Why are millions of muslims converting into atheism? Is Islam so meaningless?
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Because they have found that Allah is a false God.
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Islam grows rapidly because people in Muslim nations are forced to convert or die.
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I am afraid you will not find good data on this. In many countries you are forced to be islamic. If you don't convert you will be killed. Hear of Dar fur? This is not across the board but it is huge. Many people are disowned by their families if they leave. Here is a link to one guy I know left Isam.
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because i was born muslim and Allah made me a muslim because i had already chosen to die as a muslim. I have been trying to find my purpose in life without Islam, but once i looked at Islam again I understood everything. I have looked up many other religions, but Islam is the best.\nI just heard Puerto Rican convert yesterday giving a speech on how he converted to Islam and Islam makes humans more humanly. we keep clean, we worship Allah five times a day even though sometimes we don't want to, we eat and dress properly, etc.\nhe also said the truth hurts sometimes. i think he meant that almost everyone wants to sleep during Fajr (morning salaat), but once you think about it you might want to pray more.
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I converted for many reasons: \nThere is no class in Islam, everyone is equal \nThere is only one book, never transformed, nor changed\nThere is only one God, no associates, u do not need a priest or the pastor to ask for forgiveness, its done directly to God. \nAs I read the Quran everything made sense, its so clear and teaches a person how to live peacefully. \nWomen have tremendous amount of rights. God dedicated a whole chapter in the Quran to women. \nIm also a science major and ever since i read the quran and the science discussed in it i automactially converted. The Science in the Quran proves it is the truth!
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In Islam no, not even in public. But what you see and hear about is not islam. Islam has become extinct. I am deeply sorry to say that.
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Good question, Muslimah!! I, for one, am also curious.\n\nBut here's my $0.02... people are intimidated by dissenters. They are fearful of those who do not share their faith, and even those who laugh at it.
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PROVING THE EXISTENCE OF ALLAH (SWT)TO AN ATHEIST\n\nby \n\nDr. Zakir Naik\n\n \nCONGRATULATING AN ATHEIST \n\nNormally, when I meet an atheist, the first thing I like to do is to congratulate him and say, " My special congratulations to you", because most of the people who believe in God are doing blind belief - he is a Christian, because his father is a Christian; he is a Hindu, because his father is a Hindu; the majority of the people in the world are blindly following the religion of their fathers. An atheist, on the other hand, even though he may belong to a religious family, uses his intellect to deny the existence of God; what ever concept or qualities of God he may have learnt in his religion may not seem to be logical to him. \n\nMy Muslim brothers may question me, "Zakir, why are you congratulating an atheist?" The reason that I am congratulating an atheist is because he agrees with the first part of the Shahada i.e. the Islamic Creed, ‘La ilaaha’ - meaning ‘there is no God’. So half my job is already done; now the only part left is ‘il lallah’ i.e. ‘BUT ALLAH’ which I shall do Insha Allah. With others (who are not atheists) I have to first remove from their minds the wrong concept of God they may have and then put the correct concept of one true God.\n \nLOGICAL CONCEPT OF GOD \n\nMy first question to the atheist will be: "What is the definition of God?" For a person to say there is no God, he should know what is the meaning of God. If I hold a book and say that ‘this is a pen’, for the opposite person to say, ‘it is not a pen’, he should know what is the definition of a pen, even if he does not know nor is able to recognise or identify the object I am holding in my hand. For him to say this is not a pen, he should at least know what a pen means. Similarly for an atheist to say ‘there is no God’, he should at least know the concept of God. His concept of God would be derived from the surroundings in which he lives. The god that a large number of people worship has got human qualities - therefore he does not believe in such a god. Similarly a Muslim too does not and should not believe in such false gods.\n\nIf a non-Muslim believes that Islam is a merciless religion with something to do with terrorism; a religion which does not give rights to women; a religion which contradicts science; in his limited sense that non-Muslim is correct to reject such Islam. The problem is he has a wrong picture of Islam. Even I reject such a false picture of Islam, but at the same time, it becomes my duty as a Muslim to present the correct picture of Islam to that non-Muslim i.e. Islam is a merciful religion, it gives equal rights to the women, it is not incompatible with logic, reason and science; if I present the correct facts about Islam, that non-Muslim may Inshallah accept Islam.\n\nSimilarly the atheist rejects the false gods and the duty of every Muslim is to present the correct concept of God which he shall Insha Allah not refuse. \n\n(You may refer to my article, ‘Concept of God in Islam’, for more details)\n \n\nQUR’AN AND MODERN SCIENCE \n\nThe methods of proving the existence of God with usage of the material provided in the ‘Concept of God in Islam’ to an atheist may satisfy some but not all. \n\nMany atheists demand a scientific proof for the existence of God. I agree that today is the age of science and technology. Let us use scientific knowledge to kill two birds with one stone, i.e. to prove the existence of God and simultaneously prove that the Qur’an is a revelation of God.\n\nIf a new object or a machine, which no one in the world has ever seen or heard of before, is shown to an atheist or any person and then a question is asked, " Who is the first person who will be able to provide details of the mechanism of this unknown object? After little bit of thinking, he will reply, ‘the creator of that object.’ Some may say ‘the producer’ wh
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Your question alone shows me that you have no idea what Islam is.  Let me put a question to you have you ever read the Holy Quran?  I know the answer is NO.  My friend read it before you talk or atleast visit my site to get some basics about Islam.  http://askmuslims.com\n\nHope to hear from you.  E-mail me....
