Islam Online, put on your hipboots, it's deep.
Christian missionaries could flood Darfur under the guise of humanitarian relief in case of any foreign military intervention in the predominantly-Muslim region, a Sudanese expert warned Wednesday, July 28.
| "Horrors! Jesuits! Franciscans! The Maryknoll Fathers! The Little Sisters of Mercy! Baptists! Episcopalians! Saaaaaave us!" |
"Darfur has been the base of Islamic culture in Sudan for as many decades and is the only region in the country that has no Christians or churches," said Hassan Mekki, a member of the Sudanese Foreign Minister's advisory board.
| Darfur, the 12,847th holiest place in Islam. |
Speaking in a live dialogue with IslamOnline.net's audience, he warned against a feared wave of proselytization that could lead to a situation similar to what happened in the south. "Until 1919, there were no Christians in the south. Now, there are more than three million people embracing Christianity in the region due to active missionary work," Mekki said.
| Says something for the power of choice, doesn't it? |
"Southern Sudan has 28 churches, including 20 ones financed by American churches and the Orthodox Church financed by British Anglican church."
The Anglicans are sponsoring an Orthodox Church? The ArchDruidBishop is a rather ecumenical fellow, eh? |
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The expert pointed an accusation finger at British occupation of Sudan, ended in 1956, for allowing missionaries into the country in large numbers in what he described as "a bid to upset the demographic balance in the Arab Islamic country".
| The Brits brought in all those black guys, too. They imported them from... ummm... Africa. |
A few years after independence, a civil war broke out pitting black Christians in the south against the Arab-Muslims of the north and has cost at least 1.5 million lives, as well as the displacement of millions of others. Mekki said the situation after any military action in Darfur could bear a similarity to Iraq's.
The Daily Telegraph had reported that American missionaries, mainly evangelicals, have secretly rushed to Iraq after the US-British invasion of the Muslim country. In public, the groups had put the emphasis on their delivery of food parcels and their medical work, but their internal fund-raising materials emphasize missionary work, said the British daily. The goal was spreading some one million Arabic bibles along with Arabic religious videos and tracts throughout Iraq, after only 8,000 copies were circulated in their last missions, it added.
| Gee, if islam are such a great religion, why are you so worried about a little competition? |
In 2000, press reports said a number of American missionary groups have established the "Institute for Islamic Studies" somewhere in Latin America to teach enough about Islam to invade Muslim countries and try to convert Muslims to Christianity. Darfur, an area of 200,000 miles, is double the size of France and populated by six million people, all Muslims.
| They go on to say there's a mob of western spies in Darfur who are planning to use it as a base to close the Nile and dry up Egypt. At least I think that's what they're saying, it is IOL. |
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