Muslims are Alarmed


It was slightly amusing to read an article written by a Muslim for Muslims. The purpose of the article was the trend of Muslim youth to abandon the faith. The author laid out a strategy to reverse the trend.

The "strategy" was identical to that Christians often preach to keep their own youth in line: Make them read the Koran more, attend the Mosque, be good Muslims at home, attend Muslims schools and make them have Muslim friends.  The solution to Muslim propaganda your child does not like is give your child more Muslim propaganda. Read the Bible more, pray at home more and stay within the family's circle of friends is also popular Christian advice to keep youth in that faith.

Do people giving such advice think these children have never heard of the Koran or the Bible? Did it ever occur to them young people may be leaving their respective faiths because they did read the Koran and Bible? I know many atheists who claim they would be remained Christian had they never read the Bible.

Most every product sold needs to solve a problem. If you are hungry someone will sell you food. If your house is dusty someone will sell you something that will clean it.

With religion, one has to have a worry or unease that the religion fixes. With Christianity it is sin and hell. With Islam there is the worry about adequate humility. The mosque will fix that. What appears to be happening is youth see a problem made up by authorities who then tell followers to adopt it as their problem as well. Many Christian and Muslim youth blow off invented problems adults tell them exist. 

It is encouraging to see children raised by both Christian and Muslim parents being skeptical of their families' religious dogma.

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  1. UnknownJune 28, 2019 at 5:30 AM

    Jehovah's Witnesses follow all of these suggestions to the extreme and have the biggest turnover of all christian religions.

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