I was wondering how many people are currently aware of this. Some will say, its growing fast only because of high islamic birth rates. But that's not the reason Islam is the fastest growing religion. More people convert to Islam than to any other religion on earth including christianity, even after 9/11 and the media's portrayal of islam.
2006-09-05 09:02:53 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
my point for this question is...that since islam is the fastest growing religion by conversion rates, then all the credit must go towards islam. Even after the media's negative portrayal of islam, it still remains the fastest growing, so it must be a pretty great religion to be able to sustain a fast growing rate even after being condemned on american television and the showing of so called muslims agreeing with the 9/11 attacks. In America as well, it is the fastest growing; this shows that it is not being forced on anybody, but rather being chosen by free will.
2006-09-05 09:03:21 · update #1
u r right
2006-09-08 19:07:53 · answer #1 · answered by Ponder 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Global Islamic population is approximately
1,200,000,000, or 20% of the world population.
They have received the following Nobel Prizes:
Literature:
1988 - Najib Mahfooz.
Peace:
1978 - Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat
1994 - Yasser Arafat
Physics:
1990 - Elias James Corey
1999 - Ahmed Zewail
Medicine:
1960 - Peter Brian Medawar
1998 - Ferid Mourad
The Global Jewish population is approximately
14,000,000, or about 0.02% of the world population.
They have received the following Nobel Prizes:
Literature:
1910 - Paul Heyse
1927 - Henri Bergson
1958 - Boris Pasternak
1966 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon
1966 - Nelly Sachs
1976 - Saul Bellow
1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer
1981 - Elias Canetti
1987 - Joseph Brodsky
1991 - Nadine Gordimer World
Peace:
1911 - Alfred Fried
1911 - Tobias Mich ael Carel Asser
1968 - Rene Cassin
1973 - Henry Kissinger
1978 - Menachem Begin
1986 - Elie Wiesel
1994 - Shimon Peres
1994 - Yitzhak Rabin
Physics:
1905 - Adolph Von Baeyer
1906 - Henri Moissan
1907 - Albert Abraham Michelson
1908 - Gabriel Lippmann
1910 - Otto Wallach
1915 - Richard Willstaetter
1918 - Fritz Haber
1921 - Albert Einstein
1922 - Niels Bohr
1925 - James Franck
1925 - Gustav Hertz
1943 - Gustav Stern
1943 - George Charles de Hevesy
1944 - Isidor Issac Rabi
1952 - Felix Bloc h
1954 - Max Born
1958 - Igor Tamm
1959 - Emilio Segre
1960 - Donald A. Glaser
1961 - Robert Hofstadter
1961 - Melvin Calvin
1962 - Lev Davidovich Landau
1962 - Max Ferdinand Perutz
1965 - Richard Phillips Feynman
1 965 - Julian Schwinger
1969 - Murray Gell-Mann
1971 - Dennis Gabor
1972 - William Howard Stein
1973 - Brian David Josephson
1975 - Benjamin Mottleson
1976 - Burton Richter
1977 - Ilya Prigogine
1978 - Arno Allan Penzias
1978 - Peter L Kapitza
1979 - Stephen Weinberg
1979 - Sheldon Glashow
1979 - Herbert Charle s Brown
1980 - Paul Berg
1980 - Walter Gilbert
1981 - Roald Hoffmann
1982 - Aaron Klug
1985 - Albert A. Hauptman
1985 - Jerome Karle
1986 - Dudley R. Herschbach
1988 - Robert Huber
1988 - Leon Lederman
1988 - Melvin Schwartz
1988 - Jack Steinberger
198 9 - Sidney Altman
1990 - Jerome Friedman
1992 - Rudolph Marcus
1995 - Martin Perl
2000 - Alan J. Heeger
Economics:
1970 - Paul Anthony Samuelson
1971 - Simon Kuznets
1972 - Kenneth Joseph Arrow
1975 - Leonid Kantorovich
1976 - Milton Friedman
1978 - Herbert A. Simon
1980 - Lawrence Robert Klein
1985 - Franco Modigliani
1987 - Robert M. Solow
1990 - Harry Markowitz
1990 - Merton Miller
1992 - Gary Becker
1993 - Robert Fogel
Medicine:
1908 - Elie Metchnikoff
1908 - Paul Erlich
1914 - Robert Barany
1922 - Otto Meyerhof
1930 - Karl Landsteiner
1931 - Otto Warburg
1936 - Otto Loewi
1944 - Joseph Erlanger
1944 - Herbert Spencer Gasser
1945 - Ernst Boris Chain
1946 - Hermann Joseph Muller
1950 - Tadeus Reichstein
1952 - Selman Abra ham Waksman
1953 - Hans Krebs
1953 - Fritz Albert Lipmann
1958 - Joshua Lederberg
1959 - Arthur Kornberg
1964 - Konrad Bloch
1965 - Francois Jaco b
1965 - Andre Lwoff
1967 - George Wald
1968 - Marshall W. Nirenberg
1969 - Salvador Luria
1970 - Julius Axelrod
1970 - Sir Bernard Katz
1972 - Gerald Maurice Edelman
1975 - Howard Martin Temin
1976 - Baruch S. Blumberg
1977 - Roselyn Sussman Yalow
1978 - Daniel Nathans
1980 - Baruj Benacerraf
1984 - Cesar Milstein
1985 - Michael Stuart Brown
1985 - Joseph L. Goldstein
1986 - Stanley Cohen [& Rita Levi-Montalcini]
1988 - Gertrude Elion
1989 - Harold Varmus
1991 - Erwin Neher
1991 - Bert Sakmann
1993 - Richard J. Roberts
1993 - Phillip Sharp
1994 - Alfred Gilman
1995 - Edward B. Lewis
The Jews are not demonstrating with their dead on
the streets, yelling and chanting and asking for
revenge; the Jews are not promoting brain washing
the children in military training camps, teaching
them how to blow themselves up and cause maximum
deaths of Jews and other non-Muslims.
