CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM. The history of Christian-Muslim or alternatively Muslim-Christian relations began at the inception of Islam in the first half of the sixth century of the Common Era. As Islam began to spread beyond the Arabian Peninsula soon after the death of the prophet Muhammad in 632 c.e., the encounter between Muslims and Christians Only an estimated 500,000 people converted to Islam between 2010 and 2015 (0.3 percent of the growth in the global Muslim population), according to the Pew Research Centre, which sheds a more Interim director, American Muslim Council. Islam values peace; the traditional greeting, as-salaam alaikum, means peace upon you. Muslims support peace for all; we believe that all humans are equal in creation. There is no difference between Muslim and non-Muslim. We have one creator, and life is the gift of our creator. Sunni Islam is a major religion in Palestine, being the religion of the majority of the Palestinian population. Muslims comprise 85% of the population of the West Bank, when including Israeli settlers, [1] and 99% of the population of the Gaza Strip. [2] The largest denomination among Palestinian Muslims are Sunnis, comprising 98–99% of the Key Differences. Islam represents a faith, a religion with specific beliefs and practices. Muslims are the people who follow Islam, adhering to its teachings and principles. Islam originated in the 7th century in Mecca, now modern-day Saudi Arabia. One of Islam’s six pillars of faith requires that a Muslim believes in all of the Prophets. To reject one is to reject them all. Muslims believe that God sent many Prophets, one to every nation. Some we know by name and others we do not. Prophet Muhammad is known to have said that all the Prophets are brothers to one another. [4] The Pew Forum’s survey of the world’s Muslims includes every nation with a Muslim population of more than 10 million except Algeria, China, India, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. Together, the 39 countries and territories included in the survey are home to about two-thirds of all Muslims in the world. Islam vs. Muslim Basic Tenets of Islam. The word Islam comes from the term "al-silm" which means peace, and the word "istaslama" Sects of Islam. The two main branches of Islam are Sunni and Shia. Sunnis are in the majority, accounting for 80-90% of Muslims Around the World. There are two ways For instance, similar shares of Muslim men and women (77% vs. 82%) say they fast, and there is little difference between Muslims who were born in the U.S. and immigrants (79% vs. 80%). Not surprisingly, roughly nine-in-ten U.S. Muslims (92%) who say religion is “very important” in their lives observe the holiday. Islamism, broad set of political ideologies that utilize and draw inspiration from Islamic symbols and traditions in pursuit of a sociopolitical objective. Although rooted in the Islamic modernist intellectual movement of the 19th and 20th centuries, Islamists vary widely in their aims, objectives, and ideologies. 8bOsD.