(Disintegrating, collapsing, crumbling, in trouble, dying,
disappearing, The Fall of Islam)
The Claim
Muslims all over the world have most probably heard the
slogan, the fantastic claim: “Islam is the fastest growing religion”.
The problem is that neither is Islam just a religion but
rather a political ideology nor is it growing. Quite the opposite is the case,
I’m afraid; Islam is in trouble and dying. Fast. The claim is sheer propaganda.
Now why would I say such a thing when it is so obviously
wrong?
Well, as I usually do, let me look at the claim, analyse it
and then try to match it with reality. So I will look at the sources which
would indicate a growth of Islam and then investigate why the opposite could be
true and then demonstrate why either one is more likely and present a
conclusion.
Like this, everyone can make their own informed decision and
decide for themselves whether they prefer emotion based comfort or hard facts.
Using Google and entering “fastest growing religion” we get claims
that Mormonism, Paganism, Jehovah’s, Buddhism, Hinduism, Scientology and all
sorts of belief systems and ideoligies are all making the same claim: we are
growing. By far the most hits are by Islamic sites, claiming that all others
are wrong and Islam is the ideology which is attracting the most followers.
Given that atheists or rather non-believers or “no religion”, the “nons”, are
providing verifiable data which documents this growing segment, the above
claims must be wrong, as not all groups,
believers and “nons” alike, can all grow at the same time.
So what numbers can we trust and where do they come from?
These tables show that Christianity, as a whole, is still
pulling in believers.
This site, fastestgrowingreligion.com focusses on exactly
this topic and provides sources, something you don’t normally get from the
proprietary religious pages. They get their material from “The World Christian
Encyclopedia” and the “CIA World Factbook”.
They see Islam behind Christianity and the “nons”. Islam
sites say the opposite. Looking at the Muslim favourite, Wikipedia, we see that
Islam is “the fastest-growing religion in the world”.
Why is that? As always with Wikipedia, the footnotes are the
more interesting area. On what do the authors on Wikipedia base their
conclusion?
These seem to change on a monthly basis. Last time, it was a
press agency, now the publication “The List”, which I have shown in a different
video Muslims love misquoting, then you have PBS, the broadcast company and
finally, a report taken from US News in 2008, several years ago.
Before following the link to the dedicated growth page,
let’s go to the referenced pages. The essay I found there last time around said
“Islam is the youngest, the fastest growing, and in many ways the least
complicated of the world's great monotheistic faiths” and a summary of Islam,
painted in glowing colours. The source? None. It’s a personal opinion. The
people writing the Wikipedia article cheat. They provide links masked as
sources which lead to propaganda articles. Everyone who has looked at Islam for
more than a week knows it is neither the youngest nor the least complicated
belief system. Maybe that is why they removed it and looked for different
justifications.
The PBS “source” from 2007 also ends up in a propaganda
article in a paper called Foreign Policy by a QASSEM ZEIN, not a source with
data.
The Foreign Policy List from 2007 is not always accessible
because they want you to pay to read why Islam is growing. Hardly an accessible
source.
The attempt at reaching the press agency results in a 404
not found error. That’s how sloppy these people work. I eventually got hold of
it and found just a propaganda article, without any data sources or precise
figures.
But, don’t worry, it gets worse. Much worse.
If you now click on the link for the “fastest-growing major
religion in the world” you end up on an Islamic propaganda page. What has
magically appeared there, within a few days is the addition “percentage-wise”
and if you want to get the sources for their claims, you will be provided by an
entry in the 2003 Guinness Book of Records, a page on Foreign Policy which is
not accessible and the well-known academic source, CNN. But here again, when I
rechecked, one of the sources had changed.
It is now the same source – or non-source I should say –
that we had on the previous page.
How stupid do Muslims think the rest of the world is? How
stupid do they think their own fellow Muslims are? The 2003 Guinness Book of
Records?
Going a bit further down it gets hilarious.
Here it cites the BBC as a source, again the 2003 Guinness
Book of Records and the Pew Forum. The funny thing is: guess what the source is
for the Guinness Book of Records? Yep, the Pew Forum.
