The proportion of Muslims will remain stable "bar a decimal point up or down from time to time, at 11.2 per cent" [until at least the mid-21st century].

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Prediction made by Aiyar in 1993. M.S. Aiyar: "Sex, lies and tushtikaran", Sunday, 24-1-1993. [But even the conservative estimate for 1991 (not yet published at the time of his writing) already refuted his prediction by putting the Muslim population more than 1% higher.] Quoted from Elst, Koenraad. (1997) The Demographic Siege

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The proportion of Muslims will remain stable "bar a decimal point up or down from time to time, at 11.2 per cent" [until at least the mid-21st cen­tury].

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The proportion of Muslims will remain stable "bar a decimal point up or down from time to time, at 11.2 per cent" [until at least the mid-21st century].