What is the motivation behind procelytism for Muslims ?
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The same idea of missionizing for any faith, to validate one's own beliefs by seeing others come to it; to increase numbers which increases influence and strength in one's society; to save others from believing what is simply, from their perspective, wrong.\n\nWhich is why we Jews ought to be missionizing, as we were commanded to do by Gd. See Psalm 96 for one example....
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As I understand it islam states that the 'infidel' shall meet their fate at the hands of allah after death. The encouragement of violence towards them is a relatively recent thing created by extremist elements who have broken away from true islam. If islam is correct, then it is these extremists who will be judged most harshly by their god for choosing not to disbelieve, but to change the teachings of the koran to suit their own twisted desires.
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I guess they think they will get more cookies at snack time for the more people they recruit.  But they aren't the only ones.  I keep getting recruitment letters from  Muslims as well, 'trying to make me understand'.  HA!  Not happening and I tell them that.  It just seems like Christians do it most because, especially in the US, they have the most followers.  I don't think they really realize they are just driving us further away.
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If muslims are leaving their faith could it be because of the following:\n\nThe Qur'an tells muslims to kill and go to war to fight for Islam:  Quran, chapters (Surahs) 9:5; 2:191; 2:193; 3:118; 4:75,76; 5:33, 8:12; 8:65; 9:73,123; 33:60-62.  \nFight for Allah:  "And kill them wherever you find them, and drive them out from whence they drove you out, and persecution is severer than slaughter, and do not fight with them at the Sacred Mosque until they fight with you in it, but if they do fight you, then slay them; such is the recompense of the unbelievers, (Quran 2:191). \nMuslims are to battle for Allah:  "Those who believe do battle for the cause of Allah; and those who disbelieve do battle for the cause of idols. So fight the minions of the devil. Lo! the devil's strategy is ever weak," (Quran 4:76). \nKill those against Islam:  "The only reward of those who make war upon Allah and His messenger and strive after corruption in the land will be that they will be killed or crucified, or have their hands and feet on alternate sides cut off, or will be expelled out of the land. Such will be their degradation in the world, and in the Hereafter," (Quran 5:33). \nBeheading:  "When thy Lord inspired the angels, (saying): I am with you. So make those who believe stand firm. I will throw fear into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Then smite the necks and smite of them each finger. 13That is because they opposed Allah and His messenger. Whoso opposeth Allah and His messenger, (for him) lo! Allah is severe in punishment," (Quran 8:12). \nAllah urges war:  "O Prophet! urge the believers to war; if there are twenty patient ones of you they shall overcome two hundred, and if there are a hundred of you they shall overcome a thousand of those who disbelieve, because they are a people who do not understand," (Quran 8:65). \nSlay non-muslims:  "Then, when the sacred months have passed, slay the idolaters wherever ye find them, and take them (captive), and besiege them, and prepare for them each ambush. But if they repent and establish worship and pay the poor-due, then leave their way free. Lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful," (Quran 9:5). \nAllah urges war:  "O Prophet! strive hard against the unbelievers and the hypocrites and be unyielding to them; and their abode is hell, and evil is the destination," (Quran 9:73). \nAllah urges war:  "O you who believe! fight those of the unbelievers who are near to you and let them find in you hardness; and know that Allah is with those who guard (against evil)," (Quran 9:123). \nAllah urges killing: "...the hypocrites and those in whose hearts is a disease and the agitators in the city do not desist... 61Cursed: wherever they are found they shall be seized and murdered, a (horrible) murdering. 62(Such has been) the course of Allah with respect to those who have gone before; and you shall not find any change in the course of Allah, (Quran 33:60-62). \nBeheading:  "Now when ye meet in battle those who disbelieve, then it is smiting of the necks until, when ye have routed them, then making fast of bonds; and afterward either grace or ransom till the war lay down its burdens..." (Quran 47:4). \nAllah loves those who fight for him.  "Truly Allah loves those who fight in His Cause in battle array, as if they were a solid cemented structure," (Quran 61:4).
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A very good question. I'd also like to hear answers to this from Muslims, PLEASE.
