SHOCKER...Shaking faith: How ISIS is causing Muslims to abandon Islam!!!!

[Vigilante]

One of the signs of the end times, according to Islam, is the inversion of reality – in other words, things being upside-down. For Muslims, there is nothing that more obviously illustrates this than Islam being made to appear bad to the world. For the first time in the history of our faith, an extremist fringe has hijacked the religion and is dominating the headlines, causing havoc and creating a global crisis.

Gone are the days when the extremists were few; we can no longer ignore them. They are popping up all across the world: Nigeria, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria and Iraq. They are also growing rapidly, becoming more organised and better-funded. They pose a real and dangerous threat not just to non-Muslims with their religious intolerance, but also to Muslims too. That they kill Muslims is clear. But more than that, by muddying the image of Islam and making the religion appear violent, backward and completely out of touch with the modern world, they are causing Muslims to leave the religion........

Shaking faith How ISIS is causing Muslims to abandon Islam

 

[Vigilante]

Now Sunni, why would YOU disagree?

 

[Sunni Man]

Actually, the exact opposite is true. ....

 

[Vigilante]

Actually, the exact opposite is true. ....

Then why disagree, as you did?

 

[Katzndogz]

Actually, the exact opposite is true. ....

I too wondered how that claptrap made it into print. Because of the violence ISIS offers, it is growing, quite fast, in western nations from western converts. Islam doesn't need to grow in the middle east because it is already muslim.

Is this some kind of bizarre reverse psychology?

 

[Peach]

Actually, the exact opposite is true. ....

I too wondered how that claptrap made it into print. Because of the violence ISIS offers, it is growing, quite fast, in western nations from western converts. Islam doesn't need to grow in the middle east because it is already muslim.

Is this some kind of bizarre reverse psychology?

Syria is 13-18% Christian, Iraq was about 10%, Egypt 10-20% (Coptic Christians, one of the oldest denominations), Iran, only .015% as many left for Armenia; more:

The second largest Christian group in the Middle East is the Arabic-speaking Lebanese Maronites that number some 1.1–1.2 million across the Middle East, mainly concentrated within Lebanon, and many often avoid an Arabic ethnic identity in favour of a pre-ArabPhoenician-Canaanite heritage, to which most of the Lebanese population belongs.

The Arab Christians, and those who tend to identify as Arabs, are mostly adherents of the Greek Orthodox Church and Protestantconverts, number over 500,000 and combined with Melkite Christians (who are usually related as Arab Christians as well) compose over 1 million.

In the Persian Gulf states, Bahrain has 1,000 Christian citizens[11] and Kuwait has 400 native Christian citizens,[12] in addition to 450,000 Christian foreign residents in Kuwait.[13]

The indigenous Eastern Aramaic speaking Assyrians of Iraq, southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran and northeastern Syria, who number 2-3 million, have suffered both ethnic and religious persecution over the last few centuries such as the Assyrian Genocideconducted by the Turks, leading to many fleeing and congregating in areas in the north of Iraq and northeast of Syria. In Iraq, the numbers of Assyrians has declined to somewhere between 250,000 to 300,000 (from 0.8–1.4 million before 2003 US invasion).[20]

Christianity in the Middle East - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

 

[Sunni Man]

Looks like Peach posted in the wrong thread. ...