six millions muslims LEAVE Islam every year !!!

abjad

AlHamd Li'Laah
Dear friends:

Here is my partial translation of the AL-Jazeerah intervew between Maher Abdallah and Shiekh Ahmed Katani talking about the issue of 6 million muslims leaving Islam every year in Africa alone. This was a television interview that was transcribed and I translated it into English.

Here is the original article I translated from Arabic from Al-Jezeerah's web site.

http://www.aljazeera.net/programs/share ... 2-12-6.htm

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ImageAhmed Katani ImageMaher Abdallah

Maher Abdallah:
Dear viewers, peace of Allah be upon you, greetings and welcome to a new episode of the program Islamic Law and Life.

Our topic this evening will be Christianization in the Dark Continent ... Africa. For after Islam was the religion of the majority, the great majority of that continent, the number of Muslims now is no greater than a third of the population. This is taking into consideration, of course, that a large portion of this group are Arab Muslims. No doubt that the missions of evangelization and Christianization played a great role in this demographic shift of Muslims in the continent.

To discuss this topic, it is my pleasure to introduce today a man who is an expert on the issue of evangelization and Christianization in Africa, even though he will concentrate on the issue of Christianization first and foremost?. Sheikh Ahmad Al Katani; the president of The Companions Lighthouse for the Science of Islamic Law in Libya, which is an institution specializing in graduating imams and Islamic preachers.

Sheikh Ahmad, welcome to you on the program.

Ahmad Al Katani:
Greeting to you.

Maher Abdallah:
If we start by inquiring about your strict stance against the Christian missions in Africa, don?t the followers of every religion have the right to seek new converts, exactly as you train and graduate young Muslims to propagate Islam?

Ahmad Al Katani:
I seek refuge in Allah the Seer, the Knower, from the stoned devil. In the name of Allah the Merciful the Beneficent. Thanks to Allah the One, the Only, the Permanent One, who did not give birth nor was born, to whom no one was equal. I bear witness that there is no God but Allah who has no partners, and I bear witness that our master Muhammed ? Allah?s prayers and peace be upon him - is his messenger and seal of prophets; Allah prayers be upon him and his brothers the prophets and messengers and their families.

The question that you pose is a result of not comprehending the difference between the concept of Christianization and the concept of evangelism.

The concept of evangelism: is inviting the non-Christians to the Christian or Nazarene religion, and this is the right of every Christian and the right of every believer to call others to his faith. However, we are talking about a different matter; which is Christianization. Christianization means the following: preparing plans, and executing these plans and evolving these plans to change Muslims into Christians by taking advantage of the ignorance and poverty (of the people) and whatever necessitates from similar circumstances.

So, we are faced with the issue of taking advantage of circumstances, taking advantage of humanitarian needs, taking advantage of the lack of education for example, that these people (missionaries) use to take Muslims out of their religion.

Maher Abdallah:
Fine. This is a big and dangerous phrase. Taking advantage of poverty, of ignorance, of lack of education, of some need is something that a Muslim can also be accused of. So if you don?t back up what you say with examples, with references, your words remain in the air without much weight to them.

Ahmad Al Katani:
The reality is that these words say a lot less than they should. As we said in the beginning, everyone has the right to invite others to his religion; this is what is known as evangelism (or proselytizing). As for Christianization, no one has the right to take Muslims out of their religion, and you asked for references and the references are too numerous.

Islam used to represent, as you previously mentioned, Africa?s main religion and there were 30 African languages that used to be written in Arabic script. The number of Muslims in Africa has diminished to 316 million, half of whom are Arabs in North Africa. So in the section of Africa that we are talking about, the non Arab section, the number of Muslims does not exceed 150 million people. When we realize that the entire population of Africa is one billion people, we see that the number of Muslims has diminished greatly from what it was in the beginning of the last century. On the other hand, the number of Catholics has increased from one million in 1902 to 329 million 882 thousand (329,882,000). Let us round off that number to 330 million in the year 2000.

As to how that happened, well there are now 1.5 million churches whose congregations account for 46 million people. In every hour, 667 Muslims convert to Christianity. Everyday, 16,000 Muslims convert to Christianity. Ever year, 6 million Muslims convert to Christianity. These numbers are very large indeed ?..

