The video “Muslim Demographics” has been popular since 2009 talking about the situation of the native populations of Europe being increasingly replaced by the incoming populations of mostly Muslim immigrants.

The video supplies a lot of statistics, and debunkers have found minor issues with a few of its facts, yet the premise of the video is sound nonetheless.


I have provided points below made by CRITICS of the video along with my own commentary about those criticisms:

The critical information is from a BBC video clip that was also created in 2009, before the massive increases in immigration that has been happening since then.

— The rebuttal video claims that the real fertility rates of the European countries are low but not quite as low as claimed in the “Muslim Demographics” (MD) video, and they say that those rates are also rising despite the MD video claiming that isn’t possible.  [But the rebuttal video doesn’t say if they are factoring in the fertility of the immigrants with the rise in the fertility rates.]

— The MD video claims that 90% of Europe’s population growth since the 1990s is due to Islamic immigration, and the rebuttal video agrees that the numbers have in fact been 90% in some years but typically it is between 60-80%, and those numbers include all migrants, not only Muslims.  [Remember though that this does not take into account the massive influx of immigration which has been happening in the last few years after the rebuttal video was made.]

— The MD video claims that a typical French family has 1.8 children and a typical French Muslim family has 8.1 children, and the rebuttal video says that the Muslim statistic is way too high and “they haven’t found a source for that information.”

— The MD video claims that in France, 30% of children aged 20 or younger are Muslim, and in cities like Marseilles, that number has grown to 45%, and in 39 years France will be an “Islamic Republic.”  The rebuttal video says that France doesn’t collect data on religious affiliations, so they speak to a demographer who says, “I’m pretty sure you can find a part of Marseilles, probably quite a large tract of Marseilles in which that is true.  The question is what is that telling us?  Is it telling us something about Muslim fertility, or is it simply telling us there is a lot of Muslims in a part of Marseilles?  That the Muslim population is geographically segregated, or geographically concentrated?”  [The MD video is correct about its claim.]? 

— The MD video claims that half of the newborns in the Netherlands are Muslim, and in 15 years half the population will be Muslim.  The rebuttal video says that the Dutch Office of Statistics says that Muslim newborns make up only 5%, so for Dutch Muslim women to produce half the population of the Netherlands, they would need to be giving birth at 14 times their current rate.  [Either the MD video is way off or the statistics being supplied by the Dutch office are not accurate.]

— The MD video states that 25% of the Belgian population is Muslim, but the rebuttal video says that the Belgian Office of Statistics cites a 2008 study saying that the current number is just 6%.  [Again either the MD video is wrong or the Belgian Office statistics supplied are incorrect.]

— The MD video claims that the German Federal Statistics Office has stated that Germany will be a Muslim nation by the year 2050.  And the video attributes that statement to the then vice-Present of the German Federal Statistics office named Walter Radermacher, who is now the EU’s chief statistician.  When the producers of the rebuttal video asked Radermacher about it, he says that he was misquoted and had actually been arguing against that view, and said there is no source which can be quoted where the German government has expressed that opinion.  [Nonetheless, in the years since the rebuttal video was produced there has been a huge increase of Muslim immigration into Germany.]

— The MD video claims that the German Government has stated that the number of Muslims in Europe will double to 104 million in the next 20 years.  Mr. Radermacher says the German government does not believe that the Muslim population will double in the next forty or fifty years, saying there is no reliable proof for that assumption.  [It is strange that the MD video said 20 years yet Radermacher’s rebuttal made the assumption as if it said 40 or 50 years.  I think the MD video's point of view has merit though.]

— The MD video claims Canada received 2.1 million Muslim immigrants between 2001 and 2006, and the rebuttal video claims the real number is 1.1 million, and the number refers to all immigrants, not just Muslim immigration.

— The MD video says 100,000 Muslims lived in the US in 1970, and now over nine million live there.  The rebuttal video says that the US census doesn’t collect data on religious affiliation, but the Pew Research Center said in 2007 that estimates that 2.35 Muslims live in the US.  [According to the US Department of Homeland Security, Over 2 million Muslims have immigrated to the U.S. since 2001, and that number does not count the number that have been born in the U.S. to Muslim parents (in large families), and also millions that have lived in the U.S. prior to the year 2000, so the rebuttal that the BBC claimed is wrong.]