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Originally Posted by noname
Muslims have been increasingly targeted because by far most terrorist attacks are muslims and I would worry about discrimination when western countries start passing blasphemy laws or when 76 percent are in favor of the death penalty for apostasy as a recent poll in Pakistan showed.
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In fact, far too many derive their legitimacy from the assumption that Westerners are converting in droves to Islam. They have been saying this for many decades (at least since the 1970s).
After decades of this breakneck expansion of Islam, I don't know of a single Western country where even 0.5% natives have converted to Islam! Even for USA, Muslim sources claim a rate of 20,000 converts per year which translates to 150 years for 1% of the current population turning Muslim!
I think the underlying assumption is that Westerners are superior (!!!) and if they are converting to Islam, it must be right.
If one were to go by their claims, Scandinavia should have turned Islamic in the 1980s, instead we saw the cartoons. Many are claiming that Europe will turn Islamic in a few decades, again they will be sorely disappointed.
The vast majority of non Muslims (who also happen to be the vast majority of human beings) have moved beyond taking their religions at face value. They have understood that religion should be taken as figurative, something that is one of the many factors that determine their identity.
One hopes, Muslims catch up some day.