will islam eventually take over the world ?

Answer 1

Not as long as an intelligent person still exists...

Answer 2

No. Generally, they keep their people uneducated and their women are oppressed. What really fragments Islam is the lack of structure. Sure they have Friday prayers, etc., however, there is no governing body ie. the Catholics have the Vatican. Islam consists of scattered tribes in the Middle East, there isn't any conformity. They would need to unify and I cannot see that happening with all their infighting.

Answer 3

Learn some history: between about 700-1500 AD, Islam was the ruling religion from Central Asia to Spain, including Sicily and large parts of the Balkans, as well as North and Central Africa. In some places, Muslims, Christians and Jews lived peacably with one another, and these places were great centres of learning (Sicily, Damascus, Cordoba). The Muslim world was one of unbelievable refinement and sophistication compared to Christian Northern Europe (no forks, no legal systems, no philosophy, few trade troutes).

My concern is not that Islam, or any other religion, may achieve the largest number of world adherents (and let us not forget that Christianity achieved its dominance through complicity in imperialist expansion, leading to centuries of forced conversions and mendacious missionary work), but that ignorance will.

So here are some very, very basic facts for you to consider: Not all Muslim women are forced to wear the hijab or niqab: some do by choice, and some are completely secular. Others may wear a headscarf on occasion (this is also truly in the more secularised Islamic countries, not just in that bulwark of freedom, the US, where women are so free that they sometimes have to cross three state lines to get an abortion).

Different Islamic denominations have coherent global structures and leaders -- just as only Catholics are led by the Pope (and, indeed, many Catholics are not - witness liberation theology movements in Latin America, and reforming Catholic groups in Western nations who advocate contraception), only Sunni or Shia or Sufi or Ismaili Muslims will adhere to the precepts of their denominational leader. They are not tribes any more than Baptists can be called a tribe.

Not all Muslims are fundamentalists. Just as not all Christians believe that God put George Bush in the White House, women in the kitchen and non-Christians in the firing line (but some do), there are many, many millions of Muslims who hold all sorts of degrees of belief. They may be your grocery clerk, your professor, your doctor or even your Congressman.

Instead of drawing on the example of the Crusades (which led to continent-wide outbreaks of plague and syphilis as well as the decimation of families, high taxes and the formation of an aggressive Ottoman Empire), consider the example of "convivencia" practised in Al-Andalus, Muslim Spain, where secular learning in sciences, philosophy and poetry were pursued instead of religious warfare.

Answer 4

Looks like all these imbecilic Christians already gotten the job taken care of. Don't get me wrong, I strongly dislike Islam too. It's really sad when people use religion to control others.

Answer 5

i doubt it especially since when the oil runs out the western world will forget about the middle east and middle eastern influences

Answer 6

I don't care what religion rules the world or who, AS LONG THEY DON'T MESS WITH ME. I will create enough army to SLAM ISLAM if they mess with us. Period.

Answer 7

If the number of intelligent folk rises, It certainly will.

Answer 8

Above poster is right as long as we watch our backs..

Answer 9

it will eventually but sure not now,

Answer 10

Yes, but maybe a few more centuries...