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actually if you count the registered christian, they are more than Muslims. if you take away the atheist from the christian born people or you just check if they believe it. then it will not be more than 20% of the total Christians. Islam is the most populated religion and it stays.\n\nI liked Islam and i respected its great knowledge same as Christianity, but i used to hate both of them as the media tries to make us atheist. also, i may convert to Judaism as it is the only religion whom the media brightens sooo much.
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Not interested.\n\nHindus keep on converting all the time. For various reasons. A large number converted to other religions in liue of money , power or to stay alive that is on the point of a sword or gun.\n\nYet again Hinduism gives too much freedom and not many people even read there scriptures or books. They have little or superfecial knowledge about there own philosophies. Many know only what they read in popular media , which in turn is often propogated by non Hindu Proselytisers.In India the History we read today was written by British(evangelicals) and then communists. Both have their own ideological mission and work with an intent to advanmce there own beliefs.  So they overemphasise negatives and conviniently ignore counter arguments.  Hindus get education in these very schools. So they are taught these tghings only. Few people study on their own and analyse and see the other side of story.\n\nSuch people are unable to to answer questions put by missineries of non Hindu religion as the proselytisers have done there home work already. Something which never occured to Hindu. So they convert out of proper education and knowledge of Hinduism.\n\nYet again some Hindus convert to christianity as a "fashion ". After all it is the religion of a successfull community today. They think they are identifing themselves with winners. \n\nConversion to Islam is mostly for purpose of Marriage. Islam allows 4 marriages and divorce easy for men. Secondly Muslims have a tendency to get Hindu GF. And  if not before after marriage, they have to convert sooner or later.\n\nAnd Off course nobody is given death punishment for converting out of Hinduism.
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it's sad how they succeed to destroy the image of this beautiful religion Islam. muslims are victims of this nasty game. and it's obvious from reading people comments such as (reward 12 virgins for the suicides) that they just know so much little. they didn't know that all Muslims scholars condemn theses terrorists activities but for some reason they don't receive any news about that here. Islam forbid killing Innocent people, Islam forbid killing your own self and Muhammad warned the Muslim world from being extremist and he said three times:\n "those who are extremist are going down"\n\nJesus talked about the comforter, and they claimed it's the holy spirit. comforter was refer to Muhammad the comming prophet who will complete the message of God and He is the last of all the prophets. \n\nand the Quran is a big evidence of the real God. but some will aruge about Islam without even discover Islam. what if Islam was true and Muhammad was a true prophet?
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I can state the facts that:\n\nI have seen the practice of killing the converts done in\nmy country.\n(to the very least, usually they were shunned by the society as the outcast)\n \nBut, whether it is truly an islamic thing to do or not, i don't really know.\n\nAnd Nikki, i think you need to get out of your room and open your eyes to the world, dear.\nThere are many that converts from Islam to other religions and happy with it as much as those from other religions that converts to Islam.\n\nNot acknowledging it is just trying to escape from the reality.
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Muslims don't care and are not interested in truth.\n\nFunny story; http://homelessheart.com/three_men.htm
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I believe many Muslims are Muslim because of where they live and what their friends and neighbors are. If they were Christians, which I believe many think seriously about at some time in their life, they would be persecuted if they changed. The Bible says this will happen to many Christians and they don't wish to be the ones it happens to. I seriously think a great number of Muslims would convert to Christianity if they could do it safely. Most know the true religion and probably secretly are believers of Jesus.
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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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fundamentally to procreate, but intellectually to make this place better for our children, and our neighbours. did you know that a Muslim must give a certain percent of there earnings to charity. that my friend is better than just having faith. If you believe in God, then do something forwarding thinking. \n\nI guess to make a less selfish world. Corney but hey, better than waiting to die blah blah