Perhaps the US is just an anomoly, but according to the American Religious Identification Survey (2008):
"The Muslim population doubled during the 1990s but its growth in numbers now seems to be slowing. The size and proportion of the Muslim population has often been debated but the ARIS numbers closely resemble the recent findings of the General Social Survey and the 2007 Pew Religious Landscape Survey."
According to their figures, Muslims represented 0.5% of the US population in 2001, growing to 0.6% of the population by 2008.
By my maths 50,000 people aren't converting annually to Islam, the growth in followers seems to follow immigration trends, not conversion data. But what would I know.
Perhaps the US is just an anomoly, but according to the American Religious Identification Survey (2008):
"The Muslim population doubled during the 1990s but its growth in numbers now seems to be slowing. The size and proportion of the Muslim population has often been debated but the ARIS numbers closely resemble the recent findings of the General Social Survey and the 2007 Pew Religious Landscape Survey."
http://livinginliminality.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/aris_report_2008.pdf
According to their figures, Muslims represented 0.5% of the US population in 2001, growing to 0.6% of the population by 2008.
By my maths 50,000 people aren't converting annually to Islam, the growth in followers seems to follow immigration trends, not conversion data. But what would I know.