CHRONIQUE DE L'ISLAMISATION DU CANADA
Canada: Muslim population doubles since 9/11, fastest growing religious population
Posted on May 9, 2013
Across the country, the Muslim population is growing at a rate exceeding other religions,
according to Statistics Canada. It is even growing faster than the
number of Canadians identifying as having no religion, though just
barely, according to the National Household Survey released Wednesday.
The Muslim population exceeded the one million mark, according to the survey, almost doubling its population for the third-consecutive decade.
However, the survey results should be
taken with caution. Experts say the voluntary nature of the survey,
which replaced the mandatory long-form census, leaves gaps in the data
from groups that tend not to respond to such surveys, such as new
immigrants.
Experts believe the data provide a fairly
good, broad picture of Canada, but data on smaller groups may have less
reliable information.
As mosques become more commonplace and more women wear the niqab, there are growing debates about religious accommodations.
“We need to
sit down as Muslims, not as a community because there isn’t one
community, and decide what we want to be accommodated and what we want
to give up,” said Alia Hogben, executive director of the Canadian Council of Muslim Women.
One-on-one, non-Muslims may have
favourable views of their Islamic colleagues, but that feeling doesn’t
always extend to the wider Muslim population, said Pamela Dickey Young, a
professor of religion and culture at Queen’s University.
“It isn’t like Canadian Muslims have not
tried to educate the Canadian populace…but for some reason there’s still
that edge with it that some Canadians have problems getting over,”
Dickey Young said.
Muslims now represent 3.2 per cent of the country’s total population, nudging up from the two per cent recorded in 2001.
Immigration has largely fuelled the increase, with the largest share coming from Pakistan over the past five years, according to Statistics Canada.
But the survey provides no breakdown of
type of Muslims living in Canada, as the survey didn’t ask respondents,
for instance, whether they were Shiite or Sunni.
In true supremacist fashion, even in the accompanying graphic the mosque must reign supreme:
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