[ April 24, 2024 ]
This triumphalist statement is a staple of Islamic propaganda. If Islam is the “world’s fastest-growing religion,” then this must surely reflect, its adherents believe, its innate superiority to other faiths. And it suggests that this rise is inexorable and irreversible. But the picture is not quite so clear. Look at the figures being given for the world’s Muslim population. There still seems to be no agreement. The numbers range enormously, from a low of 1.4 billion to a high of 1.8 billion.
In Muslim countries, the way Muslims are counted is to take the total population, subtract those who have definitely identified themselves as non-Muslims (Christians, Hindus, etc.), and then count all who remain as Muslims. But we know there are people in those countries who may not wish to be identified, for reasons of safety, as non-Muslims. Some may be practicing Christianity or another religion in secret. There are also those who have fallen away from Islam, and are no longer Muslims in any sense, but are terrified of revealing this, as the penalty for apostasy in Islam is death. So these silent apostates from Islam continue to be counted as Muslims.
One place where mass defections from Islam have apparently been taking place is Iran. Many Iranians have become fed up with the nearly 40 years of a brutal and corrupt Shi’a theocracy. The more the Iranian people are oppressed by the theocrats, from the religious police hauling in women for not wearing their chadors correctly, all the way up to the ruling ayatollahs who have been quietly enriching themselves by the millions or even, as in the case of Ayatollah Khamenei, by the billions, the less they like Islam. Even as far back as 2013, Muslim leaders in Iran were warning about a “tsunami of atheism,” declaring that many mosques were practically “empty,” and that disaffected Muslims were not just becoming atheists, but turning to Zoroastrianism, Christianity, and New Age beliefs. In Iran, the fastest-growing religion is Christianity. And yet, these ex-Muslims, whose numbers keep increasing, are still officially counted by the government as Muslims.
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The Kurds are another people who are turning away from Islam. Their experience at the hands of the Arabs has led many of them to regard Islam as “the Arab religion,” and either to embrace Christianity or to “return,” as they see it, to their original pre-Islamic religion, Zoroastrianism. When Saddam Hussein killed 182,000 Kurds, Kurdish activists have noted, no Arab leader, and no non-Kurdish Muslim cleric, denounced his mass murders. The Kurds say that Erdogan, while relentlessly re-islamizing Turkey, is also intent on crushing any Kurdish opposition. The two — Islamization, and anti-Kurdish repression — become commingled in Kurdish minds: more Islam is linked to more repression. In Iran the rulers of the Islamic Republic also keep up a low-level but steady military campaign against Kurdish separatists. The Kurds see Islam, then, as the religion of their oppressors — Arabs, Turks, and Iranians — and this makes them more susceptible to leaving the faith. In Iraqi Kurdistan, 100,000 Kurds are reported to have accepted Zoroastrianism.
The Berbers in North Africa have had an experience similar to that of the Kurds. Their own culture and language have in the past been largely suppressed by the ruling Arabs, especially in Algeria. They have come to understand that Islam itself has been a vehicle for Arab supremacism. After all, think of the many ways that the Arabs are considered central to Islam’s narrative. The message of Allah for the world, set down in the Qur’an, was given to an Arab, Muhammad, and in his language, Arabic. Muslims everywhere must turn toward the Hejaz, in western Arabia, five times a day in prayer, and recite those prayers in Arabic. The Qur’an itself should ideally be read in Arabic, and the only true version of that text is the one in Arabic. Many non-Arab Muslims, aware of the prestige of being an Arab, adopt Arab names. Some adopt such names not just to show a putative Arab lineage, but even to show descent from the tribe of Muhammad himself. Pakistan, for example, has several million people who call themselves “Sayids,” which identifies them as descendants of the Prophet’s own tribe.
