Pew study charts growth in Muslim population

The U.S. Muslim population is expected to double over the next 20
years, fueled by immigration and higher than average fertility rates,
according to a new Pew report.

The study comes as some critics
accuse Muslim Americans of seeking to impose Shari'a, or Islamic law, in
the U.S., and some Europeans raise the specter of a Muslim-dominated
"Eurabia" if countries don't tighten immigration. The fears are
overblown, the report said.

"The numbers are very far away from
the Eurabia scenario of runaway growth," said Alan Cooperman, one of the
coauthors of the report, "The Future of the Global Muslim Population,"
released in Washington on January 27 by the Pew Forum on Religion &
Public Life.