Israeli-Muslim population on the rise

Muslim population in Israel grows at faster rate than Jewish, expected to reach 2 million by 2025; fertility rate among Muslims dropping, still higher than in neighboring countries, Central Bureau of Statistics reveals

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3197413,00.html

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"The Muslim population in Israel is growing at a faster rate than the Jewish population, and is expected to reach 2 million by the year 2025, data published by the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) ahead of the Feast of Sacrifice revealed Monday.

According to the CBS report, the Muslim population in Israel totaled 1,142,000 million people in 2005, which constitutes 16 percent of the country's population. By 2025, Muslims are estimated to total 2 million, and make up 22 percent of the Israeli population, Israel's leading newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth has reported."

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"The number of Muslim children under the age of 14 currently stands at 475,700, which is almost a quarter of the number of kids in the country.

However, the CBS report noted that in line with the dominant trend in Europe and the Western world, the fertility rate of Muslim women in Israel has dropped over the past four years from 4.74 children in 2000, to 4.36 in 2004."

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It's called becoming urban, middle class, westernized, assimilated, with mortgages, kids to educate, credit cards, cars, etc. Like Israelis and Americans.

Elements in some Muslim communities don't like this trend.