Why a growing number of white Europeans are converting to Islam
White Male Muslim Converts – BBCJohnny Nelson from the BBC considers why a growing number of white Europeans — specifically men — are converting to Islam.
The Daily Mail reports that the “average convert is 27-year old white woman”). Thus, it becomes interesting to hear the male perspective from Muslim converts.
Three white male Muslim converts from Leeds, United Kingdom are featured in the video — Paul Martin, Jeremy Rowland, and Abdullah Hamzah
The reporter, Johnny Nelson, begins by making describing Paul’s conversion to Islam that may describe your own experience:
“It’s been a spiritual and physical journey that’s challenged the very core of relationships with friends and family.”
Paul goes on to describe the difficulty he has had with reconciling his social life before and after becoming Muslim. Reporter Johnny Nelson asks, “What about the things you’ve given up, before this like, going out drinking? Going out with the mates? Having girlfriends? What about the things you’ve let go? Do you not thing about those things?” Paul responds that this has been “one of the harder things” to manage, along with his struggle to manage family relations, including the relationship with his mother, who is also interviewed.
The report then moves on to Abdullah Hamzah, who says that most of the difficulty he has received has actually been from within the Muslim community. This is an unfortunately reality that many Muslim converts have to face due to the narrow-mindedness and lack of compassion of many existing Muslims. Abdullah explains:
“In my experience, I’ve had more prejudice, more problems from Muslims than non-Muslims. I hate to say it, but because of my color, my ethnicity, because I’m look upon as a second-class Muslim — as a convert. Suspicion, I’ve even been accused of being a CIA agent.”
Abdullah’s testimony is far too common an occurrence, and may reflect your own experiences with the Muslim community. There is no doubt that many existing Muslims have made life difficult for converts, who are going through a vulnerable and testing time in their lives that requires nothing less than the full love, forgiveness, gentleness, and support from the Muslim community — the same qualities with which the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, dealt with the people in his life:
“So, by the mercy of Allah, O Muhammad, you were gentle with them — and had you been harsh or hard-hearted, they would have left you. So overlook over their faults, and ask forgiveness for them” (Quran 3:159).
https://youtu.be/5WC2_sNxsYM
5WC2_sNxsYM Buddhism are more popular among Westerners after Christianity, not Islam....:lol:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/06/04/the-second-largest-religion-in-each-state/
Globally, only Buddhism is expected to see a decline in the raw number of people who subscribe to the religion:
Islam, the world's fastest-growing faith, will leap from 1.6 billion (in 2010) to 2.76 billion by 2050, according to the Pew study. At that time, Muslims will make up nearly one-third of the world's total projected population of about 9 billion people.
http://www.pewforum.org/files/2015/04/PF_15.04.02_ProjectionsOverview_populationChange_310px.png
http://www.pewforum.org/files/2015/04/pf_15.04.02_projectionstables18.png
- http://www.pewforum.org/2015/04/02/religious-projections-2010-2050/
- http://edition.cnn.com/2015/04/02/living/pew-study-religion/
- http://www.businessinsider.my/pew-research-on-global-religions-demographics-2015-4/#WUWvSSAdT4vCUVWH.97
Islam grow fast simply because of two reasons;
1. High birth rate
2. No freedom in choosing religion.( apostate subject to harrassment and even killed !)
http://wikiislam.net/wiki/Fastest_Growing_Religion
Edited by wkk5159 at 10-4-2015 12:45 PM
Interestingly, let's see the growth of different religion by region....
Worldwide
According to "The Future of the Global Muslim Population," published in January 2011 by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, the growth and anticipated future growth of Islam is primarily due to "their relatively high birth rate, the large number of Muslims of childbearing age, and an increase in life expectancy in Muslim-majority countries" and conversions play little part in the increase due to available data suggesting "Islam loses as many adherents via conversion as it gains."
In 2006, countries with a Muslim majority had an average population growth rate of 1.8% per year (when weighted by percentage Muslim and population size).This compares with a world population growth rate of 1.12% per year, and according to the World Christian Encyclopaedia, between 1990 and 2000, Islam received around 865,558 converts each year. This compares with an approximate 2,883,011 converts each year for Christianity during the same period.
America
Contrary to what is often claimed, Islam is not the fastest growing religion in the United States. Here are the available facts:
[*]The ARIS polls 1990 and 2000 show that the percent of change for Islam was +109%. The percent of change for Nonreligious/Secular (+110%), Native American Religion (+119%), Buddhism (+170%), Baha'i (+200%), Hinduism (+237%), New Age (+240%), Sikhism (+338%) and Deism (+717%) were all higher.
[*] The American Religious Identification Survey gave Non-Religious groups the largest gain in terms of absolute numbers - 14,300,000 (8.4% of the population) to 29,400,000 (14.1% of the population) for the period 1990 to 2001 in the USA. Also, Americans with no religion were the fastest growing segment from 2001 to 2008.
[*] According to the Cultural Orientation Resource Center, 60% of all refugees admitted into the United States are from Muslim-majority countries. Likewise, a Pew report published in January 2011 found that "About two-thirds of the Muslims in the U.S. today (64.5%) are first-generation immigrants (foreign-born)".
[*] Contrary to the often-quoted figures provided by CAIR and in spite of the massive influx of Muslim refugees, a Pew survey carried-out in October 2009 found the estimate for the total Muslim population of the U.S to be at only 2.454 million. Percentage-wise, Islam represents only 0.8 percent of the United States' religious make-up. About a third of what had previously been claimed and widely accepted by many apologists and media outlets.
[*] According to research carried out by the respected Pakistani-born American Muslim Dr. Ilyas Ba-Yunus (1932 - 2007), 75% of new Muslim converts in the US leave Islam within a few years.
[*] According to Ahmed Nassef, the co-founder and editor in chief of MuslimWakeUp.com, less than 7 percent of American Muslims attend mosque regularly, compared with 38 percent of American Christians who attend church weekly.
Europe
A United Nations' survey showed that between 1989 and 1998, Europe's Muslim population grew by more than 100 percent, due mainly to the effects of immigration from Muslim countries. Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance have an unsourced claim of 2.9 percent per year. And according to a Pew report published in January 2011, the future growth of Islam in Europe will be "driven primarily by continued migration."
According to data from the extensive 2010 European Social Survey (ESS), Muslims immigrants who have lived less than a year in Europe regularly go to the mosque. But after they have lived more than a year in their new homeland, the figure drops to 48.8%. More than half rarely or never go to the mosque to pray.
In the Netherlands, mosque attendance is actually dropping faster than church attendance. In 1998, 47 percent of Muslims would attend mosque at least once a month. This figure fell by 12 percent in 2008 to only 35 percent. Whilst church attendance for Catholics fell by only 8 percent, and church attendance amongst Protestants showed no change, remaining at 63 percent.
Many have claimed that Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world. As proof, they usually present unverifiable claims and baseless media quotes. Apparently ABC News had claimed "Already more than a billion-people strong, Islam is the world's fastest-growing religion", a quote which cannot be traced to its source. Also CNN World News stated "Fast-growing Islam winning converts in Western world", a statement which they fail to back up with any evidence.......:lol:
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