[CliffFletcher]

At one time Catholicism was projected to swamp Protestants in North America, what with all those Irish and Italians not using birth control and having families with 6 and 7 kids. So making demographic projections is a mug's game. And anti-immigrant Canadians vastly over-estimate how many Canadians are Muslim today.

I do, however, disagree with the idea that it doesn't matter what religions become predominant. I'm an atheist, and Christianity has proven compatible with atheism. The fact I live in a majority Christian country in no way affects my individual freedoms. That would not be the case if I lived in a majority Muslim nation. The jury is still out on whether liberal democracy is viable in majority Muslim nations, and recent events are not encouraging.

Turkey was the great liberal democratic Muslim hope, and it is backsliding into authoritarianism deeply rooted religious conservatism. This is the case in much of Muslim world today, with the minority of secular-minded and liberal(ish) Muslims being oppressed by faster-growing conservative populations. Think of the divisive blue state vs red state split in the U.S., only much, much more severe, and with the conservative side being much, much more conservative, with a passionate belief that religion comes before secular laws.