The incipient implosion of Islam ( Christianity is Growing Quickly in Muslim Countries )

WorldnetDaily.com ^ | 01/23/2007 | Jim Rutz

[Campion]

Not surprising, since Muslims believe Jesus Christ is a Muslim,, and one of their prophets.

However, they also aren't supposed to believe that Jesus really died on the cross, or was really raised from the dead, and they certainly don't believe that he died as a substitutionary victim to take away the sins of the world.

All of those realities were vividly depicted in Mel Gibson's movie.

[yawningotter]

I suspect that our armed forces in Iraq are having an impact that goes far beyond fighting the terrorists. It would not surprise me to hear that there Christians in our military spreading the Good News, even if it is in the most subtle ways, and that Iraqis are responding. The thought that there are Christians winning muslims to Christ in Iraq is probably scarier to those mullahs than a boatload of Marines.

[UpAllNight]

--I read this before but would like actual sources to verify the statistics on the number of conversions.--

You don't really question WND, do you?

[T Ruth]

Google "iran tehran underground church" and you will find lots of information.

The situation of islamic countries is similar to that of communist countries in the 70's and 80's. It was forbidden to leave a communist country, and finally communism collapsed, due in large part to the fact that no one truly believed any more. Similarly, it is forbidden to convert from islam. If they have to impose a death penalty to keep people from converting, how vibrant can islam be?

[TexanToTheCore]

"I have never heard of record breaking numbers of Muslims converting to Christianity in recent years. Not once."

Generally it is kept quiet for political and security reasons. If you take the time to get to know some missionaries (I have friends and relatives who are on-the-ground missionaries), you will find that their experiences match the numbers being talked about in this article.

Some of the numbers for starting quantities of Christians are off, but otherwise the article seems solid to me.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

"If they have to impose a death penalty to keep people from converting, how vibrant can islam be?"

Nice summarization.

[Fred Nerks]

Let's hear it from the camel's mouth:

translation: "Islam used to be, as we stated before, Africa's primary religion...there was around 30 countries that write in arabic , currently the muslim population in Africa dropped to 316 million. Half of that number is of the North African Maghrib arab countries who are muslims anyway. So Africa that we are talking about, the non arabic, now has a muslim population of only 150 million , and if we knew that africa's population is around 1 billion people, then this is for sure a far less ratio/percentage than what it used to be in the beginings of the 20's century....as opposed to this ; The catholic population has risen from around a million of people in 1902 To 329882000 now, lets make it nearer and say 330 million .

As for how this happened, Africa has now a million and half a million churches. The number of the members of these churches 46 million people. Because of the christian missionaries every hour islam loses 667 muslims convert to Christianity, every Day 16000 , every year 6 MILLION."

http://muslim-quotes.netfirms.com/islamgrows.html

[FreedomNeocon]

Sounds like good figures to me.

I have always wondered... regardless of my perceptions of Islam... I always asked that with Islam acting the way it has in over (at least) the past 10 years, what part of it was attractive... something you would want to believe in?

I mean... on one hand you have a religion based on forgiveness and selflessness, on treating people the way you want to be treated. On the other you have a religion which is being used to say your duty is to kill people in the name of god because non-believers must die.

Just from a simple human perspective, I can't see why people would be eager to put in with that crowd

[Clintonfatigued]

This is very encouraging news.

[GSlob]

Even if your statistics is true, and even if each copy of the materials equals one convert [wildly optimistic, does anyone remember what happened to that Afghani Abdul Rahman?], you still fail to consider that the cockroaches multiply to a tune of +20-25 MILLION a year.

[Capt. Tom]

However, they also aren't supposed to believe that Jesus really died on the cross, or was really raised from the dead, and they certainly don't believe that he died as a substitutionary victim to take away the sins of the world.

All of those realities were vividly depicted in Mel Gibson's movie.

The Muslims don't buy the crucifiction aspect, because the Koran tells them something else. So those scenes would be looked by a Muslim at in this context.

Koran : "4.157":
And their saying: Surely we have killed the Messiah, Isa son of Marium, the apostle of Allah; and they did not kill him nor did they crucify him, but it appeared to them so (like Isa) and most surely those who differ therein are only in a doubt about it; they have no knowledge respecting it, but only follow a conjecture, and they killed him not for sure.

"4.158": Nay! Allah took him up to Himself; and Allah is Mighty, Wise.

[shield]

Jesus is appearing to many muslims in dreams.

[EBH]

Now why would a muslim turn to Christianity?

There is one reason and one reason only, it is a reason that Allah does not provide for.

Christianity is about forgiveness. True peace on the middle east cannot be obtained in the current situation. Muslims can't or don't know how to forgive.

Funny, but liberals strike me the same way in the inability to forgive part...?

[skr]

All praise be to Almighty Jehovah!

[eleni121]

Oh yeah...in my own circle I have a couple Turks going to my church with me.

There are some here who would never believe that but it's true!

And I know about conversions to the Lord going on all the time...some secret (especially among the Yemenis) but many public.

[Biggirl]

A sign that that there is hope that the Christian faith will come back to the ME.

[Biggirl]

Goes to show that God does work in mysterious ways. Not only there are soilders fighting the terrorists, but for those that are Christians winning Muslims for Christ. That is a miracle.

[Biggirl]

An example of the last statement is to be found in one man, a former Islamofacist now a Christian, Wahid Shobot.

[Defiant]

Christianity is growing in some places and dying fast in others. What used to be known as Christendom is now rabidly anti-Christian, and the left in the US wants to make our nation that way, too. One of the major efforts of our age should be to re-Christianize Europe. If Irish monks can convert Viking pagans in a few generations, surely some well-meaning Americans can revive the Holy Spirit in modern pagans.