How many people convert FROM Islam each year?

I tried getting that, but I couldn't find it. It's always a site about converting TOO islam.

Also, if there are people that convert from islam, they're probably going into another religion, other than atheism.

Nobody converts FROM Islam; that's illegal!

How is it illegal?

Ask Gaddafi or Chomeini, they'd be glad to explain you that xD

Ooo someone get them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostasy_in_Islam#Punishment_for_apostasy

Ok so apostates were killed or put in a prison until they except Islam.
Nowadays, (especially in Nigeria) people have re-introduced Sharia courts, and without giving much attention to evidence, stone people for Apostasy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_law#Contemporary_practice
But in Africa, 6 million people convert into Christianity every year. They aren’t being executed. http://www.formermuslims.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=972
And plus, in first world countries, this stuff wouldn't happen, or would at least not happen without the government coming in and trying to stop it.

http://www.rferl.org/content/Article/1066955.html

Afghanistan: Christian Convert Faces Execution

PRAGUE, March 21, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Some 15 years ago, Abdul Rahman made a decision that may now cost him his life.

While working for an international Christian aid organization helping Afghan refugees in Pakistan, he abandoned Islam and became a Christian.

On his return to Afghanistan from Germany in 2002, 41-year-old Abdul Rahman told his relatives about his faith.

And it is they who reportedly denounced him to authorities in February. When police arrived to arrest and charge him with rejecting Islam, they found him carrying a Bible.

christianity is the way to go :-)

Unless of course you want to look at Christianity's history and something called the Crusades.

Ok, don't make this into a religious battle alamothe. Someone else might say that aetheism is the way to go(not me). But I'll defend to the death your right to say it.

Anyone here ever seen that movie "obsession"?

I know you've seen it monkey, because we laughed our asses off at it, but has anyone else seen it, and if so, what was your reaction?

i'm just expressing my opinion! :-)

Yea that movie is really great, it says it only targets the radical minority of Islam, but there is no fine line between the two types. Most Muslims have some of the attributes described, but not all of them. Which makes it harder to detect them.

@ kivan26

Actually, Gaddafi doesn't punish people for conversion from Islam, although Chomeini did.

What good have the mono-theostic (Christianity, Judeism, Islam) religions done for the world, all throughout history? We all know what evil they have done (caused about 80% of all wars, crusades, inquisitions, St Bartholomew's Night, witch trials, etc etc no need to go on and on and on...) but can anyone really tell me what beneficial influence religion has ever had, on a social (i.e. more than individual or small groups) level??
I for one cannot think of a single positive effect of religion. Human kindness existed well before religion and atheism has always been suppressed and vilified - quite unjustly I feel, by organized religion.
So we have no after-life (us atheists....), whether replete with buxom virgins, fluffy clouds with angels, lambs and a kindly old man as our personal butler, etc,., etc.; - Who cares! It doesn't exist anyway!

shud hv bn: "mono-theistic"....

right, Kaddafi is an arab nationalist, not an Islamic Fundamentalist.

I thought Christianity was the fastest growing religion worldwide. Anyone got numbers?

Pantalone, I am also an atheist, and I also think that the world would be better without religion; however, I think that thousands of years ago religious institutions helped to build ideas of morality, laws, even a desire to ask and answer questions about what we don't understand. We no longer need religion and it holds us back, but to say that it has done no good for the world would be a lie. Even now some people are turned from theft and murder by the 'word of God', and surely this is a good thing?

Do all of those converts balance off the honour killings?

"Human kindness existed well before religion"

I'm not sure this is true. When first man saw lightning, how did he explain it? It may not have been an organized religion, but seeing power in nature, and believing it was something to be feared/worshipped/appeased/etc was probably the norm for the earliest man. That IS religion, whether we today would recognize it as such.

The issue with organized religion is it becomes a double edged sword. Both of my parents are strong christians, but one is a baptist who would exterminate all muslims if he had the chance, and the other is an episcopalian who would turn herself inside out trying to help someone, (anybody really). Both of them are that way due to their religion, and how they interpret it.
Like everything else, religion has very strong pros, and very strong cons as well, and the neverending question is whether or not the pros outweigh the cons.

I agree with Synalon, We needed something like religion to slingshot us into many different things. Science, morals, philosophy, math etc etc. I won’t deny that. But I'm sure the majority of people would say that Religion is sending us to an asymptotic barrier that we need to get past. Like DBJ said, the things we didn't understand were practically the basis of all religions. But now, when we have found another language to understand the universe in (math), a second reason why a guy might get struck by lightning, it's automatically pushed aside, because it goes against what you already believe. There's a word for that right? Deliberately not listening to new and different things...

What is it with the promise of "buxom virgins", anyway? I'd be more enticed by the promise of "buxom sluts"...

One of the primary supporters of charities whether for third world countries or the porr here at home are religious insititutions. I'm Lutheran and the number of organizations our church, our synod, and the national organization support and at what level that support is provided most definitely do plenty of good. Add to that the number of missionaries we send out into the world. Yes, they teach Christianity, but they also help build homes in Belize with real floors and provide shoes to the children as diseases from dirt floors and barefeet run rampant in the backcountry there. Thrivent Lutheran Financial Services provide assistance to families at home in need, no matter what their religious affiliation, if any.

The Catholics (historically at odds with Lutherans and Lutheranism, but coming back together in the last half century) also do some tremendous charitable work, especially for the poor and downtrodden right here at home.

@AMP - I think it is called obstinance or closed-mindedness or maybe obstinant closed-mindedness. I just call it willful ignorance.