Berbers know full well that the Arabs consider themselves the best of Muslims and Islam as the Arab national religion. Treated with contumely by Arabs, some Berbers clearly find Christianity appealing. As of 2012, the American government’s own estimate was that there were 500,000 Christians in Algeria alone, mainly in the Berber region known as the Kabyle. The Algerian government does not provide any census figures about the numbers of Christians; unsurprisingly, it still counts as Muslims converts who keep quiet about their new faith. If the real figures were known, then one would see that in Algeria, as in Iran, the fastest-growing religion is Christianity. And if Christians were not fearful of revealing their true beliefs, we would have a much better picture of how the Christian population is increasing. But it’s an impossible task, since very few converts dare to make their conversion known. In early 2018, on Al Jazeera, two Muslim scholars concluded that six million Muslims had recently converted to Christianity in Africa, but gave no breakdown by country.
We don’t know how many Muslims in the U.S convert out of Islam. Pew Research believes the number of people in the U.S. leaving Islam is equal to the number of converts to Islam. Some ex-Muslims in the U.S. say the number of apostates is grossly underreported, because many of those who leave Islam fear alienating their families and possible retribution.
When it comes to the Muslim claim that Islam being the “world’s fastest-growing religion,” there are only three things we can say with confidence. The first is that Muslim families are certainly larger than those of any other faith. That is the kind of growth that has nothing to do with the innate superiority of the faith; it’s merely a matter of the effects of polygyny and outbreeding the Infidels in a demographic Jihad. The second is that Islam has proven itself attractive to prisoners in the West. These prison conversions to Islam are mainly the result of prisoners wanting to join the biggest gang behind bars, the Muslim gang, for obvious reasons of personal security. The third is that we do not, and cannot have, a real sense of how many people convert out of Islam, because it remains so dangerous for apostates to declare themselves. We do have anecdotal evidence in Iran, and among the Berbers and Kurds, that suggest numerous conversions out of Islam to Christianity. In Iran, and in the Kabyle region of Algeria, Christianity is the fastest-growing religion.
Meanwhile, since 80% of the world’s Muslims are non-Arabs, it would be useful to publicize among them all the ways that Islam is and always will be a “a vehicle of Arab supremacism.” Resentment of that supremacism can be exploited, and not only among Kurds and Berbers, in order to kindle the spark of inquiry, criticism, doubt, and disaffection.
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42 Comments
5 years ago
Just goes to show how many mentally deficient, unstable, and low IQ people there are in the world.
5 years ago
actually its growth rate is less than Christians, if anything the deviant child fawker moHAMhead, piss be upon him, spurned more people to convert to Christianity
https://www.is-there-a-god.info/blog/belief/religion-statistics/
5 years ago
Reply to
Halal Bacon
Thank you!
I have personally had doubts about Islam being the fastest growing religion. As Muslims are allowed to be educated and they dig into the past of Mohammad, they are shocked and want no parts of it. It is the proliferation of available data and easy access to it via the internet and other sources that exposes Islam for what it is. What has helped this lie of it growing is the requirement to never leave Islam or you can be murdered. You are not allowed to question Islam or be critical of it.
I point to Nabeel Qureshi for digging into Islam. He explored Islam with the same vengeance he used to use to reject Christianity and Islam came up short and the evidence for Christianity was superior. He also read about Mohammad’s life, from his father’s books, and how brutal he was and the monster he really was. When he compared the Bible to the Quran, he also discovered there was NO COMFORT at all in ANY Quran reading whereas in the Bible this is readily found. Over time he converted to Christianity.