The added source is a 2013 paper by Johnson and Grim. The
referenced page 10 is quite a busy page, with loads of numbers.
It covers 100 years of religion and shows very clearly, if
anything, that in the last 100 years the biggest growth was for agnostics and
atheists. What I don’t understand is that if a person is not sure a god exists,
the agnostic, this means they don’t believe they exist and are thus atheists.
But whatever.
Muslims, according to this table, number 1.5bn in 2010 and
have grown 1.8% a year between 2000 and 2010, closely followed by Daoists with
1,7%. What I don’t see here is the data explanation, the source and methodology
applied to arrive at these figures.
So, let’s take a look at the only solid source they cite,
the Pew Forum, which, funny enough is less prominent than the last times I
looked at these pages.
On the page they openly admit
“Statistical data on conversion to and from Islam are
scarce. What little information is available suggests that there is no
substantial net gain or loss in the number of Muslims through conversion
globally; the number of people who become Muslims through conversion seems to
be roughly equal to the number of Muslims who leave the faith. As a result,
this report does not include any estimated future rate of conversions as a
direct factor in the projections of Muslim population growth.”
Looking at the methodology employed we find that they
outsource the data gathering and processing.
They use standard lists and then massage the data. This
means weighting the numbers according to an algorithm they have developed to
curb too much spread and allow for trend-lines and error margins. These are
further complemented by estimates, guesses, interpolation and outside
demographics until you arrive at a data spread which can be cross-checked
against number of mosques and self-reported numbers. They admit to this and
this is nothing new. But it is not accurate, especially when you have such
small numbers to start off with, like the Muslims in the US make up a whopping
0.6%. How do you count the number of Muslims in Yemen or Indonesia? You can’t.
So you estimate. The numbers they receive from individual mosques also
represent what the Imam thinks - and would like to see. So the error bars here
are huge.
I know what huge effort it is to provide a single version of
the truth within a large company and what is required from keeping individual
divisions from slanting data to their own agenda. I see the tell-tale signs of
huge discrepancies between reporting entities when it comes to something easy
like the basic number of Muslims.
As much as the Pew Forum makes their methodology look
accurate and reliable, the underlying, necessary assumptions bely that
accuracy. Religion is not easily quantifiable. The person calling you will not
check whether you are in front of the TV, the BBQ or the mosque. Numbers from
Muslim majority countries are vague guesses.
Religion Census Membership Studies looks at Congregations,
Members, adherents and attendance.
They rely on self-reporting data and estimates. Guessing. Some
groups, such as the Mormons, count every visit or enquiry as an adherent to
Mormonism, which inflates the numbers. The same goes for Scientology, where the
numbers are artificially inflated using dubious practices which have =been
documented in the recent past. People leaving any group are not deducted,
accounting for the reported ever growing numbers. Dishonest but leaves the
followers with the feeling they are part of a large group.
This leaves a funny aftertaste and is reason enough to seriously
doubt these claims. But, and this is a big but, I have to acknowledge, all I am
doing is doubting the claims. I am unable to disprove them, because I have the
same problem the people making these statistics have: lack of reliable data. I
can only show that the claims don’t make sense and that the data is unreliable
and based on hunches and guesses. This would mean the deductions are based on
emotions, not facts, the principle of the poisoned tree which can’t produce
healthy fruit.
But now what about the opposite? What indications are there
that Islam is not growing, but actually shrinking?
Well, there are different factors here, ranging from the
least reliable, personal observation where I notice the decline and bump into
ex-Muslims much more frequently as time goes by, to reliable self-confessed
apostates, who admit they have been more atheists than Muslims, just going
through the motions. Then you have the converts which – of course – are warmly
greeted by Christian churches who are also witnessing a reduction of numbers-
and – more importantly – a sharp decline of what drives them most: money.
The non-believers are offering the least, namely nothing
except freedom and a productive mind and are the group growing exponentially.
Converts don’t last.
Muslim Dr. Ilyas Ba-Yunus says that 75% of new Muslim
Converts in the US leave Islam within a few years!
