One Group Of Scary People Overtakes Other Group Of Scary People

According to the Vatican, Islam has overtaken Roman Catholicism as the largest "single religious denomination in the world.":

Monsignor Vittorio Formenti, who compiled the Vatican's newly-released 2008 yearbook of statistics, said Muslims made up 19.2 percent of the world's population and Catholics 17.4 percent.

"For the first time in history we are no longer at the top: the Muslims have overtaken us," Formenti told Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano in an interview, saying the data referred to 2006.

He said that if all Christian groups were considered, including Orthodox churches, Anglicans and Protestants, then Christians made up 33 percent of the world's population -- or about 2 billion people.

The Vatican recently put the number of Catholics in the world at 1.13 billion people. It did not provide a figure for Muslims, generally estimated at around 1.3 billion.

The report stated the reason for this was higher birth rates among Muslims, which is news to us.

Either way, Lou Dobbs should really back off the Messicans and reconsider his position.

I for one would rather press 1 for English than have to forego libations.

via Reuters