Dear cestusdei:
When I said Islam is the fastest growing religion, then I did not based my conclusion on some self-praising Muslim claims.
Because first of all, no sincere Muslim organization/movement is interested in conducting any research or study about how many Muslims are in and out of Islam. This is a painstaking and useless job. But luckily it is being done by the West and Muslims are releived. It is the West (mostly Christian/secluar) who is telling you and the Muslims and the whole world that Islam is the fastest-growing relgion even in the belly of America and there are now TWO BILLION Muslims around the globe.
I will just give you two examples:
BBC’s FACT FILE ON ISLAM says:
**ISLAM FACT FILE **
There are
two billion Muslims world-wide.
The Qur’an is the Book of Allah that was revealed to the Prophet Muhammed over a period of 23 years.
The Qur’an consists of 114 surahs (or chapters) varying in length from 3 to 286 verses.
To properly understand the teachings of Allah, Muslims say that one should refer to the Arabic text of the Qur’an
The Qur’an is the most widely read book in the world. All Muslims memorise parts of it to recite in their prayers.
Some Muslims memorise the entire Qur’an.
bbc.co.uk/insideout/northeast/series4/yvonne_ridley_iraq.shtml ]
The below qoute is from The Daily
Washington Post, USA:
Islam is
the fastest-growing religion in the United States and is expected to become the second-largest religious bloc here in the next few years, but the government has not tapped into its own community as part of the global outreach, U.S. officials say.
“It’s very important for American Muslims to be involved, as they’re an important conduit to the wider Islamic world and they should be speaking out,” the second U.S. official added. “But American Muslims generally feel they’re not included like other communities. We should be talking to them, as they have a lot of knowledge of the region.”
washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61213-2005Apr17.html ]
