[DrBrightonone]

http://drabutamim.blogspot.com/2011/...ing-faith.html

[DrBrightonone]

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/muslims1.html

[virtuah]

Salam Alaykum,

It is true that Islam is perhaps the fastest growing religion in the world by percentage. But the reason for this is mostly natural increase, as most Muslims are disinterested in preaching Islam, and those who have zeal in many cases do not have the proportionate amount of knowledge. This is in addition to countries (sometimes Muslim ones) that do not allow open religious preaching.

[DrBrightonone]

Salam Alaykum,

It is true that Islam is perhaps the fastest growing religion in the world by percentage. But the reason for this is mostly natural increase, as most Muslims are disinterested in preaching Islam, and those who have zeal in many cases do not have the proportionate amount of knowledge. This is in addition to countries (sometimes Muslim ones) that do not allow open religious preaching.

Muslims also have the largest number of converts.

[dubGucKcolo]

Salam Alaykum,

It is true that Islam is perhaps the fastest growing religion in the world by percentage. But the reason for this is mostly natural increase, as most Muslims are disinterested in preaching Islam, and those who have zeal in many cases do not have the proportionate amount of knowledge. This is in addition to countries (sometimes Muslim ones) that do not allow open religious preaching.

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[virtuah]

????? Perhaps you can explain the evidences you know for your view that Islam is the fastest growing religion due to conversions from other religions. I am not asking to argue, but to sincerely know what are the evidences that point in this direction.

[DrBrightonone]

Perhaps you can explain the evidences you know for your view that Islam is the fastest growing religion due to conversions from other religions. I am not asking to argue, but to sincerely know what are the evidences that point in this direction.

Islam has the highest natural increase as well as the highest number of converts to any religion. Both help.

[virtuah]

Islam has the highest natural increase as well as the highest number of converts to any religion. Both help. I know of the statistics with respect to highest natural increase, but are there any statistics showing that it has the highest number of converts as well?

Of course, it really makes no difference to one's inherent faith if the number of converts is more or less. If anything, since we are getting closer to the day of Judgment, we should expect to see a lot more apostates in our midst, in a way we had never seen before.

[DrBrightonone]

I know of the statistics with respect to highest natural increase, but are there any statistics showing that it has the highest number of converts as well?

Of course, it really makes no difference to one's inherent faith if the number of converts is more or less. If anything, since we are getting closer to the day of Judgment, we should expect to see a lot more apostates in our midst, in a way we had never seen before.

The Guiness book says: "In the period 1990-2000, approximately 12.5 million more people converted to Islam than to Christianity."

[DrBrightonone]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/reli...-to-Islam.html

[DrBrightonone]

Islam overtakes Catholicism as world's largest religion
Richard Owen of The Times in Rome
Islam has overtaken Roman Catholicism to become the world's largest single religious denomination, according to L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper.

In an interview with the paper Monsignor Vittorio Formenti, compilier of the Annuario Pontificio, the Vatican yearbook, said "For the first time in history, we are no longer at the top: Muslims have overtaken us." He said that figures for 2006 showed that Catholics accounted for 17.4 per cent of the world population while Muslims accounted for 19.2 per cent.

Asked for an explanation Monsignor Formenti observed that "While Muslim families, as is well known, continue to make a lot of children, Christian ones on the contrary tend to have fewer and fewer". He said the figure for the Muslim global population was derived from data submitted to the United Nations by Muslim countries.

However Christians as a whole, including Catholics, Orthodox, Protestants and Anglicans make up 33 per cent of the world population. Mosnignor Formenti said Latin America remained "the stronghold" of Catholicism, and the American continent as a whole had nearly half the world's total. He noted the decline in numbers of Catholic priests, and said the number of nuns was also suffering a "drastic reduction".

The figures were released as both the Vatican and Muslim leaders sought to pursue a recently initiated Muslim-Catholic dialogue despite tensions over Pope Benedict XVI's high profile baptism at Easter of Magdi Allam, a converted Italian Muslim journalist of Egyptian origin. Father Federico Lombardi, the Vatican spokesman, said the opinions of Mr Allam, an outspoken critic of Islam as inherently violent and repressive, were not in any way "the official expression of the positions of the Pope or the Holy See".

The Vatican puts the number of Catholics in the world at 1.13 billion people, while the figure for Muslims is estimated at around 1.3 billion.

Rome has Europe's largest mosque, opened in 1995 and paid for by Muslim countries, mainly by Saudi Arabia, which at present bans Christian worship but is reported to be considering allowing the construction of a church on Saudi soil as part of negotiations for the establishment of diplomatic relations.

In a provocative short story entitled "The Last Christmas" (L'Ultimo Natale) the popular Italian writer Valerio Massimo Manfredi imagines a future in which Islam has become the dominant religion in Italy, with the Pope obliged to leave St Peter's and make way for an Imam.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle3653800.ece

[WaydayTew]

salam alikum,

wondering about last sentence
... with the Pope obliged to leave St Peter's and make way for an Imam.

so typical for western article-writer - saying this kind of sarcasm/ignorance.. or what ever.

w salam

[DrBrightonone]

salam alikum,

wondering about last sentence
... with the Pope obliged to leave St Peter's and make way for an Imam.

so typical for western article-writer - saying this kind of sarcasm/ignorance.. or what ever.

w salam

They are scared. Fear sometimes manifests as irony.

[DrBrightonone]

On a global level, the Muslim population is expected to grow by 35 percent over the next two decades -- twice the pace of the world's non-Muslim population, according to a controversial new report.

Prepared by the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion and Public Life, "The Future of the Global Muslim Population" states that Muslims will comprise about 2.2 billion of the world's population by 2030, up from the 2010 estimate of 1.6 billion. Officials state on the Pew Research Center's website that Muslims will make up 26.4 percent of the world's total projected population of 8.3 billion in 2030, up from 23.4 percent of the estimated 2010 world population of 6.9 billion. As the Washington Post is reporting, the percentage of native-born Muslims in the U.S. is projected to rise from 35 percent today to 45 percent in 2030.

Critics of Islam in Europe and America, who claim the religion spreads extremism, are likely to be incensed by the new report. Even those involved in its research say they were skeptical of its intent. "Going into this project, that's the first question I had: 'Why are you doing this study? Are you singling out Muslims?' " Amaney Jamal, a Princeton University political scientist who advised the project, told the Post. She went on to stress the project's overall goal of mapping the world's religious populations eventually won her over.

Despite these statistics, authorities say that Christianity will likely remain the biggest religion in the world in 2030. "There is nothing in these numbers to indicate that in 2030 there would be more Muslims that Christians," Alan Cooperman, associate director of the Pew Forum, is quoted by CNN as saying. "We don't want people to jump to the conclusion that if Islam is growing, everyone else is shrinking."

[DrBrightonone]

http://www.newsfromafrica.org/newsfr...art_10733.html