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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Muslima]Ignorance won't take you anywhere. I have said it before and I will say it again, the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. You live under the "Illusion" that you have some knowledge of Islam, but clearly you have not, and that is a fact, not an opinion. The majority of these verses you cite are either taken out of context, or misunderstood due to lack of basic knowledge.  Quoting Quranic verses without citing the proper context, lying about what's in the Quran ( yes lies, there is nothing in the Quran that states that the punishment for apostasy is death and you have repeated this over and over, this is just one thing that comes to mind), you rely  on some cherry-picked crackpot interpretation of  verses, whether you've lived with Muslims, befriended Muslims clearly has not taught you anything about Islam because you are as clueless about the religion as someone who's never even heard about the Quran, really my elementary school child has a better understanding of Islam than you do. Whether you like it or not, every verse in the Quran has to be read within the context under which it was revealed, you can't just randomly cite verses of the Quran while completely ignoring the context, that makes you look extremely ignorant.

Every book is to be dealt with on the basis of what is claims and how it is to be understood. The Qur'an is no exception to this. [b] In principle, you can't pluck a phrase or sentence out of an essay and use it in isolation.Any discussion on Qur’anic verses  would be meaningless, without a study of the surrounding context.[/b] Antagonists of Islam are guilty of such misreading and distortion of Quranic meanings because they ignore the context of the verses, either through sheer negligence or deliberate suppression. By context i mean the collective meaning derived from a group of verses. Instead of taking one verse and citing it out of context, the correct procedure is to look at the verses before and after in order to acquire a proper meaning of what The Quran is saying. Secondly, to understand certain intricate verses, the reader needs to resort to official and authentic commentaries of The Quran.  I mean, honestly, there are muslims dedicating their lives to studying the interpretations of the Quran, the least you could do is listen to the [b]consensus[/b]  instead of your own amateur attempts. Quoting any text out of context is obviously dishonest, so why do you do it? The reason is that it works! When someone has an agenda and they know that if they expose it, it will not be popular, they must find alternative ways. One such way is to use for evidence, backing their argument, text taken out of context and quoted by respectable sources. This impresses the gullible, thus helping the people making those arguments pursue their agendas. It is no wonder that Islamophobes often quote translations of verses of the  Quran stripped from their context, so that their listeners or readers would get the wrong impression about what the verse it about and would not be interested in Islam. Few people actually bother to check out the Quran to verify what they heard or read.[/quote]

Abdulaziz Bin Baz picked quotes out of context? He didn't understand the meaning of what he was doing? He didn't look at what came before and what came after? Did Qaradawi? Did Bin Bayyah? Did the whole brigade at islamqa.com?   I guess they are all antagonists of Islam then.

[quote=Muslima]Whether you like it or not more than half of new converts to Islam are women. Why do so many women accept Islam? Didn’t they read the Quran and see that top ten list of oppression? Why did the Quran not repulse these women, and on the contrary, attracted them? why supposedly ‘emancipated’ Western women are turning towards a religion that has always been associated with the oppression of women? Are they just dumb sheep following blindly? [/quote]

Oh dear, that's easy one. I'm sure many female converts are doing it just for the love of Islam.  But remember, I'm married to a Saudi Muslim.  A ton - A TON - of female converts do this because they either want to become acceptable to the family of their Muslim fiance (totally unnecessary, if you ask me), or to convince the man to marry them (even less necessary.) There's also the women who are moving with their husbands to a Muslim-majority country and it's just more convenient to be Muslim there.  In fact, if my husband is ever appointment the mayor of Mecca, I'm converting on the spot.  There's nothing wrong with that, people convert for family reasons all the time, I work with a couple of Indian girls who converted to Judaism to marry Jews.  It happens.  I do, however, feel compelled to note that Muslim men who truly keep it zabiha aren't supposed to go near girlfriends.

[quote=Muslima]
 2014 saw the publication of the 30th annual Annual Status of Global Mission in the International Bulletin of Missionary ReseaIn this, the latest edition, the researchers estimate Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world: 1.81% per year vs. 1.53% for the 20 million Sikhs and 1.29% for Christianity.[/quote] Source: http://beyond.org/islam-fastest-growing-religion-world/[/quote]

This doesn't confirm your prior claim that Islam in America grows more by conversion than by immigration. [/quote]

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