why islam is the fastest growing religion in the world?

Question

let me edit the question somehow; why a lot of people from west and east enter islam? like cat stevens; kaka, anelka, the preist yusuf estes.........and so on.

12000 every year in USA ( source : inside edition; americain programme )

30000 à 60000 in france (regarding different statistics)100000 in allemagne(source: wikipidia)

Answer 1

Very true...because that's God's will. Below is a short list of celebrities who have converted:

Gary Miller (Abdul-Ahad Omar) - from Christianity, former priest & missionary administration of the Committee on Relations with Public Associations
C. Jack Ellis - from Christianity, Mayor of Macon, Georgia[6]
Keith Ellison - American, raised Catholic, Representative from Minnesota's 5th congressional district, first Muslim to be elected to Congress[7]
Murad Wilfred Hofmann - from Catholic Christianity, NATO official[8]
El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X, Malcolm Little) - American, from Christianity to NOI to mainstream Islam, African-American civil rights leader[9]
Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay), American, from Christianity to NOI to Sunni Islam to Sufism,[10] SI's Sportsman of the Century
Yvonne Ridley - British journalist, converted from Anglicanism after being kidnapped by the Taliban[11]
Jermaine Jackson (Muhammad Abdul Aziz) - former member of The Jackson 5 and brother of popstars Michael and Janet Jackson.[12]
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar(Lew Alcindor) - American, from Christianity, retired basketball player & the NBA's all-time leading scorer[13]
Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf (Chris Jackson) - American, from Christianity, retired basketball player[14]
Idris Tawfiq - British writer, who lives and works in Egypt, was a former Catholic priest[15]
David Chappelle – Comedian & television star[16]
Tariq Abdul-Wahad - originally from France, former basketball player for the Mavericks and Kings[17]
Abdul-Karim al-Jabbar (Sharmon Shah) - American, from Christianity, former NFL football player[18]
Nicolas Anelka - French football player[19]
Chris Eubank - British boxer[20]
Bernard Hopkins - Boxer[21]
Bruno Metsu - French coach of the Senegal team at the 2002 FIFA World Cup
Matthew Saad Muhammad - from Catholicism, former boxer
Anthony Mundine - Australian, from Christianity, boxer and former rugby player
Dwight Muhammad Qawi - Boxer
Ahmad Rashad (Bobby Moore) - American, former NFL football player
Saleem Rasheed - American footballer
Franck Ribery - French football player, currently plays for Marseille[22]
Philippe Troussier - French, former football player & trainer of a Japanese football team[23]
Mike Tyson- former heavyweight boxing champion of the world.[24]
Danny Williams - British boxer[25]
Mohammad Yousuf (Yousuf Youhana) - Pakistani, from Christianity, cricket player[26]
Umar Faruq Abd-Allah
Muhammad Abd-al-Rahman Barker - professor of Urdu, former chair of the University of Minnesota's Department of South Asian studies and creator of the Tékumel fantasy world.
Kevin Barrett - Lecturer, conspiracy theorist
Yusuf Estes - from Christianity, former pastor & prison chaplain
Shah Shahidullah Faridi - English Sufi scholar
Nuh Ha Mim Keller - from Catholicism to agnosticism to Sufism, Islamic scholar
Sherman Jackson - Islamic scholar & Academic, Near East Studies & Law School at the University of Michigan
Ingrid Mattson – Canadian scholar and current president of the Islamic Society of North America (2006)
Bilal Philips - from Christianity, Islamic scholar & author
Zaid Shakir - Islamic scholar
Abu Usamah - Imam of Green Lane mosque
Siraj Wahaj - from Christianity
Khalid Yasin - American, from Christianity, Executive Director of the Islamic Teaching Institute (ITI)
