Islam is becoming the predominant religion around the globe...

crimzy

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-3X5hIFXYU
If you believe the statistics, then Islam is quickly becoming the dominant religion. Now, I'm not discounting the notion that this video may simply be anti-Muslim propaganda. However I have no real basis to disbelieve the numbers provided.
Assuming that the stats are accurate... your thoughts? Can a majority Islamic world be accepting of other religions?
I'm not trying to spark a bigoted debate here. I don't believe that all Muslims are extremists and threats, however my knowledge of the Islamic faith and the Koran are, admittedly, limited.
If the world is predominantly Muslim within most of our lifetimes, is this a threat to other faiths? Is there anything that can be done to change this?
 
d-man

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most statistics are made by the people that want things to look a certain way if you think about what they said at the end " a call to action", well how's their religion doing? and the hole 2.11 thing is bs, the other thing that this dose not think about is that we are human and some of the people bourn will not stay with the religion they were born with, as fare as I know this is not anything new it has been this way for some time.
If you really want to look up statistics look up what country consumes what and their population and you will find that we (the usa) consume why more than our share and this is really why there are a lot of (more that dont than do) countries religions that don't like us.
 
jackri

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I know a few islams people from India -- some of the nicest people you will every meet. I'm a Christian -- don't really care what other people are unless you start forcing your beliefs on me. Then I have a problem (goes for

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bible belt people that think I should be in their church instead of mine as well).
 
stdreb27

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Statistically they are seeing some growth of the muslim faith. But imo a lot of that is immigration. Like in Europe they aren't all new converts some of it is. Think about the instability in the middle east. The people running from getting killed have to go somewhere.
But just remember the headlines we saw a couple months ago that says Christianity was dying and stuff in the USA. But if you read their actual results. The number of people who professed some sort of judeo-christian affiliation (and that is everything even the nutcase cults and stuff) was still 77% down from something like 80%.
Another thing "reports" like to ignore is the law of diminishing returns. Which basically means they basically assume that the growth will remain unchanged. That stuff always ebbs and speeds up.
 
darthtang aw

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Originally Posted by d-man
http:///forum/post/3036656
If you really want to look up statistics look up what country consumes what and their population and you will find that we (the usa) consume why more than our share and this is really why there are a lot of (more that dont than do) countries religions that don't like us.

Stop believing bumper stickers and you may come across as intelligent more often.
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/en...ily-per-capita
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/en...ion-per-capita
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/en...ion-per-capita
 
stdreb27

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Originally Posted by Darthtang AW
http:///forum/post/3036756
Stop believing bumper stickers and you may come across as intelligent more often.
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/en...ily-per-capita
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/en...ion-per-capita
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/en...ion-per-capita
Darth you of all people should know what drugs and drinking coolaid does to people? But why post this, I've never seen facts stop liberals before. You really think it is going to stop them now?
 
darthtang aw

darthtang aw

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Originally Posted by stdreb27
http:///forum/post/3036779
Darth you of all people should know what drugs and drinking coolaid does to people? But why post this, I've never seen facts stop liberals before. You really think it is going to stop them now?

Journeyman is on vacation and asked me to fill in for him.
Darth (can't wait to edit and ban) Tang
 
d-man

d-man

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Originally Posted by stdreb27
http:///forum/post/3036779
Darth you of all people should know what drugs and drinking coolaid does to people? But why post this, I've never seen facts stop liberals before. You really think it is going to stop them now?
well your right it is all perspective (and by the way I have kidney failure so any drinking or drugs I take are because my doc told me to) but imho a country that is in the top 25 out of how many are out there (I did not look at all of them just the first-250) is not the best out there. As for as darth why do you need to insult some one over your views are you not capable of stating things in a mature way? and agin intelligence is a matter of perspective.
 
uneverno

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According to the video, we have nothing to worry about here, because illegal immigration from south of the border brings the birthrate of Americans to the cultural sustainability level.
Kinda cool, huh?
 
beth

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The "threat" of Islam becoming the dominate religion is not new. The Crusades were fought just to prevent such. And now its called Jihad or War on Terror, depending on your perspective.
 