People’s priorities shift from survival to self-expression
values as their sense of
individual agency increases
People’s priorities shift from traditional to secular-rational
values as their sense of existential security increases
The largest increase in individual agency occurs with the
transition from industrial to knowledge societies.
The strongest emphasis on traditional values and survival
values is found in the Islamic societies of the Middle East
But, and maybe I shouldn’t have kept the worst until last,
the #1 lie is that Islam is growing due to the high birth-rates. Well, this
bubble was also burst when new data appeared, which indicated that birth rates in
the less developed Muslim majority countries have dropped dramatically.
The Arafat statement with Islamic wombs being the strongest
weapon of Islam, is proving to be just another dream - and a failure.
So that is where we stand. Muslim propaganda claiming a
growth that can’t be substantiated and which is based on shaky ground and the
clear indications of the opposite, a decline of people who are prepared to stop
thinking and ignore the facts presented on the internet.
Primitive apologist groups still try and buy back believers
with huge investments and efforts and are failing. Too many people now
understand that a group like iERA or LDM or whatever dawah group you pick,
people see that they
1.
Don’t understand the world around them and fabricate
a creator/designer/god
2.
Don’t understand science, the principles, the
processes
3.
No clue what an atheist is – even though I
patiently explained it many times
4.
Dishonest censorship
5.
Fabricate illogical and juvenile arguments
Apologists are realizing they don’t have anything convincing
and even a Dr. Craig, who has spawned many Islamic clones is now shaking when
delivering his nonsensical drivel and was sent into retirement by Dr. Carroll
who completely annihilated all arguments or points Dr. Craig had.
Muslim apologists are standing with their arms raised in
despair and are starting to acknowledge
Throwing out more nets like on a dawah-day is futile as the
claims have too many and too big holes. People can’t associate with Muslims who
are unable to condemn stoning or slavery if committed by fellow Muslims.
More and more Arab atheists are raising their voices, no
longer intimidated by their masters and shouting out the message: Islam is
dying.
Thanks for your time.
NOTES:
I reduced the video by about 50% due to too much information
being available.
I was swamped with evidence, but it’s stupid to try and
bring all that in a single YouTube video.
I left out all the blogs and a huge number of forums where
people are talking about being an atheist in a Muslim majority country,
especially Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
“There is widespread popular disgust with religious people
and even bearded people. There is also a rise in the demand for secular and
communist books by young people. And it is noteworthy that peasants in my village
all categorically agree to not vote for any bearded man or any religious
man, and say that their roles should be confined to the mosques… And an
Internet site for Arab atheists announced that some 347 Egyptians have joined
the group in one week only of last month.”
The Golden Era of Arab Atheism?
by As'ad AbuKhalil posted on June 11, 2013 02:14PM GMT
It is unlikely that Western media will take note, but there
seems to be a rejuvenation of Arab atheism. Western media never take note of
Arab intellectual trends, especially if they deviate from the classical
conventional assumptions about the Theologocentric (as Maxime Rodinson called
it in his La Fascination de l’Islam) impulses of all Arabs and all Muslims.
Secular trends in the Arab world have been long ignored in
Western media and even scholarship. Furthermore, Saudi and Qatari media, which
dominate the bulk of pan-Arab media, will certainly suppress such news, but
there is a new phenomenon. Arab atheist groups are spreading on the Internet
and Facebook groups dedicated to Arab atheists are increasing in popularity.
And the Egyptian newspaper al-Wafd even took note and published an article
about “the secret world” of atheists. There are reasons for this phenomenon.
To be sure, Arab atheism is not new: There is a long history
of free-thinking in Arab countries throughout Islamic history. Long before the
appearance in the late 1990s of Sarah Stroumsa’s fine book, Freethinkers of
Medieval Islam: Ibn al-Rawandi, Abu Bakr al-Razi and their Impact on Islamic
Thought, Arabs and Muslims were curious to learn about the history of atheists
and free-thinkers in Islamic history.
Egyptian TV: Darwin, Nietzsche, and a Certain God, trying to
break the momentum.
