Posted on 01/23/2005 3:12:28 AM PST by Calpernia
Mexico may be well on its way to a monotheistic revolution. This new trend is emerging from recent developments, and reflects a similar change evident in other South American nations - people are embracing Islam by the thousands, jettisoning the Catholicism imposed upon their ancestors in Spain.
The prayer congregation has tripled since Mexico City's Centro Cultural Islamico de Mexico (CCIM) first opened its doors 6 years ago. The numbers could be even higher. However, most Mexicans still have almost no knowledge of Islam. CCIM is spreading the Oneness of Allah at all levels of society and translating Islamic publications into Spanish. It also has several native-born active Da'wah graduates from Saudi Arabian universities who speak fluent Arabic. The Center's Islamic public radio program had to be suspended because of financial constraints.
In the last 3 years, CCIM built two new mosques in two cities close to the capital. Its ultimate goal is to establish full-time mosques in every major Mexican city.
Early History
Mexico has a rich history. The people of pre-Columbian Mexico, the Mayans, led a life similar to Native American Indians and were pantheists who relied upon high priests to mediate with their nature gods. Locked in wars and short of food, they gradually were wiped out and replaced by the Aztecs. These people believed in a polytheistic religion based on the world's constant creation and destruction. Their religion taught them that disasters could be averted only through warfarre and human sacrifice. By the sixteenth century, the Aztecs ruled a large part of Mexico.
In the early 1500's, Spanish conquistadors from Cuba and Spain came to pillage Mexico's natural resources - namely gold - and find glory. Cortez, the most infamous conquistador, posed as an Aztec god to mystify and trick people into joining forces with him. He conquered the Aztecs in less than 3 years, and set up "New Spain."
In 1535, the first royal court was established to grant Spanish colonists control over native labor and produce. The Roman Catholic Church allied to the Spanish monarchy, worked for creating a land free of religious dissent and to convert the people. During the 300 years of Spanish rule in Mexico, the colonists controlled all wealth and political power, and the natives had no other choice but to bey orders or to face death.
By the seventeenth century, New Spain had nearly collapsed, and Mexican Indians were dying by the millions from the imported diseases and the hard labor imposed by their oppressors. Out of nearly 11 million people in the 1520's, only less than 1 million remained by the 1550's. The cattle and sheep herds brought by the Spaniards ruined farmlands and depleted water resources, making it almost impossible for the natives to grow food. After enduring plunder and subjugation for centuries, Mexicans revolted and regained control over Mexico in the early 1900's.
Mexico Today
Today, Mexico has over 90 million people, most of whom follow the Catholicism imposed by the conquering Spaniards. However, the foodgates of religious thought have opened, and people are examing other religions - especially Islam.
There is very little knowledge about the origins of Islam in Mexico. Some sources say Syrian immigrants brought it; others say it came with Turkish immigrants.
Today, most Mexican Islamic organizations focus on grassroots Da'wah. These small organizations are most effective at the community level, going from village to village and speaking directly to the people. As a result of such hard work, Mexicans are eager to learn about Islam, and many are declaring their Shahadah - profession of faith in Islam.
The Mexicans have been being converted for years.Show me the numbers.
Dane, the Barbara Boxer of Free Republic
Yawn, whatever, got better things to do than get caught up in a pissing match that you started for your petty entertainment.
Islam has found some converts in the US amongst Hispanics and whites, but I suspect that they convert for the same reasons that some blacks do -- jailbirds, people who are estranged from society, marriage and women with a mistaken belief that Islam "respects" women.Exactly. Emotional malcontents and mental wrecks. That's the fertile ground for this pedophile religion of death, destruction, oppression, torture, misogyny and death. (I know, I said death twice. But they like death.)
Dammit.
Oh well, off to watch a South Park episode then.
