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Originally Posted by Vick!
How about people in US, Canada, UK? Are they ignorant too?
"Islam is the fastest-growing religion in the United States..." [NEW YORK TIMES, Feb 21, 1989, p.1]
"Islam is the fastest-growing religion in America, a guide and pillar of stability for many of our people..."
"Islam is the fastest-growing religion in the country." [NEWSDAY, March 7, 1989, p.4]
"Islam is the fastest growing religion in North America." [TIMES MAGAZINE]
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_th...owing_religion
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LOL, 1000's of people leave Islam everyday.
Oh also... Islam as the fastest growing Religeon is 100% false.
SEE:
http://www.bible.ca/islam/islam-myth...st-growing.htm
The Truth:
In the first place, the truth of an idea or doctrine is never established by mere belief. Up until the last hundred years or so, the vast majority of people on our planet did not even believe that they were on a planet. Nor did they believe that the earth was spinning at a thousand miles an hour or hurtling around the sun at 67,000 miles an hour. Does this mean that the earth wasn?t doing these things up until people believed that it was?
Secondly, Islam is not "growing faster" than other religions because ?people are accepting it,? but rather because the birthrate among Muslims is significantly higher than it is among Christians and others, particularly in the West. Kids can be raised to believe in just about anything, so this hardly constitutes any sort of accomplishment.
Of the so-called ?converts? from other religions, only a miniscule number were active believers. Nearly all are really just people who had no faith to convert from ? regardless of their nominal designation. In the West and other parts of the non-Muslim world in which all religions are allowed to compete equally such people experiencing a spiritual awakening are far more likely to turn to Christianity than to Islam.
There are also some women who "marry into Islam" (a nominal change in official designation), but in terms of raw conversions, there is almost no comparison between Islam and Christianity. It is estimated that thousands of Muslims convert to Christianity each day, while only a handful of non-Muslims actually adopt Islam.
This leads to our final and most important point, which is that decent Muslims should feel a sense of embarrassment, rather than pride over the rules that they have to enforce in order to maintain Islam's status as the "fastest growing religion." In truth, it speaks more to the insecurity that Muslims have in their own religion, and the banal immaturity that Islam has compared with other faiths.
Let?s say that you are playing chess with a 6-year-old boy. Instead of following the same set of rules, however, the child is allowed to make up rules that are preferential to him. One of the rules he decides on is that you aren?t allowed to make any moves in his half of the board, but he is allowed to make moves in yours. Another might be that it is impossible for any of his pieces to be taken.
Now, if the child is winning the game ? which is assured by the conditions that he has imposed - is it really something in which he can take true pride?
The rules that Muslims impose on the ?conversion game? are almost exactly like this chess analogy. Other religions are not allowed to operate in Islam?s own territory (ie. preaching their faith and evangelizing) as Muslims are in others. Neither is conversion away from Islam allowed ? on penalty of death.
Watching Muslims gloat over being the ?fastest growing religion? is no different than watching a child delude themselves into thinking that they are smarter and better for ?beating? a much wiser adult in a game played under manufactured conditions that render the artificial ?victory? entirely meaningless.
Islam has been playing by its own rules since its inception. It is unlikely that Muslims will soon develop the confidence in their own religion (or the required social maturity) to lift the shameful restrictions to which it owes its success and risk competition with other faiths on a level playing field.
As was first mentioned, the truth of a belief or creed is never established by how many followers it has. But when a religion has to be supported by double standards and death threats, there is all the more reason to doubt its veracity.
(Note: Our article does not take issue with the claim that Islam is the fastest growing religion, not because we necessarily believe it, but because others have done a better job of refuting it. See Islam is not the Fastest Growing Religion in the World for an example.)
SEE Also:
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/Pa...ay.htm#fastest