US politician calls Islam a 'false religion'

Just when you thought Islamophobia has reached its highest peak, a U.S. Senate candidate tells voters that Islam is a "false religion." 

Republican politician and judge Roy Moore - who is a former Alabama Supreme Court chief justice and is currently running to fill the state's Senate seat - made the comment during a meeting of the Republican Club in Gardendale, Alabama, on Tuesday according to HuffPost.

His statement came following a question raised by a woman about Sharia law - because apparently, people love to feed their conspiracy theories about Muslims having a secret Sharia agenda during such meetings. 

"I’ve seen a lot in the news about Sharia law, and Muslims demanding break times to do their prayers and wanting to have their laws oversee our laws, and I just wonder how you plan to deal with that," the woman said.

"False religions like Islam - who teach that you must worship this way - are completely opposite with what our First Amendment stands for," Moore said. 

"Our First Amendment stands for [the idea] that man can't tell you how to worship God," he continues. 

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."

Muslims currently make up roughly 1 percent of the population in the U.S., with approximately 3.3 million.

Somehow, this statistic has left many Americans in a perpetual state of fear that Sharia law is taking over. 

Earlier in January, a number of people accused Linda Sarsour - a Muslim activist who was one of the organizers of the U.S.' largest demonstration against the administration - of turning the Women's March into a 'secret' Sharia March. 

So, Moore's comment is not really news to us.

There are 1.6 billion Muslims around the world, and the number of people who follow Islam is only growing. If that makes the religion a false one, then what makes a religion true? 

Earlier this year, a report released by U.S.-based Pew Research Center revealed that Islam will be the largest religion in the world by 2070. 

It was the only major religious group with a projection to increase faster than the world's overall population. Currently, the center estimates that the number of Muslims will increase by 73 percent when comparing data from 2010 to projections for 2050.

As of 2010, there were an estimated 1.6 billion Muslims in the world compared to 2.2 billion Christians. The world's total population is estimated to be just under 7.5 billion and is projected to grow by 37 percent by 2050.