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Canadian society, especially the country’s education system, is not yet prepared to deal with a portion of young Muslims who do not subscribe to Canadian ideals of pluralism, he noted.

“If a child is raised to believe that Canadian society is corrupt it is going to be hard to change them by the time they turn 20,” said Mr. Fatah, whose recent book is The Jew Is Not My Enemy

, is an attack on Islamic anti-Semitism. “It has to start with the schools making it clear to little children that certain ways of thinking are wrong in Canada.”

He said schools should also be concerned about Muslim groups on campuses that could be fomenting anti-Western views and bigotry against Christians and Jews. Meantime, those mosques that use religious services to preach bigotry or discord should come under government scrutiny and lose their charitable status if they become too political and divisive, he said.

The Pew report, “The Future of the Global Muslim Population,” also found there are now 1.6 billion Muslims globally, accounting for 23.4% of the world population, and by 2030 there will be 2.2 billion Muslims, or 26.4% of the global population. In 1990, Muslims made up 19.6% of the world’s people.

In the United States, the Muslim population is also expected to more than double from its current 2.6 million to 6.2 million in 2030. The reasons for Muslim growth in both Canada and the U.S. is the result of increased immigration and slightly higher-than-average birth rates.