03 July 2014

Islam is Shrinking

Islam is shrinking
(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.

Sources

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.

Reality

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.
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
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

Islam is found to be the fastest growing religion in the world.[5][6][7]

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 .

Muslim Preachers, Dawa Missionaries, Islamic Scholars, Mullahs, Imams Leave Islam and Enter Christianity.
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

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

Thousands of Kashmiri Muslims leave Islam and Convert to Christianity !
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

Some 35,000 Turks converted from Islam to Christianity last year
http://www.beliefnet.com/story/139/story_13903_1.html

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


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.

10 myths

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.



2 comments:

  1. Even if the entire humanity converts to Christianity , atheism or agnostic it won't change the fact that ISLAM is the only accepted guidance for humanity , beside the HELLFIRE BIG ENOUGH TO ACCOMMODATE ALL. Paradise is not cheap. Only small amount of humanity join the ranks of The prophet s keep on hating. Those who kneel down for their maker will stand up for anything, don't brag about ppl who convert for bread. Nor about the unstable converts who enters in and out. Islam is solid, perfect, completed,. Keep on banging your head with walls again and again or spit high to the sky it will just comes back to you. Islam doesnt need rabbish soul that lives to satisfy their whims and desire and material aspects. Islam surpasses all that.

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    1. Who cares that you need a god to get through life?
      If you choose the god of Islam you made a bad choice, that's all.

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