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I am the OP and I am also the one who made the statement about Islam's growth and conversion rate. I am not close to Muslima and I do not know her offline. I have never communicated with her before all this began. But I agree with her for the most part. She's represented well on this and the other Islam thread. She is very knowledgeable and, just as a good Muslim should be, she never lost her temper. Too bad I'm not so good. lol But I stand behind my statements about conversion. I thought we addressed this on the other thread pages and pages ago. Yet here we are again, revisiting this topic.

Here are the reasons why I believe Islam IS the fastest growing religion on earth and why I think it's by conversion:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_of_religion 
    Footnote 68/69 are the sources for the claim that Islam is the fastest growing religion by conversion. This is validated by the Guinness Book of World Records as well as the Carnegie Endowment for World Peace. Only the PEW people refute this and simply because they can't validate the numbers. The other groups seem to have no issue making this claim.

http://www.ibtimes.com/shamrock-crescent-islam-irelands-fastest-growing-religion-1557033
     Islam is the fastest growing religion in Ireland. Immigration and population are mentioned but so is conversion as the reason.

Here is another report stating the same, that Islam is the fastest growing religion by conversion:
ww.cnn.com/WORLD/9704/14/egypt.islam/

And yet another source that exposes organizations that refute this statistic often turn out to be Christian missionary groups or Christian funded groups:
http://www.answering-christianity.com/yahya_ahmed/islam_fasting_growing_religion_world.htm

The UK reports that Islam is the fastest growing religion there too.
And even if you do not accept it's the fastest growing religion by conversion, apparently Christians are worried it's growing too fast and too many are converting, as evidenced by this report: http://www.cbn.com/spirituallife/onlinediscipleship/understandingislam/why_are_westerners_converting.aspx

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As someone who works with numbers, I have to point out that comparing rates of worldwide conversion Islam vs. other religions does not speak to the question of whether Islam's growth in the US is due more to conversion or immigration, i.e, the relative rates of conversion vs. immigration in the US.

Also, your Wikipedia source actually reads as follows:  "By 2030 Muslims are projected to represent about 26.4% of the global population (out of a total of 7.9 billion people).[67] Several sources believe that this increase is due to conversion and reproduction.[68][69]" which raises a point we've overlooked, about birth rates, but again says nothing about immigration to the US.

(Also, why all the cites to Christian sources? Nobody asked for those and they're tangential at best. It simply looks like you perceive yourselves to be in some huge rivalry with Christianity.)[/quote]

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