By: Mohammed Kheir
Published Wednesday, August 1, 2012
A new show on Egyptian television hosted by young preacher
Moez Masoud takes a more sophisticated stab at atheism, hoping to draw doubters
back to their faith.
Moez Masoud speaks during a conference.
At
first glance, The Journey to Certainty (Rehlat al-Yaqeen), a show presented by
the Islamic preacher Moez Masoud, comes across as a sequel to Science and Faith
(al-Ilm wal Iman), the famous show that was presented in the past by physician
and writer Mustafa Mahmoud on Egyptian television.
Back in the eighties, Science and Faith was one of most
viewed television shows in Egypt. The premise of this famous television program
was the reconciliation of science and religion, or more precisely, using
science to reinforce “religious certainty.”
Similarly, this premise serves as the basis for the young
preacher’s new show.
The young preacher is more interested in the issue of “religious
certainty,” or the existence of God, and debates the ideas of what he dubs “the
prominent atheists.”
Even the show’s title sequence resembles that of Science and
Faith, with scenes from nature and of living creatures moving in succession
over serene and suggestive background music.
Nonetheless, the new program has added more “scientific”
shots, including some of planes taking off, different kinds of medical pills
and tablets, and people crossing streets in modern-looking cities.
Yet The Journey to Certainty soon diverges from the common
ground with Science and Faith, breaking away from the old show in the first few
episodes. Masoud’s program does not address science in general, or the various
kinds of experiments conducted by scientists.
The young preacher is more interested in the issue of
“religious certainty,” or the existence of God, and debates the ideas of what
he dubs “the prominent atheists,” such as the German philosopher Nietzsche,
Charles Darwin and Richard Dawkins.
Of course, The Journey to Certainty debates their ideas in
order to rebut them. This approach is in fact no different than the one found
in the practice of responding to suspicions about Islam, which is popular on
religious websites.
A new study by demographers Charles Westoff and Tomas Frejka
challenges this common perception and suggests that the fertility gap between
Muslims and non-Muslims is shrinking.
Because many European countries do not ask a person's religion on
official forms or in censuses, it has been difficult to obtain accurate
estimates of the number or childbearing rates of Muslims. Nevertheless, it
seems clear that Muslims are far from achieving majority status. Muslims make
up less than 5 percent of the population in most European countries. France has
the largest Muslim population in Western Europe. An estimated 4 million to 6
million Muslims make up between 6 percent and 10 percent of the French
population.
West Germany recruited a large number of
workers from Turkey beginning in the 1960s, giving Germany one of Western
Europe's largest Muslim populations. In 1970, Turkish women living in West
Germany had more than two more children than German women. By 1996, the
difference between these two groups had fallen to one child.
Recent trends in the Netherlands tell a
similar story (see figure). The fertility gap between native-born women and
women born in predominantly Muslim Morocco and Turkey narrowed considerably
between 1990 and 2005.
Fertility
Decline in the Netherlands Among Women Born in the Netherlands, Morocco,
and Turkey, 1990 to 2005
Source: Statistics Netherlands, 2006, as cited in C.F. Westoff and T. Frejka, Population
and Development Review 33, no. 4 (2007): table 3.
Fertility levels in the countries of origin for Muslim
immigrants are reflected in different fertility rates among Muslim groups in
Europe, as immigrants often arrive with the norms of their home countries. In
Norway, the TFRs varied substantially depending on where women were born. Among
immigrant women living in Norway, Somali women had a TFR of 5.2 in 1997-1998,
compared with 4.8 for Iraqis, 3.1 for Turks, and 1.9 for Iranians. Native
Norwegian women had 1.8 children on average during the period.
But fertility has been falling in many Muslim countries in
the Middle East and Africa, which may help explain why younger Muslim women
have lower fertility than older women. In Turkey, the TFR dropped from 3.3 in
the 1985 to 1990 period to about 2.2 in 2003. Over the same span of years, the
TFR fell from 4.5 to 2.5 in Morocco, and from 5.6 to 2.1 in Iran, according to
UN estimates.
