One very popular online myth and urban legend is that of Islam being the fastest growing religion in the world. I have spent some time examining the sources, especially those shown by Islamic groups and websites to prove the claim. However, my conclusions using their own and independently verifiable sources is something very different to this claim.

With Islam it seems to be – if you repeat a lie enough times it will be believed.
Another notable examples of this:

Neil Armstrong – first man to walk on the moon.

A few years ago some Muslims wishing to gain converts created another story for proselytization purposes. One of them includes Neil Armstrong. The myth as propagated by scores of Islamic websites is that while on the moon Neil and others heard the Islamic call to prayer. While visiting Egypt he again heard this same call to prayer and immediately converted to Islam saying that it was the same call to prayer he heard on the moon. (Another myth goes that he also saw the Qur’an floating around on the moon).

To back up this ‘creative truth’ Muslims have also invented fake transcripts and countless other documents including fake references to Neil’s biography. However, the facts of the matter according to Neil Armstrong himself:
1) He did not hear the call to prayer on the moon
2) He did not convert to Islam

He makes reference to this countless times and the US State Department also released a memo to embassies worldwide informing them that Neil was not interested in hosting or being a guest to Islamic events and that he has not nor has intentions of converting to Islam.
Anyway, back to the issue at hand. I found a very good article explaining why Islam is not the fastest growing religion in the world and I will copy from it.
(www.FastestGrowingReligion.tk)

Conclusion
From the statistics available we can cleary see that the fastest growing religion in the world in real terms is Christianity. Where Islam gains 23 Million new adherents annually, Christianity gained 30 Million new adherents in that same period. Thus, Christianity is the fastest growing religion in the world.

In terms of the question of  gaining the most religions by conversions, again that title goes to Christianity. By converisons from other religions, Christianity tends to be the most effective by a long shot with over 2 Million conversions followed by the 800,000 conversions recorded by Islam in that period.

Another interesting part of the article is the systematic destruction of some fake sources used by Muslims to claim that Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world.

Additional Information – Dispelling the Myths
Claims:

1. Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world. FALSE
Islam is neither the fastest growing religion in the world by  precentage growth or real person growth.

2. Buddhism is the fastest growing religion in the world. FALSE
Although Buddhism is emerging in the Western world it is not the fastest growing religion in the world.

3. The world is converting to Islam faster than any other religion. FALSE
In terms of conversions Islam performs very poorly. The growth of Islam is attributed to higher birth rates in areas where it is dominant.

4. Christianity is the fastest growing religion in the world. TRUE
By real term growth, Christianity is the fastest growing religion in the world.

Misleading Sources Explained

Currently, many Muslim websites spread the claim that Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world. These websites usually provide no explanation to these claims or occasioanlly provide loose and unveriifiable media quotes.
1. CNN Wolrd News Article: “Fast-growing Islam winning converts in Western world“

This source provides no statistical evidence to the claim that Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world. The only allusion to the claim is “The second-largest religion in the world after Christianity, Islam is also the fastest-growing religion.” However, the data proves this claim to be wrong and as a media quote it holds no evidential weight.

2. ABC NEWS Quote
As the quote and citation appears on various sites: “Already more than a billion-people strong, Islam is the world’s fastest-growing religion”. [ABCNEWS, Abcnews.com]

No such quote exists today on the abcnews.com website.

3. 60 Minutes Quote
As the quote appears and is cited: “The Religion of Islam is growing faster than any other religion in the world.” [MIKE WALLACE, 60 MINUTES]
No evidence is provided to support the claim and it is merely a media quote. Again, no reason for this quote to be taken seriously in determining the fastest growing religion.

4. Islamicweb.com estimated that in  2000 there would be 1.9Billion Muslims in the world
False claims like this are one of the reasons why Islam is believed to be the fastest growing religion in the world. The facts of the matter is that the most liberal estimated of the amount of Muslims in 2000 was 1.1-1.2 Billion. Today the world population of Muslims is only at 1.3 Billion.

