Balaord , I notice very often you are on the board with many interesting and often very factual data about various factors of importance in Islam . Without malice, can I ask you why you need to back up your faith such data ? If 1000 Hispanics join Islam does that make Islam a greater religion than it was when there were just a few followers with the Prophet! Or would someone who follows the Islamic faith be more faithful if it proved that Islamic scholars and scientists made many discoveries? Decades back when faith was a uniting factor and not the dividing factor it is today and when I was still a school boy there was this grandmotherly old Muslim lady who would place her frail palm on my forehead recites a verse from the Koran. It may have been merely coincidental that I always ended up doing well in exams that my shoddy preparations should not have allowed me to do so . It was not Islam or the verse that she muttered but the faith in her eyes that gave the confidence that it would do wonders for me. She did no need an American scientist or a secular scholar to reinforce her faith in Islam vouch for her belief in faith . It did not matter to her that her faith was the fastes growing one .or that Armstrong would land on the moon. Maybe she was not as smart as you and I are ! Or was she smarter?
