"Am I racist for being 'alarmed' at this?"

[conuly]

Seriously, be racist. See if I care. Nobody cares. But stop whining and acting like you're not! Just go whole hog and be a fucking racist and fess up to it like you're not ashamed to be a throwback in this day and age.

Or, since you *are* ashamed (and really should be) try not being a racist. Or just think once in a while, all right? And by think, I mean something deeper than "Oh, there's baby boys named Mohamed in England! It's so scaaaaaaary, those babies might cry on a plane, and it'd all be a plot. Ooooooooh!"

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[conuly]

if the same percentage of white Britons were named John and Mary as a century or two ago, Muhammad would likely be a distant third at best.

Exactly. All this really shows is that most Brits have become less conformist in how they name their kids, but Muslims in Britain still favor the name Mohamed.

(For that matter, if there were a surge in people naming their kids Mary and Sean, nobody would go "OMG! IRA!" on them, and I'll guess more people have been killed in the UK due to Irish terrorism than Muslim terrorism. Not that I've looked up these numbers, of course.)

[delphi]

*nods* So not only is it a non-story that there are apparently more children being born into the Muslim faith in Britain than there used to be, but it's a non-story because that ranking doesn't mean anything useful at all, save from an onomatological perspective.