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The real reasons seem to go back to the days of the Crusades and following invasion of Europe by Muslims.\nChristians and Muslims have been at each other's throats for centuries.  All in the name of God or Allah as the case may be.
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life is small enjoyment and it will end soon , so life is intended for the people to worship ALLAH and then all the people will go to judgment day and they will be distributed to hell or heaven according to their performance in the world.so you have got time to benefit and do good things while you are in the world.
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Because those who chose the right path and peaceful living chose to remain silent and doesn't brag how religious, kind, knowledgeable and philanthropic they are.  They continously pray to Allah for world peace and submit completely to the will of Allah.  True Islam is not about war, chaos, extremism and suicide bombings.  If people could only see how beautiful the religion is.  I am a Christian woman with a Muslim husband.  I deeply honor and love my husband because what I expected before we got married was totally wrong.  I used to think what other non-Muslims think of right now and afraid of being a first, second and so on wife, but since I lived with my husband I discovered a whole new and beautiful way of life.  I discovered that Muslims are like Christians, there are good and bad ones.  But what I admire most in the religion is the value of modesty.  Yes, those who live in a true Islam way are modest people.  They don't show how powerful they are by showing how to kill people and presenting the latest bombing technique just what the extremist is doing.  Instead, they show how powerful their faith is and how mighty God is.  They also show how patient they are by remaining modest and silent through generations inspite of the not so good things thrown upon them everyday.  I am still a Christian because my husband doesn't force me to be a Muslima.  He understands how hard for me to convert in a religion that I never grew up with.  I would also want to say that not all Muslims have many wives.  It's still a personal decision, there are those, like my husband, chose to stick to one.  Having many wives is just like Christians who has one wife but has 40 concubines.  The only difference is Muslims make all of their women their wives not just mistresses.
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:}\nModesty is one selling point for Islam and lack of it, the shame of Christian and Jewish people. However it's the peoples shame not God's for Jewish and Christian scripture teach modesty
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The reason for life is to live for God all the way. Or if your asking why are we here, then I'll have to research that one.
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We defend our needs and ideals against those who would take them away.\nIf muslims want to take the lives of my countrymen or my nations allies then we must destroy them before they destroy us.\n\nFreedom isnt free.
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I think it is religious in nature.  Not being preduice at all.  i think that the muslin religion is to conquer the "non belivers" and they are following their religion.  Not saying it is right but that is the cause.
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Giving Dawah !!!\n\nHaving lots of non- muslim friends that you can teach Islam to :-)\n\nSpreading Islam promoting a good image of muslims that is the way
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Thank you for your question. \n\nI could write so much on how Islam has changed my life and how I feel inside my heart about Islam. But I will keep it short and sweet.\n\nIslam has made me a better person and brought me out of major sin. I am not going to go into what I was like before Islam, but I can say I was not going down a good path.\n\nEverything we do day in and day out is for Allah(God). From worship to our daily routine. I now have a reason to live a reason to be happy even when life is hard. \n\nIt has giving my life purpose and a feeling of peace. \n\nIslam is my salvation, and my reward, inshaAllah(God willing) will be paradise.
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:{\nit is taught in lieu of evangelism to spread Islam
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Islam gives lot of importance for logical reasoning. There are lot of verses that asks the believer to think deeply.\n\n"And pursue not that of which you has no knowledge; for every act of hearing, or of seeing or of (feeling in) the heart will be enquired into (on the Day of Reckoning)." 17:36\n\n"Will they then not meditate on the Qur'an, or are there locks on the hearts?"  47: 24.
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correcting the first poster, Islam means submission (to God).\nIsalm, like other Judeo-Christian religious sects has the precept'thou shalt not kill', read up on th efive pillars of Islam, proper muslims give a tenth of all the own to charity, more than most ppl. However, Muslim from the beginning had an agressive edge to it as it mixed with the local religions (why theres genies and stuff there, traditional Persian stuff got mixed in) and its this desire to convert that made it spread so far in the first place (from middle east all across north africa and to India in a remarkably short time). \nPeaceful? perhaps, expansionist? definitely, but then what religion doesnt want to expand?