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I'm not embarrassed at all about the numbers I posted. I didn't address that because I was busy answering the other misleading information you and others were posting. Islam IS the fastest growing religion in the US and the conversion rate is rapid. I do believe the growth is mostly due to conversion, but I do not know if immigration has increased in the past few years. I tell you all this not to boast, but simply to let you know Muslims are here to stay. It makes no sense to carry so much hatred toward Muslims or Islam because one day you will not be able to avoid having to interact with Muslims. [/quote]
People like me? You don't know anything about me.   I'm interacting with a big Muslim, a little Muslim and a Muslim inside my uterus all day long. There's nothing about Islam you can tell me I haven't already heard, read or seen.  I grew up among them. But you have goggles on, and I don't.

I don't carry any hatred toward Muslims or Islam. I carry sarcasm and derision toward unsubstantiated claims - like the one you posted, that "Islam in the US grows more through conversion than through immigration" - and I'm not shy about showing it. You were pressed to show evidence for this. You posted BS numbers from an evangelical site that STILL showed Muslim immigration is FOUR TIMES HIGHER than Muslim conversions (which are not recorded, let's remind everyone again).

So, you "believe" growth is mostly due to conversion? Meaning you don't know?  You don't know if immigration increased in the last few years? Dude, there's way more information available about immigration than about conversion (the subject on which no facts exist.) You should have just said "this is my theory, I don't know if numbers support it", and people would have left you alone.   But you continued to claim you're right, and if only people weren't Islamophobic, they'd see that 25 is really higher than a hundred.

So let's have it out.  You said Islam in the US grows more through conversion than through immigration.   Is this your theory, or is this based on facts? If on facts, which facts?[/quote]

Excuse me, was I talking to you? Are you the one with the martyr complex? Read through the posts before you reply. I was not speaking to you.

Here is the date and post stamp of my post to MUSLIMA, NOT YOU, in the thread, "Tell Me About Islam", in which I said why I believe Islamophobes are fearful of Muslims, followed by the actual post to her. This was a post directed specifically to Muslima. It was after I posted this directly to her that you and your islamophobes demanded cites and resources. But who was communicating with you? So frankly, I don't need to "have it out" with you or anyone else for that matter. I expressed to her my belief. But perhaps due to your martyr complex, you thought I was speaking personally to you...again.

Congratulations on your newfound acquired knowledge of Islam after having been impregnated by a Muslim man. Kudos.

09/03/2014 00:27
Salaam Muslima,

When I first joined this discussion, I truly thought it was an intellectual discourse. I truly thought the handful of people inquiring about Islam were interested in understanding Islam. They are not. I have answers their questions numerous times and, yet, it does not seem to be to their satisfaction. They are a dodging target. Their first accusation was that Muhammad was a pedophile. Then they take issue with Islam's inheritance laws. Then divorce laws are an injustice to women. Then it was testimony. Now it's custody. Nearly ever question has been answered except for the child custody one and that' s an easy to answer as well. I plan to explain that soon too. 
[b]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[/b]. 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. 
I wish I could reassure them that this will not happen. The beauty of America is that it is a multi religious, muli cultural land. Even if immigrants arrive here, clinging to their old customs and ways, by the second or third generation, American Muslims assimilate. They may not give up their religious principles completely but they learn the valuable lesson of tolerance of other religions and cultures. It gives birth to a new and better kind of Islam, an Islam free of cultural influences, and this is pure Islam. 
Regardless of the vile accusations they make against Prophet Muhammad, I still hold that Christians and Jews are my brethren. Christianity and Judaism are simply other avenues to the same God we worship. I condemn ISIS and will always condemn any extremist group that denies the right of any Christian or Jew to practice his faith freely. This is real Islam. 
It's very sad that rather than asking, "Why did Muhammad marry a girl so young?" or "Did Muhammad in fact marry a girl that young?" the word pedophile was used. It's just terribly insulting to the billions of Muslims that respect him so much. 
No one can learn about Islam just google searching and reading just one or two books or relying on Hollywood movies like "Not Without My Daughter." To learn about Islam they have to be willing to call a few Imams or scholars in the US such as Hamza Yusuf, Ahmad Sakr, Muhammad Joban, etc…Historians do not know Islam as well as an imam or scholar would. 
My own mother in law converted to Islam from Christianity over 40 yrs ago and she has never regretted her decision. She is of European descent. I am of mixed race. My children have very caucasian features and are not likely to be thought of as "Muslim" by other Americans. They will blend in American society almost completely, with the exception of their religion. This is the new American Muslim. They better get used to it.
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