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UK: Number of Muslim converts doubled in 10 years
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Published: 04.01.11, 14:28
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31. Failed State of Islam
Dan ,   Florida   (01.04.11)
Islam has turned Pakistan into a failed state and will do the same to Great Britain.
32. during 2005,2006 in Israel, 250 Jews converted to Islam
observer   (01.04.11)
33. #21
Ariel ,   USA   (01.04.11)
Actually, he said "Stupid is as stupid does."
34. Happy New Year ;) ,...
split ,   US   (01.04.11)
It didn't take long for the hasbara hatemonger crew to crawl out of woodwork ,...
35. I may convert too.
Ali ,   Scotland   (01.04.11)
I'd like to visit the Mosque in Kilmarnock but its not easy for me to reach.I want to learn about Islam,I might not make the best muslim in the world ,the only time I visit church is deaths and marriges so it would be a step closer to god for me
36. Islam among slaves
shlomo   (01.04.11)
Early Muslims came from slaves and poor. later, they reign over half the then world.
37. #8. And it shows.
Persian CAT   (01.04.11)
38. Everyone is allowed to make a mistake.
Persian CAT   (01.04.11)
39. 7 Salma - the situation as is
S Judah ,   Jerusalem   (01.04.11)
1. Most of these convert for marital reasons or because they had no previous belief. The latter is a failing of the very wishy washy christianity practiced by the Protestant Church. 2. Because of the latter they are losing many more to the Catholic Church and some very high profile people as well. 3. The majority of muslims in the UK are not fanatics and are substantially westernised and have falling birth rates. Don't believe the press in the UK that likes to make a big noise about everyone being fanatics. 4. The Arab muslims in the UK have a very condesending view of the Muslims of the East ie Pakistan etc and to whom most of these converts fall. A marrage between an Arab muslim and an Eastern muslim is unheard off. 5. There is by the way as much seepage to the Hindus, but as there is no fanatical issue with them there is no interest in this story. 6. What the statistics don't tell you is the high fall out rates of these converts in the log run, when marriages break down or they get bored with thier new life style. You need to digest all of this to understand matters.
40. I must correct Ali from Scotland # 35
Marc ,   Sweden   (01.04.11)
It will not bring you closer to our loving God but it will bring you closer to Allah, the God of suicide bombers......two different entities and definitely not the same From Sweden, the land of the midnight sun soon the land of the crescent moon
41. were they drunk when they converted?than is not valid!!
Anna Maria Sedda ,   Italy-Rome   (01.04.11)
42. Ignore Scottish would-be Muslim Ali!
Gábor Fränkl ,   Budapest, Hungary   (01.04.11)
Please disregard "Ali". He is an anti-Israeli nutcase, who hates Israel. Disregard him and the likes of him - far-left reality, - and rationality-defying fanatics from Lenin's and Stalin's age left behind in the XXIst century as a memento and all will be well.
43. during 2009-10, 25 million Muslims converted to Mormon
better observer ,   Istanbul   (01.04.11)
worldwide
44. Just like before WWII when the limies
jason white ,   afula,israel   (01.04.11)
joined the national front.
45. @12
NilsG ,   Helsingborg, Sweden   (01.04.11)
"...many seek a healthier way of life ..."; yes, how unfortunate that they find the poisonous culture of Islam ... Secular Western Culture is not self destructive - people who through stupidity and delusion leave it are self destructive ...
46. 42 - rationality-defying fanatics from Lenin's and Stalin's
split ,   US   (01.04.11)
Read dude , it doesn't hurt ,. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3342999,00.html
47. How many British converted to Judaism, my wife is one
Roger Levy ,   London   (01.04.11)
In her class of 1999 there was about 45 people, and this was just one class in the country and certainly not the smallest. Report that ynet, your collective reporting never ceases to amaze me
48. the size is not important
hannah ,   sweden   (01.05.11)
THE SIZE ISN'T IMPORTANT! truth is often Rejected by the majority.. there are many Muslims also converting to Christianity..far more..but no one can say what is right based on how many follow a particular religion..God tells us only a minority will follow the truth..and ISLAM Is becoming a Majority,and indeed are in muslim countries..I know of many muslims who have left islam..
