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EUROPE WILL BE PART OF THE ARAB WORLD
Scholar of Islam and Near East Predicts Major Demographic Change

By Wolfgang Polzer


BERLIN  (ANS) -- Near the end of this century Europe is likely to become part of the Western Arab world, according to one of the leading scholars of Islam and the Near East. Prof. Bernhard Lewis, who used to teach at Princeton, regards migration and demographics as major contributors to this development.

In an interview with the German newspaper Die Welt Lewis pointed to several factors, such as
the strong and growing presence of Turks in Germany,
Arabs in France and
Pakistanis in the United Kingdom.
Native Europeans tended to marry late and have few children while immigrants from these countries marry at an early age and have many children.

Lewis predicts that the European population will have Muslim majorities by the end of the 21st century.



Wolfgang Polzer (54), is senior news editor of the Evangelical News Agency idea, Wetzlar (Germany), which he joined in 1981. His previous work included four years in the editorial department of the Salvation Army in Germany. In all, he has spent 27 years in Christian media. Wolfgang can be contacted by e-mail at: Wolfgang.Polzer@idea.de.




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