5. Arabnews article: Islam ‘ fastest growing faith in Australia (Appearing on islamawareness.net)

Although the article is named and used to claim that Islam is the fastest growing religion in Australia, the article itself paints no such picture. The article states that, “Today, Islam is one of the fastest growing faiths in Australia” and makes no claim to it being the fastest growing religion in Australia. Although statistics are provided they do not lead to the conclusion that Islam is the fastest growing religion in Australia as the title claims.

6. ABC Transcript: “Fastest-Growing Religion Often Misunderstood” (Appearing on islamawareness.net)
This article never states that Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world nor does it provide evidence alluding to such a claim.

7. People’s Daily Online: OIC official: “Islam shows fastest growing religion on earth”
Other than a representative of Organization of Islamic Conference  allegedly making the claim, a quote nor any proof is brought up.

Article

Please no red herring responses


When the Muslim cannot respond to such a claim they tend to employ the Red Herring Fallacy.

A red herring is an argument, given in reply, that does not address the original issue. Critically, a red herring is a deliberate attempt to change the subject or divert the argument.

@frosbel.your answers are not factual.apart from the fact that yr references are not authentic .i would like to ask u a question..where did u get your answers to the topic..as a matter of fact and from statistic all over d world ISLAM is the fastest growing religion in the world.....please lets always ensure we have authentic evidence before giving answers .to read more about the fastest growing religion visit ''http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2007/05/13/the_list_the_worlds_fastest_growing_religions''
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The List: The World's Fastest-Growing Religions
From Muslims in Europe to evangelical Christians in Africa, it is religious believers who are shaping the early 21st Century. Charismatic movements are sweeping throughout the Southern Hemisphere, while high birth rates among immigrants are provoking soul-seeking in the historically Christian West. For this List, FP looks at the fast-growing faiths that are upending the old world order.

MAY 14, 2007
QASSEM ZEIN/AFP/Getty Images

Islam

Growth rate*: 1.84 percent

Adherents: 1.3 billion

Behind the trend: High birthrates in Asia, the Middle East, and Europe

Areas to watch: The worlds largest Muslim populations are in fast-growing countries such as Indonesia, Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, Egypt, and Iran. Islam also happens to be the fastest growing religion in Europe, where an influx of Muslim immigrants from North Africa, Turkey, and South Asia has sent shock waves into a mostly Christian and secular population whose birthrates have stagnated. The Muslim question has empowered anti-immigrant parties in France, Austria, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Germany, while sparking a fierce debate over the place of women in Islam and symbols of faith like the Muslim head scarf.

Moshe Milner/GPO/Newsmakers

The Bahai Faith*

Growth rate: 1.70 percent

Adherents: 7.7 million

Behind the trend: High birthrates in India

Areas to watch: Bahais are spread throughout the world, but a good chunkaround 1.8 millionlive in India. The Bahai faith was founded in 1863 in Iran by Bahullh, who claimed to be the latest in a line of prophets stretching from Abraham to Jesus Christ to Mohammed. The world headquarters of the Bahai faith are in Haifa, Israel. Today, Bahais often suffer persecution elsewhere in the Middle East, especially in Iran.
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Sikhism

Growth rate: 1.62 percent

Adherents: 25.8 million

Behind the trend: High birthrates in India

Areas to watch: Thousands of Sikhs were killed during the bloody partition between Pakistan and India in 1947, and at least 3,000 Sikhs were killed by Hindu mobs in New Delhi following the assassination of Indira Gandhi by a pair of Sikh extremists in 1984. Today, Sikhs are prospering. The prime minister of India, Manmohan Singh, is Sikh. Over 90 percent of the worlds Sikhs live in India; of those, a large majority are concentrated in the northern Indian state of Punjab. Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States host growing Sikh minorities of several hundred thousand people each. In several isolated incidents after 9/11, turban-wearing Sikh men in Britain and the United States were mistaken for Muslims and attacked.

