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18. OUT OF CONTEXT There is no doubt that Islam is the fastest growing religion, not only because of mass conversion to it, but also because of rapid increase of already high birth rate of its followers. Even without conversion Islam would become one day the greatest religion in the world, while it is now still in the second position after Christianity. We have witnessed that many churches in the West (Europe, America and Canada) have been turned into mosques because of lack of church attendants. It is not an exaggeration that some Christians are only so by name, as they attend the church three times only in their lifetimes: (a) when they were born and brought to the church to be baptized; (b) when they got married and came by himself voluntarily to the church, and (c) when they die they are carried to the church. According to Pew Research Center concerning the Future of world religions on the Population Growth Projections from 2010 to 2050, the Christian world population will increase from 2.17 billion to 2.92 billion, but the percentage will remain, 31.4% of world population, whereas Islam in the same period will increase from 1.6 billion to 2.76 billion, the percentage will increase from 23.2 % to 29.7 %, so that in 2050 the number of Muslims will nearly equal the number of Christians around the world. Their number will be equal in 2070, approximately 32.3%, but in 2100 Islam (34.9%) will be ahead of Christianity (33.8%). In 2050 Muslims will make up 10% over the population of Europe, whereas in India although the Hindu religion will remain the majority, it will have the largest Muslim population of any country in the world, surpassing Indonesia. There is also no doubt that Islam is the most misunderstood religion, even by Muslims themselves, let alone non-Muslims. Some of the Muslims may think that the injunction of applying penalty against committed crimes should be applied individually rather than collectively, in this case, the