Islam! The growing Religion of the 21st Century! Why? (Opinion-Ne

You are correct in your assessment in my opinion! Yet lets not forget that all three major religion have much blood on their hands through out history all in the name of a God! Failing to follow their own teachings of peace, respect, justice and Love!

Yes, Justice is what the World wants and deserves! As well as peace and equality! 

Thank you for your comment here, I appreciated it!

Interesting read!

Thank you for GS and your remark, I do appreciate it very much renovatio!

Hello djermano, Thank you for reading this and Flagging it! A wise comment you are making here and in my view very true as well. I am in full agreement with you here and appreciate your visit very much. Thank you!

I will add my two pennies, I think Islam like any other religion is good, its how people interpret it. My opinion is, any religion which believes in numbers, can not be a true religion. Any religion which thinks that you have to embrace their religion to attain a level of spirituality, is just playing the numbers game. This is like an election of any country, everyone wants numbers.

I beleive that, you do not have to be a Christian to pray to Jesus. I studied in a christian missiorary school, prayed to Jesus, used to think he is a Hindu God, I go to Mosques and pray to god, I dont have to convert to Islam to know that Mohammed was god's messenger. I really dont think you have to convert to another religion find your path to enlightment.

Thank you for the comment here and the flag below, I do appreciate it very much jaydeepmensa! As to your comment, it is an interesting view and I always tot I am the odd one! :) I do pretty much the same, in my family we have Moslems, Christian, Buddhist and Atheist, yet we all go to the Mosque and the Church, the Shrine, Temple and on occasion we visit Friends at the Synagogue! We have many races in our family and religions, yet we all get rather well along since we also respect one another and care for one another, putting the well being of the Family and peace to be a priority! We have those that are married and those that are not yet live together, and still get along and we all are from West Africa, Europe and Asia and never ran into a problem. We do argue and have heated debates yet nothing ever could divide us for we know and I was tot that in the end we all want the same thing, Peace, Justice and a Future and we all have the same red blood running through our vanes! Looking for what we have in common rather than to look for what divides us may be the key to more peace and Justice in this World!

Thank you for you input here, I do appreciate it!

Thank you gerrypopplestone for reading this article and flagging it as well as for you comment here! I do appreciate it very much in deed!

Thanks Barry for the Flag and reading this Post, I do appreciate it very much!

Pachen san' i like your article, thank you for sharing it...

Many people profess to believe that there is only one 'God' who has created mankind and entire universe. Yet, most of those who profess this belief fall short in their understanding of pure and absolute oneness of 'God'.

The followers of Christianity declare that there is only one 'God', but can the 'Holy Bible' and its scholars providea clear, simple and unconfusing concept of 'God'.?

In the Qur'an, the holy book of the Islamic faith, the correct beliefs about 'God' (said in the Arabic language, 'Allah') has been perfectly out lined...

"We all believe in one God"

"My brothers, we must tell the world that differences don't need to lead disputes," The tragedies we have experienced throughout history were not fault of religion but because of extremism that has been adopted by some followers of all the religions."  

Maraming salamat po!!!

Watanabe san'

I support atheism.

Wow, that's an interesting take in the overwhelming growing rate of Islam throughout the Western hemisphere. I certainly see a point, regarding the aspect religious conversation as a tool of policial rebellion.

Im not so sure if I buy the idea that sympathy for others in the Islamic community necessarily feeds into the rate of religious conversion.

I like this story, good stuff. I am an agnostic, but have started reading more and more about Muslim culture and history, and am quite turned off by Western Christians. I have had two buddies in the U.S. military convert to Islam, and they are more at peace than my Baptist friends. I am in agreement with Paschen and a lot of the comments, religion has been used as a means of subversion and LOTS of blood. Another interesting religion I have been reading about is the Sikh religion. Rather interesting stuff. And once again, I agree with moonwolf, the mainstream media, especially right wing pundits, have continuously ran the Muslim religion into the ground, with distortions and lies.

JAYDEEPMENSA, you are a advanced 21st century "thinker" multitasking multiuser, your definition of your way deserves respect; it is the most complicated. When people not understand their life, then mostly they turn to religion not action, that's the problem. I think all great religion founders would either hate or laugh  to what has been converted their effort from the bussy followers that know only the dogma "Do you believe in my religion"?

......even the Pagan's they have their own 'God' .???

Well, it could be the far-lefts theory that everyone hates the West and Christians and is moving to a religion of peace like Islam or it could be that whereas Christian birthrates are dropping Islamic birthrates are skyrocketing [SOURCE].

And, quite frankly, anyone who actually believes that Islam is totally peaceful and full of love and harmony really needs to look at history. Islamic leaders are also responsible for a lot of death and destruction for the same reasons Christian leaders are responsible for death and destruction.

