Mohammed now most popular baby male name in UK

[Saiwania]

Mohammed is now officially the most popular name given to male newborns in Britain. A total of 7,549 newborn boys were given 12 variations of the Islamic prophet Mohammed's name in 2009. Representing more than a 50% increase from just 10 years ago. Is this a sign that the UK (and the rest of Europe in general) is destined to slowly become Eurabia? Discuss.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/10/28 ... y-britain/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... Harry.html

[Norstal]

More like, what's wrong with Eurabia?

[Wamitoria]

I am completely apathetic to this whole topic, but for some reason, I posted here.

[Maurepas]

Clearly the Britons need to have more sex. *nods*

[Ashmoria]

how many other islamic names were common?

[Nadkor]

A more relevant consideration than the total number of boys given that name in a given period would be what proportion of all boys named in that period were called Mohammed.

[Sun Aut Ex]

Shock horror.

Europeans need to shut up and deal with the fact that their continent will be Islamic in the next 20 years.

[South Lorenya]

how many other islamic names were common?

Well, the top ten doesn't have any other islamic names.

For reference, 2-10 are Oliver, Jack, Harry, Alfie, Joshua, Thomas, Charlie, William, and James. No love for Mr. Churchill, it would seem...

[Meryuma]

Shock horror.

Europeans need to shut up and deal with the fact that their continent will be Islamic in the next 20 years.

I was expecting you to come in and say something utterly hateful and pointless.

[Trotskylvania]

I think I'm going to name my first son Muhammad, just to be contrarian to the doom-sayers.

[Wamitoria]

Shock horror.

Europeans need to shut up and deal with the fact that their continent will be Islamic in the next 20 years.

And obviously America will be eating tacos and dancing to Latin Rap in the-- oh shit......

[Vectrova]

Shock horror.

Europeans need to shut up and deal with the fact that their continent will be Islamic in the next 20 years.

We are in agreement then.

As long as the religion doesn't screw with european politics, it's all good.

[Xin Prussia]

And this is bad because?...

[Maurepas]

I think I'm going to name my first son Muhammad, just to be contrarian to the doom-sayers.

That's cruel, he'd have to go around saying, "I'm not muslim" all the time. Same reason I always thought naming a kid Christian was cruel, I mean, they're now stuck with that by default.

[Wamitoria]

And this is bad because?...

Because a lot of British people are xenophobic.

[Dumb Ideologies]

Worst. Covert. Takeover. EVER.

You'd have thought they'd at least have kept their increasing numbers under wraps by calling their kids something like "Sir Robert Wislington-Smythe III" or an unpronounceable symbol a la Prince . Lazy.

[Trotskylvania]

I think I'm going to name my first son Muhammad, just to be contrarian to the doom-sayers.

That's cruel, he'd have to go around saying, "I'm not muslim" all the time. Same reason I always thought naming a kid Christian was cruel, I mean, they're now stuck with that by default.

It'll be no worse than giving him my last name, a nigh unpronouncable Polish word.

[Maurepas]

That's cruel, he'd have to go around saying, "I'm not muslim" all the time. Same reason I always thought naming a kid Christian was cruel, I mean, they're now stuck with that by default.

It'll be no worse than giving him my last name, a nigh unpronouncable Polish word.

Fair enough, , but at least one can't be shoehorned into a Polish belief system,

[Trotskylvania]

It'll be no worse than giving him my last name, a nigh unpronouncable Polish word.

Fair enough, , but at least one can't be shoehorned into a Polish belief system,

Says you. I've got the urge to make kolach every Christmas programmed into me from an early age.

[Unibot]

I think I'm going to name my first son Muhammad, just to be contrarian to the doom-sayers.

That's cruel, he'd have to go around saying, "I'm not muslim" all the time. Same reason I always thought naming a kid Christian was cruel, I mean, they're now stuck with that by default.

Never thought of it like that.

[Yenke-Bin]

Britain is lost. Mourn for her! Wail for her! Her destruction is nigh. London will burn as hot as the coals of hell! Good Christian men and women will be tortured, raped, and killed.


Or....don't panic? Doesn't seem like a big deal to me.

[The Floridian Coast]

More like, what's wrong with Eurabia?

Well as an American atheist who feels that secularism is a slow, grueling, uphill battle here, I look to Western Europe as the world's shining gem of secularism, and I don't want that to fall, otherwise I wonder what is next for the USA.

[New Manvir]

And how many of these newborn Mohammeds are going to grow up going to British schools, listening to Western music, watching Western movies and speaking English, compared to the number that are whisked away to Pakistan at the age of three and raised in a Madrassa?


I see no problem with this.

[Trotskylvania]

And how many of these newborn Mohammeds are going to grow up going to British schools, listening to Western music, watching Western movies and speaking English, compared to the number that are whisked away to Pakistan at the age of three and raised in a Madrassa?


I see no problem with this.

Well, you are the god damned Batman.

[The Rich Port]

Maybe it's just an IRL extension of Draw Mohammed Day. We're not just drawing the prophet of Islam... We're MAKING him. And now he has an actual FACE.

Seriously, though, does the Prophet Muhammad even look like anything? For all of my respect of the Muslim faith, this has gotta be one of the dumbest dogma rules I've ever heard. How can you draw someone and be offended by that drawing... If you don't even know WHAT HE LOOKS LIKE?