'Islam's growing importance in world affairs.' LOL. Nice troll. 
No, no troll here, maybe the troll stare back at you from your computer screen's glare?
Islam is the world's fastest growing religion/faith. Some of the world's richest country are Islamic. Islamic countries now acquire nuclear weaponry. open your eyes, all around you Islam is growing, flourishing as the decadent way of infidels is dying, diseased, the women drying up and becoming infertile, not having children and instead playing a ludicrous game of trying to be the equal of men.
Islam is the future and all other ways will one day be the past. No troll, my words will ring true and probably in only a few lifetimes.