Islam historically has spread by two methods: conquest (forcible) and birth. There is little appeal in reason or faith for anyone to turn to Islam otherwise. Mohammed's early years of preaching netted him few converts, but once he changed his method the growth began. Today without the use of both methods, Islam would die off even quicker that what is inevitable.
Today territories are Islamitized through attrition and migration or outright conquest such as Turkey's ethnic cleansing and annexation of Northern Cyrus, nothing has changed.
In other countries you must be a muslim, no other choice, you are born, you are muslim. In the Republic of Maldives being muslim is required for citizenship. Its not a matter of choice. As muslim writer Irshad Manji wrote in her ongoing attempt to reform Islam, "most of us muslims aren't muslims because we think about it, but rather because we were born that way."
Most of the migration to the West continues for the same reason as always, to find a better life. Jozef Grzywaczewski in the Catholic Weekly writes, "In Europe a Muslim declares to have one wife but his ‘cousins’ live with him. When they have children they receive benefits for each child as single mothers; their benefits are higher than the benefits for married mothers. Therefore, it is not a problem to earn a living for a family with about 20 children." So again, growth by birth and through deceitful if not criminal disregard for spirit of the law.
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