{"id":6311,"date":"2015-11-01T07:35:49","date_gmt":"2015-11-01T06:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/?p=6311"},"modified":"2015-11-02T07:41:57","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T06:41:57","slug":"germany-20-million-muslims-by-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2015\/11\/01\/germany-20-million-muslims-by-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany: \u201c20 Million Muslims by 2020\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/fluechtlinge-bayern-grenze-passau.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6312\" src=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/fluechtlinge-bayern-grenze-passau.jpg\" alt=\"fluechtlinge-bayern-grenze-passau\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/fluechtlinge-bayern-grenze-passau.jpg 620w, https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/fluechtlinge-bayern-grenze-passau-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Germany\u2019s Muslim population is set to nearly quadruple to an astonishing 20 million within the next five years.<\/em><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Germany: &#8220;20 Million Muslims by 2020&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p>Soeren Kern | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/6793\/germany-20-million-muslims\" target=\"_blank\">Gatestone Institute<\/a> | November 1, 2015<\/p>\n<p>Germany\u2019s Muslim population is set to nearly quadruple to an astonishing 20 million within the next five years, according to a demographic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bayerische-staatszeitung.de\/staatszeitung\/kommunales\/detailansicht-kommunales\/artikel\/dramatischer-appell.html\" target=\"_blank\">forecast<\/a> by Bavarian lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p>The German government expects to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/6668\/germany-migrant-crime-wave\" target=\"_blank\">receive<\/a> 1.5 million asylum seekers in 2015, and possibly even more in 2016. After factoring in family reunifications \u2014 based on the assumption that individuals whose asylum applications are approved will subsequently bring an average of four additional family members to Germany \u2014 that number will swell exponentially. This is in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/6423\/germany-muslim-demographic\" target=\"_blank\">addition<\/a> to the 5.8 million Muslims already living in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>According to the president of the Bavarian Association of Municipalities (<em>Bayerische Gemeindetag<\/em>), Uwe Brandl, Germany is now on track to have \u201c20 million Muslims by 2020.\u201d The surge in Germany\u2019s Muslim population represents a demographic shift of epic proportions, one that will change the face of Germany forever, \u201cbut we are just standing by, watching it happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/6793\/germany-20-million-muslims\" target=\"_blank\">Continue Reading Here<\/a>\u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany\u2019s Muslim population is set to nearly quadruple to an astonishing 20 million within the next five years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,48],"tags":[127,46,179,21,195],"class_list":["post-6311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-germany","category-islam-in-europe","tag-demographics-2","tag-european-multiculturalism","tag-germany","tag-immigration","tag-migration-crisis"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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