Maher Abdallah (interrupting):
Hold on! Let me clarify. Do we have 6 million converting from Islam to Christianity or converting from Islam and other religions?

Ahmad Al Katani:
Great (question)! The other religions are not placed on the list of Christianization; rather they are placed on the list of evangelization. The other religion in Africa is paganism; so it?s Islam, Christianity or paganism. There isn?t something similar to Asia for example where you have Buddhism or Zoroastrianism. In Africa it is just these three, so if you talk about Christianization then it targets the only other heavenly religion which is Islam. As for paganism, those people worship animals and planets and the like.

Maher Abdallah:
So 6 million Muslims a year convert?

Ahmad Al Katani:
Every year ?.. In the African nations this century a tragedy happened. Take for example what happened in Ethiopia. Ethiopia is an Arab nation and I am not saying a muslim nation. If any student looks up the word Habasha (Ethiopia) in the book Ocean Dictionary written by Al-Fairuz Abady, he will find that the word Habashat means ?people of different tribes? and this is what happened. Ethiopia was a place where Arabs from different tribes would go to live for a while. We all know that Islam entered Ethiopia before Islam entered the city of Medina. We all know that AL-Najashy (the ruler of Ethiopia) was a Muslim. It is mentioned by Al-Darkatny in his biography of the prophet ? Allah?s prayer and peace be upon him ? that during the month of Rajab in the 9th year of the Hijra (Muslim calendar) that the prophet said to his companions: ?Rise up and pray on your brother Al-Najashy.? From that year on the practice of praying on the absent was established. Therefore from the time of the prophet ? Allah?s prayer and peace be upon him ? Islam entered Ethiopia. So what has happened to Ethiopia?

What happened is that in the days of Emperor Hela Silasi who used to force Muslims to bow to the Christian, and if he refused then he was whipped 45 lashes and jailed between 2 and 5 years. In the year 1948, a massacre occurred at the hands of the Amharic tribes; the Amharic being Christians and collaborators, who continued to slaughter Muslims for 7 months and perform the most horrific acts imaginable. For example they deprived them from the most basic human rights, to the point that they mutilated the male Muslim?s reproductive organs so that no more Muslim children would be born. Ethiopia was rewarded after all these horrific acts; rewarded by being made the head quarters of the African Unity League.

Let us move to another location in Africa, let it be Nigeria. Nigeria is known by Muslims by the name of the Land of Takror. Nigeria was founded at the beginning of the last century by the British, and many Islamic sources mention it?s name as the Land of Tekror. There is even a letter by the reciter Suyuti, who died in the year 911 Hijri, where the title is: Opening the blessed request and relating the hidden openly to the questions of the people of Takror. So there was an established relationship, and they used to send questions to the scholars of Islam, so this letter (of questions) was sent from one of the sheikh scholars of Nigeria that was called Takror to the Muslim scholar AL Suyuti in Egypt and he in turn responded and the contents of this letter are published and printed and is found in the book ?The collection Islamic decrees?.

Nigeria?s population is 120 million people, 70% of whom are Muslim. In the 1960?s a British missionary came and declared that he will Christianize North Nigeria, the majority of whom are Muslim. As a result, Ahmad Banulo (from the leaders of the Msulims) was forced at the time to move him to Lagos the capital. As a result the butcher Arorese, that was present at the time, eliminated all the Muslim rulers and killed Ahmad Banulo, why? Because he merely dared to move this missionary who declared that he wishes to Christianize North Nigeria.

*REMOVED*


Registering on such sites....Does Islam allows..that's my question

please help.
 

Perseveranze

Junior Member
Lol, this is false. This has been refuted before by many people. If 6million left Christianity each year, then many parts of northon Africa by now would be a majority Christian nation within roughly 5-10 years.

This is not the case, as Islam is still the majority and quickly growing.

I don't know who the sheikh is, but there's no credibility in his figures, no statistics or proper data gathering.

