This is my main source. Also, I believe Islam to be bereft and vacuous. Rote prayers, often spoken in a language the people don't understand, doesn't fulfill the heart's longing to be in relation with the Living God. I believe Islam is so violent because there's such an emptiness at the bottom of it, they lash out in frustration.
Perhaps it is best to listen to the truth coming from the mouth of the horse. The Internet site aljazeera.net published an interview with Ahmad Al Qataani an important Islamic cleric who said: “In every hour, 667 Muslims convert to Christianity. Everyday, 16,000 Muslims convert to Christianity. Ever year, 6 million Muslims convert to Christianity."
Doesn't say 6 million Arabs at all. Sure, North Africa has many Arab transplants, but the rest of the continent is full of native peoples. The cleric quoted can't possibly expect the reader to believe that all 6 million come from those North African countries that have an Arab population. And taking that figure at face value, we have to also take into consideration the number of converts to Islam every year.
But when it comes right down to it, I'd rather look to Christian sources such as missions groups who are already there and working and compiling statistics rather than relying on some random Islamic cleric quoted in Al Jazeera (where does he get his figures anyway and why is that site accepting them as factual?).
Speaking of Africa, the article goes on to say
These are huge numbers. If this trend continues we can expect to see Islam become insignificant in Africa in just a few decades.
That may very well be true. But I'd be shocked if we actually have a few decades with which to work.
Also, I believe Islam to be bereft and vacuous. Rote prayers, often spoken in a language the people don't understand, doesn't fulfill the heart's longing to be in relation with the Living God. I believe Islam is so violent because there's such an emptiness at the bottom of it, they lash out in frustration.
I don't disagree, except to say it's more than that. It's also a political ideology, a cult movement that enslaves so completely that despite its spiritual bankruptcy, it creates a social, emotional, familial, cultural, economical, political and spiritual chasm that is very difficult to climb out of. Islam is not just so violent because of its own vapidity, it is violent because it teaches hatred and violence as a means of dispensing God's will upon humanity. Islam is from the devil himself, created, in my opinion, to be the last enemy.
I pray Islam IS suffering in Africa, but at the same time, due to the influx of Islam, Europe is dying, and thanks to leftism and political correctness, I'm afraid we're only a decade or so behind.