Islam will never spread outside of North Africa and the middle east. China does not allow blacks or middle easterns into their country as residents so it's never going to happen.
Christianity is controlled in a few churchs. Most churchs in China are underground and take place in peoples houses.
1/3 of the populace is hard to convert? Man, religious people rule this world. They make up the vast majority of it's populace.
I find Muslims to be very reclusive. The diehards are unfriendly as hell. Working in a video store, I see them all the time. The women dress up like ghosts! They don't interact with non-muslims, they are the worst sort of people if you want an integrated society. I'm sure some one here will warn me that they know 1 muslim person, and therefore they all can't be reclusive as I say, so I'm going to say the vast majority (all of the ones I've seen) are reclusive and stringent.
Let's put it this way, if you fall in love with a girl from a muslim family, don't meet the parents. They will probably kill you and your girlfriend. That or ship her away to muslim land where she can't think for herself.
The Quran is full of violent passages. Civillian said it best "Islam is 300 years behind Chrisitianity".
The only reason people are sypmathizing for them is because the US is at war with Islamic countries. The people who hate the US (ie JM) will side with the Islamic nations. If anyone else attacked them other than the US or their friends, say some communist country, that country would be applaued as freedom fighters instilling a healthy government into a fundamentalist religous society. These people are socialists, extreme liberals, and pacifists. They probably hate the way Islamic states are run, but it shadows in their hatred for the US. (or whoever is the world power of the time, big corporations, big brother, big oil meanies)
This post has been edited by Jordan: 24 January 2006 - 08:39 AM
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