Why are So Many Westerners Converting to Islam?

Islam is developing quickly in the West. In the U.S. alone the quantity of Muslims has risen significantly, from around 10,000 out of 1900 to 3 million or more in 1991 (a few specialists say 4.5 million). A large portion of this development is because of late migration and the high birth rate of Muslims (5 youngsters for every family by and large), as opposed to change. All things considered, the quantity of the individuals who change over to Islam is huge. In the U.S., the dominant part are African-American (33% of all Muslims as indicated by most experts), however there have additionally been critical quantities of Anglos to change over also, huge numbers of them knowledgeable.

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What is rousing individuals to swing to Islam? A current article in Christianity Today (Aug 20,1990) announced that in the U.S., the normal age of those changing over to Islam (31) is about twice that for transformation to Christian confidence (age 16). It recorded 5 primary reasons given for getting to be Muslim: Islam's tenet is straightforward and sound, all devotees are equivalent, it is a "down to earth" religion, and does not have an organization. I read and cut the article at the time, yet when I as of late hauled it out to re-read it, it struck me that those "reasons" simply parrot the contentions Muslim theological rationalists use to spread Islam. On reflection, I would state that all that they demonstrate is that Muslim rational theology is having some impact, however these are not really what is inspiring Americans to wind up Muslim.

An American Muslim met in a genuinely late book (Neighbors: Muslims in North America. Kinship Press, 1989) gave the accompanying reasons when inquired as to why African-Americans are swinging to Islam. I have heard similar things from African-Americans in Philadelphia more than once. Initially on his rundown is bigotry in the congregation. "The separation that we feel makes Islam appealing to us since it's a method for dismissing the way of life that won't have us. In sociological terms I surmise that one reason that numerous African-Americans go to Islam instead of Christianity- - and a significant number of us have been raised Christian- - is that the general population doing these things to us are likewise Christian." How regularly completes one not hear it stated, "America is not any more isolated than at eleven o'clock on Sunday mornings." The second reason he gives is, I accept, additionally critical in the change of Anglo-Americans. "Another factor- - and this is a piece of what pulled in me to Islam- - is heading and train." Our general public is deteriorating for absence of teach, particularly in the city. Through its taught way of life, to numerous individuals Islam appears to hold out the guarantee of helping them recover their lives all together once more.

At long last, there is a third factor which presumably nobody could ever specify unequivocally, for clear reasons, however which, I accept, is in any case imperative. This is the way that Islam offers a change understanding and the chance to get one's life all together, without expecting to admit ones sin and need of salvation. Indeed, Islam makes a significant purpose of denying these realities. It tells individuals they needn't bother with salvation; all they require is to take after the "direction" of God's law, and they will make it to paradise. That is something the characteristic man likes to hear.