Westoff and Frejka also explored how religiousness may be
linked to higher fertility. Women who report firm adherence to their religious
beliefs and practices tend to have higher fertility than less religious women,
whether Christian or Muslim. But religiousness does not always mean higher
fertility. As the authors point out, Islam does not prohibit family planning, so
women can have small families and follow their Islamic faith. The dramatic
decline in Iran's fertility provides a recent example of how strict Islamic
practices can coexist with widespread use of family planning.
Charles F. Westoff and Tomas Frejka, "Religiousness and
Fertility Among European Muslims," Population and Development Review 33,
no. 4 (2007): 785-809.
Wikipedia claims
But what exactly are the 5, the 6 and the 7?
References. References the author thinks substantiates the
claim.
5 = "Fast-growing Islam winning converts in Western
world". CNN. Retrieved 8 February 2014.
6 = Staff (May 2007). "The List: The World’s
Fastest-Growing Religions". Foreign Policy (Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace).
7 = Guinness World Records 2003. Guinness World Records.
2003. p. 142.
So, let’s see. It seems the usual hatred for the media can
be suspended when it says something nice. What we have is a TV-Channel, a CNN Egypt
correspondent, who is covering the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, the hajj, and
simply claims that Islam is growing. Why? What is the underlying data? Well,
they are winning converts and many mosques were built in the US in the last 12
years. Well done, good to know. But what if the Muslims in the US didn’t have
so many mosques and are now catching up, creating a boom in mosque building. Is
this a serious indicator? Hardly. How many converts? No clue. Haw many mosques?
No clue. What is the value of this reference in the Wikipedia article? No clue.
“While various Muslim sources claim that Islam is the
fastest growing religion in Russia and that ethnic Russians are converting to
Islam in large numbers, Roman Silantyev, the executive secretary of the
Interreligious Council of Russia denounces this as a myth.”
This article was on Wikipedia under Islam in Russia.
It was replaced by Muslim propaganda.
Maybe the next one is based on hard facts and not some arbitrary
output of irrelevant words.
It’s the Foreign Policy. The what? A blog on US foreign
policy. OK, not quite a blog, but a serious group of people bringing out
serious stuff, especially since it was bought by the Washington Post company. I
would count this as a serious source. But now, what are they like when it does
NOT cover politics, but religions. Well, they estimate, just like anyone else.
This was done in 2007, 7 years ago, when less data was available. Their data
and the subsequent estimates is based on birthrates, where they assume a child
will be the same religion as is prevalent in the region.
It’s an assumption, but an outdated one. Today we know that
society shapes young people and non-religious influences are strong. Too strong
for many.
Now for the 3rd one, a real database for once?
No. The Guinness Book of Records. A fun book, but hardly a serious source.
Muslims are getting desperate it seems.
They must really see the state of their belief, an ideology
rather than a religion, as a high risk situation. They are putting out the most
remarkable nonsense, ranging from non-existent scientific miracles via
non-existent literary miracles in their Koran all the way to non-existent
morality claims in their texts. The final, desperate and futile attempt, is a stab
at making Muslims living 1000 years ago seem as though they were significant
contributors towards scientific development.
So what is the last reference saying about the growth of
numbers of people believing in the Islamic god? I only found an Islamic site
and could not access the book itself.
“In the period 1990-2000, approximately 12.5 million more
people converted to Islam than to Christianity” (Guinness World Records 2003,
pg 102)"
That’s all. Not more than that. A number. No region, no
explanation, no criteria, no basis.
Christianity, as we all know, has never lost more members
than in the last decade. What if they lost 15 million and Islam gained 12.5
million more than Christianity? We then have -15 + 12.5 is a net loss of 2.5
million. You can’t make this up.
US Christians
they mostly left organized religion entirely and became
secularists, or "spiritual but not religious" or simply unaffiliated.
Since World War II, this same process had been observed in other countries,
like the U.K., other European countries, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.
