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Atheism by Force

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It is often alleged that Islam spread by the sword.

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Indeed,atheists level this charge at all divine religions:Judaism,Christianity and Islam.

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A specific charge levelled nowadays at Islam

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Islam is that its continued progress is not due to people’s adopting it through conviction,

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but to the high birth rate in Muslim communities.

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This ignores the fact that Islam continues to spread with inmulti-faith communities 

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that have similar birth rates

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and this is only due to people deciding to convert to Islam.

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The truth is that the use of violence and coercion applies fully to only one ideology

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which is atheism

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Its spread by force claimed scores of millions of lives,

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and this is an indisputable fact.

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Let us explain very briefly.

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Atheists are largely concentrated in two blocks

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an eastern block that includes formerly Communist countries and a western one in Europe

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1.In the countries that came under Communist rule,

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religion was fought tooth and nail under the slogan that ‘religion is the opium of people’.

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In Russia,China and other Communist countries,adherents to religion were exterminated.

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It is estimated that fifty to seventy million people were killed in China

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China and forty to fifty-five million in the former Soviet Union

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They were all religious,and those in Europe were mostly Christians.

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Those who survived this onslaught and continued to adhere to their faith were deprivedof jobs

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food rations and medicine,which were all controlled by atheist Communist governments.

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2.In Europe,atheism was a side effect of revolutions

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that aimed to get rid of the tyranny of the Church in the Middle Ages.

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The Inquisition,torture and the sale of indulgences that secured admittance to heaven

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were normal church practices at that time.

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We can thus see that the atheist rebellion was against such practices

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not against religion itself

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It should be noted that until the beginning of the twentieth century,

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Muslims in Western Europe were not a huge population

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This is another fact that shows the falsehood of the claim that the spread of Islam in Europe

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in the present era,is due to high birthrates.

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Now that the revolt against the hegemony of the Church has subsided

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atheism does not find much popularity

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except in areas where religion was supplanted by force many years ago.

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Another important fact is that more than two thirds of the world Muslim population

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live in areas where  no Muslim soldier set foot

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The message of Islam was carried to these areas by traders and travellers.

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It is no longer easy to force people to convert to atheism in block.

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Therefore,its advocates use other unfair methods,

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such as spreading lies and distorting facts

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For example,atheist liars have managed to convince a large number of people

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including some of us,that the majority of scientists are atheists

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while most surveys carried out over the last century

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confirm that atheist scientists never represented more than 40%of scientists.

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Indeed,ninety percent of the Noble Prize winners believe in God

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while the majority of the remaining ten percent specialized inhumanities.

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Yet despite the great onslaught,massacres and indiscriminate killings

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atheists represent no more than two percent of the world population and this rate is on the decrease

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According to the Centre of Christian Studies at the Jordan Conwell University in the United States

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world atheism has declined from 4.5%in 1970 to1.8%at present.

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An ideology that despises reason and tramples on people’s minds

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can never easily and peacefully spread through conviction.

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It needs either a gun aimed at the addressee’s head or a set of lies aimed at his brain.