{"id":350,"date":"2011-01-27T11:26:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T11:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2011\/01\/muslims-ultra-orthodox-baby-boom-2030-powder-keg.html"},"modified":"2011-01-27T11:26:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T11:26:00","slug":"muslims-ultra-orthodox-baby-boom-2030-powder-keg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2011\/01\/muslims-ultra-orthodox-baby-boom-2030-powder-keg.html","title":{"rendered":"Muslim, Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Population Boom = 2030 Powder Keg?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, so check back later for a round-up of how people around the world commemorated the observance. (Jan. 27 is the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest of the Nazi concentration camps.)<\/p>\n<p>In other news: <a href=\"http:\/\/pewforum.org\/The-Future-of-the-Global-Muslim-Population.aspx\">The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life <\/a>reports although Muslim birth rates are falling, the world&#8217;s Muslim population will still&nbsp;grow twice as fast as non-Muslims over the next 20 years, bringing Muslims up to a quarter of the world&#8217;s population in the next generation. <\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20110127\/ts_alt_afp\/islamdemographicsreligion\">the AFP story explains<\/a>, they currently make up about 23 percent of the world&#8217;s 6.9 billlion people in the world, mostly in Asia and Africa. Europe is expected to&nbsp;rise from 6 to 8 percent by 2030, reaching about 10 percent in Belgium, France, Austria and Sweden &#8212; as<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/faithworld\/2011\/01\/27\/will-pew-muslim-birth-rate-study-finally-silence-the-eurabia-claim\/\"> Reuters notes, it&#8217;s neither a baby boom nor&nbsp;the &#8220;Eurabia&#8221; that some people worry about<\/a>, but still a significant demographic.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, earlier this month, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/religion\/2011-01-14-Israel-Jews-14_ST_N.htm?csp=34&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+Religion-TopStories+(News+-+Religion+-+Top+Stories)\">AP reported <\/a>that one-third of babies born in Israel are now ultra-Orthodox &#8212; also known as Haredi or Hasidic Jews &#8212; which presents significant political, economic and security challenges for that country and the region.<\/p>\n<p>So, a&nbsp;boom in Muslims and ultra-Orthodox Jews in my son&#8217;s generation&#8230; anyone got a good lead on a preschool for peacemakers?<\/p>\n<p>What do you think? 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