Hamza Yusuf - from Orthodox Christianity - Islamic scholar
Michael Wolfe Author of The Hajj: An American's Pilgrimage to Mecca, and One Thousand Roads to Mecca: Ten Centuries of Travelers Writing About the Muslim Pilgrimage. Born of a Christian mother and Jewish father, he is most well known for his documentary on ABC’s Nightline which aired on April 18, 1997 called An American in Mecca.
Thomas J. Abercrombie - Photographer
Ivan Aguéli - Artist
Ali Bey al-Abbasi - Writer, explorer (disputed)
Muhammed al-Ahari - American, from Christianity, essayist
Dawud Wharnsby Ali - Canadian Singer/poet, from Christianity.[27]
Lewis Arquette - American film actor, writer and producer.
Maurice Béjart – Choreographer
Robert "Kool" Bell - Musician
Yahya Birt - Journalist and son of former BBC Director General John Birt
Art Blakey - Musician
Amir Butler - Australian, a Salafi author
Ian Dallas - Writer
Isabelle Eberhardt - from Lutheran Christianity, 19th century explorer & writer
Alys Faiz - Poet
Knud Holmboe - 20th century Danish journalist & explorer
Abdullah Ibrahim (A. J. Brand) - South African pianist & composer
Sarah Joseph - Commentator on women's issues and editor of emel magazine
Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood - British, from Protestant Christianity, author
Daniel Moore - from Christianity, poet
Preacher Moss - American comedian and comedy writer
Harry St. John Philby - from Anglicanism, Arabist, explorer, writer & British colonial office intelligence operative
Prince Buster - Musician
Q-Tip - hiphop MC; former leader of A Tribe Called Quest
William Abdullah Quilliam - from Christianity, poet, solicitor, ambassador & journalist
A. R. Rahman ( A.S. Dileep Kumar) – Indian, from Hinduism, music film composer and director
Scarface - Rapper, producer, from Christianity
Omar Sharif – Egyptian actor
Idris Tawfiq - British writer, who lives and works in Egypt, was a former Catholic priest
Danny Thompson - Musician
Richard Thompson - Musician
Alexander Russell Webb - American, from Presbyterian Christianity, 19th Century U.S. journalist
Michael Wolfe - Writer & documentarist
Mohammed Knut Bernström - Swedish ambassador to Venezuela (1963-1969), Spain (1973-1976) and Morocco (1976-1983)
Khaled Edward Blair - English barrister, married to Princess Badiya of Jordan
Torquato Cardilli - Italian ambassador to Saudi Arabia (2000-2003)
Brandon Mayfield - U.S. attorney-at-law with a practice in Washington County, Oregon
Mario Scialoja - Italian ambassador to Saudi Arabia (1994-1995) and former permanent Italian ambassador to the United Nations.
Sultaana Freeman (Sandra Keller)
Jemima Goldsmith - British, from Judaism, socialite & ex-wife of Imran Khan
Queen Noor of Jordan (Lisa Najeeb Halaby)
Mumia Abu-Jamal - journalist, Black Panther, political activist, known for his 1982 conviction and death sentence on charges of a police officer, and for a nationally popular counter-culture campaign to free him
Rashid al-Din – Persian physician
Jeffrey Lang - American, Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Kansas
Susanne Osthoff - German archaeologist & former hostage in Iraq
Tejatat Tejasen - Chairman of the Department of Anatomy and is the former Dean of the faculty of Medicine, University of Chiang Mai, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Mehemet Ali - German-born Ottoman general
Rowland Allanson-Winn, 5th Baron Headley - British soldier
Józef Bem - Polish-Hungarian general
Claude Alexandre de Bonneval - French-born Austrian general
Radu cel Frumos – Wallachian ruler
Jacques-Francois Menou - French general
Omer Pasha - From Serbian Orthodoxy, Bosnian general
Suleiman Pasha - French-born
Poncke Princen – Dutch soldier
Rudolf Carl von Slatin - Austrian lieutenant and British colonial administrator (conversion nominal)

