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.

[Happy2BMe]

U.S. MUSLIM CAIR LEADER HOOPER GETS HIS CAMEL PANTIES IN WAD OVER U.S. CHRISTIAN'S TSUNAMI RELIEF ROLES - PING.

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"This is not the first time we hear about this kind of (Christian) proselytism," (CAIR) 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.

[American in Israel]

Typical Moooslim, better dead than fed.

[Happy2BMe]

TSUNAMI AID AMERICA’S GOT THE BUCKS AMERICA IS EVIL

[Fiddlstix]

Well... You can't accuse the Muzzies of using their donated money that way. They haven't contributed enough to convert a gnat to Islam.

They don't use money for that. They use weapons. Convert to islime or die.

[Fred Nerks]

Islam would prefer to let the survivors in Aceh die of starvation and disease rather than allow the simple village folk to see, that the 'infidel' the filthy kuffar whom the imam tells them will contaminate them, what we really are; generous, kind and helpful.
Islam is terrified.

Mohammad promised them that after 40 days of contact with with his 'sinless and divine' belief system, all other religions would happily convert.

Idiots. It works the other way around! The voice of the imam begins to sound somewhat hollow in Aceh...kindness and a massive tragedy have set back the cause of ISLAM by several decades in Indonesia.
No wonder Hooper and his ilk are screaming. The fanatics wanted to establish sharia in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philipines, Papua and Australia.

Negative impact? You bet.

[FBD]

Winston Churchill on ISLAM:

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"How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries!

- "Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity.

The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities...but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world.

Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome."

Sir Winston Churchill, from The River War, first edition, Vol. II, pages 248-50

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[ppaul]

"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 horror! The horror!!!

[ppaul]

"Mohammedanism...which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog...No stronger retrograde force exists in the world." -- Winston Churchill

Thanks for the great quote.
BUMP

[k2blader]

Thank God for men like Jerry Falwell.

[DJ MacWoW]

I bought a bumper sticker at CafePress that says:

Jesus Loves you Allah wants you dead

[FBD]

Thanks, and a bump back to you, my FRiend.

Ol' Churchill had Islam pegged, even before the turn of the century.
I suspect G.W. does as well, but he has to be more diplomatic, given his erstwhile allies in the W.O.T.

[pctech]

Have I made my Point?

And how!

[CDHart]

"who cares if someone is changing religions????"

The muslims care very much --

Carolyn

[Scothia]

That's it. I want CAIR out of my country!

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"...Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faiths, but to become dominant. The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth."

~Omar Ahmad, founder of CAIR

[TomSmedley]

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.

yet the internet is breaching the firewall behind which alone the muslim mind can find peace. soviet communism fell practically overnight. will we be ready when islam suffers a global loss of credibility? i hope and pray we will!

(paranthetically -- do you think God will make a habit of rattling the muslim world on the feast of Stephen? it's happened two years in a row ... )

[nicmarlo]

I guess compared to Moslems beheading Christians, it must really be evil for a Christian to talk about the LOVE of God and Jesus.

[WolfRunnerWoman]

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.

< sarcasm >

Oh the horror! Why that's worse than:

• Conversion at sword point
  
  
• Buying boys from the Indian subcontinent to starve and uses as camel jockey and "pets".
  
  
• mutilating the sexual organs of women
  
  
• bombing buses, churches, cafes, nightclubs, embassies, barracks and office buildings to strike back at the infidels
  
  
• beheading female, middle-aged aid workers
  
  
• Mass rape and genocide of kaffirs in Africa
  
  Something must be done!
  
  < /sarcasm >

[Fiddlstix]

Thanks for the ping and the quote. Very true