82% are non muslims.
I can only come to the conclusion, that Islams claims of being the ‘Devine’ message, has been rejected by the overwhelming population of the world.
Sorry, but true!!
Re: 18% of this world’s population is Muslims
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Re: 18% of this world’s population is Muslims
Only 1 out of 5 people in this world are Muslim and within that group too sharp differences arise between Sunni’s, Shias, Ahmediayas Agha Khani’s etc.
http://thechildrenofgod.org/World_Religions.php
Some of you ‘rubbish’ each and every other religion - that intolerance is the cause of many ill’s in todays society.
Respect others beliefs & expect to be respected by other for your beliefs.
Re: 18% of this world's population is Muslims
tell me something i dont know
Re: 18% of this world's population is Muslims
I'm not going to argue about the figures, they're about correct.
However your assertion that Islam has been rejected by those who are not muslims is misleading.
If what you say were true then everyone in the world has been invited to the fold of Islam and then made a decision to refuse - this is patently not the case.
Besides, even if the majority HAD rejected Islam there is nothing in Islam that says the validity of Islam is to be judged in proportion to the numbers of its adherents.
So yes only one fifth of the world are muslims but I am not going to lose any sleep over this fact! :)
Re: 18% of this world’s population is Muslims
^ditto
although statistics if analyzed properly can lead to other conclusions
iqbal said something to the effect bandoon ko tola nahi gina kertay hain. so each to his own cheers.
PS: hindus make even lesser of the world population , what does that tell you about your religion?
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If your behaviour is to taken as an example then people should be making similar comments about your religion.
Re: 18% of this world's population is Muslims
Hinduism has influenced & given birth to Buddhism & Sikhism, it is not a religion spread by the sword but words of wisdom. The whole of South East Asia has been influenced by Hinduism. Look at their culture language & beliefs, so common to India/Hinduism.
Even the Western world finds spirituality from its teachings, with meditation, Yoga.
Trying to convert by threats, inducements, bribery or taxation, has not been the Hindu way.
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Yea thats all fine and dandy, but lets talk statistics now, shall we?
Re: 18% of this world's population is Muslims
Hinduism has influenced & given birth to Buddhism & Sikhism, it is not a religion spread by the sword but words of wisdom. The whole of South East Asia has been influenced by Hinduism. Look at their culture language & beliefs, so common to India/Hinduism.
Even the Western world finds spirituality from its teachings, with meditation, Yoga.
Trying to convert by threats, inducements, bribery or taxation, has not been the Hindu way.
oyey malhot.....you are sitting in a house of glass and hurling stones?....what was the point in starting this thread?...to create another fight?...
Re: 18% of this world's population is Muslims
82% are non muslims.
I can only come to the conclusion, that Islams claims of being the 'Devine' message, has been rejected by the overwhelming population of the world.
Sorry, but true!!
This has already been prophesied in Islam...Tell us something we didn't expect...
Re: 18% of this world's population is Muslims
How about this;
** Mahatma Gandhi, statement published in 'Young India,'1924.
I wanted to know the best of the life of one who holds today an undisputed sway over the hearts of millions of mankind.... I became more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days in the scheme of life. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of the Prophet the scrupulous regard for pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers, his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission. These and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every obstacle. When I closed the second volume (of the Prophet's biography), I was sorry there was not more for me to read of that great life.**
Re: 18% of this world's population is Muslims
Hinduism has influenced & given birth to Buddhism & Sikhism, it is not a religion spread by the sword but words of wisdom. The whole of South East Asia has been influenced by Hinduism. Look at their culture language & beliefs, so common to India/Hinduism.
Even the Western world finds spirituality from its teachings, with meditation, Yoga.
Trying to convert by threats, inducements, bribery or taxation, has not been the Hindu way.
So right you are!
Coz Hinduism doesn't believe in co-existance, we have seen examples in Gujrat recently and in late 60s as well.... those examples are enough to tell the story of hinduism.
but let me take you in history...
Hinduism is not the real religion on Sub-continent... yet it was brought and implemented by the Aryans... the original inhabitants of South Asia were classified as HARIJAN. whose ansestors defeatd by Aryans and were forced to live in remote areas.
( I SEE NO NEED TO GO IN DETAIL THAT HOW HARIJAN ARE TREATED IN INDIA )
yet in hindism they are religiouly divided into major categories and by categories i didn't mean cults.. it is division of man-kind, by humans... and can only be done most modest religion called hindumat
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While we're talking about coercion, what about dalits/untouchable caste who want to convert to religions other than hinduism but who have been forcibly prevented from doing so by hindus?
I remember stories in the media about these people being threatened with violence if they were to convert.
Keeping the downtrodden well trodden eh??
And just how spiritual and enlightened is a religion in which people can be classified as untouchable???
A brahmin, upper caste, would not allow even the shadow of an untouchable to fall on him as it would render him "impure/unclean".
I 've even heard that the higher castes won't drink ewater if an untouchable's shadow has fallen on it.
So what is all that about?
Re: 18% of this world's population is Muslims
82% are non muslims.
I can only come to the conclusion, that Islams claims of being the 'Devine' message, has been rejected by the overwhelming population of the world.
Sorry, but true!!
Go back to 610 AD. and at that time also Islam claimed to be Divine and you k now what out of millions in the whole world there was only 1 man and believe me 1 man thats all.
Now shall we try to compare this percentage and throw away the claim just because 1400 years back only 1 man on the face of eart was a muslim, and hence Islam is not a divine religion.
Brother, i know you are frustrated but this is what i call illogical and absurd. Even 1400 years back this claim of Islam being a divine religion is as true as today, and at that point of time to make you feel better they were only a handful of Muslims.
Re: 18% of this world's population is Muslims
Hinduism has influenced & given birth to Buddhism & Sikhism, it is not a religion spread by the sword but words of wisdom. The whole of South East Asia has been influenced by Hinduism. Look at their culture language & beliefs, so common to India/Hinduism.
Even the Western world finds spirituality from its teachings, with meditation, Yoga.
Trying to convert by threats, inducements, bribery or taxation, has not been the Hindu way.
I am confused please give me a list of different religious categories which come under Hinduism, so that i can be definite about who are hindus.
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i think the thread starter got it....:D
Re: 18% of this world's population is Muslims
1 out of 5 is a very big number.
Re: 18% of this world's population is Muslims
Quran 2:100
*The truth is, most of them believe not. *
Quran 4:46
*....so they believe not, save a few. *
Quran tells clearly that only a few accept the truth and the majority reject it....