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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – >NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.57.18.191 > Islam is Great School of Social and Morals Values > Islam is peaceful religion .It came to assure the message of Abraham , Moses > and Jesus . It is the religion of equality , justice , happiness and light . > When Europeans and Americans get the right message of Islam , they declare > their willingness to convert . > Islam is the most and faster growing religion in the world especialy in > Europe and USA . > No person in his/her mind and free of delusion or social > and political pressure should reject the message of Islam . This explain the > facts that the majority of local Christian and Jews in the Middle East > through and history converted to Islam since 1400 year ago without any > social or political pressure .However , few of these Christians and Jews > insist to keep their religion, because Islam a civic religion respects the > freedom to believe and respects the people of the books, Islam does not > enforce others to convert . > Islam is a great shool of social morals and values . We should all see how > 900 years ago when the Muslims merchants arrived to shores of Malaysia and > Indonesia . The purpose of their arrival was not to spread Islam but rather > to trade , to buy and sell spices and goods , then return back home .But > local people were fascinated by the great high standard of values the > mrechants had .They were invited to Islam by their conscious and observation > to the behavior of their guests , the Muslim merchants . > Now the vast majority of local people in Indonesia and Malaysia are Muslims > , they converted to Islam after they watched the great values and typical

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In their hasty efforts to explain Islam to the American public, media commentators have offered some dubious statistics that, if true, would have striking consequences for the picture of religion worldwide. How many times of late have you heard that Islam is the world’s fastest-growing religion, that Islam will be the world’s largest religion within a few decades? The figures are spurious, since Christians will far outnumber Muslims at least through the coming century. That North Americans so readily accept such predictions testifies to our continuing ignorance of the flourishing state of Christianity in the global South, in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Despite all the superb scholarship on "Southern" Christianity over the last 20 years, many North Americans are oblivious to the booming numbers of Christians worldwide. For our secular