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Jainism

Growth rate: 1.57 percent

Adherents: 5.9 million

Behind the trend: High birthrates in India

Areas to watch: Jains are a small but relatively powerful minority in India, making up about half of one percent of the population. They tend to be concentrated in Rajasthan and Gujarat. Outside of India, some of the largest concentrations of Jains are in Leicester, UK; Mombasa, Kenya; and major cities in the United States.

Mario Tama/Getty Images

Hinduism

Growth rate: 1.52 percent

Adherents: 870 million

Behind the trend: Surprise! High birthrates in India

Areas to watch: Most of the worlds Hindus live in India, and, to a lesser extent, Bangladesh, and Nepal. Significant Hindu minorities also live in Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Pakistan, and Malaysia. Since the 1960s, Hindus have become a growing presence in the United States, with as many as 1.5 million generally well-off adherents spread across the continent and prevalent in Texas, New Jersey, and Ohio. There are also several hundred thousand Hindus in the United Kingdom and South Africa, and there is a small Hindu minority in Russia, where its presence has aroused controversy in the Russian Orthodox Church.

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Christianity

Growth rate: 1.38 percent

Adherents: 2.2 billion

Behind the trend: High birthrates and conversions in the global South

Areas to watch: Pentecostal movements in Latin America, Africa, China, and India. The fastest-growing individual church in the world is Misin Carismtica Internacional in Colombia; the Pentecostal denomination began in 1983 in Bogot and now boasts 150,000 members. Then theres Orissa Baptist Evangelical Crusade in India, which reports some 670,000 adherents. And in China, tens of millions of Christians practice their faith under the watchful eye of a very suspiciousand often hostileChinese government.

*Growth rates over the period from 2000 to 2005; all figures from the nondenominational World Christian Database, a project of the Center for the Study of Global Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.

*The entry on the Bahai faith was revised to reflect the concerns of readers. Originally, the item was entitled Bahaism, and described the religion as an offshoot of Islam. Additionally, the sentence on Israel was clarified to better reflect the fact that Bahais are treated well in that country, but face discrimination elsewhere in the Middle East. IT IS A GLEARING FACT ALL OVER THE WOLRD THAT ISLAM IS THE FASTEST GROWING RELIGION...CHECK ALL SEARCH ENGINES
please lets try to always make research from authentic sources...how did you get to know what you told us.references pls[color=#990000][/color]

how will this argument save you both from hell.

Ateism

I'd like the category of 'non-religion' to be included for comparison......

Ignorance, negligence, novice, naïve, jealousy, alljoin, hmmm
It wil be beta u go and learn bout islam and not the people, maybe u wil come back being among those guided to d right part if allah wils. Hell is demn hot, I don't even pray my enemy to enter it.

@frosbel

I thought you said catholics are not xtians ? Do you mind telling me how xtianity adherents number up to 2.2b without the catholics?

Without the catholics you would not even have up to 1bn xtians

^
U go mind the confused man? persin wey fit they call religion opium is a person that has serious intellectual defects!

thumbs up!@tunde88...now they will start stereotyping we muslim calling us terrorist.just take a look at this
''I Liked the answer of this German Muslim Scholar, When he was asked about terrorism and Islam,

He Said:
"Who started the First World War? Muslims?
Who started the second World War? Muslims?
Who Killed about 20 millions of Aborigines in Australia? Muslims?
Who Threw Nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Muslims?
Who Killed more than 100 millions of Red Indians in North America? Muslims?
Who killed more than 50 millions of Red Indians in South America? Muslims?
Who took about 180 millions of African people as slaves and killed 88% of them and threw in atlantic oceans? Muslims?
No! They were not Muslims. 1st of all you have to define terrorism properly...
If a non-Muslim does something bad, it is a crime.... But if a Muslim does same he is a terrorist
Remove this double standard then come to the point!!!NO ALTERNATIVE BUT ISLAM ..IF YOU ARE NOT CONVINCED JUST READ ABOUT ISLAM AND KNOW THAT IT IS TRULY A DIVINE RELIGION IN ALL ASPECT!!!!MUSLIM ARE ONE.....WE CAN PRAY IN ANY MOSQUE.....JUST TAKE A LOOK AT CONVERGENCE OF MUSLIMS ALL OVER THE WORLD DURING HAJJ TIME...THATS A DIVINE RELIGION!!!

