I do believe in a creator yes and out of the religions the only one that makes any sense is Islam...and ill be honest the threats of hellfire and judgement day do scare and I can see what would make many people convert.
I'm from a completely Scottish background, no muslims in my family or circle of friends. I just simply looked into islam and was more and more drawn to it. I agree that muslims across the world are persecuted and the prophet Muhammed did say that they would be until they stood up for themselves which looks a bit like what's happening now...
http://www.islamreligion.com/articles/379/ that page for example shows predictions made by Muhammed that have came true...no explanation
Yeah, there are tons of ancient Near Eastern books jam packed with prophecies that 'came true.' Book of Daniel is a great example.
http://www.godandscience.org/apologetics/daniel.htmlhttp://www.reasons.org/articles/articles/fulfilled-prophecy-evidence-for-the-reliability-of-the-bible"Unique among all books ever written, the Bible accurately foretells specific events-in detail-many years, sometimes centuries, before they occur. Approximately 2500 prophecies appear in the pages of the Bible, about 2000 of which already have been fulfilled to the letter—no errors. "
If you've never seen the trick before, you might be impressed. If you've seen it 200x over, by a different writer each time, it gets less impressive. Like fortune telling.
These things always violate Occam's razor, as well as David Hume's observation that it is always vastly more likely that the person claiming a miracle is lying or mistaken than that it is true -- extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. For example, Mohammed allegedly predicted the invasion and conquest of Persia. Well, you COULD explain this by saying that Allah handed a divine revelation down through the angel Gibril to Mohammed. Or you COULD explain it by saying that it was first written down after the conquest of Persia ... or that it was written before (there were many predictions of Persian defeat amongst the Byzantines and Syrians, without Allah's help, so it's not like it was a rare expectation), and preserved, while failed predictions were not preserved, such that Islamic tradition "shockingly" repeats comparatively few failed Mohammedan prophecies in its orthodox hadith compilations assembled centuries later (one criterion that was used for selecting hadith as valid was probably that they not make Mohammed look deeply mistaken). You can always come up with far simpler and more plausible non-miraculous explanations. If you want to. If you insist on believing in miracles, there's not much that can be done.
Topic: Here's where I'm at with Islam