Islam to be primary religion in Brussels within twenty years
The Roarate Caeli blog reports:
Today, one third of the population is Muslim and younger generations are more religiously active.
The European capital will be Muslim in twenty years. At least this is what is confirmed by a study published last week in the daily La Libre Belgique. According to Olivier Servais, a sociologist at the Catholic University of Louvain, nearly a third of the population of Brussels is already Muslim and, due to their high birth rate, practitioners of Islam should be in the majority “in fifteen or twenty years”. Since 2001, Mohamed has consistently been by far the most popular first name given to boys born in Brussels. . .
For the moment, “the essence of Belgian Islam is peaceful and familial,” insists Olivier Servais, “but one day there may be a clear claim to Islam. I do not exclude the social ramifications.” . . .