According to the study published in February by the “Arab Barometer”, the religious awareness of Muslims is clearly declining.

The survey of 25,000 people in ten Arab countries shows that the proportion of atheists is increasing sharply – in Tunisia it even exceeds the 45 percent mark among 18 to 29-year-olds.

At the same time, a growing number of Muslims converting to Christianity is observed, which is not surprising to some. For example, for the American Jesuit priest Mitch Pacwa. “We are currently seeing the first mass conversions of Muslims to Christianity,” he confirms. For the Middle East expert, “the violence of Islam in its most widespread form – among the Islamists – is the reason of the increasing number of individual withdrawals.” Of the 4,468 adults who, according to Figaro, were baptized Catholics in France in 2020, which corresponds to an increase of 43 percent within ten years, the French Catholic Bishops’ Conference estimates that six percent came from Muslim families. Ten years ago this proportion was still four percent – even though the newly baptized adults were fewer at the time.

Father Gérard de Martigues from the Diocese of Nice comments: “The new converts come mostly from North Africa, to a small extent from Sub-Saharan Africa and not at all from Asia Minor”. Unfortunately, however, the Catholic Church is “often helpless, even half-hearted” towards these people. According to the priest, most of the new converts would join Protestant churches, the accessibility of which would attract the Muslims concerned. With 35 new churches opened annually in France (according to the Conseil national des évangéliques de France), mainly in problematic neighborhoods, they sometimes exceed the number of newly opened mosques.

The “conversion scenarios” observed were often similar: They begin with a “rejection of Islam, followed by an atheistic phase that ultimately ends in a gradual discovery of the Christian faith”.

Not only the “bloodthirsty Islam of jihadist movements” shakes the convictions of some Muslims, but also “the contradictions of the Koranic narrative: the massacre of the Jewish tribe Banu Quraiza or the marriage of Muhammad to the six-year-old Aisha weaken the ‘beautiful example’ of the Prophet, like him been hammered since childhood ”.  https://www.obrist-impulse.net/wachsende-nummer-von-konversionen-von-muslimen-zum-christentum