1. Islam in North America & Globally Dr. Rod Spidahl – Bethel Lutheran Brethren Church 04/17/2016

2. Islam in North America is an emerging, new form of Islam Islam is like water: it takes on the taste of the soil that holds it 42% of American Muslims are African American; 24% Asian; 12% Arab (Dr Carl Ellis)

3. US Census does NOT measure religion US population about 320 million Muslims in US? 2.5-8 million Official Mosques about 2000 Population of Minn -5,486,000 Muslims- 1% or 54,860 20,221 Arab American 21, 803 Somalis is underestimate of actual 16 th in the nation

8. Muslim consumer expenditure globally on food and lifestyle sectors (travel, clothing, pharma/ personal care, media/ recreation) is being estimated by this Report to be $1.62 trillion in 2012 and expected to reach $2.47 trillion by 2018. 1.6-2 billion Muslims 2.2 billion Christians Global total population – 7.4 billion

9. Financial Assets  In addition, Islamic financial assets are currently estimated to be $1.35 trillion in total disclosed assets (2012) and growing at 15-20% a year in most core markets.  This Report estimates potential universe of Islamic finance assets in its core market (assuming optimal scenario) to be $4.1 trillion. http://www.dinarstandard.com/state-global-islamic-economy-report-2013/

10. Some idea of the real estate and other forms of wealth controlled by the Catholic church may be gathered by the remark of a member of the New York Catholic Conference, namely ‘that his church probably ranks second only to the United States Government in total annual purchase.’

11. Global  China will this year produce $17.6 trillion or 16.5% of global economy  Compared with $17.4 trillion for the U.S.A.

12. Preferences & Patterns  Muslims see jihad as “exertion for Islam”  Muslims are politically active by nature of their religion  Muslims create more active, involved community life than Christians  Muslims are better at intellectually arguing their faith than Christians  Muslims are more modest, with higher moral standards than Christians  Muslims are good at business start-ups

13. Natural Growth Rates  Globally, Muslims have the highest fertility rate, an average of 3.1 children per woman—well above replacement level (2.1), the minimum typically needed to maintain a stable population.  Christians are second, at 2.7 children per woman.  If current trends continue, it is predicted by the year 2100 that about 1% more of the world's population will be Muslim (35%) than Christian (34%) (Pew Research Data)