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2011-01-05 Britain

Number of Brits converted to Islam doubled

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Posted by Fred 2011-01-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top
File under: Global Jihad

#1 UNITED KINGDOM

versies

* TOPIX > FINALND WATCHING "DOZENS" WITH SOMALI TERROR LINKS [Al-Shabaab].

* BHARAT RAKSHAK > MUSLIMS SEEN AS THREAT IN FRANCE, GERMANY.

* SAME > A EUROPEAN ANTI-ISLAM MOVEMENT GROWS.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-01-05 01:23|| 2011-01-05 01:23|| Front Page Top

#2 It was long ago noted that many of the "conversions" to Islam in Britain were of 2nd generation Pakistani young men, whose grasp of Islam is limited to "If you pray four times a day, you can do anything you want to non-Muslims."

That is, their parents became non-practicing when they came to Britain, and their sons are typical 2nd generation, neither old world or new, and prone to gangsterism. So they see Islam as a step up from being "nothing"--like joining a large gang, so that they will have "membership" in something, anything.

Its appeal to them is hedonism.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-01-05 11:03|| 2011-01-05 11:03|| Front Page Top

#3 With no new census planned until next year, researchers polled mosques in London to try to calculate how many conversions take place a year.

And You never considered that the Imams would lie?

Posted by Redneck Jim 2011-01-05 11:35|| 2011-01-05 11:35|| Front Page Top

#4 And You never considered that the Imams would lie?

It's not lying when one's concept of number is one, two, and the many names of many.

/snark

More seriously, according to the article, current estimates of converts to Islam range from 14,000-100,000, whereas previous estimates ranged 14,000-25,000. And possibly up to 5,200 conversions per year. Which means it could be 500 -- this is all extrapolation using questionable assumptions from very fuzzy data.

I'm no statistician, but I'd be very uncomfortable even putting error bars around the data, never mind how wide. When they directly ask about conversions in the national census as compared to birth religion, then they'll have a better feel. Although, given Anonymoose's point, even such numbers will be an exaggeration, in the sense that cultural Muslims converted to gangster Muslims, not at all the same as believing Muslims... although only taqfiris accept the idea of converting from non-practicing to practicing -- to Islam both are Muslims, the former of whom will certainly go to hell.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-01-05 11:53|| 2011-01-05 11:53|| Front Page Top

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