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Islam: World's Fastest-Growing Religion (A Constructive Threat To Other Faiths) by Nobody: 8:58am On May 23, 2015
Let me start by quoting two verses which really irk the infidels (no insult meant by the name 'infidel', your can check your dictionary); two verses I ardently love in the Qur'an:

They intend to put out the Light of Allah (i.e. the religion of Islam, this Quran, and Prophet Muhammad SAW) with their mouths. But Allah will complete His Light even though the disbelievers (infidels) hate (it). He it is Who has sent His Messenger (Muhammad SAW) with guidance and the religion of truth (Islamic Monotheism) to make it victorious over all (other) religions even though the Mushrikoon (polytheists, pagans, idolaters, and disbelievers (infidels)in the Oneness of Allah and in His Messenger Muhammed SAW) hate (it).

[Qur'an 61 verses 8-9]

Now, you can read this report by the CNN:

Islam, the world's fastest-growing faith, will leap from 1.6 billion to 2.76 billion by 2050, according to the Pew study.

Study collected data from 234 countries and territories; predicts fate of five major faiths -- Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Judaism and Islam -- as well as folk religions and atheists(CNN).

If tech futurists are to be believed, by the year 2050, robots will do many of our errands and drive our cars. If a new study on religious trends is to be believed, many of those robot-controlled cars will stop and park at mosques and churches. Yes, despite predictions that religion will go the way of dinosaurs, the size of almost every major faith -- sorry, Buddhists -- will increase in the next 40 years, according to a study released Thursday by the Pew Research Center.

The biggest winners, Pew predicts, will be Islam and Christianity. 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. Christianity is expected to grow, too, but not at Islam's explosive rate. The Pew study predicts Christians will increase from 2.17 billion to 2.92 billion, composing more than 31% of the world's population. This means that by 2050, more than 6 out of 10 people on Earth will be Christian or Muslim.

And, for perhaps the first time in history, Islam and Christianity would boast roughly equal numbers. Looking even farther into the future, Islam's population could surpass Christianity by 2100, Pew says, despite Christians' six-century head start.[OMG! Six centuries? I say that's enough to have projected Christianity so far that Islam would not even be comparable with it, if Christianity were the religion God supports. And This is the meaning of the two verses above] (It's possible that Muslims outnumbered Christians some time in the past, perhaps during the Black Plague that decimated Europe. But scholars aren't certain.)

Based in Washington, Pew is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that regularly produces sweeping surveys of this kind without taking public policy positions. Six years in the making, its study collected data from 234 countries and territories to predict the fate of five major faiths -- Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Judaism and Islam -- as well as folk religions and the religiously unaffiliated, including atheists. The study, which Pew says is the first of its kind, bases its projections on the age of populations, fertility and mortality rates, as well as migration and conversion patterns. Simply put, Muslims are having larger families, retaining more members and are younger than adherents of other faiths. More than 1 in 3 Muslims is younger than 15.But religious trends have never been measured on the study's vast scale, Pew says, so a few cautions are in order.

First, the population projections are based on current data and assumptions about demographic trends. For example, Muslim women have an average of three children, the highest of any religious group. In the future, if education and employment rates rise, those numbers could change. [Never will they change, na 100 I go born]

Second, nobody at Pew has a crystal ball, so events like cataclysmic wars, rampaging diseases, natural disasters and economic meltdowns could throw the numbers off [May Allah forbid] . But it's clear from the 245-page report that Pew and the demographic experts they consulted did their homework, so the study is worth taking seriously.

