Can’t speak for Russia, but in the Netherlands the number of muslems has been increasing steadily. But to say they are becoming the mayority? Well, they got quite a way to go. Here are the most recent stats I could find. The percentages below have been gathered from the national statistics bureau CBS.
   year   muslem   christian   no religion
   1993   3,7
   1994   3,9
   1995   4,1
   1996   4,2
   1997   4,4         53            39
   1998   4,6         52            41
   1999   4,9         51            41
   2000   5,1         51            41
   2001   5,3         51            41
   2002   5,5         51            41
   2003   5,7         49            42
   2004   5,8         50            42
As you can see, each year the number of Muslems in NL increases by 0,02%. In real terms that means roughly 30’000 to 40’000 per year. In 2004 there where 944’000 muslems in NL. So this year will probably see the 1’000’000th muslim.
It is also immediately obvious that the number of christians is much larger, though dropping slowly. The number of christians is even larger then the number of people without religion, which I must admit surprised me. I had expected there to be more atheists in the Netherlands. The number of atheists is on the rise though.
For the christian/atheists I only got information from 1997 to 2004, and no numbers behind the decimal mark. Please bare that in mind when looking at these statistics.
I have not got more recent information and can honestly not be bothered to look them up as I feel this will illustrate my point quite nicely already. 😉
Lastly, bare in mind that the average European muslim is a lot more liberal then your average Saudi muslim. So even if they where to become the mayority in a few 100 years, then I still would not expect Sharia to be introduced. They do tend to be a vocal lot though!
http://www.cbs.nl
http://statline.cbs.nl/StatWeb/Start.asp?lp=Search/Search&LA=EN&DM=SLEN
p.s.
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