Aapa wrote:
By your same logic in America if you are Black you will go to jail for being Black. Do the numbers not prove that? Yes, they do.
Aapa, what the numbers show regarding people who are in prison in the US, is that relative to the respective population of black and whites, a greater percentage of blacks (out of the entire population of blacks) is in prison, or has been in prison in the past, than the percentage of white (out of the total population of whites) who are currently in prison, or who have been in prison in the past.
And if you look at the numbers, and examine our laws, there are actually some rather unpleasant reasons for that (reasons that I am ashamed that exist), other than whites necessarily being more law abiding than blacks. For instance, the recreational drug of choice of whites is usually alcohol. The recreational drug of choice of blacks is often marijuana.
Guess which one is illegal here in the US?
Marijuana. Despite medical proof that it is actually far less harmful to the body than alcohol. So guess which race is most likely to go to jail for indulging in their recreational drug of choice? Blacks.
In addition, the numbers ALSO show that our courts are not fair, if a black man and a white man are accused of the same sort of crime, the black man is more likely to be found guilty, and to get a more severe sentence, if found guilty.
Another 'cute' little thing that exists in our country is that the public schools in neighborhoods where mostly black people live are demonstrably very inferior to the public schools in neighborhoods where white people live. In fact, there have been court cases of black people who have gotten in trouble for claiming that they live at a different address than they actually do, so that their children can go to one of the better public schools. Would you believe, they have actually been accused of 'STEALING an education' for their children?
Now you tell me, according to the law in the US, all children between the ages of 5 and 18 are supposedly entitled to attend a public school for free. So how is attending the 'wrong' public school 'stealing'?
So long as inequalities like that exist in the US, the numbers showing a greater percentage of blacks in jail are meaningless, they say nothing about whether blacks are inherently more likely to be criminals.
Which is the same thing I am saying about your numbers, regarding the converts to Islam. So long as the inequality exists in the world of it being safe in most countries to convert TO Islam, but it being punished in some countries to convert AWAY from Islam, numbers about more people converting to Islam than to other religions are meaningless in regards to whether Islam is the best religion.
Now, if you do away with all the laws in Islamic countries punishing people for converting away from Islam, as well as other things that certain Muslims might do to distort these numbers (ei, threatening people with violence or putting a special tax on them if they are not Muslims, and having far more children than people of other religions generally do), and the number of people converting to Islam is still greater than the number of people converting to other religions, THEN you might possibly have a case.
