hindu, with another 2% being
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist> Buddhist and 1% being
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish> Jewish.

 

 

Judy Evans, Cardiff

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