Evangelist's Tsunami Efforts Stir U.S. Muslim Group

Reuters (via Yahoo) ^ | 1/20/05 | Manuela Badawy

[Mr. Mojo]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. Muslim group on Thursday accused evangelist Jerry Falwell of using money donated for tsunami relief to convert people in South Asia to Christianity and called on the Bush administration to denounce his actions.

In an e-mailed weekly newsletter called "Falwell Confidential," which was obtained by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the evangelist said: "Hundreds of thousands are in dire need of medical attention and personal counseling. And in this heavily Muslim part of the world, millions have never even heard of Jesus Christ."

The newsletter, which is distributed by Jerry Falwell Ministries, said donations would be used to distribute food and Gospel tracts in the region.

A Muslim who received the e-mail passed it on to the Council on American-Islamic Relations, council spokesman Ibrahim Hooper said.

According to a statement on www.falwell.com and Liberty University's Web site, the school is preparing a team to travel to India, Sri Lanka and other countries in South Asia. Falwell founded Liberty University.

"Distribution of food and medical supplies, along with the dissemination of thousands of Gospel tracts in the language of the people will be the primary tasks of the team," the Web sites said. "Mission trips to the Asian region by many (Liberty University) students will follow in the months, and perhaps years, to come."

But Dr. Eddie Pate, professor and leader of Liberty's tsunami aid effort, said he did not plan to take "any materials or pass anything out." He said the team is going to South Asia to work with local Christian groups that are distributing food and medicine, and helping small businesses restart.

Falwell's office declined comment. The evangelist sparked controversy in 2002 when he called Muslims' prophet Muhammad a "terrorist" during a television interview.

"This is not the first time we hear about this kind of proselytism," Hooper said. "This has a negative impact, first, on interfaith relations, and second, on the trust and work of legitimate institutions working there."

Hooper said missionaries acting as relief groups could hurt rather than help these vulnerable societies.

"It would make work for legitimate institutions more difficult. It also harms America's image, which is already pretty tarnished in the rest of the world."

The White House had no immediate comment.

Earlier this week, reports that the missionary group WorldHelp planned to airlift 300 tsunami orphans from the Muslim province of Banda Aceh to Indonesia's capital, Jakarta, to raise them in a Christian children's home, caused a stir among Muslims. The group has dropped its plans, according to media reports.

WorldHelp officials were not immediately available for comment.

The tsunami has killed about 226,000 across Asia.

[Tamar1973]

They haven't contributed enough to convert a gnat to Islam.

Unless you consider suicide bombs, swords and WMD legitimate tools of conversion.

[Patton@Bastogne]

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PCTech,


It's simple: Moslems and Palestinians are the Gutter-Dogs of Humanity.


Moslems and Palestinians breed like sub-human vermin, then sacrifice their own children to become "Human Bombs", killing others' Children in the process.


Moslems and Palestinians are typical of the Arab mental squalor that's condemned entire sub-continents to vast cesspools of poverty, disease, and brutal ignorance.


Moslem and Palestinian Women are worthy of the Enslavement in which they and their Babies suffer eternal damnation, at the hands of Pseudo-Men whose Barbarism is only exceeded by their Pathetic Depravity towards the Moslem Boys playing at the local Mosque.


Moslem and Palestinian Women could have rebelled against their Depraved Male Slave-Masters decades ago, as did their Asian and Western European sisters. But the Arab's racial cowardice (genetically inbred over the centuries) condemns Arab Men and Children to flee from genuine Honor just as disease flees from Penicillin.


Why does the entire Civilized World turn away in disgust at Moslems and Palestinians ?


Because even the monstrously evil Bolsheviks and Nazis had the courage to fight their enemies as Men, face-to-face, eyeball-to-eyeball.


Because even the deranged Japanese Kamikaze Pilots of World War II mustered the honor of a suicide-death in the face of Open Battle.