reefraff

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Problem with Islam is the deeper you read into and study it the more possibility you can be radicalized. They have some teachings in the Koran that are very intolerant of other religions. Usually the people who commit violence in the name of Christianity are pretty ignorant of the religion's teachings.
The Muslims I have known all seemed to be pretty reasonable people, just regular run of the mill folk.
 
stdreb27

stdreb27

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Originally Posted by d-man
http:///forum/post/3036852
well your right it is all perspective (and by the way I have kidney failure so any drinking or drugs I take are because my doc told me to) but imho a country that is in the top 25 out of how many are out there (I did not look at all of them just the first-250) is not the best out there. As for as darth why do you need to insult some one over your views are you not capable of stating things in a mature way? and agin intelligence is a matter of perspective.
If some one walks up to you and says 2+2=5. And really believes it and you've had hundreds of others say the same thing. Then when you very slowly explain that 2+2=4. Only to watch them stick their fingers in their ears and scream I'm not going to listen to you. You're going to be a little jaded, and You are going to make a little fun of him...
 
uneverno

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The Old Testament is pretty ugly in what it demands in terms of the "Law".
Moses, Aaron - Islam, Judaeism. Same roots. Cain and Abel.
People are people.
As for the OP, Islam is only the potentially dominant religion if one doesn't take into account its factions: Sunni, Shiite, Wahabi, etc. If one combines all the flavors of Christianity, from Catholic through Protestant, there's still no contest.
'Course it's ok to paint one with a broad brush, but not the other...
Then there's Buddhist, the followers of which number roughly 1 billion too, blah, blah, quack.
 
uneverno

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Originally Posted by stdreb27
http:///forum/post/3037063
If some one walks up to you and says 2+2=5. And really believes it and you've had hundreds of others say the same thing. Then when you very slowly explain that 2+2=4. Only to watch them stick their fingers in their ears and scream I'm not going to listen to you. You're going to be a little jaded, and You are going to make a little fun of him...
That's an interesting analogy.
Einstein, Bohr, Schrödinger, Planck and Heisenberg did precisely that at the turn of the last century.
Turns out they were right. 2+2 does equal 5. Sometimes. Heisenberg's uncertainty principle says so. Or not.
 
sickboy

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Worried about Islam being the majority?? No I am not. The basis of their religion is peaceful, exactly like Christianity. Yes, there are extremist, but there are Christian extremist too. Neither pay attention to what their Holy books and religion actually teach. Judaism, Christianity & Islam are all formed on the same basis. Muslim's generally consider themselves the continuation of Christianity much as Christians view themselves the continuation of Judaism. Of course, if you look far enough back, one could argue that they are all based off Egyptian & Greek religions.....even some of the names are the same....
All of the Muslim people I know, which is probably around 15-20, are extremely nice, level-headed people that wouldn't do any harm to another unless they were defending themselves.
(Irony=the fact that I'm typing this while listening to Personal Insult by Superjoint Ritual)
 
stdreb27

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Originally Posted by uneverno
http:///forum/post/3037090
That's an interesting analogy.
Einstein, Bohr, Schrödinger, Planck and Heisenberg did precisely that at the turn of the last century.
Turns out they were right. 2+2 does equal 5. Sometimes. Heisenberg's uncertainty principle says so. Or not.
Even with all their ramblings unless you change the definitions of the number. 2+2 will always equal 4.
 
uneverno

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Alright.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but we're talking about the difference between arithmetic and math.
Whose ramblings your talking about? Those who invented the math that made nuclear power and weapons possible?
If so, it was because they discovered that on an atomic level, Newton was full of it. 2+2 not only does not equal 4, it doesn't equal a rational number at all.
Not that that has anything to do with the OP, except that everything is relative.
"There are lies, there are damn lies, and there are statistics."
Mark Twain
Meantime, by all means, consume, breed and obey...
 
stdreb27

stdreb27

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Originally Posted by uneverno
http:///forum/post/3037169
Alright.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but we're talking about the difference between arithmetic and math.
Whose ramblings your talking about? Those who invented the math that made nuclear power and weapons possible?
If so, it was because they discovered that on an atomic level, Newton was full of it. 2+2 not only does not equal 4, it doesn't equal a rational number at all.
Not that that has anything to do with the OP, except that everything is relative.
But at some point you HAVE to establish what 0 is and 1 and 2 or the number is useless.
 
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