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The people you quote have an agenda, and the agenda is to scare people into thinking Islam is a threat. I would bet they are beefing up the numbers to do that.[/quote]
Two really important points to remember:

1. The U.S. does not track religious affiliation of new immigrants it admits.

2.  There is no single source that tracks, reports and aggregates conversions.

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I don't know whether or not the US tracks religious affiliation of immigrants. If it doesn't, then presumably somebody arrived at that 100,000 figure by totaling up the immigrants from places like Egypt, Pakistan, Syria, Iraq, and other predominantly-Muslim countries. That's yet another reason to question that particular source....

Here are a few more points. Because, apparently, it's necessary to spell out the obvious. 
1. For Muslim PP to be correct (note: I have no clue whether the immediate PP is the Muslim PP, or not), that is, to substantiate her claim that more people in the US are converting to Islam than immigrating here, we'd have to be able to say that &gt;75,000 of those 100,000 immigrants are non-Muslim. That's the only possible way the immigrant number can be less than the convert number. Now it's certainly true that lots of Parsis, Bahaiis, Christians and Jews are fleeting Muslim persecution in places like Egypt, Syria, Iran, Pakistan and Nigeria. But you'd have to argue that &gt;75% of immigrants from Muslim countries (&gt;75,000 of the 100,000 immigrants) are actually non-Muslims fleeting Muslim persecution.
2. Certainly, some immigrants from places like Egypt, Pakistan and Iran are Christians, Jews, Bahaiis, Parsis, atheists, and others who are fleeing Muslim persecution.
3. However, the minority religion populations in these places are tiny following centuries of persecution. Egypt probably has the largest Christian population, and that's arguably 10% (probably less) of Egypt's total population. Nigeria has lots of Christians being persecuted by Muslims, but there are large Christian areas in Nigeria and that weakens the case for asylum.

Bottom line: if the Muslim poster is trying to argue that, of the figure of 100,000 immigrants, 75,000 of these are non-Muslims, that really defies credibility. (And if that's actually true, yay for Islam for persecuting so many people out of their countries.)  We may not have actual numbers, but Muslim PP's most recent set of numbers doesn't support her claims unless we really torture the numbers beyond believability.

Signed, PP with the husband who's about to divorce her, and who serves burnt meals to her academically failing kid who is doing drugs and porn. (Did somebody call [i]me[/i] dumb?)[/quote]

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