A Dec. 21 WorldNetDaily article by J.M. Phelps called upon a fellow Islamophobe to fearmonger about Muhammad being a popular baby name in Western countries:
In 2023, “Muhammad” became the top choice for parents naming their baby boys in England and Wales. Data from Britain’s Office for National Statistics confirms not only that Muhammad is the most popular name, but that it has been a consistent top-10 favorite since 2016.
To gain perspective on why the Muslim prophet’s name is so wildly popular in formerly Christian Great Britain, WorldNetDaily spoke to Raymond Ibrahim, a widely published author and expert on Islam and the Middle East. For over eight years, Ibrahim has produced a monthly report titled “Muslim Persecution of Christians,” dedicated to chronicling the abuse and slaughter of Christians throughout the Islamic world.
In an article for The Stream, Ibrahim wrote recently, “Baby Muhammads are, in fact, taking over all of Western Europe (once a bastion against Muhammad).” He told WND the name’s popularity is a clear reflection of growing Muslim numbers and smaller native indigenous British numbers. And, added Ibrahim, this can be attributed both to higher birthrates of Muslims, and to high levels of Muslim migration.
Neither Phelps nor Ibrahim offer any evidence to back up their implication that merely naming a baby Muhammad equates to that child becoming a terrorist. Instead, Ibrahim was allowed to rant about those swarthy Muslims taking over and their failure to be Christian:
Even without a Muslim majority, Ibrahim warned, a nation can be subject to increased threats of persecution or violence. Calling it “the rule of numbers,” he explained that a Muslim population of 10% often results in “a lot of problems.” Considering this, he pointed out, places like France, Germany, the U.K. and Sweden regularly face various Islamist threats.
In addition, Ibrahim told WND, “there’s the ghettoization of Muslim regions, [to include] enclaves or no-go zones that proliferate with increases” in Muslim population. “And all the while, it’s hard to point out that Muslims are a problematic minority without facing accusations of racism.”
Can anything be done to reverse the rapid Islamization of the U.K. and the rest of Europe?
With the challenges brought on by higher Muslim birthrates and Muslim migration, Ibrahim suggests the obvious: ceasing Muslim migration. But what about the already existing large Muslim population? “Deporting those who are illegal may help, but may not be that significant,” he conceded.
It’s a dilemma the United States faces as well. Not so much a problem of Muslim migration per se, but of massive non-Western migration, Ibrahim explained. For those that have illegally crossed the U.S. southern border, whether Muslim or non-Muslim, Ibrahim is concerned “these people are bringing a different set of priorities and cultural norms, often not representative of Christian ethos or Christian civilization.”
Ibrahim has written the occasional column for WND, in which he fretted that Muslims are outbreeding Christians, demanded that Muslim refugees be forbidden from entering the U.S. in favor of Christians, and insisted that Dracula wasn’t a bad guy because he was a Muslim-hating Christian.