An Attempt to Exacerbate Islam-West Animosity? - Vatican/Muslim Numbers/Global
Ray Hanania; 7/4/08
This week, Pope Benedict XVI acknowledged that there are “more Muslims” in the world than there are Catholics. According to the Vatican’s Yearbook of Statistics, 19.2 percent of the world’s population are Muslims while only 17.4 percent are Catholics. Are you kidding me? I mean, first of all, what? Are the rest of us just chopped liver? The comparison is ridiculous and compares two things that don’t match. Muslims come in several religious sects, the majority are Sunnis followed by Shiites. There are 34,000 Christian groups, of which the Catholics are, maybe, the largest. Catholics are only a part of the Christian world. So you Christians screaming about the “Islamic threat” should take a pill and calm down. There are some 1.4 billion Muslims in the world but there are more than 2.3 billion Christians.
See: http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=108682&d=7&m=4&y=2008