Accordingly, even fifty (50) years after World War II, American, Japanese, British, German and Russian soldiers will even toast together the mutual memory of their fallen comrades, because all were imbued with the Singular Honor of Men who Sacrificed Their Lives (on the field of battle) for their respective nations.


Moslems and Palestinians ? They cannot even comprehend such Honor.


It's as foreign to Moslems and Palestinians as America's Bill of Rights and the God-Ordained Right of Women to enjoy the blessings of life and family, without living as Dowry Slaves in the Shadow of Fear of being Burned at the Stake to satisfy the Satanic Monsters lurking in the Soul of every Islamic man.



Have I made my Point ?




Patton@Bastogne
Free Republic Member since 1998.



General George S. Patton Jr. Website




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[F16Fighter]

"This is not the first time we hear about this kind of proselytism," Hooper said. "This has a negative impact, first, on interfaith relations, and second, on the trust and work of legitimate institutions working there."

If one assumes Mr. Hooper's coven of Islam prefer that the money, medicine and food donated on behalf of ALL "Christians" the world over to be regurgitated, rejected, and distained, then he's a bit late.

But then why should anyone expect more of a religion that regards ALL human life as cheaper than dirt?

[ken21]

green light.

[ViLaLuz]

ping

[BriarBey]

Christianity is illegitimate?

[eleni121]

Amen!

The truth will set Muslims free from their abominable cult.

[JimRed]

Christ said to go into all the world and preach the Gospel. Mohammed said to enslave or kill anyone who would not convert.

[tessalu]

Muhammed was against Jesus and he claimed that Jesus never did die, as if he could rewrite history, as an uneducated man. Muhammed claimed that allah took him to heaven, but that he never died, and then Muhammed went on to claim that when Jesus returns he will follow Muhammed. Muhammed was anti-christ, proclaiming that he is better than Jesus, and he ordered death for any Muslim who wanted to follow Christ.
Muhammed has a bad record in my opinion.

[Trippin]

It's funny, but it seems Islam can only servive if you force people at gunpoint to join, and then shield them from all other thought for the rest of their lives.

[Iscool]

I

n many Muslim countries to convert to Christianity is punishible by death. What kind of religion is so insecure in their own teachings that they must make people fear for their lives to keep them in the religion?

The American muzlims are getting bold...Just recently in New Jersey, a family of American Christians from Egypt were whacked and hacked to death apparently by our good American muzlims...

And now they are protesting because Christians in the United States are doing what we have been for hundreds of years, preaching the gospel to those who haven't heard it...But hey, this is the kind of news Americans need to hear...

[Hegemony Cricket]

I have painstakingly translated this article into American: "We really, really want - no wait - we really, really expect - uh, still not quite right - WE DEMAND food, medicine, clothing, building materials, etc., but if you even THINK about sharing with us the faith that motivates you to acquiesce to our "reasonable" demands - we'll kill ya! And if any of you infidels touch any of our stuff - we'll kill ya!

[Mr. Mojo]

Accurate translation, HC.

[SoCal_Republican]

Really. What are these Muslims afraid of. If their faith is strong and of the true God, then what Christians tell them won't interest any of them.

[freedumb2003]

A "religion" that can't compete in the arena of ideas.

If Islam (may its founder Burn in hell foerever between two pigs) is a superior religion, then what possible harm could come from thos who suggest alternate paths?

A bankrupt religion, dependent on the complete and total ignorance of its followers, needs protection from any idea outside its narrow confines.

[unlearner]

Passing out tracts is not coercive.

If someone gives me something I disagree with, I may choose to discuss it or debate them, or I may just say "no thank you". I am not threatened by other people's ideas.

Islam itself believes in training apologists who understand other religions; here is an opportunity for them to learn about one.

Islam is the primary modern religion that practices coercion.

[Jabba the Nutt]

It Buddy, it's a free world, people have the right to choose their own religion. It's not like Muslims are not competing for converts all around the world. Trying to shut someone else up, means you're not really solid in your own beliefs.

[Ben Chad]

Nonsense. Conquer them and convert them to Christianity.

[devolve]

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[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!