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> Islam as is has very little desirability to convert for non-Muslim The successful pitch of a certain variant of Islam seems to be "structure": That it tells
by pgeorgi 9y ago
> Islam as is has very little desirability to convert for non-Muslim
The successful pitch of a certain variant of Islam seems to be "structure": That it tells you what to do and what not to do down to the tiniest minutiae (and it tells you that it's desirable that everybody sticks to the same set of rules, and if necessary, is made to do so).
For people who are overwhelmed by the many degrees of freedom in some western societies, that seems to look like a safety net: The most active radical islamists in Germany are converts.
- thriftwy 9y agoI can see that but I don't think this will ever be a particularly popular reason, numbers-wise. Not everybody is born zealot.