Nearly a third of Russia's population will be Muslim within 15 years, country's grand mufti predicts

[hussain0216]

Nearly a third of Russia's population will be Muslim within 15 years, country's grand mufti predicts
By Jessica Green For Mailonline17:06, 05 Mar 2019, updated 17:18, 05 Mar 2019

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• Ravil Gainutdin says record-number of Muslims attended mosques for 2018's Eid
• He said the amount praying in Moscow was an indicator of the rising trend
• Changing demographics mean 'dozens' of new mosques needed, he added

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Sheikh Ravil Gainutdin, the grand mufti for the religious group which represents Russia’s Muslim community
The chairman of the Russian Council of Muftis has predicted that almost a third of the country will be Muslim within 15 years.

Sheikh Ravil Gainutdin, the grand mufti for the religious group which represents Russia's Muslim community, claimed a record-number of Muslims attended mosques in the capital to celebrate Eid al-Adha last year.

Speaking at a conference in Moscow, he insisted that the more than 320,000-strong show of those performing their prayers for the festival in the city was an indicator of the rising number of Muslims in the country.

'According to the predictions of experts, 30 per cent of Russia's population will consist of Muslims after 15 years,' Gainutdin said.

Russia's Muslim-majority regions are known to have the highest birth rates, including republics in the North Caucasus and the republic of Tatarstan, according to The Moscow Times.

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Along with the high birth rate among Muslim families, another reason for the apparent increase is the arrival of individuals from Central Asia, the country's grand mufti added.

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Cities such as Moscow (pictured, file photo), St. Petersburg, and Yekaterinburg, are said to house the majority of Muslims in the country
Appearing at a forum hosted by the State Duma on Monday, he added that the changing demographics mean 'dozens' of new mosques will need to be built in Russia's largest cities.

Cities such as Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Yekaterinburg, are said to house the majority of Muslims in the country.

It is unclear how many Muslims currently call Russia home, with estimates ranging from between 14million and 25million people.

This is between 10 to 14 per cent of the country's total population in 2018.

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[hussain0216]

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[Indus Pakistan]

@vostok will be sh*tting in his pants. By the way the Muslims in Russia would be branded as westoxified kaffirs by most Pakistani's.

 

[Asimzranger]

@vostok will be sh*tting in his pants. By the way the Muslims in Russia would be branded as westoxified kaffirs by most Pakistani's.

only slavic i guess or naqshbandi Chechnya but i have meet many on online game and social media ,they really love prophet (pbuh) from heart but slavic can't quit drink.

 

[hussain0216]

@vostok will be sh*tting in his pants. By the way the Muslims in Russia would be branded as westoxified kaffirs by most Pakistani's.

Some are, some arent

But some caucuses muslims ive met tended to be very religious

Eid is certainly a big deal

250,000 Muslims flock to Moscow’s cathedral mosque for Eid prayer (PHOTOS)
Published time: 25 Jun, 2017 13:38
Muslims pray in the Jami Mosque in Moscow on the Eid al-Fitr holiday. © Eugene OdinokovSputnik
Over 250,000 Islamic faithful came to the Moscow Cathedral Mosque for the morning prayer celebrating the Eid al-Fitr festival, police reported. Smaller public gatherings took place throughout Russia, where Muslims are the second-largest denomination.


Despite being one of the largest in Europe, the mosque in Moscow can only accommodate about 10,000 people, so the majority of believers placed their prayer mats on the streets outside the building. The authorities cordoned off the entire area to traffic for the occasion.

Muslims attend an Eid al-Fitr mass prayer to mark the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan in Moscow, Russia June 25, 2017. © Sergei KarpukhinReuters
Moscow police deployed 3,000 officers to preserve order near the cathedral mosque and several other large Muslim prayer sites in the Russian capital. They reported no incidents.



Muslims pray outside the Jami Mosque in Moscow on the Eid al-Fitr holiday. © Maksim BlinovSputnik
The morning prayer at the St. Petersburg Mosque was somewhat marred by rain, which poured down on the some 40,000 believers gathered there. A storm also battered Muslims who came to pray in Ufa, the provincial capital of Bashkortostan.



Muslims pray in the Jami Mosque in Moscow on the Eid al-Fitr holiday. © Eugene OdinokovReuters
The Eid festival, which marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan, is one of the most important celebrations in Islam. It is a day for feasting after the month-long fast, for giving alms to the needy, and celebrating bonds in the community.

Muslims pray outside the Jami Mosque in Moscow on the Eid al-Fitr holiday. © Maksim BlinovSputnik
In Russia, Eid al-Fitr is marked as an official holiday in nine predominantly Muslim republics in the southern part of the country.

Muslims in the Akhmat Kadyrov Mosque in Grozny on the Eid al-Fitr holiday. © Said TsarnaevSputnik

 

[AUz]

Lol, fake news.

Russia will be 15-20% Muslim by 2050 as demographic organizations like PEW have demonstrated via actual projections.

There is no scenario where 1/3 of Russia is Muslim (unless massive conversions happen, which I doubt will).

@Indus Pakistan you definitely are not aware of what you are talking about. Russian Muslim-majority regions are very practicing and religious societies. Chechyna for example is a de-facto Sharia-ruled region Google Russia Today's documentary about life and laws in Chechyna.

