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The Christians Missionary Menace

Christian organizations and missionaries have launched an intense

proselytizing campaign in Muslim countries. The poverty, misery and

starvation of the impoverished Muslims are being exploited by these

missionaries to proselytize them. Welfare measures, developmental,

health and educational programs form the backbone of their massive

campaign. Relief aid is being organized with the explicit purpose of

converting the indigent Muslims to Christianity. Systematic religious

propaganda and indoctrination are being carried out on an

unprecedented scale. They have achieved immense successes in this

field. "Then Trojan Horse" which has entered the Muslim lands is

posing a great threat to their Imaan and Islam. They are in full swing

in countries like Bangladesh and Indonesia where they expect toconvert half the population to their faith by the year 2000.

Indigent Muslims driven by poverty and misery grovel at the feet of

the kuffar for relief and succor at the cost of their Imaan. Cross

stupidity and crass ignorance have caused them to barter their Emaan

for some miserable gains of the Dunya. The kuffaar await such

conditions to arise among the impoverished Muslims to rush relief

aids with the underlying motive of evangelization. This viciousOctopus of Kufr has extended its deadly tentacles to a network of

outlying villages in Muslim countries to mislead unwary and

uninformed Muslims and entrap them in the web of dark kufr. It is

said that in Bangladesh alone they are operating in over 800 villages.

Asaf Hussain writes about the predicament in Bangladesh: "the

ultimate objective of the numerous mission organizations and

agencies operating there is the evangelization of the people of

Bangladesh.... As such economic development was not an end in itself

to benefit the people, but a means for proselytizing them.Missionaries were therefore, very articulate about their

developmental schemes but very reticent about evangelization of the

people. Particularly, in the case of Muslims any such statistics of

evangelization of Muslims was not published." (BIRTH OF

BANGLADESH THE POLITICAL ROLE OF MISSIONS)



In the present times, the Emaan of the Muslims have reached low ebb.

It is like a shaking reed. It is further emaciated by crass ignorance and

abject poverty. It has provided a fertile ground for religious rivals to

sow the seeds of apostasy among the impoverished and unwary

Muslims. Ignorant Muslims consider these crusading religious bodies

as great benefactors of humanity. They are prepared to even abandontheir faith for the contemptible gains of the Dunya. Hence, in these

countries the number who has embraced Christianity amounts to

legion. The old myth that the Muslims are staunch believers and

cannot be converted to any other religion holds no water. Modern

missionaries with their vast resources and foreign aid have exploded

this myth. They are scoring great successes in this field. Asaf Hussain

writes: "Christian Missions are approaching Muslim populations in a

very systematic and well organized manner. They lack neither findsnor organization nor expertise. The Muslim countries, on the other

hand, have done nothing to counteract this. On the contrary, they are

confident that Muslims cannot be converted and in some cases

actively extend help to accomplish the mission work. This is only a

self-delusion and in the long run it will turn out that Muslims are

increasingly becoming Christians." (Birth of Bangladesh: The

Political Role of Missions)

In Indonesia too much missionary work is going apace. The questionhow Muslims in Indonesia come to turn away from Islam and end up

as Christians is a moot point. The missions have their own strategies

in promoting evangelization. Ahmad Von Denffer writes: "In

Indonesia today the preaching of the gospel goes along with the

rendering of highly appreciated service to society through schools,

universities, hospitals and orphanages. Church people tell

missionaries that quick results should not be expected. Rather the

seeds are to be sown now, while harvesting comes after the process of "de- Islamization' (which expresses itself in promoting secular and

Western thought) has gone far enough... the effort to create the

impression that Muslims in Indonesia are not really Muslims after all,

is part of the main strategy that Christians now employ when doing

mission among Muslims. Their motto is "After care, comes the

evangelism." Their official indoctrination program has been



epitomized in the following words? "The theory was indoctrination,.

but the practice was care and evangelism" (INDONESIA? How

Muslims are Made Christians)

Christian evangelization programs embrace the whole World. They

specifically target Muslims. Mali for example which is a Muslim-majority country is said to be a fertile ground for missionaries.

Ahmad Abu Sulaiman writes: "Mali is one of the poorest countries on

this earth. Almost all the population is engaged in insufficient

subsistence economy, and is illiterate and ignorant of even the basic

teachings of Islam... Today, widespread poverty and ignorance

provide the two most important inlets for the missionaries, providing

ample scope for the medical, social, educational and other activities

that prepare the way for proselytization, which is the ultimate goal." (CHRISTIANITY AND MISSION IN MALI)

Alhaj A D Ajijola narrating his Nigerian experience, attributes the

origin of Western education in Nigeria to Christian missionaries who

followed a ruthless policy of proselytism. He writes: "The Muslims,

until lately, did not become involved in educational development

early enough in Nigeria but, Christian Missionaries who came from

secular states of Europe with public funds, introduced education on

the Western pattern which soon spread all over the country. Admission to these Christian schools was conditioned on accepting

Christianity. Thus, the Christian missionaries used educational

institutions to force the Muslim youth to follow their faith."

