Reply to Tell me about Islam

Forum Index » Religion

Reply to "Tell me about Islam"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]
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]

There is nothing frightening about Islam in the U.S.  It's a very small part of the American social fabric. Muslims in America will never be numerous enough to take the country over, certainly not within the lifetime of anyone posting here.

As far as I know, no one maintains records on conversions.  Therefore, all discussion of growth by conversion is opinion unsupported by facts.  If you know of a source of reliable facts on conversion numbers, do share.[/quote]

Different PP here. I, too, have heard that the conversion stats, such as they are, are very suspect. A major factor is that Islam [b]punishes apostasy with death.[/b] Lapsed Muslims (born Muslim or converted) are never striken from the "total number of Muslims" (such as this is), because it's actually impossible to leave Islam, whether you were born into it or converted. In modern societies, thankfully, you aren't killed,[b] instead Muslim authorities simply continue to count you as a Muslim[/b], even though you've converted to another religion or become an atheist. A secondary reason for failing to account for lapsed Muslims is, obviously, the huge premium Islam places on winning converts.

I've heard it said that you can tell the doubters at prayertime by watching their butts, to see if they bobb with enthusiasm.[/quote]
I don't think that in modern societies, such as the U.S., there are any "Muslim authorities" counting, or not counting the number of Muslims.  Is there a religion question on the Census? Otherwise I am not aware of any centralized surveys on religion other than the privately commissioned ones.

I've heard several people say "when I was a Muslim" quite freely so clearly, in the West leaving Islam is in fact possible.  There are social costs for doing so but the same applies to any religion.

A Muslim-majority country, though, is a different story. Those tend to record your religion on your ID documents, and changing it there from Muslim to anything is...challenging. Just 'cause I need to be polite.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics