Why is Islam the spreading so quickly in the US and the rest of the west?
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Some people in the US and Europe are influenced by these people. This shouldn't happen. Islam is not always good. The people who believe in it try to exaggerate over some issues. I think they need to know that sometimes what they do and say make no sense at all.
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i wud like ya to tell...that read both scriptures..Bible and Quran..n decide...which one is best......\n\nto know about islam ... ya can add me .. afrasiyabk@yahoo.com \n\nIslam is a Semitic religion, which has over one billion adherents all over the world. Islam means "submission to the will of God". Muslims accept the Qur’an, as the word of God revealed to His last and final prophet, Mohammed (peace be upon him). Islam states that Allah sent messengers and prophets throughout the ages with the message of Unity of God, and accountability in the Hereafter. Islam thus makes it an article of faith to believe in all the earlier prophets, starting with Adam, and continuing with Noah, Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, David, John and Jesus amongst many others (may peace be on them all).\n\nISLAM IS THE FASTEST GROWING RELIGION OF THE WORLD.\n\nAccording to the statistics of USA.more then 400 pple accept Islam every day..in USA.....and the growth increased after 9/11...do u know why? read Qu'ran with understanding.....after 9/11 ..when media started misrepresent islam...pple started to learn about Islam...and they read scriptures , hadiths etc...which they found a true religion ....thats why Islam is the fastest growing religion....\n\n\nPEACE.
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The beautiful thing about Islam is, that it is the fastest growing religion in the world and we don't even have to beg for it.
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Living in america u only get to hear one side of the story. the people over there r pissed off. what wud u do if some other country came into america n told u how to live ur life n run ur country? i am a muslim n lemme tell u, "terrorism" is not part of islam. islam literally means peace. the "terrorists" r a small group of idiots that believe they r true muslilms but all they do is give the rest of the muslims a very bad name. jus like the other guy that answered u was sayin how islamic countries do terrorise the world. this fool's obviously ignorant to the topic. just do some research goin bak to the late 70's early 80's. you'll see y osama bin laden is so pissed off at us... hope that helps... peace
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Islam had nothing to do with the sept.11 issue.\n\nIslam is a world religion founded by the Prophet Muhammad. Founded in the 7th cent., Islam is the youngest of the three monotheistic world religions (with Judaism and Christianity). An adherent to Islam is a Muslim [Arab.,=one who submits].\n\nBelievers Worldwide\n\nThere are more than 1 billion Muslims worldwide, fewer than one fifth of whom are Arab. Islam is the principal religion of much of Asia, including Indonesia (which has the world's largest Muslim population), Malaysia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, the Arabian Peninsula states, and Turkey. India also has one of the world's largest Muslim populations, although Islam is not the principal religion there. In Africa, Islam is the principal religion in Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia, Djibouti, Gambia, Guinea, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Senegal, Somalia, and Sudan, with sizable populations also in Chad, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Tanzania (where the island of Zanzibar is predominantly Muslim), and Nigeria.\n\nIn Europe, Albania is predominantly Muslim, and, historically, Bulgaria, Bosnia, Macedonia, and Georgia have had Muslim populations. Elsewhere in Europe, immigrant communities of Muslims from N Africa, Turkey, and Asia exist in France, Germany, and Great Britain. In the Americas the Islamic population has substantially increased in recent years, both from conversions and the immigration of adherents from other parts of the world. In the United States, the number of Muslims has been variably estimated at 2—6 million; 20% of the population of Suriname is Muslim.\n\nIslamic Beliefs\n\nAt the core of Islam is the Qur'an, believed to be the final revelation by a transcendent Allah [Arab.,=the God] to Muhammad, the Prophet of Islam; since the Divine Word was revealed in Arabic, this language is used in Islamic religious practice worldwide. Muslims believe in final reward and punishment, and the unity of the umma, the "nation" of Islam. Muslims submit to Allah through arkan ad-din, the five basic requirements or "pillars" : shahadah, the affirmation that "there is no god but God, and Muhammad is the Messenger of God" ; salah, the five daily ritual prayers (see liturgy, Islamic); zakat, the giving of alms, also known as a religious tax; Sawm, the dawn-to-sunset fast during the lunar month of Ramadan; and hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca. The importance of the hajj can hardly be overestimated: this great annual pilgrimage unites Islam and its believers from around the world.\n\nThe ethos of Islam is in its attitude toward Allah: to His will Muslims submit; Him they praise and glorify; and in Him alone they hope. However, in popular or folk forms of Islam, Muslims ask intercession of the saints, prophets, and angels, while preserving the distinction between Creator and creature. Islam views the Message of Muhammad as the continuation and the fulfillment of a lineage of Prophecy that includes figures from the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament, notably Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, and Jesus. Islamic law reserves a communal entity status for the ahl al-kitab, People of the Book, i.e., those with revealed religions, including Jews and Christians. Islam also recognizes a number of extra-biblical prophets, such as Hud, Salih, Shuayb, and others of more obscure origin. The chief angels are Gabriel and Michael; devils are the evil jinn.\n\nOther Islamic obligations include the duty to "commend good and reprimand evil," injunctions against usury and gambling, and prohibitions of alcohol and pork. Meat is permitted if the animal was ritually slaughtered; it is then called halal. Jihad, the exertion of efforts for the cause of God, is a duty satisfied at the communal and the individual level. At the individual level, it denotes the personal struggle to be righteous a
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I notice that Muslims in the West are more naive and believing. Many of them are either extremely religious or liberal. Many of them would study the history of Islam, and the Life of the Prophet Muhammad, amongst many Islamic resources, as they progress, or before they convert.\nThey focus less on the rituals (like which foot goes into the bathroom, which side is better to sleep on etc, more on theoratical and scholarly side.)\nHowever, Muslims in Asia are in both extremes. Extremely religious, or extremely non-religious. Many of the non-religious people don't even know their own religion at all, they're only born Muslim.\nMany are rather moderate and practice their religion so personally you'd never know they were really muslims, even if the women in the family wore headscarfs.\nMany are nice, ordinary people.\n\nHowever, they focus more on the "physical", the rituals, less on the history, mostly by route memorization of specific texts and verses picked here and there rather than knowing the full meaning and verse, sentence, paragraph or origin of the text. This could be because they were born Muslim and many have read the Qu'ran by memorization only.\n\nThis isn't counting the extreme-thought Muslims who are holier-than-thou with their attitudes but still sleep around and drink alcohol - like my Saudi friend.
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Maybe coz then the western people would come to know of the united strength of Muslims and the western powers fear the ideal system of governance Caliphate has to offer. In addition, I think the western powers are afraid that the negative impressions they have spread about Islam would vanish from Western people's hearts when they see an ideal and just government system.
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Islam at 1.1 Billion members.
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Islam is a religion not a culture. But it is hard to separated them in many middle east countries.
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I dont know where you got your data, but I will answer on the part of ramifications..\n\n\nSomeday soon, you might wake up to the call to prayer from a muezzin. Europeans already are. \n\nAnd liberals will still tell you that "diversity is our strength"—while Talibanic enforcers cruise Greenwich Village burning books and barber shops, the Supreme Court decides sharia law doesn’t violate the "separation of church and state," and the Hollywood Left decides to give up on gay rights in favor of the much safer charms of polygamy. \n\nIf you think this can’t happen, you haven’t been paying attention to demographics. All one has to do is watch and see what is going on in Europe, & Australia and much of the pacific rim. A radical Islam wave is changing the way the rest of those populations conduct law, and the freedoms they would otherwise enjoy.\n\nThe future, belongs to the fecund and the confident. And the Islamists are both, while the West—wedded to a multiculturalism that undercuts its own confidence, a welfare state that nudges it toward sloth and self-indulgence, and a childlessness that consigns it to oblivion—is looking ever more like the ruins of a civilization. \n\nIn the ongoing conflict between the West and Islam, both the demographics and the will to power favor the Islamists. That a country like Spain for example, with a birth rate of 1.15 children per adult women, will extinguish itself in a few generations, while immigrants from countries such as Pakistan (birth rate 4.53) will move in to fill the vacuum. \n\nToday an aggressive, unassimilated minority edges closer to a majority (as in France, with an estimated 30% Muslim population in the under 20 age group), the character of the democratic institutions will become more closely aligned with Islamic law and culture.
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Islam. and its growing mostly in Europa and America.
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Something to consider about Islam is that they lack any central leadership, unlike Christianity.  When people are looking for a blanket Christian statement, they typically look to the Catholic church, as it is the most organized.  Islam is far more factionalized.\n\nI admit that the muslim mainstream hasn't responded quite in the way that I had hoped.  It seems that non-american, or at least non-western muslims are curiously silent when islamic terrorists strike against the west and it's interests abroad.  Some, like Pakistan in 2001, rejoiced at it.  \n\nIt's difficult to make any broad assertions regarding Islam, because you risk alienating the few who do have respect for the west, and christianity.  It is perhaps up to these few to provide the extinction of the terrorist mindset that for some reason inflames much of the middle east:  That Israel needs to be destroyed, and the West represents pure evil.\n\nRegarding democrats, I think the party has been misled by people like Michael Moore.  I get the idea that if he had been born in Saudi Arabia, it would've been he who piloted one of the jets on 911.\n\nActors, for some reason, become successful and therefore feel entitled to be political analysts.  Of course, we all have the right to protest, but they take it too far.  The media is the most powerful mover of minds of our time, and they weild it like a nuclear weapon.\n\nI believe firmly that whatever the Right's faults, they've got an innate advantage over the Left, in that they cater more to national security than civil liberties, and with good reason.  With terrorists eternally seeking our destruction, there need to be some sacrifices to our ultimate endurance.
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wow! where to start, Islam is a violent religion, yes folks I have read the Koran and read alot of the Hadith...so I'm not assuming or getting my information from the news. Once you read the hadiths and see the life that the prophet lived so you will understand where all the violence comes from. I can stay here and type for hours quoting the Hadiths and the slaughters that have been penned down by it's writers. It's true, sometimes we have to read it ourselves to believe it. as to why they are converting so quickly...many factors can be brought in to play...an example of one would be the birth rate of muslims...american muslim birthrate is about 4.5 children per couple compared to 1.9 for the non muslim american. But anyways, what does that mean? truth is revealed by size? it was not so in the days of Noah neither was it so in Sodom and Gomorrha.\n\nHadith link below
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I don't think so.Terrorism based on religion used to be a lot worse in the past(think of what was happening in Europe in Medeaval times).It's just that we feel more secure now from other things and that's why we think this kind of terrorism is increasing.
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I have a lot of very good muslim friends...so I am not at all against Islam...but bad muslim only. But with concern, their numbers seem to be increasing rather rapidly nowdays.
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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?
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EVERYTHING HAS ITS LIMITS AND WHAT ELSE THAN THE TRUEST RELIGION ON EARTH THE ISLAM KNOWS THESE LIMITS.....WHAT U CALL AS TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIAL ADVANCEMENT IS NOTHING ELSE THAN TOTAL RUIN.......ITS MAKING WEST HEAD TOWARDS TOTAL DEVASTATION AND NOTHING ELSE...........BE AWARE DEAR