Here is a recent statement from a group of Bangladeshi apostates living in the UK explaining the reasons why they have abandoned Islam:
“One who claims to be a messenger of God is expected to live a saintly life. He must not be given to lust, he must not be a sexual pervert, and he must not be a rapist, a highway robber, a war criminal, a mass murderer or an assassin. One who claims to be a messenger of God must have a superior character. He must stand above the vices of the people of his time. Yet Muhammad’s life is that of a gangster godfather. He raided merchant caravans, looted innocent people, massacred entire male populations and enslaved the women and children. He raped the women captured in war after killing their husbands and told his followers that it is okay to have sex with their captives (Qur’an 33:50). He assassinated those who criticized him and executed them when he came to power and became de facto despot of Arabia. Muhammad was bereft of human compassion. He was an obsessed man with his dreams of grandiosity and could not forgive those who stood in his way…
The statement continues,
Muhammad was a narcissist, like Hitler, Saddam or Stalin. He was astute and knew how to manipulate people, but his emotional intelligence was less evolved than that of a 6-year-old child. He simply could not feel the pain of others. He brutally massacred thousands of innocent people and pillaged their wealth. His ambitions were big and as a narcissist he honestly believed he is entitled to do as he pleased and commit all sorts of crimes and his evil deeds are justified.”
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Felix, where is the original presentation of that statement? I see it on the Daniel Pipes site, many others appear to be “plagiarising” it.
5 years ago
Reply to
Qur'an 18:86
I usually save the link when I quote it but for some reason I did not do that here.
I just know that where ever I copied it from is a truthful website.
I will have to be more careful in the future and save the link.
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Thanks – some of us already know that is all true anyway. Meanwhile may be of interest the following answer related:
https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-of-the-biggest-misconceptions-that-Muslims-have-about-Islam/answers/108587428
5 years ago
Reply to
Qur'an 18:86
It is from Salem Smith, who contributes, and comments, at Jihadwatch.org
5 years ago
Reply to
Halal Bacon
don’t you know that judeoPORNistianity’s growth is off the chart ??
that picture is incomplete …
5 years ago
Reply to
Halal Bacon
Not sure why Pentecostals are not treated as other Christians, I will add this: as a person who grew up in a multi-religious society, I will say that Christians and Buddhists have no problems being together at all. We marry each other and enjoy drinks, food and celebrations. I went to Hongwanji school growing up. Hindus here are likewise welcome in every household but are not exactly party and marriage prospects in that many are too religious…but unlike the crazies in India, here they are the nicest, quiet, most civic responsible citizens you could imagine. As for the Muslims….I see the fanatic parents ….slowly acknowledging that their children are different once they get out of the Arab mental slum. The kids marry atheist and leave home ASAP. Surprisingly, some of the parents are OK with this…..because they like the grandchildren.
5 years ago
Reply to
Halal Bacon
“the deviant child fawker moHAMhead, piss be upon him”
Those words are a clear hate crime that will cause many thousands of decent people to be severely injured. We have your IP address and will be around shortly to remove you from commiting any more crimes. (By the way, the word you needed was spurred, not spurned.)
5 years ago
I cant wait for the oil to run out then the Arabs will be back to being the low life poor sand nxxxxxx that the are. No oil, no money, no Islam
5 years ago
Well,it’s the fastest “dying” religion…..that’s for damn sure
5 years ago
Reply to
Robbins Mitchell
They grow so fast because they understand that reproduction matters. Unlike feminized western men and women who abort and have an average of 1.3 children. The future belongs to those who reproduce. And it’s gonna be ugly, cause they offspring have unibrows.
5 years ago
How can Islam NOT grow when they blow into town and kill anyone who won’t convert!? LOL!
5 years ago
Only a psychopath would want to belong to a religion that requires you to kill everyone else.
5 years ago
Islam is actually a Christian heresy related to Arianism that denied the divinity of Christ. Adherents of Arianism were cast out and congregated in the vicinity of wht is now known as Medina where an Arab trader named Mohammed expolited this heresy to form the fake religion known as Islam.
5 years ago
Reply to
John Acord
Islam is not so much a “heresy” of Christianity, more like a complete antithesis of it. Just the “prophet” copied (highly inaccurately) some of the stories from the bible in the course of his ranting.
5 years ago
Reply to
John Acord
It is a pagan fusionist cult which rewrote false stores and created 5 year old illiterate sounding ramblings based on the mind of psychos and plagiarisms of many religions and pagan beliefs. It only gained/gains power because it uses totalitarian genocide techniques to force all to bow to it or die, to this day that same threat exists in all islamic states. You are force born a “Muslim” from birth in all muslim countries and cannot leave Islam unless you wish to be executed.