And, if you think the answer is to embrace some type of secular religious replacement all you have to do is look at the death toll the Soviet Union racked up (approximately 100 million) and you will quickly see that that isn't the answer either.

To further comment Pashen, I do not believe in organized religion, because of the disputes and differing ideals. How can God have so many Churches, yet they disagree? All of them claim to be the true Church of God. The bible to me is a compilation of stories called scripture, telling us our religious past, and its interaction with God. The history of the Old testament that is in the Bible is not to be followed or interpreted to be followed. It is simply a ledger telling us events. The New Testament on the other hand is about the Son of God Jesus of Nazareth. His teachings were exemplary means to how men should be toward each other. And though I agree with Jesus teachings some things he did such as being violent in the Temple and saying he did not come to the earth to bring peace but to bring the sword, makes the Bible seem contradictory in nature. But who knows if what they said he said or did is true, because the Books in the Bible have been translated time and time again, and who knows what is translated is accurate.

Much searching has proven to me that the teachings of Nonviolence are never elaborated. It is always Good overcoming evil by using violence to achieve those means. If education taught Nonviolence and practiced it, and really did ban guns, and really did down play wars that people claim gave them independence then I think our world would move in a truer peaceful direction. Violence threats, militaries are all imposed examples of achieving peace. They never give real peace the footing it needs and the real space to do its' work. And this is what we really want, but never can achieve, because of imposed peace.

The Bible although is a historical ledger of Religion in the World and I am happy for Jesus of Nazareth, but to me it does not fullfil our peaceful search for truth and acquiring it. Jesus practiced Nonviolence, but he never really Organized it. It became an objective of making Jesus our Church Organization. We have seen throughout history that has failed, because the Churches take upon the ideals of  acknowledging just war theories presented by St.Augustine during his time centuried life.

Catholocism loses ground and many religions who accept the means to using violence to stop it. We need to disavow such practices. Myself believe the Church is your family within your home and how we treat each other. My giving of alms is not to some administrator who claims to watch the flock and takes care of Church matters, because this is how the corruption developes. Better to give my money to real people in need, instead of throwing it in some basket and not know really where that money goes.

In realizing we need to support the ideals of Nonviolence before Religion is paramount to achieving real peace in the world. It is why I have started The International Institute of Nonviolence, which is not a Relgious Body, nor a Political Statehood body. It is an Institute that people take upon in the moral real sense and respectful sense that Nonviolence achieves our goals for issues where the State and Religion have time and time again have failed us. The International Institute of Nonviolence is impossible to fail. It will come to absorb the world in the future and people will welcome this as a seasoned and well adjusted guiding light of action to our societies and people in the world.

Hello BigT good of you to drop by. If you read my Post and the comments, there is actually nothing in there to the justify your allegations nor did I ever say that Islam was Peace and Christianity not or the other way around! Nor did I agree or support the former Soviet Union or the Left nor the Right Wing views! You may need to reread the Article with open eyes! Sorry!

Thank you for the Comment, I appreciate it! I am talking about conversion though, I do not count into that category simple sympathiser, those are in addition or rather a separate issue all together! Thank you for bringing that up it is a good point in deed!

Thank you for your very insightful comment here danesller0127, I do appreciate it!

We may all fall short of understanding the pure oneness of the God concept and the Universe as well. Most Scholars in the area still have trouble defining it them self!

As scriptures says, You shall not make an image of God and yet we make many images. In other religions the approach is somewhat different and yet all fail to follow the teaching of their respective religions for the most part! 

I would conquer with you that Religious differences do not matter nor should they lead to disputes. It is correct that the tragedies experienced through out History where Politically and Monetary Motivated and Religion was used or miss used to convey the Masses to the quest of Holy Wars! 

As Mahatma Gandhi said to the House of Lords in London England some 50 years ago,

" You call your self Christian yet do not follow your teaching, if all Christian would live as Christ preached on the Sermon of the Mountain, then all Hindu would convert to Christianity!" It was a Wise observation he made!

Very True in deed! Some like to argue that Atheist do as well!

Thank you for dropping in and for your comment, I do appreciate it! I am happy you like the story and the comments here on this Post! Thank you! I do believe though that Peace can be fund in any Religion and maybe your friends fund it in Islam as other may find it in Christianity or Buddhism or even Ancient so called Pagan believes, in the end it is all in the eyes of the beholder! Thanks!

Thank you for your Comment and Flagging this Post, I do appreciate it very much!

Yes it is a hot theme and yet one that needs to doubt with a lot more and somewhat more objectively or Philosophically than emotionally and partisan!

Thank you for the links here I will look into them and hopefully other as well!

Your conclusion is some thing that Gohtte said as well once he came back to Germany after a long journey in foreign lands! 

Well gjermano, you really did a lot of thinking on the subject and I hope many will read your comment here, it is well written and well though out as well! Thank you for your insight here, I do appreciate it  a lot!