As the twenty-first century begins, almost one out of every five human beings is a Muslim. In the course of the 21st century a quarter of the human race will probably be Muslim. The new demographic presence of Islam within the Western world is indicative that Islamisation is now a major globalising force. Also as a manifestation of the demographic Islamisation of the Western world, there are now over a thousand mosques and Islamic centres in the United States alone. And the country has professional associations for Muslim engineers, Muslim social scientists and Muslim educators. There are some six million American Muslims, and the number is rising impressively. It can no longer be seen as Islam versus the West. It is Islam and the West or Islam in the West, as some observers have noted.
The growth of the Muslim community in the West has been impressive to judge by the mosques or mainly prayer rooms: both Germany and France have about a thousand, Britain about 500. The central mosques in London and in Washington symbolise this growth. The mosques are full of worshippers, they are beautifully constructed and are the hub of Muslim social and religious activity. In France, Islam is the second most important religion numerically after Catholicism. In Britain Muslims have been demanding state subsidies for Muslim denominational schools. In Germany it has been belatedly realised that the importation of Turkish workers in the 1970s was also an invitation to the muezzin and the minaret to establish themselves in German cities
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Ya Allah Ya Rab Al`Almin Y a Rahmanu Ya Rahim Ya Rabi Let The Ummah Rise Again Let Us See Day Light A gain Once Again
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