5 years ago
Best news I’ve read all day. I constantly hear how Islam is the fastest growing religion but if people convert out of fear of death are they truly Muslims? They force this so called religion down peoples throats and then have the nerve to say how fast Islam is growing. What a farce! Then there’s the ones that are born into it. Let’s face it. They have a lot more children. That is why it’s considered the fastest growing religion and could replace Judaism as the second largest religion here in the US at some point. Just the thought of that creeps me out. Hope I’m dead and gone by then!
5 years ago
We should be teaching children to believe in themselves not some fantasy built around rulers employing their religious workforce to keep them in power! If some people are too fearful to live a normal life without it then let them subscribe to whatever they choose but they should be made aware that organized religions are not about faith but about retaining power over others!
5 years ago
Of course the numbers who do not care about Islam or have left it completely (apostates) cannot be known and even if they were the Islamic leaders would never publish them as it would show their weakness. Nobody chooses Islam apart from converts who I believe are very few and many change their minds soon afterwards, converts to every and any religion gets a lot of attention and praise, sometimes even rewards, in one country where I was working a minority religious sect were giving boots to people who converted! In Brunei, those who convert are given all kinds of privileges which are denied to non Muslims. I expect iy is the same in most countries. Every child born into a Muslim family is branded like a calf and has no escape from indoctrination at an early age. Indoctrination is how religion survives, without it it would have been abandoned centuries ago. The RC church were masters of indoctrination.
5 years ago
This brand of propaganda about the prevalence of pisslam is old hat. During WWII, the Imperial Japanese said they would broadcast their victory statement from the White House with their flag flying atop the place. We see how that worked out.
Be safe, be trained, be alert.
5 years ago
Christianity is the fastest growing belief in the world — just watch GOD TV on cable, you will be amazed at what’s going on below the radar of the media.
5 years ago
To start with, just because they use the word god to describe Allah doesn’t make their ideology a religion – especially not one protected by the 1st Amendment. Islam is a political ideology of theocratic rule and laws and has no place in the free world as it based on slavery to the ruling elites.
https://liberalsbackwardsthink.com/2015/01/08/mohammad-the-first-terrorist-and-his-religion-of-self-imposed-brainwashing/
5 years ago
I suggest there’s little doubt that the fastest growing religious belief is “Islamophobia”, or EX-muslim. (Good to see that i-word flagged as an error there.)
5 years ago
There was a high “shyness” factor in the Brexit vote, which completely turned the result round from the exit polls. Likewise the vote for Trump. You can be sure that the “shyness” factor for Islam is far higher (plus of course most “Muslims” I speak to are profoundly ignorant of “what they believe” anyway).
5 years ago
A very good article. I’m happy to hear that the ‘islam is the world’s fastest growing religion’ is just a lot of propaganda.
5 years ago
Good points … all is not as it seems … and no doubt many ‘Muslims’ would apostatize but for the fear of death …
but lest we be overconfident … their numbers are rising due to birth and conversion …
if the rate of apostasy is greater than the growth of Muslims … it’s hard to see.
