Fastest Growing Religion?

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Re: Fastests Growing Religion?

Ladee_Maryam said:
islam is the fastest growing religion..
there are 200 million muslims in china alone. source
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That article can make that claim but it is not true. There are not that many Muslims in China. Nor have they had a great deal of success converting people recently.

According to "The Almanac Book of Facts", the population increased 137% within the past decade, Christianity increased 46%, while Islam increased 235%.
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This is precisely the semi-urban-legend-web-based quote I started this thread over. That 235% figure usually refers to the period since 1950 or so. Let's try to source this properly and nail it down. What Almanac Book of Facts?
 
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HeiGou said:
That article can make that claim but it is not true. There are not that many Muslims in China. Nor have they had a great deal of success converting people recently.
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HeiGou said:
This is precisely the semi-urban-legend-web-based quote I started this thread over. That 235% figure usually refers to the period since 1950 or so. Let's try to source this properly and nail it down. What Almanac Book of Facts?
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I think we need your proofs too. We should get evidences from both sides instead of saying that this isn't true, or thats false etc. So if your saying that the above links aren't reliable, or aren't sufficient - then can you provide evidence to prove that please?

Its simple enough to say that its an urban legend, but just because one person says that - is that a strong enough evidence?


Peace.
 
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Fi_Sabilillah said:
I think we need your proofs too. We should get evidences from both sides instead of saying that this isn't true, or thats false etc. So if your saying that the above links aren't reliable, or aren't sufficient - then can you provide evidence to prove that please?
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From Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_China

China is home to a large population of adherents of Islam. Sources, including the BBC, suggest that there may be as many as 20 million Muslims in China, up to 2 percent of the country's 1.3 billion population. Other sources suggest Muslims in China may number up to 40 million, with new rumors saying there are 10 million more hiding.[1]​

It cites http://members.tripod.com/worldupdates/islamintheworld/id3.htm

Its simple enough to say that its an urban legend, but just because one person says that - is that a strong enough evidence?
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No. I say let's get some evidence. This figure has been floating around for a long time on many sites. Self-evidently it is not true for Christians. So I am all for finding real figures.
 
Re: Fastests Growing Religion?

Salaam,

Muslim like to think that the number of converts is increasing.
It unconsciously support the truth of Islam.

But as a counterpoint,i would like to say that Islam is Islam.
Whether there was only 1 muslim or billions,it does not affect ALLAH.

Man take pride in numbers but as the life of the Prophet shows,numbers does not mean anything,if anything it is PIETY/Submission.

So if more of mankind enter Islam thru logical reasoning and understanding,it is the BETTER for THEMSELVES...

It buffers the Ummah but not necessarily empower the Ummah.

So like i say,a person who say the shahadah is a MUSLIM as Allah say it is so.
A muslim cna act un-Islamic,but he is still a muslim.
 
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Also, allthough we are more than 1 billion we are pathetic in comparison to one companion. We truly are like the foam of the sea. Ya Allah! Make us among the Sabiqoun!
 
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muslim knight said:
Now, what's that suppose to mean?
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The great Harlot in Bible prophecy is a one world religion, that is led by the prince and the power of the air; Satan himself. This religion WILL BE DESTROYED BY THE TRUE GOD HIMSELF, and all the followers of it..
 
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Is a Muslim still a Muslim even if they do one or more of the following on a regular bases?

drink alcohol
smoke/inject/use drugs
have causal sex (with many different partners out of wedlock)
listen to music
eat pork
dont pray

(and all the other stuff the quran tells them not to)
 
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j4763 said:
Is a Muslim still a Muslim even if they do one or more of the following on a regular bases?

drink alcohol
smoke/inject/use drugs
have causal sex (with many different partners out of wedlock)
listen to music
eat pork
dont pray

(and all the other stuff the quran tells them not to)
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:sl:

How can they be a muslim if they do everything in their life that is haraam?

And Allah swt knows best.

:w:
 
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Well in that case surly the muslim count should be dropped a hell of a lot then!
Their are many people who would claim to be or classed/counted as Muslim yet do all the above things!
 
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Pagal Kuri said:
:sl:

How can they be a muslim if they do everything in their life that is haraam?

And Allah swt knows best.

