One million people embraced Islam in the past decade
Cairo, 2007/03/30, IRIB
An official of Al Azhar University in Egypt said, despite the West’s negative propaganda against Islam, the wave of Islamism in the world has strongly increased in the past 10 years, in a way that more than a million people in the West have embraced Islam in this period of time.
Head of Egypt’s Al Azhar University Sheikh Mohammad Tantawi announced that each year a large number of non-Muslims with different nationalities come to the university‘s Islamic committee and officially declare their conversion to Islam.
He added, this year around 731 people from 84 countries including the US have come to this committee to convert to Islam. This shows the failure of the West’s propaganda against Islam. These individuals with full satisfaction and familiarity with the Holy Quran and Islam’s teachings, become Muslims and in some cases their acquaintance with Islam’s teachings is only through studying Islamic books without having had any contact with Muslims.
Based on Egypt based Al Azhar University’s statistics, 1.2 million people have embraced Islam in the past 10 years the majority of whom are Europeans and Americans, and Latin American, East Asian and African countries come next. After the 9/11 events and following the West’s negative propaganda against Islam, tendency toward this religion fell, but after that, especially in the past 3 years, the wave of Islamism has shown a considerable growth.
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