Things Are Changing: Sixteen Thousand Apostates A Day

Charles Johnson is considered one of the biggest memebers of the blogosphere when it comes to international affairs. And we, in the blogosphere, thank him. Today, Charles didn't disappoint. Jack at Irish Pennants also noticed this story.

This translation of a televised conversation reveals a rare glimpse into the outlook of Muslim scholars who are concerned about Christianity’s growth. The invited guest is 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.

Katani starts off describing the overall problem:

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 …..

From what I have heard from reliable sources, six million may be too low. Reliable accounts say that one hundred thousand Africans convert to Christianity per day, though not all of them come from Islam. Then Katani says Muslims should build schools before mosques, in order to build the worshipper (Muslim) before the building. Why? To stop the the dangerous “Christian missionary octopus”

Oooo .... I wonder if this has anything to do with the fact that the face of Islam is that of terrorists, suicide bombers, and general, all-around cowards? Maybe? Just maybe the people don't want a future that involves jihad and death?

Call me crazy, but I just may be correct.

Later, an Arabic-speaking Christian discusses how Islam must preach peace and love. No one denies, as none of the Muslim scholars do, that a religion has the right to spread his faith (except in hard line Islamic countries), but these leaders seem panicky. They express frustration at Islam’s disorganized efforts to maintain Africa. But this one idea eludes them: Islam itself is the problem because it is a burdensome and harsh religion. This is apparent when one Muslim scholar talks about implementing Shari’ah as if it is self-evident that it benefits society.

This is to be expected in hard-line Islamic countries. "He who controls the knowledge controls the power." If the people actually had a copy to read, to study, to understand, the ruling clerics would lose their power. People would no that their idea of Islam is poisonous, and offers little in terms of hope. It offers despair, subjugation, domination, humiliation, barbaric punishments for minor infractions, and nothing but abuse at the hands of those who wield the power.

So if this is the outcome of the terrorist's endeavors in this war, then their defeat is assured. The "kids" touched on the fact that al-Zarqawi is changing tactics to better combat our troops. This is hardly the truth. He seems to have a problem recruiting people to blow themselves up, and he's just now realizing he's running out of volunteers. But if this trend continues, if those in Islam start to turn away the idea of militant Muslims will evaporate. Definitely not over night, of course, but in time they will "die out;" as extinct as the dinosaurs.

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