49. Despite all the propaganda
IRAN#1   (01.05.11)
There must be some power in the message of Islam that attracts even those who are brain washed from childhood with negative propaganda about Islam. That says it all.
50. Madeleine, Madeleine.....
Kamardin ,   Malaysia   (01.05.11)
Stop watching news footage. Don't be ignorant. Use the internet and find out about Islam and Muhammad. Not all muslims are perfect since they are human, but islam is perfect.
51. Sarah... Sarah...
Kamardin ,   Malaysia   (01.05.11)
A lot of times when people are at the very low, they turn to Islam. Why? Because Islam shows the way. I have no problems accepting them to Islam. In fact very happy, even when a Jew converts to Islam. Remember in the eyes of Allah, it is piety that sets us apart. Not wealth, not status, nothing else. We will be judged.
52. The challenge of public diplomacy vis-a-vis the delegitimisa
Chris M ,   Porthmadog   (01.05.11)
EVERY JEW SHOULD READ THIS ARTICLE,LEFT AND RIGHT,IT ONE OF THE BEST ARTICLE EVER WRITTEN BY MELANIE PHILLIPS. "Objectivity, evidence and truth have been ditched for ideologies such as moral and cultural relativism, multiculturalism, feminism, environmentalism, anti-capitalism, anti-colonialism, transnationalism, anti-Americanism, anti-Zionism. Across a wide range of such issues, it’s no longer possible to have a rational discussion with the progressive intelligentsia, as on each issue there’s only one story for them which brooks no dissent. This is because, rather than arriving at a conclusion from the evidence, ideology inescapably wrenches the evidence to fit a prior idea. So ideology of any kind is fundamentally anti-reason and truth. And if there’s no truth, there can be no lies either; truth and lies become merely ‘alternative narratives’. Moral and cultural relativism – the belief that subjective experience trumps moral authority and any notion of objectivity or truth – has turned right and wrong on their heads. Because of the dominant belief in multiculturalism, victim culture and minority rights, self-designated victim groups — those without power — can never do wrong while majority groups can never do right. And Jews are not considered a minority because – in the hateful discourse of today – Jews are held to be all-powerful as they ‘control’ the media, Wall Street and America. So the Muslim world cannot be held responsible for blowing people up as they are the third world victims of the west; so any atrocities they commit must be the fault of their victims; and so the US had it coming to it on 9/11. And in similar fashion, Israel can never be the victim of the Arab world; the murder of Israelis by the Arab world must be Israel’s own fault. So the way has been opened for mass credulity towards propaganda and fabrication. The custodians of reason have thus turned into destroyers of reason – centred in the crucible of reason, the university. All these different ideologies are utopian; in their different ways, they all posit the creation of the perfect society. That is why they are considered ‘progressive’, and people on the progressive wing of politics sign up to them. That helps explain the distressing fact that so many Jews on the left also sign up to Israel-hatred, since they too sign up to such utopian ideologies. But when utopias fail, as they always do, their adherents invariably select scapegoats on whom they turn to express their rage over the thwarting of the establishment of that perfect society. And since utopia is all about realising the perfect society, these scapegoats become enemies of humanity. For Greens, such enemies of humanity are capitalists; for anti imperialists, America; for militant atheists, religious believers. Anti-Zionists turn on Israel for thwarting the end to the ‘Jewish question’: the redemption of western guilt for the persecution of the Jews — a guilt which can never be redeemed as long as the wretched Jews continue to make themselves the targets of attack. In short, therefore, the west cannot defend itself against the Islamic jihad because it can’t itself even think straight any more. But this lethal muddle in the minds of the intelligentsia must be viewed in turn in the context of a global diplomatic process which itself embodies upside-down thinking, which fans the flames of bigotry and defeatism – and in which Israel itself has been tragically, and suicidally, complicit. It cannot be stressed enough that the reason why those promoting genocidal bigotry are winning is that the western world has not sought to defeat them but instead has appeased them from the very start." NOW READ THE WHOLE ARTICLE >> http://www.melaniephillips.com/articles-new/?p=789
53. #49,SO HOW COME MILLIONS OF MUSLIMS
Anna ,   Ukraine   (01.05.11)
LEAVE ISLAM EVERY YEAR?THERE WILL ALWAYS BE PEOPLE WHO ARE ATTRACTED TO ANY RELIGION,ISLAM INCLUDED.THIS DOES NOT SAY ISLAM IS SUPERIOR...WHAT THIS ARTICLE DOES NOT SAY IS HOW MANY MUSLIMS ARE CONVERTING TO CHRIST..YOU WOULD BE ASTONISHED!
