Current Trends Point To Future Muslim-Dominated France

by Chad Groening
February 5, 2004

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(AgapePress) - A pro-family activist is concerned about some troubling demographic statistics out of France that suggest Islam is taking a firm foothold in that nation.

Demographers in France are estimating that 20 to 30 percent of the French population under the age of 25 is now Muslim. Statistics also indicate that native-born French people are not having many babies, but France's large Muslim immigrant community is.

Gary Bauer, president of the Campaign for Working Families, is troubled by the reported demographic trends out of France. He contends that the Muslim population explosion in France is contributing to a social climate that is hostile to Israel and to Jews, and foreign policies that are hostile to America.

Gary Bauer

"Incredibly high levels of immigration from Muslim countries are resulting in a dramatic shift in the population balance in the nation of France," Bauer says, "and there's growing evidence that that shift is contributing mightily to growing anti-Semitism by these recent immigrants as well as to French foreign policy."

With massive Muslim immigration and Muslim birth rates on the rise, Bauer says France 25 years from now could be an essentially Muslim nation. And that, he fears, would have incredible implications for future U.S.-France relations, as well as for the Western alliance.

"Certainly the trend line is not good here," Bauer points out. "The churches of France, by and large, are empty. The mosques are full. There is a growing anti-Americanism in the country, fueled in many cases by Muslim immigrants. There is the anti-Semitism. So if you add all these things together -- and politicians being politicians, worrying about their own re-election -- it's not hard to imagine a France down the road that will be consistently hostile to the interests of the United States."

France's Muslim community, the largest in any state in the European Union, currently represents approximately 7% percent of the nation's 60 million people.