:w:
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We know the press still call them Muslims...eg..suicide bombers, terrorists.

Do you think it's want of a better word?

For instance I wouldn't call a person who bombed up an abortion clinic a 'Christian' a priest who messed around with Children...but this is what they call themselves and the press will also..

But we know different!...like you know what a Muslim person should behave like and what a true Muslim is.

So what should we call these people, who use the name of their faith to do such evil things...besides Mental, Evil.

Only education I believe can help but the press do nothing at all to help this situation.
 
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Nicola said:
We know the press still call them Muslims...eg..suicide bombers, terrorists.

Do you think it's want of a better word?

For instance I wouldn't call a person who bombed up an abortion clinic a 'Christian' a priest who messed around with Children...but this is what they call themselves and the press will also..

But we know different!...like you know what a Muslim person should behave like and what a true Muslim is.

So what should we call these people, who use the name of their faith to do such evil things...besides Mental, Evil.

Only education I believe can help but the press do nothing at all to help this situation.
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may allah guide everyone for he's the only one that can help. may he save us from the evil of such people. in islam its haraam to kill urself n to kill inocent people. people who commite suicide allah knows whats in their innerself n he will judge them on the day of judgment.
salaam :)
 
Statistics on Fastest, Slowest Growing Religion

Assalam Alaikam,

I hope everyone on this board knows that when doing and calculating the statistics of the amount of muslims and christians and more religions in this world are not as accurate as you think. For instance last year, i forgot what university or who the government did a survey on how many muslims in america. What they would do is go to a mosque count the number of people and times them by 3. Thats not fairly accurate as anyone on this board should believe statistics. The fact of the matter is whether Islam being the fastest growing religion, and christianity being declining.


Every Muslim should face the fact that Because Our Muslim nations dont get along with eachother it is this undeniable fact that we are soon going to sink. However, it is also a fact if the whole Muslim world united they would easily grasp the whole world. Whos got the Oil? Thats the only question i got to say. Canada has some oil lol.

So main Message

Dont rely heavy on statistics as they arent as accurate as you think.

Islam is the perfect religion but some muslims are not and they ruin it for all of our ummah.

And be very careful what you say on this board because they're are a few people on this board that arent whom you think. and they will bring something against you and anger you.
 
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Salam:

How you can say that Islam is not a fastest growing religion. Do you have some authentic source, of course not?

Hammad



HeiGou said:
It is often claimed around these sorts of websites that Islam is the world's fastest growing religion. There are some figures on websites but they show suspiciously small Catholic numbers and suspiciously large Muslim ones. I find this somewhat hard to believe. Does anyone know a source better than a quote from an Islamic webiste to prove this? What is the world's fastest growing religion?

To do what I said we shouldn't, I ripped this off a website.
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hammadj49 said:
How you can say that Islam is not a fastest growing religion. Do you have some authentic source, of course not?
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Because some religions did not exist at all a few decades back and now they are huge. Falun gong has gone from zero to about 100 million in the last three decades. No other religion is growing that fast.

The claim needs to be re-focused and sharpened.
 
Sorry... if it's growing so fast how come most people haven't heard of it?:?
I certainly haven't.
 
~Mu'MiNaH~ said:
Sorry... if it's growing so fast how come most people haven't heard of it?:?
I certainly haven't.
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Really? It is growing mostly among Chinese people, but Sargon was talking about it in a thread on Qigong a little while ago.

Is it a religion though?

If you look up figures on Wicca or even Jedi (I believe that Australia and Britain both allowed Jedi as an answer on the census) you will see the numbers are small but they are growing enormously. Especially Jedi which, obviously, did not exist until recently.
 
I've heard of wicca, it sounds a bit scary:(. Haven't heard of jedi before. Is that a star wars thing?
 
~Mu'MiNaH~ said:
I've heard of wicca, it sounds a bit scary:(.
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Actually it sounds a little stupid to me, but I am working on my inter-religious tolerance. I hate it when people make stuff up and then claim it is really old.

Haven't heard of jedi before. Is that a star wars thing?
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Yep. And some significant number of people claim to be Jedi by religion.

Not me - I can't believe in an All-Powerful, Merciful God who would create Jar Jar Binks.
 

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