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To: Luis Gonzalez
The number of Muslims is 1.5 to 2 billion now. Even grouping Orthodox, Catholics and Protestants together, Islam is about equal in number or larger than Chrisitianity.

One of the reasons so many are converting to Islam in Europe, southern Africa and South America now is the theological unity of Islam.

In contrast to Christianity which is now really made up of distinct faiths that are still loosly grouped as Christian but encompass a diversity of belief that you don't se in Islam.

Think of it - there are the Orthodox, the Catholics and the Protestants. And w/in Protestanism the gamut runs from Anglicans to Baptists to 7th Day Adentists, pentecostals, the JW's, Mormons and Chrsitian Scientists.

What you really have here is the emrgence of new distinct faiths out of the originally unified Christian faith.

That disunity is proving fertile ground for Muslim missionaries in the West.
39 posted on 11/24/2002 9:12:28 PM PST by Douglas
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To: Douglas
"That disunity is proving fertile ground for Muslim missionaries in the West."

That very same disunity is being promoted by people disguising themselves as conservatives and attempting to splinter the conservatives into smaller, and adversarial, groups.

Exactly my plan is I were a Democratic strategist.

45 posted on 11/24/2002 9:19:59 PM PST by Luis Gonzalez
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To: Douglas
"Between 1989 and 1998 the Islamic population in Europe grew by over 100 percent, to 14 million (approximately 2 percent of the population), according to United Nations statistics. During the same period, the Muslim population in the United States grew by 25 percent. Islam is the second-largest religious group in the world, with more than a billion members worldwide (some estimates put it closer to two billion). An estimated 4 to 6 million Muslims live in the U.S. today, and that number is growing. Islam could be the second-largest religion in America by 2015, surpassing Judaism, according to some estimates. By other estimates, Islam has achieved that rank already."

Christianity Today.

59 posted on 11/24/2002 9:44:02 PM PST by Luis Gonzalez
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To: Douglas
Sunni. Shia.

And let's not forget subdivisions like Wahabis and the number-er Shites. And the Sufis.

So, are you ignorant, or are you lying scum?

145 posted on 11/24/2002 11:20:45 PM PST by A.J.Armitage
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