Here's proper statistical/researched based data;

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Islam is the world’s fastest-growing religion by number of conversions each year: Although the religion began in Arabia, by 2002 80% of all believers in Islam lived outside the Arab world. In the period 1990-2000, approximately 12.5 million more people converted to Islam than to Christianity.[24] Part of the books quote can be seen online from this extract from Google Books.[24]


As for registering on such Anti-Islam websites, they are decievers/liars, and especially if you have little knowledge on Islam, you shouldn't be going anywhere near those websites.

It'll only hurt your imaan, due to your own lack of knowledge and because of the deceptive/misguidance of what they say.

ps. No other major news channel, not even the western channels reported this "6 millions conversions a year", I wonder why.

Edit: Also be careful of Al Jazeera, they were amongst the first to blame Muslims for oslo bombings. Do not in any single way think they're sympathetic towards Islam or Muslims, it's rather the contrary.
 

Aapa

Mirajmom
Assalaam walaikum,

The original interview was printed on :OrthodoxyToday.org is maintained by Fr. Johannes Jacobse, a priest in the Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of America. He lives in Naples Florida. Greek Orthodox.
 

Itqan Ullah

Time is Running!!
So this too turned out as I had said to bro in another thread, they are hunting such stuff to throw at you without caring if it has anything to do with reality.
 

Ayanle

Junior Member
whoever is stupid enough to convert from islam to Christianity deserves whatever they get
fools
 

muslimshabs

Junior Member

Asalamu alaikum...

I think this video speaks million words...

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fVTnwsXq5s&feature=related[/ame]

May Allah help them ...
 

Aapa

Mirajmom
Assalaam walaikum,

No..we are the ones in need of their dua. May Allah help us to recognize what we promised Him. May Allah forgive us for our heedlessness.
May Allah reward you for posting this reminder.
 

Hatty

Junior Member
There is a Huwaiti Islamic Daee who is doing a lot of dawa work in Africa, He is still alive and still doing the work. Having listened to an interview done with him: he said that a lot of African tribes used to be Muslims as they still have remaining practices related to Islam, such as their names, and other things, but alhamdilullah a lot of them are coming back to Islam now and this Daee have witnessed whole tribes embracing Islam again,

I believe those tribes were taken advantage of their simplicity and lack of education during the British and French colonization of those places, that is why, for some reason they left Islam.
 

Aapa

Mirajmom
Assalaam walaikum,

And in a similar vein many Blacks in the US are returning to Islam. The respect that the Black culture has for Islam is tremendous. During the years of slavery many were beaten for practicing their faith. Some were maimed or killed. But the economy of the South could not have survived without the aid of the Muslims.

It is Evangelical Christianity with its promise of consumer goods that attracts people. It is a political policy that has been used in Africa, South and Central America and very heavily propagated in SouthEastern Asia.
 

Aziboy

Banned
Yes, there are some nominal so called Muslims who did went astray, however figuring it out in Millions is a plain LIE
 

abjad

AlHamd Li'Laah
There is a Huwaiti Islamic Daee who is doing a lot of dawa work in Africa, He is still alive and still doing the work. Having listened to an interview done with him: he said that a lot of African tribes used to be Muslims as they still have remaining practices related to Islam, such as their names, and other things, but alhamdilullah a lot of them are coming back to Islam now and this Daee have witnessed whole tribes embracing Islam again,

I believe those tribes were taken advantage of their simplicity and lack of education during the British and French colonization of those places, that is why, for some reason they left Islam.



The main problem is 'poverty' certainly they will have to so they can live;
turning the mirror Are they to be blamed? certainly not, are they(Christians) to be thanked with no question Yes...so the matter is not looking at one side but both; see what is happening in Somalia, Sudan-see here in Arabia Are you ready to be in the state as say yemen not to say other countries infected by.
that is my opinion
 

Aapa

Mirajmom
Assalaam walaikum,

Brother,

Please reread my post. The Evangelical agenda is political. It is not the Christian agenda.
 

abjad

AlHamd Li'Laah
evangelical Christians emphasize the importance of the Bible and the need for personal belief in Christ.

and Muslims?
bi llah Aleyki ...think thoroughly are they on ISLAM.(i mean the leaders)

need not say on this very forum you can see

Sunni v/s shia
the very enemy occupied Palestine and taken a piece of SYRIAN land (Golan heights) who spoke about it.

this is my opinion.
 
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