Answer 2

There are millions of people wandering around in the world looking for a cause or belief system. Most of these people despise America because of its wealth and power, the primary religion in America is Christianity the only choice to choose that would be like spitting in Americas eye is Islam.

What is sad is people will join almost any religion and never really know what it is about. Christians should know their religion, Muslims should know their religion. In most cases they know little or nothing.

I have many Muslim friends because I was in Iraq for a year, not all of the Muslims wanted to kill us and I know of not one Christian that wanted to kill them. The one thing about Islam that caught me as a deterrent is the fact that if you die a martyr’s death they believe you are rewarded. Another was that their system has always been conversion by conquer, where Christianity has been convert by compassion. The Christians that went on the crusades and the Muslims that followed Muhammad when he had two hundred Christian soldiers heads removed after they surrendered are wrong. Both religions have times that marred their history.
I choose to build my house on the Rock instead of the sand. Please learn how Islam started and it is clear that it has always been militant; right now they are not targeting only troops in Iraq, they are killing more of their own people. My last mission in Iraq was a car bomb that killed many Iraqi's and there were no Americans around.
People need a cause and I hope more find their cause while on their knees praying to GOD the Father, GOD the SON, and GOD the HOLY SPIRIT.

Answer 3

I've seen this question many times, but have never seen any proof or reference sited for it or any statistics by country or demographic groups.

I would hazard that if it is the fastest growing religion, it's because people are converting without a clue of the history of Islam (i.e. Mecca did not exist prior to the 3rd or 4th century AD) or of comparative religion. In this case, going along with the gullible crowd seems rather distasteful.

Answer 4

Darkest, before Dawn? At least Muslims are "hot"!
The light shineth in darkness, till "no darkness at all".
http://www.godshew.org/GodShew2.htm#Allness
http://www.godshew.org/GodShew4.htm

Billy goat Graham: Franklin's Pur$e, also growing ww.
X-ians will also offer a 'cup' of 'cold', for their 'reward'.
Here's a picture of 'cold', and from the 'weather channel':
http://www.weather.com/newscenter/slideshow/katrina2.html

MANY shall come...to DECEIVE...shall deceive MANY.
What part of this first and last "MANY" did you not get?

Perhaps you missed the TAKE HEED 101 class,
isn't about Beware: Fear; But more about Be Aware.
For clarity a GIVE MORE EARNEST HEED 201 class,
notes "escape" is by give more earnest heed to what's said;
The only other option notably being "no escape": 1Thess 5:3.
http://www.godshew.org/RevelatorySermons32.htm

The GRACE of our Lord Jesus Christ with you all. Amen.

Answer 5

Polygamy and theocratic nations which won't tolerate other relious sects, besides Islam, within there borders can't hurt. Afterall, even in islamic countries where freedom of religion is supossedley present the truth is that non-muslims are harassed and attacked, and given no real protection for their religious beliefs.

The western world's use of contraceptives, condemned byCatholic church teaching in nearly all cases, is causing a reversal of this in non-muslim areas. Eventually the number of Christians will drop if this practice continues. Many in the secularized west are also falling away from their faiths leading to a drop in numbers, while Islam grows in numbers.

Answer 6

Its is because you have also seen it,said it but are you practicing or you want to start now? Islam the fastest religion in the world because is base on the pure truth,teaching and guidings of the whole universe.

Answer 7

Islam is growing so quickly for a number of reasons. The main one is due to the relationship between education and faith. The less education you have, the more likely it is that you will believe in the supernatural. Many Muslim countries are impoverished and lacking in educational infrastructure. Many Muslim children get no formal education at all, except the time they spend in Muslim schools where they learn little more than the Quran. In some of the more base schools they are taught to hate things they are unfamiliar with, like the civilization, Jews and the West.

The hate has nothing to do with Islamic culture and everything to do with ignorance. Unfortunately believing in things like supernatural beings and the other crap drives ignorant fools into lives of hate and destruction.

Answer 8

Actually Christianity is growing faster than Islam. Most of the growth of Islam is the result of high birth rates in Muslim countries. Very few people convert to Islam.

Answer 9

1. Atheism is illegal in Iran. Being a Christian means getting constantly harassed. So everyone goes for Islam there.
2. You'll get stoned to death in most of Islamic countries if you deny Islam or their prophet.
3. 5 wives per a man? That always brings more than 10+ children per family.

Answer 10

Christianity is still by far the most practiced religion and will be for a long time:

http://www.noblemind.com/toptenlists/World's_Most_Practiced_Religions

Answer 11

the average growth of humans is 2.3% a year,

The average growth of muslims is 2.9% a year, We are not having all the kids I'll tell you that much.

We don't marry 4 wives, ask any muslims and he'll tell you he is single or had only one wife, it's is rare that a man marries more than one woman.

We are simply getting more converts thats all.