tolaniayo: thumbs up!@tunde88...now they will start stereotyping we muslim calling us terrorist.just take a look at this
''I Liked the answer of this German Muslim Scholar, When he was asked about terrorism and Islam,

He Said:
"Who started the First World War? Muslims?
Who started the second World War? Muslims?
Who Killed about 20 millions of Aborigines in Australia? Muslims?
Who Threw Nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Muslims?
Who Killed more than 100 millions of Red Indians in North America? Muslims?
Who killed more than 50 millions of Red Indians in South America? Muslims?
Who took about 180 millions of African people as slaves and killed 88% of them and threw in atlantic oceans? Muslims?
No! They were not Muslims. 1st of all you have to define terrorism properly...
If a non-Muslim does something bad, it is a crime.... But if a Muslim does same he is a terrorist
Remove this double standard then come to the point!!!NO ALTERNATIVE BUT ISLAM ..IF YOU ARE NOT CONVINCED JUST READ ABOUT ISLAM AND KNOW THAT IT IS TRULY A DIVINE RELIGION IN ALL ASPECT!!!!MUSLIM ARE ONE.....WE CAN PRAY IN ANY MOSQUE.....JUST TAKE A LOOK AT CONVERGENCE OF MUSLIMS ALL OVER THE WORLD DURING HAJJ TIME...THATS A DIVINE RELIGION!!!

Muslims are intrinsic terrorists. People only deny something when its the truth. there is no peace at all in islam. the only time my life was threatened, it was by a muslim.

IF THERE IS ANYONE I WOULD RUN AWAY FROM, ITS THE MUSLIMS.

IF IT HAPPENS THAT THE XTIANS ARE WRONG AND THE MUSLIMS ARE RIGHT ABOUT GOD, THEN I CHOOSE ETERNITY IN HELL BECAUSE I CAN'T BE A MURDERER FOR ALL ETERNIY.

tolaniayo: thumbs up!@tunde88...now they will start stereotyping we muslim calling us terrorist.just take a look at this
''I Liked the answer of this German Muslim Scholar, When he was asked about terrorism and Islam,

He Said:
"Who started the First World War? Muslims?
Who started the second World War? Muslims?
Who Killed about 20 millions of Aborigines in Australia? Muslims?
Who Threw Nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Muslims?
Who Killed more than 100 millions of Red Indians in North America? Muslims?
Who killed more than 50 millions of Red Indians in South America? Muslims?
Who took about 180 millions of African people as slaves and killed 88% of them and threw in atlantic oceans? Muslims?
No! They were not Muslims. 1st of all you have to define terrorism properly...
If a non-Muslim does something bad, it is a crime.... But if a Muslim does same he is a terrorist
Remove this double standard then come to the point!!!NO ALTERNATIVE BUT ISLAM ..IF YOU ARE NOT CONVINCED JUST READ ABOUT ISLAM AND KNOW THAT IT IS TRULY A DIVINE RELIGION IN ALL ASPECT!!!!MUSLIM ARE ONE.....WE CAN PRAY IN ANY MOSQUE.....JUST TAKE A LOOK AT CONVERGENCE OF MUSLIMS ALL OVER THE WORLD DURING HAJJ TIME...THATS A DIVINE RELIGION!!!

Muslims are intrinsic terrorists. People only deny something when its the truth. there is no peace at all in islam. the only time my life was threatened, it was by a muslim.

IF THERE IS ANYONE I WOULD RUN AWAY FROM, ITS THE MUSLIMS.

