Great Moments in Journalism

Or, "Who're you gonna believe?"

Muslim birthrate expected to fall over next two decades

Global Muslim population expected to grow in next 20 years

Bottom line:

"According to the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion and Public Life, the Muslim population will increase globally by 35 percent in the next 20 years, from 1.6 billion in 2010 to 2.2 billion by 2030.

If the trend holds up, Muslims will make up over 26 percent of the world's total projected population of 8.3 billion in two decades."

Oh well, I guess when the custom is to produce litters, a reduction in the size of those litters constitutes a slowdown in growth, not an overall decline in numbers. But still. How much of our aid dollars go to Muslim countries?