At some point in his life, Baker, raised as a Roman Catholic like his father, converted to Islam. Turning the other cheek has never been an option since then. The majority of young people he had interviewed converted from Christianity to Islam for similar reasons, he says.
“With my newfound faith, there existed religious guidelines that provided spiritual and behavioral codes of conduct.
According to academics, the total obedience that Islam demands from its followers has made it more appealing to worshippers and converts from other religions. Islam says no to drinking, smoking, gambling, pornography, helping those who truly follow its laws and values become complete and firm in their decisions.
“Islam says NO – this is no and full stop. And people find a sense of direction in it, because their religion of origin has lost that, and not because it never had it in the first instance,” Dr. Sara Silvestri, Senior Lecturer at City University, told RT.
One of the largest complaints made against the Catholic Church is the "rules", yet when it comes to Islam, the "rules" are viewed as reason to join?!
I think the appeal of Islam has more in common with the appeal of football hooliganism. It’s a license to abuse others. Yes, it has “strict rules,” but they exist mostly to give the stronger a “justification” to abuse the weaker.
Daniel Greenfield (Sultan Knish) is right: it’s just a gang.
A lot of Christianity right now comes across as very girly. I used to wonder how the dignified, grown-up men in our nondenom congregation could STAND to worship to the banal, happy-clappy, soft rock music.
Many of the churches have that same soft-masculine, feel-good, approach that we see in society at large. Whatever happened to Manly Men? Did Jesus really condemn that? No, it’s Feminism, insinuating its threads. Whatever happened to the Church Militant here on Earth? ‘Oh, that’s too mean. God is love.’ Whatever happened to the stalwart hymns - Onward Christian Soldiers, Faith of Our Fathers? Why aren’t the Crusades taught as the Crusaders saw them?
Well, God is love alright, but He is also fierce, and until Christianity is again taught in its fullness, it will not attract those who only hear ‘turn the other cheek.’