When I looked at a Pew report, Pew
Forum on Religion & Public Life, I found they make their findings and
reports look respectable. They provide the questions, who was asked what
question, the demographics and their sources, everything noted meticulously and
accurately – but – garbage in, garbage out can’t be beaten. If you ask A US
citizen whether they pray, it is considered a virtue, so more will say yes,
they pray. What if prayer was considered a vice? What if the question was along
the lines of: do you pray to Neptune? I predict the result would be different.
So Pew reports are based on speculation, estimates, calculations, assumptions
and guesswork.
Religion is not scientifically
quantifiable, so leave it.
In the US, American Religious
Identification Survey, ARIS, gave Non-Religious groups the largest gain in
terms of absolute numbers
But then, so is UFOlogy
Saudi Abdullah al-Qasemi: “The occupation of our brains by
gods is the worst form of occupation”
Kuwaiti scholar Ahmed al-Baghdadi: “Is there no end to this
backwardness?” And the “I do not want my son to learn from ignoramuses who
teach him to disrespect women and non-Muslims” he continued.
Although accurate figures on the number of atheists in the
Gulf are nearly impossible to come by, a 2012 poll by WIN-Gallup International
titled “Global Index of Religiosity and Atheism” published a surprising number
of self-professed Saudi atheists. The researchers found that up to 5% of the
Saudi respondents declared themselves to be atheist, a figure comparable to the
United States and parts of Europe.
Going to the main page on Islam on Wikipedia, I see the same
claim repeated. Looking at the sources I see the same as I’ve already dismissed
as irrelevant, this one is much the same, where USNews provides an overview
showing what Islam is and makes a claim without data or evidence. So the
sources Muslims provide are not sources but mere articles to fool the Wikipedia
administrators that they are following the guidelines and are providing
footnotes with links. Nobody ever checks them.
I’ve shown before to what horrific and unbelievable extent
Wikipedia is abused by Muslims as a propaganda vehicle and nobody can stop
them, due to their numbers and unlimited funding, where some Muslims spend 12
hours a day on Wikipedia, falsifying entries on Islam.
There is hope that modern Muslims will either dump their
antiquated beliefs and remain cultural Muslims or become NewAgeMuslims, where
hate and intolerance have been replaced with compassion and humanist support.
What if I search for the opposite? Entering “leaving Islam”
results in millions of pages all dedicated to helping Muslims who are in doubt
or have abandoned their faith in handling their void and dealing with the loss
of their spiritual crutch and the daily rituals.
It demonstrates that Muslims are leaving Islam – even though
it is forbidden and carries the death penalty in some regions. Denouncing Islam
is also illegal and in a country like Pakistan, blasphemy is punishable by
death. Countless bloggers or simply people who doubted the existence of gods
are in jails and have been executed, which means that being a non-Muslim in
some regions is virtually impossible.
Due to the harsh punishments for Muslims criticising their
ideology I suspect there are far more atheist Muslims than we know of. These
are people who pretend they are still Muslims and go with the flow to not
attract attention, but are inwardly anything convinced that the rituals they
are mechanically performing, like throwing pebbles at a rock, pretending they
are stoning the devil, really impact their bonus points with one of the gods.
Islam
is shrinking and believers are leaving by the millions.
Sources:
Muslim statistics
Fastest Growing Christianity
Pew Forum
Dr Ilyas Ba-Yunus is the Emeritus Professor of Sociology in
the State University of New York at Cortland, and has been involved in
estimating the number of Muslims in the United States and says that 75% of new
Muslim Converts in the US leave Islam within a few years!.
Personal Values
More and more atheists in Muslim majority countries
Intellectual Muslim blog
Iran Muslims not attending mosques
Muslims need to reflect why so many millions of us are leaving
Islam
Millions Are Leaving Islam Every Year
In Africa Alone Everyday
ISLAM FORBIDS MUSLIMS FROM LEAVING ISLAM, YET MORE AND MORE
MUSLIMS HAVE LEFT ISLAM
Muslims Leaving Islam in Droves
WHY millions are leaving ISLAM
2 Million People In Indonesia Leave Islam For Christianity
Every Year
2,000,000 people left Islam Vs 2,000-5000 people embrace
Islam
2 million ethnic Muslims in Russia leave islam:
http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=513
in every year 6 million African muslims convert to Christianity or Atheisam .