54. #49. You said it, baba.
Persian CAT   (01.05.11)
They were braiwashed to bigin with.
55. to yaakov, USA
Sana ,   India   (01.05.11)
So, wht ur rockets & people doing in Afghanistan & Iraq??Wht u sow so shall u reap.....its d reaping time for u all buddy !!!
56. Think for yourselves
BobH ,   Milton Keynes, Bucks   (01.05.11)
Each person should have their own beliefs based on their own personal thoughts, feelings and experiences. So I find it surprising that so many people freely and whole-heartedly subscribe to pre-packaged, off-the-shelf systems of belief. Why choose from a list of "available religions"? Why the need to feel that you belong to a group and share their beliefs? There are hundreds of different religions in the world, each claiming that they are the keepers of the one truth and that everyone else is wrong. One thing is for sure, they can’t all be right. And the likelihood is that none of them are. Why is it that people seem to be so unable to think for themselves?
57. reversion not conversion
mirashiq ,   delhi, india.   (01.05.11)
Every individual is a born muslim. But they inherit the religion as what their parents practice. But going through the light of islam, learning about islam and QURAN makes them to realise the truth. Only then they revert back to islam. If there is a religious void in europe or elsewhere in the world then at the sametime there are other religions at the offer, why not they accept any other religion. NO ONE CAN ESCAPE FROM THE TRUTH.
58. WHAT ABOUT THESE.
MIRASHIQ ,   DELHI, INDIA   (01.05.11)
yeah what about jaqueb ibn killis,youssef darwish, zaid shakir, abdullah ibn salam, ibn yahya, ibn sahl of seville. jacob querido, leila mourad, rashid-al din hamdani, tali fahima etc etc . All of these converted from judaism only........ the list is endless. Where they all addicts, poor,hungry, penniless....... YOU CANT ESCAPE FROM THE TRUTH.
59. Converts to Islam
A. Abraham ,   UK   (01.05.11)
It amazes me to read the reasons numerous people gave for converting to Islam: being fed up with liberal life of drunkenness, immorality, etc. Why do they not follow Jesus as he is discribed in the Bible? There these things are also described as being sinful. Muslim converts seem to have little knowledge of the other, not very nice side of Islam: All main schools of Shariah Islamic thought agree that Muslims who want to leave Islam need to be killed in an Islamic society . There are an estimated 15,000 to 50,000 Muslim converts to Christianity in the UK. Little is known of them due to their fear. Christians are given the status of 'dhimmitude,' effectively meaning they become second class citizens with fewer rights. While they are allowed to practice their own religion to a certain extent, Christians are forbidden to share it with Muslims. For more details of the above please search for these themes at: www.answering-islam.org
60. Divine justice. We deserve no less.
Lee ,   Manchester UK   (01.05.11)
We have double dealed the Jewish state even before she was born and continue to do so. WE ARE PATHETIC HYPOCRITES! On the WRONG SIDE.
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