With that in mind, here are some of the study's top findings about what the world will look like -- at least, faith-wise -- in 2050.-- Atheists, agnostics and religiously unaffiliated people will increase in the United States (from 16% to 26%) but decline as a share of the total worldwide population.-- Also in the United States, Christians will drop from 78% to 66% of population. Muslims will surpass Jews as the largest non-Christian religion in the U.S.-- Sub-Saharan African will be home to40% of the Christian population and Nigeria have more Christians than any other country except for the United States and Brazil.-- India will have the largest Muslim population in the world, passing Indonesia, but Hindus will retain a majority.-- More than 10% of Europeans will be Muslim, while the number of Christians in Europe will drop by 100 million.-- Hinduism (1.4 billion adherents) and Judaism (16 million) will increase, while Buddhists will be about the same size as in 2010 (5.2 million).-- In the coming decades, 106 million people are projected to leave Christianity. (46 million will convert to Christianity, offsetting the losses a little.)-- The number of countries with Christian majorities will drop to 151, as Christians are projected to decrease in Australia, Benin, Bosnia-Herzegovina, France, the Netherlands, New Zealand,the Republic of Macedonia and the United Kingdom.-- Muslims are expected to make up more than 50% of the population in 51 countries, including the Republic of Macedonia and Nigeria.


Now, my advice to the infidels is this: Find time to study the Qur'an sincerely - learn from those who really understand it, not some sentimentally be-clouded people. Know why the world's most criticised and condemned religion is ironically its fastest-growing. Detect that miracle in the Qur'an that keeps giving Islam world wide support, despite threats to destroy it by so claimed insiders (like ISIS and Boko Haram) and outsiders (its enemy among infidels) [Alas! 1436 years would have been enough to make Islam extinct if it were not God's own religion, considering the level and severeness of evils said to be propagated by Islam. Give your life to Islam - the only way to the real salvation - now, when it is still in its peak of honorability to do so, and not later when the influence of Islam will have made 'being a Muslim' the vogue in town.
Re: Islam: World's Fastest-Growing Religion (A Constructive Threat To Other Faiths) by magaliyu(f): 9:17am On May 23, 2015
Saw It On Asian Media"Jackie Chan Have Converted To Islam"
Re: Islam: World's Fastest-Growing Religion (A Constructive Threat To Other Faiths) by Nobody: 9:24am On May 23, 2015
magaliyu:
Saw It On Asian Media"Jackie Chan Have Converted To Islam"

That's a distorted news.
Re: Islam: World's Fastest-Growing Religion (A Constructive Threat To Other Faiths) by xpac01(m): 9:26am On May 23, 2015
Stay here and keep on languishing your precious time on meaningless comparisoms and juxtapositioning of religions. This very thing has been the main peril we are having in the globe now. Men born with great virtues instead of seeking how to unleash their God invested talents on humanity they keep seeking on how to expand stvpid religions. Please tell me how do all you've written above improve the livelihood of our dear nation. Thou creatures awake and get a sense.
Re: Islam: World's Fastest-Growing Religion (A Constructive Threat To Other Faiths) by Nobody: 10:37am On May 23, 2015
So called growth is by population due to the randy nature of muslims. Good news is that they are loosing more and more to conversions every day. tongue
Re: Islam: World's Fastest-Growing Religion (A Constructive Threat To Other Faiths) by Rich4god(m): 11:21am On May 23, 2015
Why won't there be growth when they are busy killing off pple from other faith...
Re: Islam: World's Fastest-Growing Religion (A Constructive Threat To Other Faiths) by Nobody: 2:24pm On May 23, 2015
There's nothing shocking there. As a christian I'll tell you it's scriptural. Matthew 7 v 13 says, ''Enter through the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and spacious and broad is the way that leads away to destruction, and many are those who are entering through it''. So op, it's not an achievement.

The prayer is for them to see the light.
Re: Islam: World's Fastest-Growing Religion (A Constructive Threat To Other Faiths) by Nobody: 8:07pm On May 23, 2015
Lol
See una
Dey deceive unaself
Re: Islam: World's Fastest-Growing Religion (A Constructive Threat To Other Faiths) by BossTtdiamonds(m): 8:19pm On May 23, 2015
This is what etisalat's free 15 mb has caused......

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