 

[hussain0216]

Eid al-Fitr 2015: Drone shows huge crowds celebrating the end of Ramadan in Moscow
Video: The Russian capital is home to roughly two million Muslims, with Islam the second most popular religion in Russia

• Kiran Moodley @kirancmoodley
• Friday 17 July 2015 11:00

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Footage shot from a drone shows large numbers of Moscow's two million Muslims praying outside the city's central mosque to celebrate Eid al-Fitr.

 

[ziaulislam]

Lol, fake news.

Russia will be 15-20% Muslim by 2050 as demographic organizations like PEW have demonstrated via actual projections.

There is no scenario where 1/3 of Russia is Muslim (unless massive conversions happen, which I doubt will).

@Indus Pakistan you definitely are not aware of what you are talking about. Russian Muslim-majority regions are very practicing and religious societies. Chechyna for example is a de-facto Sharia-ruled region Google Russia Today's documentary about life and laws in Chechyna.

Russian population is contracting very fast..predicting numbers will be difficult

 

[The SC]

There are around 20 million Muslims in Russia now..

 

[AUz]

Russian population is contracting very fast..predicting numbers will be difficult

No its not contracting "very fast"....

We have a very good data on Russian population to make actual projections (not predictions, but projections).

What I've written above is true

 

[nang2]

Dawa in full swing.

 

[HannibalBarca]

No its not contracting "very fast"....

We have a very good data on Russian population to make actual projections (not predictions, but projections).

What I've written above is true

No we don't
Like Pew research said... They have restricted samples (1+K) in Average.
Even less for some countries.

There is no "Real" numbers of Muslims... since almost every country do not hold Religious statistics...

Per exemple RU... Most of Muslims are outside of Urban areas... Where their samples out there was limited to non-existant...

But Pew numbers are only meant as a "window"... and projection point/actualisation since 60-70 years...

There is a wish from the research center to hold another round but this time... a sample extended to Few dozens of thousand...
Per exemple in France... we saw that it's not really 7.5% as it said... since according to (only) "Islamic names" database in France... that number is more than double...
Let alone the wave of reverts/non Islamic names(Arabic origin)...

Just recently... they found that 18-20% of Male newborn names are "Islamic ones"... Even more for Females... (a data for projection value not a reality for current numbers)

Even their "Christian data" is False... since they incorporated in "Christians" those who feel "Christian by Culture" and yet not really believing in it as "Faith"...
That why they got criticized... their work is lacking in many area and academically not perfect...

 

[Yankee-stani]

@vostok will be sh*tting in his pants. By the way the Muslims in Russia would be branded as westoxified kaffirs by most Pakistani's.

Lol, fake news.


The ones in the Kavkaz region are more religious Tatars are mix bag
Russia will be 15-20% Muslim by 2050 as demographic organizations like PEW have demonstrated via actual projections.

There is no scenario where 1/3 of Russia is Muslim (unless massive conversions happen, which I doubt will).

@Indus Pakistan you definitely are not aware of what you are talking about. Russian Muslim-majority regions are very practicing and religious societies. Chechyna for example is a de-facto Sharia-ruled region Google Russia Today's documentary about life and laws in Chechyna.

Well thats Kavkaz region other places like Tatarstan and Bashkortoristan are mix bag

Caucausians be it Muslim or Orthodox are more conservative than Slavs or Turkics in Russia

And the Slavic Russians dont really like the Caucausians eventhough they are like 98 percent white make good chunk of their armed forces all cause the Slavs think they are big and more "European" than Caucausians

 

[MultaniGuy]

lol rubbish news.

What matters are if they are practising Muslims. lol.

 

[AUz]

No we don't
Like Pew research said... They have restricted samples (1+K) in Average.
Even less for some countries.

There is no "Real" numbers of Muslims... since almost every country do not hold Religious statistics...

Per exemple RU... Most of Muslims are outside of Urban areas... Where their samples out there was limited to non-existant...

But Pew numbers are only meant as a "window"... and projection point/actualisation since 60-70 years...

There is a wish from the research center to hold another round but this time... a sample extended to Few dozens of thousand...
Per exemple in France... we saw that it's not really 7.5% as it said... since according to (only) "Islamic names" database in France... that number is more than double...
Let alone the wave of reverts/non Islamic names(Arabic origin)...

Just recently... they found that 18-20% of Male newborn names are "Islamic ones"... Even more for Females... (a data for projection value not a reality for current numbers)

Even their "Christian data" is False... since they incorporated in "Christians" those who feel "Christian by Culture" and yet not really believing in it as "Faith"...
That why they got criticized... their work is lacking in many area and academically not perfect...

LOL, what are you even rambling about?

Nobody is even talking about PEW only. Especially when it comes to the issue of Russian population.

We have multitudes of data coming from Census, nationwide non-census representative studies (NHDS, official governmental housing-database etc), and other various organizations doing surveys for consumer behavior reasons. Experts look at these multitudes of data (meta data analysis) and publish their results---and those results can be analysed to project future mega trends.

So far, demographic projections have been extremely accurate. We can study today's young population and project how the future will look like.

You definitely are not aware of how demographics work but I am. I actually work in the field (don't wanna give out too much bc of obvious reasons). Your ramblings are confused mumbo jumbo that makes no sense. Most of your statements are plain fake and false. For example, PEW projection religious population based on national census data and national-representative surveys as primary source, and not their own 1000 people survey as you claim

Stop quoting me with your idiotic, unprofessional internet ramblings.

Edit: It might be possible that Muslims are under-counted in countries like France or Russia, but they margin can not be as big as you or some others are claiming.