Islam Losing Members?

This report suggests Islam is collapsing. Maybe that’s why the extremists are so bent out of shape. They’re desperate to get new members.

Islam used to represent … Africa’s main religion and there were 30 African languages that used to be written in Arabic script. The number of Muslims in Africa has diminished to 316 million, half of whom are Arabs in North Africa. So in the section of Africa that we are talking about, the non-Arab section, the number of Muslims does not exceed 150 million people. When we realize that the entire population of Africa is one billion people, we see that the number of Muslims has diminished greatly from what it was in the beginning of the last century.

On the other hand, the number of Catholics has increased from one million in 1902 to 329 million 882 thousand (329,882,000). Let us round off that number to 330 million in the year 2000.

Any religion that asks as much of people as Islam does, is a hard pill for many people to swallow. Especially in the modern world. The more people are exposed to modern values in these countries,. the more they will probably seek moderation in their lives. While the threat of fanatics is real and exists, I have hope that the world will get over this mess in time. 

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