‘Muslims in Europe will outnumber practising Christians very soon' warns politician
MUSLIMS will outnumber practising Christians in Europe “very soon”, the Belgian justice minister has claimed.
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Koen Geens claimed the shift in balance is because “Christians are generally less practising” and “not because there are too many Muslims”.
He told the European Parliament’s justice and home affairs committee that Europe “does not realise this, but this is the reality”.
The worst thing we can do is to make an enemy of Islam
But Belgian deputy prime minister Jan Jambon warned MEPs: “The worst thing we can do is to make an enemy of Islam.
“To make an enemy of all of those people, we really will be creating problems.”
He made the comments at a hearing into the last month's Brussels attacks by Islamic State militants.
The Belgian justice minister said it is 'the reality'
Jan Jambon told MEPs not to 'make an enemy of Islam'
Jambon went to to say that “we need to get… Muslims on our side” in order to snuff out terrorists and the networks supporting them.
The deputy prime minister was accused of fuelling tensions with Belgium’s Muslim community when he claimed Muslims were “dancing” after the Brussels attacks that left 32 dead.
He also accused Muslim residents of the Molenbeek district of attacking police officers during an operation last month to arrest Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam.
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Several terrorists involved in the atrocities lived in Molenbeek – which has a large Muslim population.
Eurostat – Brussels’ statistics group – does not compile figures on religion.
However European Commission figures from 2012 show that 72 per cent of people across Europe said they were Christian – compared to two per cent who identified themselves as Muslim.