Christians and Jews should be very afraid because Islam is the fastest growing religion today.
Maybe based on birthrates, probably not based on conversion/apostasy ratio. Excessive birthrates are unlikely to help Muslim countries develop their relative power status in the world, might well lead to increasing civil unrest but unlikely to prove much of an existensial threat to Christians and Jews outside the Muslim world. Birthrates in Western countries will make very little difference to demographics over the next few decades either.
It's nothing for Western people to lose much sleep over anyway. Don't panic...
I get the feeling that Muslim priests do not do enough to guide their congregations away from such incidents. After serious incidents there are calls from the priesthood for order, and declarations that terrorism and crime will not be supported by the Muslim communities, but I do begin to wonder whether these are genuine.
This is my question......... how many Muslims discreetly jubilate when they hear of terrorist attacks
Plenty of Muslims do it openly. The majority of those who condemn it though, actually mean it. Muslims seem to be treated like Jews in the past, having some secret hidden agenda. Now people have forgotten about the Jews 'trying to take over the world' (good PR for them
). Many people always assume that Muslims lie at every available opportunity through nefarious intent. It's quite ridiculous when people who know very little about Islam and probably know very few Muslims say that most Muslims routinely practice 'taqqiya' to help defeat the kufr.
Western politicians don't do a great deal to 'guide their congregations' away from foreign military adventures anyway.
what I'm saying is that I am deeply troubled by any system of religion that institutes laws that force an entire nation to treat people in such a cruel and inhumane way because it is the law of Almighty God according to some ancient texts.
I am venting my frustration because it makes me very sick and it is a problem in our world today that affects the lives of countless millions of people.
There are many horrific crimes carried out in the name of Islam, there is no point in saying it is not 'real Islam', because there is no such thing. Religion only exists as people practice it, it is only subjective, never pure or 'real'. But, it is also important to remember that the vast majority of Muslims also find these actions reprehensible and that you don't hold people collectively responsible for actions that have nothing to do with them.
It is also important to remember that a former VP of America publicly and without shame recently implicitly justified murder, anal rape and sexual assault of prisoners and got a fair deal of support for his words. The current president certainly didn't express his horror and disgust at someone supporting these actions. Western countries in the name of democratic progress have justified futile wars that killed hundreds of thousands and provided the bedrock for much of the behaviour they now criticise. The people who justify these actions do so from a perceived moral high ground and make complex apologetics about how it was justified and beneficial to those who were worst affected, even if they don't quite appreciate it now.
Look how many people have been killed directly or indirectly as a result of a militaristic doctrine of democratic interventionism. It is right to criticise Islamic extremism, but if you hold Muslims collectively responsible, then expect to be held collectively responsible by others for crimes you had nothing to do with.
As Jesus said 'lest he who is without sin...'
