Report: Global Muslim population hits 1.57 billion
Associated Press
Published: 08.10.09, 09:26
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1. the question is who is a Muslim?
Atheist Turk ,   Germany   (10.08.09)
They count me as a Muslim, because of my name, but I am not. How many of these people are real Muslims who practice their faith? I am a bit suspicious about in figures that certain organizations deliver. You never know, if they have any intent.
2. Russia has 25 milions ethnic Muslims,more than China
Hasan Salpagarov ,   Kazan~RUSSIA   (10.08.09)
3. Good/Bad/Ugly
Shai ,   IL   (10.08.09)
In the style of the UNHRC, shouldn't the Muslims be investigated for cultural genocide of the indigenous populations of Asia and Africa caused by forced conversions? Single-handedly present day Islamic Fundamentalism, especially Wahhabi Sunni and Shiite varieties, have given religion a bad name across the board. They should be sued in the iCC for libel. I'm kinda kidding here, but my point is that the growth of Islam SHOULD have been a blessing as it advances a religion that COULD join hands with other religions in peace. Unfortunately though it's current form has more to do with commentaries on the Koran in the centuries following Mohammed that cause Muslims to believe that anybody who's not like them is an infidel and deserving of dhimmihood at best, and death at worst. Therefore, until the religion is taken out of the hands of extremists, I don't find news of the spread of Islam encouraging at at all, and that they wrap themselves in religion shouldn't be a reason to stand by and offer them respect they don't earn through accomplishments for mankind and by setting the example as the "religion of peace" they claim to be. Islam may mean "submission" but they seem to mean that non-Muslims need to submit to their beliefs. They ask for "Justice" but they mean it's only for "Just us". Is there ANY major force in Islam that pushes for moderation?
4. Report: Global Muslim population hits 1.57 billion
En ,   UK   (10.08.09)
Isaiah 60:2. and Psalm 2. Isaiah chapter sixty verse two. .and Psalm chapter two.
5. 1.57 billion Islamist-Jihadists
Brod ,   USA   (10.08.09)
This is the biggest myth of all time. The Islamist-Jihadist world wants to use this myth to intimidate the Free World. The fact is there are millions of Islamists who have left Islam since 9/11. Read "Leaving Islam" edited by Ibn Warraq, "Understanding Muhammad" by Ali Sina,, etc. Fanatical Islamist-Jihadists continue to crusade their terrorism around the world, and murder those who want to follow the Prince of Peace. See The fact is, as former Professor of Quranic Interpretations at Al Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt, Omar Abdel Rahman, points out, "There is no surah called 'Peace.' Jihad and killing are the head of Islam. If you take them out, you cut off the head of Islam." (p.24, "Islam and Terrorism" [2002] by Mark A. Gabriel, PhD)
6. 1 in 4 Nobel Prizes Awarded to Jews This Year
Seth ,   Washington, DC   (10.08.09)
None to Muslims with 1.5 billion people Jews comprise 16 million people in the world Why?
7. To 6: we have short memory
Palestinian ,   USA   (10.08.09)
Nobel measures the scientific achievements in what, the last century? What about Islamic contribution in the past 1000 years in algebra, algorithm, medicine, optics, physics, astronomy, and even in music? Be aware of a day that is coming when Muslims wake up again and re-discover science. If I were u, I will try to prevent that!
8. To 7
Shai ,   IL   (10.08.09)
* Avicenna (ibn Sina) - see * Averroes (Abu al-Walid Muhammad ibn-Ahmad ibn-Rushd) - see * Al-Farabi (Abu Nasser Muhammad Al Farabi) - * Rhazes (Muhammed Ibn Zakharya Al Razi) - * Muhammed ibn-Musa al Khwarizmi -ūsā_al-Khwārizmī * Geber (Jabir ibn-Hayyan) - All of these had influence that fell roughly in the period between 800 and 1200 CE Since then, pretty much NOTHING because Muslims spent all their time resting on their laurels, just as they do today. Today, the DEMAND respect for what their ancestors had contributed 1000 years ago. Nobody in the West demands respect for providing humanity with Galen, or Rambam. They EARN respect, rather than demanding it by force and extortion.
9. TB #7 overstates "Islamic" contributions
Raymond in DC ,   Washington, USA   (10.08.09)
Palestinian (#7) writes, "What about Islamic contribution in the past 1000 years in algebra, algorithm, medicine, optics, physics, astronomy, and even in music?" How curious, first, that he has to go back 1,000 years - perhaps because so little of value has come out of the Islamic world in the last 400. Second, many of those contributions weren't Islamic at all, but were more accurately those of the newly "subdued" peoples - of Indians, Jews, Christians or Zoroastrians - that were simply repackaged in Arab or Islamic garb. Once they'd fully subdued those "unbelievers" in their midst, their own original contributions became rather scarce. Third, those Muslims who did make such contributions were often deemed heretics or apostates in their own time. To study the laws of nature, for example, is to deny the Islamic presumption of an "unfettered" God. Finally, the Islamic world did very little with its own innovations. Lacking the traditions of rationalism and self-criticism, it's not surprising the West was able to pull ahead. An honor-shame culture that plays the "victim" card in the face of lost glory only gets one so far.
10. Short Memory #6 7 8. If the Nobel Prize is your measuring
Ken ,   Europe   (10.08.09)
stick, Arafat, Peres, and Rabin won the Nobel for Peace in 1994 for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East.
11. 16 million too many #6
AB   (10.08.09)
12. #6 Jews are dropping morality for the sake of science
observer   (10.08.09)
13. #12 whatever Jews are dropping Muslims are quick to pick up
better observer   (10.10.09)
as long as it is very vile and cruel Dismemberment while alive, stonings, polygamy, beheadings, female genital mutilations, slavery, rape in prisons, temporary prostitution marriages, hatred of anything unIslamic, destroying entire civilizations, conversions at the threat of the sword..........................
14. Muslim Populations
Maralyn ,   US   (10.10.09)
It's one thing to say Muslims are living in area where they are not the most populated religion but, more importantly, is the way they live and believe in concordance with the rest of the Muslim population? If they are trying to assimilate and behave like normal human beings, then that is wonerful and they should be accorded all civil rights. However, if they believe as the fundamentalists do, then they should be watched by a free government as closely as possible. I believe most of the world would like to live in peace - the jihadists and such don't want that.
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