5 years ago
Reply to
Dan Knight
Well, thats just it you see!! You CAN’T see muslim apostasy as you can in other faiths.. You appear to have missed the point in the article. I have known about the mass fleeing from Islam in Iran for sometime, buts its hidden. Because of massive fear of death penalty.. Christian converts meet in secret and some get the message out to the world of the large scale fleeing from Islam, especially to Christianity…The secret gatherings of Christians reminds me of the early Christians, meeting in the catacombs under Rome to escape shocking persecution. However its known about 2 million leave Islam in Indonesia yearly and around 6 million leave in Africa….yearly……I saw an African Iman bitterly complaining about it during an interview on tv…Its v true that muslims will not easily admit having left the nightmare faith as it will cost them so much..If not killed, than ostracised by family and muslim friends totally…Few years ago, a senior Saudi Arabian cleric admitted without the threat of death for apostasy, the ‘religion’ could not survive!…No other faiths need this truly evil punishment and they do v well.. thrive even…It says a lot about Islam, that it needs such a punishment….and what it says is a horror story….. Christians number around 2.4 billion worldwide and Islam will never catch up with it… A lot of Chinese have become Christians and its growing in China…same occuring in Africa….where the Pentacostal type sects are growing v steadily. As well, its known that a great many ‘converts’ revert after around 2 years..they just want to get away after experiencing the hell of Islamic reality..It’s also a part of jihad to overstate their numbers to freak out non muslims,,..they’re masters at lying,,,,In the end, the world will be forced to destroy Islam ….
5 years ago
Reply to
Ingrid Wilson
You appear to have missed the point of my post.
Sure it’s possible … but I have worked with many Muslims (Big Oil and
Government) … and none were apostate, and they were all a-holes.
All you have done is offered more rumors. Of which I am well aware, as I contribute to missions in Muslim nations. But these missions offer very small numbers. They claim a large conversion rate, but at the rate at which converts are murdered the numbers are not rising fast.
Btw, if 8MM leave Islam annually, that’s about 0.6%, assuming 1.2B. If the population growth rate is anywhere near replacement, the population of Muslims would be increasing at a modest 25MM.
As for converts reverting, I would not take that to the bank either. I know of many converts in the black community, several white criminals, and a handful of hispanics … and I’ve never heard anyone shouting for joy that their friend or relative reverted.
Again – I would love to believe Hugh, and I am an optimist and I like positive rumors – but …
Show me some data … or for that matter … even outline how such data could be collected from a reliable source without fear of death or destruction …
5 years ago
I seriously they are the world’s fastest growing religion. They just happen to be the most noticed, mostly for bad reasons. When was the last time a muslim charity showed up at a large disaster to render aid to the afflicted? NEVER! When all you read about is “muslim does this, muslim does that”, you might think that they are prevalent. They are irrelevant, except for the destruction they reap around the world.
5 years ago
The Antichrist is here. The Antichrist is imposing the vile doctrine of pacifism and silencing of all Christian speech and thought and belief in all now post Christian civilization of Europe and North America. The destruction of all Christian civilization with the most vile doctrines of all human history, pacifism and Islam and atheism/Marxism are now at their late stages. Those who wear the Islamic kkk hoods to worship the devil (allah) and spit in the face of all christians with their god damned hoods will be the ones the Antichrist uses to impose things upon Christians that he is too much of a faggot to do himself to keep his pacifist god appearance in the media. Only fools stay anywhere in north america or europe now, everything you own is going to be confiscated, you will not be able to move anything of your prior assets out of the country, you will have to walk out like all the Antichrist invaders are walking in.
5 years ago
It’s possible, with the amount of forced conversions done by extremist groups.
5 years ago
Islam is the world’s greatest killing religion! Many countries had pre-Islamic religions that were exterminated! Whole civilizations were destroyed by Islam! Other religions gave the world spiritual blessings while Islam gave it spiritual terrorism! Wow! The sad truth is that the nonIslamic World won’t admit the truth that it isn’t a phobia when Islamics chief tenant is forced conversion & a global caliphate which is why globalists favor it against their own societies’ interests!
5 years ago
Its given the world little of what it claims..Especially in maths..Diothantes of Alexandria invented algebra in 5th century..He is known as the ‘Father of Mathematics’….and he wrote 4 books called ‘Arithmatica’…..But who knows??
The said Arab only wrote a textbook on Diophantes’s work plus additions he included….Arabs thibk they invented the …..wait for it……The 3 course meal !!. Hahaha.. They also bellow that they invented soap. Hahaha….and some think they did..They didnt, they just added perfume to what several different cultures were already using. Made from ash and animal fat. Some types,like thart used by ancient Egyptians, had a natron base ..