(But you still are the Barbara Boxer of Free Republic)
It won't work as long as the Democrats are not in power. We must work and pray hard.I hate the RATS as much as anyone in FR or America or anywhere, but this is one issue that is not dependent on the defeat of American Democrats at the polls.
Mexico will not have a large plurality of Muslims. Not in our lifetimes. Not in anyone's lifetime.
To ungrammatically (for emphasis) repeat myself: It ain't agonna happen.
Islam and Mexico have a commone enemy, USA. They will be joining forces, and we will have a problem since our feds refuse to accept we have no problem.
Wait till Mexicans find out Muslims can't eat pork..
I hope that your are right, but I have my doubts.
Yeah a few thousand converts in Mexico claimed by some islamic blog and people on FR go nuts, while Mexico is probably one of the most Christioan countries in the world where also it seems that Protestantism is making inroads with millions in Mexico.
In Mexico alone, at least 10 percent of the people have converted to Protestant faiths.
This whole thread is meant to whip up hysteria while the facts bear out something much different.
I really believe that the islamofacists are acting as insanely as they are because they can see the writing on the wall: the world doesn't want them.
They are losing ground in two big ways:
1. Many mulims are becoming muslim-in-name-only, and the islamofacists know it.
2. The rest of the world is becoming less and less fertile ground for expanding their religion. Islam expanded by force of arms, no other way. Very few people convert to Islam as a personal choice. As noted here by others, yes, some prisoners and emotionally damaged people sometimes convert, but mostly, in history, Islam converted whole nations, at the point of a sword. Such conversions just aren't going to happen anymore.
It spreads to the unwary, takes hold, and kills those whom it infects and often those they come in contact with. It is like anthrax; once it pollutes a region it buries itself in the soil and holds on practically forever as an infectious agent.
Now they have gone an done it! The pope will excommunicate the whole lot of em!
I don't understand it. I know the rules as you just stated as true."
When it comes to converting infidels, the rule is, there are no rules.
They are not looking for sincere converts to islam, they are looking for cannon fodder to use against the U.S.
Wait until all the gangs start converting to islam.
Islam is a mainly a death cult (in spite of its impressive archetecture). This is an ominous developement. The United States needs to get serious about border protection.
I'd say it came from the Aztec practice of sacrificing people to false gods and then eating the flesh of the victims.
From Civilizations in America: The Mexica | Aztecs:
We can successfully reconstruct Aztec human sacrifice with a high level of accuracy. Some sacrifices were very minimal, involving the sacrifice of a slave to a minor god, and some were very spectacular, involving hundreds or thousands of captives. Aztec history claims that Ahuitzotl (1468-1502), who preceded Mocteuzma II as king, sacrificed 20,000 people after a campaign in Oaxaca ("O-a-sha-ka"). No matter what the size of the sacrifice, it was always performed the same way. The victim was held down by four priests on an altar at the top of a pyramid or raised temple while the officiant made an incision below the rib cage and pulled out the living heart. The heart was then burned and the corpse was pushed down the steep steps; a very brave or noble victim was carried down the steps. The most brutal of human sacrifices were those dedicated to the god Huehueteotl. Sacrificial victims were drugged and then thrown into a fire at the top of the ceremonial platform. Before they were killed by the fire, they were dragged out with hooks and their living hearts were pulled out and thrown back into the fire.
The Aztlanistas boast of their descent from the Aztecs; personally, I'd be ashamed of that heritage.
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I don't think war with Mexico is the danger.
-Before they were killed by the fire, they were dragged out with hooks and their living hearts were pulled out and thrown back into the fire.-
Oh - can I say it? - Just damn.
Thanks for the ping!
Gee... you can't think of any reasons Islam would be targetting Mexico, can you?
Time to shut the borders, Mr. Bush.
While I am a member of the "close the borders" crowd, you are correct as to the Mexican treatment of the sexual criminals. There was never a time the Mexican community, illegal or landed residents didn't do everything they could to aid an investigation. For that I say Viva Mexico!
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