http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=513
in every year 6 million African muslims convert to Christianity or Atheisam .
http://www.aljazeera.net/programs/shareea/articles/2000/12/12-12-6.htm
For English Translation : http://www.formermuslims.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=972
For English Translation : http://www.formermuslims.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=972
Muslim Preachers, Dawa Missionaries, Islamic Scholars,
Mullahs, Imams Leave Islam and Enter Christianity.
http://www.faithfreedom.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17499
http://www.faithfreedom.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17499
50,000 Iranian Muslims have embraced Christianity in Iran
in last 2 years
http://www.iam-online.net/Press_release_PDFs/IAMTVrelease_FINAL.doc%20(Read-Only).pdf
http://www.iam-online.net/Press_release_PDFs/IAMTVrelease_FINAL.doc%20(Read-Only).pdf
250,000 Muslims left Islam in Malaysia,100000 became
christians
http://www.harakahdaily.net/v06/index.php?optionfiltered=com_content&task=view%20&id=791&Itemid=28
For English : http://www.faithfreedom.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=356823#356823
http://www.harakahdaily.net/v06/index.php?optionfiltered=com_content&task=view%20&id=791&Itemid=28
For English : http://www.faithfreedom.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=356823#356823
10,000 Frech Muslims converted to Christianity in last
years,
http://alonzo-95.skyblog.com/
For English : http://www.faithfreedom.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=251560#251560
http://alonzo-95.skyblog.com/
For English : http://www.faithfreedom.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=251560#251560
Thousands of Kashmiri Muslims leave Islam and Convert to
Christianity !
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2002/010/12.26.html
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2002/010/12.26.html
Thousands of Bangladeshi, North African, Kashmiri, Indian
Muslims, Central Asian Muslims Leave Islam and Embrace Christ.
http://www.youtharise.com/index.php?option=articles&task=viewarticle&artid=994
http://www.youtharise.com/index.php?option=articles&task=viewarticle&artid=994
Some 35,000 Turks converted from Islam to Christianity
last year
http://www.beliefnet.com/story/139/story_13903_1.html
http://www.beliefnet.com/story/139/story_13903_1.html
Kyrgyzstan : 100,000 Muslims have converted to
Christianity in 3 Years !
http://www.persecution.org/newsite/countrynewssumm.php?country=Kyrgyzstan&PHPSESSID=df81b650d93475f5d699815c7f7da5ad#
http://www.persecution.org/newsite/countrynewssumm.php?country=Kyrgyzstan&PHPSESSID=df81b650d93475f5d699815c7f7da5ad#
Indonesia :
"According to A.T. Willis and others between 2 or 3 million Muslims converted to Christianity after the massacres of the communists in Indonesia, in 1965"
http://www.secularislam.org/humanrights/compatible.htm
"Catholic officials stated that approximately 10,000 Muslims convert to Catholicism each year. "
http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2003/23829.htm
"According to A.T. Willis and others between 2 or 3 million Muslims converted to Christianity after the massacres of the communists in Indonesia, in 1965"
http://www.secularislam.org/humanrights/compatible.htm
"Catholic officials stated that approximately 10,000 Muslims convert to Catholicism each year. "
http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2003/23829.htm
The World’s Religions in Figures: An Introduction to International
Religious Demography
First Edition. Todd M. Johnson and Brian J. Grim.
© 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Published 2013 by John Wiley &
Sons, Ltd.
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Muslim Scholar Leaves Islam
Pew Forum
"Statistical data on conversion to and from Islam are
scarce. What little information is available suggests that there is no
substantial net gain or loss in the number of Muslims through conversion
globally; the number of people who become Muslims through conversion seems
roughly equal to the number of Muslims who leave the faith. As a result, this
report does not include any estimated future rate of conversions as a direct
factor in the projections of Muslim population growth."[66] The growth of Islam
from 2010 to 2020 has been estimated at 1.70%[63] due to high birthrates in
Asia, the Middle East, and Europe.
