How Greece Becomes Europe's Next Muslim Country

Modern-day Greece is home to an estimated 500,000 Muslims, accounting for about 4.6% of the total population. This number has been steadily rising due to immigration, especially from North Africa and Muslim-majority countries like Syria, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, as well as of course the natural growth within these communities. This demographic shift is particularly noticeable in regions like Athens, Thessaloniki, and Thrace, where Muslim communities are expanding and challenging Greece's traditional cultural landscape.

In today's video we look at How Greece Becomes Europe's Next Muslim Country

Greece’s immigration crisis is becoming increasingly complex as the country grapples with a rising Muslim population. Muslim immigration to Europe, especially from regions like North Africa, has surged, with Greece now home to a growing Muslim population, particularly concentrated in Athens, Thessaloniki, and Lesbos. These areas are seeing shifts in Greek national identity, further complicated by the tensions with Turkey over migration policies and territorial disputes in the Mediterranean. Greece is at the forefront of the migration crisis, facing both demographic and cultural challenges.

The demographic change in Greece is striking. The Muslim population has steadily increased due to migration and refugee flows, fueling political debates about Islam in Europe. As tensions between Greece and Turkey intensify, both over immigration and regional conflicts, the situation is exacerbated by the country’s financial crisis and a declining birth rate. The Greek financial crisis left the country economically weakened, amplifying the strain caused by the influx of Muslim immigrants. These demographic changes are reshaping Greek politics, with far-right movements like Golden Dawn exploiting immigration fears.

Moreover, the far-right’s influence has grown due to the Greece immigration crisis and the broader migration Mediterranean crisis. Anti-immigration rhetoric is deeply tied to concerns over Greek national identity, and far-right movements, such as Golden Dawn, have used the Muslim refugee crisis to fuel xenophobia. The ongoing struggles over Muslim integration in Europe, paired with the continuous flow of refugees into Greece, keep migration a hot-button issue. Populism and immigration are now inseparable in Greek politics, shaping public opinion and fuelling deep societal divides across the country.

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[tadhgcronin]

The European Union is the problem not the soloution.

[duncansmith]

you can't integrate a people who don't want to be integrated.

[dimitrisfr]

Invasion and colonization. Who organizes them?

[karlbyrne]

To all Greek people, stand strong in the face of this madness. This is happening all over Europe. May the spirit of the Spartans rise again, greetings from Dublin Ireland.

[johnyashm]

When your not allowed to say an illegal migrant is an illegal migrant then you know theres something wrong

[Zaxos]

There is no minority in Thessaloniki, what you refer to is the Muslims of Komotini at Thrace, where it was agreed for them to stay during the exchange of population agreement of 1923.
As a matter of a fact, in that agreement it was agreed that the muslims of Komotini will remain, and the Christians of Constantinople will remain aswell, the rest had to leave.
Needless to say that the Christians of Constantinople experienced a pogrom during the 50s by an angry Turkish mob, motivated by hoax news. Now there are hardly any Greek residents( of Byzantium) left in Constantinople.

[ArgentinosG-kr]

Greece as a state was never Muslim and will never be

[bardhylalliu]

Greece will not become a myslim country, they were under the turkish ocupation for 400years and they remain orthodox, dont give wrong information.

[denecroxford]

The Islamization of Europe has seen the most visible changes in Western European societies, like Britain, France, the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium. While liberal and educated citizens consider the increasing influence of conservative and radical Islam with great concern and regard the future of the continent as rather bleak, their so-called progressive opponents interpret the ongoing Islamization as a cultural enrichment that contributes to the historical overcoming of the obsolete nation-state. One could go as far as to say that today the pioneers of radical post-national Europe would prefer to abolish all symbols of national identity: indigenous Europeans should waive all national, cultural, religious, and ultimately also traditional sexual identities.
I am afraid to say that once certain forms of cancer attack the body, death is inevitable. Sometimes the cure is unpleasant but necessary. The Greek solution may be to undergo radical surgery once and for all. Perhaps it is time for a new dawn in Greece, and a golden one across the European continent as a whole. 🌅

[lostwisdom]

The guy holds grudges against Greece or what? Are you trying to find the scapegoat of the whole ass situation that happens across in Europe? Try harder

[balajishastri]

Save Christian Country Greek.
Avoid Muslims Conversation

[viskovandermerwe]

Does this mean that the whole Western Europe will also be Islamic?

[henkvermeer]

If the EU gets its way, rather sooner than later.

[Теметерон]

ведущий авантюрист, вранье и дезинформация, в греции нет греков мусульман, мусульмане в тракии оставшиеся во время обменом населения в 1922 году, согласно лозанского договора и появились мусульманы благодаря стараниям фрау Меркель в 2015 году, которые стремились попасть в ее обьятия из турции, через территорию греции, часть которых пока обитают на территории греции. А лепет этого провокатора о греках мусульманах, является вранем.
Греки мусульманы проживают только на территории турции, насильно исламизированных на протяжении 500 лет, которых ткрки называют турками, которые не похожи на турков внешне и ментально.

[Anastasis-is-here]

Thank the Gods we react like that with only 5% and we aren't like others that became minorities in their countries and still don't act.

[CarmelaAntolini]

You have no idea of history, 90% of what you are saying is not true 🤔
I suggest you read some of the greek history and check out what's happening today... but real facts.

[Zaxos]

In the minute 0:42 what you mark as Thessaloniki is actually Thessaly. 😅

[brianbadonde]

The narrator is acting like the Greeks can't stop it whenever they want. Those Muslims moved their ( illegally ) and they can move back or be moved forcefully whenever the Greeks grow a pair of balls

[magedkaram]

Why Islam people don’t emigrated to sawdia Arabia and other Muslim countries instead of Europe countries

[art-tour]

This is not possible! What is wrong with the Greeks and the Greek government?