The Jews don't hijack planes, nor kill athletes at
the Olympics; the Jews don't traffic slaves, nor
have leaders calling for Jihad and death to all the
Infidels.
The Jews don't have the economic strength of
petroleum, nor the possibilities to force the
world's media to see "their side" of the question.
Perhaps the world's Muslims should consider
investing more in standard education and less in
blaming the Jews for all their problems.
2006-09-05 16:08:26 · answer #2 · answered by kimber g 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
This question has already been answered several times.
It's not the number of people in any belief that render it true. Something is true only when it is. It wouldn't matter how many millions thought Islam was the "true" religion, it will not render it so.
Jesus said "I am the way, the truth and the life". Islam denies Jesus as savior. So unfortunately, that fastest growing religion has alot of misled people.
By the way, I had to laugh at the remark about Muslims not cramming religion down other people's throats. That person must have missed the "Americans convert to Islam or die!" video.
2006-09-05 16:05:57 · answer #3 · answered by Esther 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think part of the reason for Islam's growth is it is a religion that gives people clear cut and defined "things to do". Thus, it Is a faith that feeds people's need to do "something" to effect their salvation. However, I think many of the people who do convert to Islam are not aware of many of the problems the faith has with respect to its internal consistency, its eschatology, and the violent streak that springs from its moon worshiping roots. Just like a lot of Christians do not read the Bible, so a lot of Muslims do not read the Quran.
2006-09-05 16:10:56 · answer #4 · answered by Tim 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You forget the number of people converting from Islam. The numbers are high but, alas Islam does not count those numbers. Muslims would kill those that try to leave in certain countries for betraying their religion.
2006-09-05 16:59:29 · answer #5 · answered by Beam 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, Islam has the highest suicide rate among all religions, and also has the highest conversion rate off 2nd generation family members. Meaning if you have kids, they will be 60 percent chance of NOT being muslim.
Congrats, I hope you are on the watch list.
2006-09-05 16:08:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
esters answer is so ignorant. she obviously hasnt met real muslims in her life. muslim people never go out preaching. since when has a muslim come up to you or to your door and told you they wanted to teach you about their religion. we just dont do it. the terrorists in the middle east arent real muslims. just like the christians in the US or those who killed all those jews in germany werent real christians. people are so quick to forget that.
just because the bible claims jesus said something doesnt mean that every other religion is wrong. muslims believe in jesus and that hes a great prophet. but we dont believe he should be worshipped as if he were god. god is god. maybe thats why islam is growing. cause its not confusing. i did always wonder, in chrisitanity is jesus god, son of god, both? and how does god have a family?
2006-09-05 16:46:07 · answer #7 · answered by ZW 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Oh no, not again. I don't care how many times you post it, I still don't believe it.
I like the ones that post the quote from Hillary Rodham Clinton. If you converted Hillary, you would want to give her back!
2006-09-05 18:42:10 · answer #8 · answered by Not perfect, just forgiven 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Islamic evangelists keep claiming this, yet no-one ever provides a source for it.
I say you're lying.
2006-09-05 16:10:42 · answer #9 · answered by lenny 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
maybe it has seomthing to do with unlike christians, islams dont cram their beliefs down your throat. or perhaps people are looking into their beliefs more and finding what they really feel. who knows
2006-09-05 16:06:13 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
fastest growing according to Islam..you mean!
2006-09-05 16:05:37 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