
Originally Posted by
Letters
I don't just "have a point", I'm just stating the fact that this statistic is being misinterpreted and misrepresented, possibly deliberately, by people with a certain agenda.
There's no "might be" about it, that's just a statistical fact.
I don't know if it's alarming, but anyone who is trying to use that statistic as part of some "there's more of them than us these days!" narrative is incorrect.
Given how much of the map used to be pink I think we're on dodgy ground with that one.
This I'd largely agree with. And there's more brainwashing and indoctrination in Islamic culture than in the Western ones. Obviously we are teaching our kids what we believe but we also believe that they should come to their own faith (or not) and we do adult Baptism, not child Baptism, because we recognise that it has to be a personal choice. I don't think asking questions of making a personal step of faith is much of a thing in Islamic culture.
TL;DR, The name stats do say something about the demographic shift in the UK, something which I can see may be of concern. It's just not quite the seismic shift certain people are imagining because of the way different cultures pick names. Names in general have diversified a lot since I was a kid because of immigration. Many of the names in our kids classes I've not even heard before.