IF IT HAPPENS THAT THE XTIANS ARE WRONG AND THE MUSLIMS ARE RIGHT ABOUT GOD, THEN I CHOOSE ETERNITY IN HELL BECAUSE I CAN'T BE A MURDERER FOR ALL ETERNIY.

ooman4:

Muslims are intrinsic terrorists. People only deny something when its the truth. there is no peace at all in islam. the only time my life was threatened, it was by a muslim.

IF THERE IS ANYONE I WOULD RUN AWAY FROM, ITS THE MUSLIMS.

[size=18pt]IF IT HAPPENS THAT THE XTIANS ARE WRONG AND THE MUSLIMS ARE RIGHT ABOUT GOD, THEN I CHOOSE ETERNITY IN HELL BECAUSE I CAN'T BE A MURDERER FOR ALL ETERNIY[/size].

damn!

chukwudi44: @frosbel

I thought you said catholics are not xtians ? Do you mind telling me how xtianity adherents number up to 2.2b without the catholics?

Without the catholics you would not even have up to 1bn xtians

Frosbel is simply has no basis or clue on what is pasting here since he counted the largest group of Xtianity out of the circle. I am wait for him to back his claim with lies and unfounded basis as usual.

ooman4: ...
IF IT HAPPENS THAT THE XTIANS ARE WRONG AND THE MUSLIMS ARE RIGHT ABOUT GOD, THEN I CHOOSE ETERNITY IN HELL BECAUSE I CAN'T BE A MURDERER FOR ALL ETERNIY.

good luck with that

@ooman4....what is your gain in seeing the light and wanting to be foolish forever?.....what is your gain in knowing the truth and going for evil....mehn ...dats either a psycological or spiritual problem....anyway may God heal you and direct you away from light towards darkness

tolaniayo:

@ooman4....what is your gain in seeing the light and wanting to be foolish forever?.....what is your gain in knowing the truth and going for evil....mehn ...dats either a psycological or spiritual problem....anyway may God heal you and direct you away from light towards darkness

Is this a prayer or a curse?

obviously, its a prayer

tolaniayo: @ooman4....what is your gain in seeing the light and wanting to be foolish forever?.....what is your gain in knowing the truth and going for evil....mehn ...dats either a psycological or spiritual problem....anyway may God heal you and direct you away from light towards darkness

What is the light? What is the darkness?

If anyone is in darkness, its you!

oooman...dats what u think anyway...but thats not the truth........funny you!!

tolaniayo: oooman...dats what u think anyway...but thats not the truth........funny you!!

I asked you a simple question, what is the light and darkness?

ooman4:

What is the light? What is the darkness?

If anyone is in darkness, its you!

cant you see its a declarative sentence thats not imperative.....

tolaniayo:
cant you see its a declarative sentence thats not imperative.....

Dang! You are a waste of time.

4 yr mind!!!

ooman4...has it gotten to that extent....using insulting n abusive words is not my fetish or else i would have given you in wholesale...

tolaniayo: @ooman4....what is your gain in seeing the light and wanting to be foolish forever?..... what is your gain in knowing the truth and going for evil....mehn ...dats either a psycological or spiritual problem....anyway may God heal you and direct you away from light towards darkness

Thank you!

tolaniayo: ooman4...has it gotten to that extent....using insulting n abusive words is not my fetish or else i would have given you in wholesale...

Empty threat or maybe you dont know any words at all.

ooman4:

Empty threat or maybe you dont know any words at all.

at all guy!! plz dnt lets starts,....m trying to control my self.....

tolaniayo:
at all guy!! plz dnt lets starts,....m trying to control my self.....

Why are you trying to control yourself? Do you normally loose full control?

Christanity is not a way of life nor is it a religion rather is a way to hell i said so n i have prove from the so called biblos n de way de dogs behaves

@Post
If anything at all the Islamic religion is on the decline as thousands of muslims are converting to christianity on a daily basis. The problem is that in predominantly muslim countries they can't declare their faith when they convert for fear of being killed so they pretend they are still muslims when in reality they are not.