Muslim Europe: the demographic time bomb transforming our continent

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5. what's also interesting is to check out these numbers

and see what comes out.

The author thinks it's "startling" that

'Only 3.2 per cent of Spain's population was foreign-born in 1998. In 2007 it was 13.4 per cent.'

The numbers at Wiki differ slightly: 1.8 percent in 98 and 10 percent in 07. Since then, the percentage went slightly up and slightly down again, in 2014 the number was 10.1 percent.

These immigrants mainly came from other European countries, following the opening of inner-European borders, many came from Spanish speaking former colonies, a significant percentage from neighbouring Morocco. Only the latter are Muslims.

17 February 2013 ... The number of Muslims in Spain has reached almost 1.6 million (1,595,221), of which 1.1 million are foreigners in opposition to the 464,978 Spanish Muslims, according to the exploitation of the census of the Muslims in Spain made by the Andalusian Observatory, the autonomous body of the Union of Islamic Communities of Spain (UCIDE). ...

Muslims represent about 3% of the total population of inhabitants.

30% of Muslims is Spanish while 70% are immigrants (50% Moroccans and 20% of other nationality).

http://www.euro-islam.info/2013/02/28/demographic-study-of-the-muslim-population-in-spain/

Having left out that part, the article in the OP then starts to speak about Muslims in Europe:

'Europe's Muslim population has more than doubled in the past 30 years and will have doubled again by 2015.'

Not sure what this is based on, but the PEW Research Center apparently disagrees: 'Europe's population was 6% Muslim in 2010, and is projected to be 8% Muslim by 2030.'

The projections are largely based on the fact that, currently, the birthrate among immigrants is slightly higher than the average of the native European populations. I see no reason to assume that this difference will remain for many generations.