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I'm beginning to realize that their antagonism is an expression of their fear about the spread of Islam. Islam is the fastest growing religion, not only in the world but also in the US. Moreover, it is growing in the US, not by immigration, but instead by conversion. They know this. They feel terribly threatened by this because they fear Muslims will take over the US and want to convert it to a Sharia state. They fear it will give birth to grops like ISIS.[/quote]

This is actually another myth.  Pew Center wrote very eloquently about the challenges of compiling religious statistics, and the definition of "fastest growing" religion.    Why don't you answer this:

What are the sources of information about conversions?

What organizations in the U.S., and for that matter, worldwide, maintain records on conversions? Plainly speaking, how do you know how many converted and when? If you call up any mosque anywhere and say, give me your conversion statistics from date X to day Y, what's going to happen?

The truth of the matter is that reliable statistics on conversion simply do not exist; and neither does information on how many stay within the fold for 5, 10, and 15 years. The rest is just...literature.[/quote]
This doesn't say anything about the conversions.

Since wikipedia seems to be the educational source here for some of you folks…the CIA factbook is the resource for this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religious_populations

And here it shows that Islam grew by 109% in a relatively short span of time:
http://www.adherents.com/rel_USA.html#religions[/quote][/quote]

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