(Introduction, THE MYTH OF THE CROSS)

Tanzania another Muslim majority country too had the above

experience. Muhammad Samiullah in his "PLIGHT OF MUSLIMS

IN AFRICA AND ASIA" states:"Modern education was first

provided by the Mission Societies who came to Tanzania (then

Taganyika). Both the Roman Catholics and Protestants established

primary schools, secondary schools and agricultural colleges. It was

then necessary for all who wanted to get education in these schools to

become Christians. Therefore, many Muslims adopted Christianity to

get education. Even those Muslims who remained Muslims in these



schools had to go to the church and study the Bible and be examined

on it. Thus, because of being in contact with the Christian way of life

for a long time, many Muslims did not come back to Islam after

completing their studies. Others who came to Islam remained half

Muslims and half Christians.In Malawi out of the 5000 odd villages

only a few have madrasahs. Over 95% Muslims are ignorant. TheChristian missionaries are working very hard in the area and the

Muslims, therefore, need to organize themselves on sound footings to

meet the challenge. Poverty and ignorance of Islam has enabled the

missionaries to convert many Muslim villagers to Christianity.

Sierra Leone which has a Muslim majority also faces the Christian

missionary onslaught. They are operating through the educational

system. Christian missions run the great majority of Primary schools.Samiullali writes: "Christian Missions desire Muslim children to

become Christians. This problem is not duly tackled in all humanity

and sincerity our younger generation would be led astray and

become converted to Christianity throughout the whole country. The

whole of the African continent is infested with missionaries aiming to

convert Muslims. The Tabligh Jamaat can perform a yeoman service

by propagating Islam among the masses and establishing Madrasahs

to educate the ignorant children along the religious lines and also

repeatedly warning them about the perils of this black serpent of kufr which has surrounded them which is seeking for opportunities to send

them to perdition by misleading and misguiding them to worship

stones and images and uphold myths and fallacies of Roman pagans

and Greek philosophers; to believe in a tampered and interpolated

version of the divinely rejected Gospel which is bristling with errors,

additions and forgeries concocted by copyists and priests and

mutilated by Pauline creed of Trinity, Atonement and Crucifixion

which were canonized as the true word of God in the Council of Nicea in 325 CE consigning to the flames the numerous genuine

Gospels to the Litter dismay of the world, opening the way to infernal

and eternal doom.

Mission work in India, in the past, was sullied by a spate of violence

and inhuman crimes. With the collapse of the Mughal Empire, the



British became the virtual rulers of India which paved the way for a

great multitude of missionaries and ancillary workers to stalk the land

in a crusading campaign to propagate Christianity. Like in

Bangladesh, they aimed at converting the whole of India to

Christianity. They left no stone unturned in their efforts to proselytize

Muslims but they failed miserably in their efforts because of theunshakable Emaan of the early Muslims. The enemies used threat and

intimidation to force Christianity on an unwilling public but to no

avail. They resorted to such brutal measures as massacring the Ulema,

general killing of civilians, exiling religious scholars, closing down

religious schools and eliminating the Sharia. All these Draconian

measures did not produce the desired results. Their failure created

frustration and an inferiority complex in them which culminated in a

campaign of vilification of Islam by word and thought.

Some of the tactics these nefarious elements employ are fraudulent,

deceptive and repulsive. Hospitals run by missionaries coerce their

Muslim patients to take in the medicine ordered to them in the name

of Jesus. But Allah Taala is the Curer of disease. There are other

instances where asked to worship the image of Mary or Jesus before

qualifying for free medical treatment and hospitalization. Performing

this action is tantamount to idolatry which expels one from the fold of

Islam. As Western medicine is full of side effects, the benefit derivedis practically nil or negligible. The belief that their medicine cures is a

baseless conviction. The distribution of pictures of Jesus or Mary

form part of their charitable work in order to create an impression that

these gods of theirs are the real helpers and therefore, deserve to be

loved and deified. The distribution of free meals under relief aid, may

contain haraam ingredients that is detrimental to Imaan. Such meals

may include even pork-based products.

Missionaries and their cohorts have large sums of ill-gotten wealth at

their disposal. They single out gullible women for financial aid. These

are not doled out to them on humanitarian grounds or for any

altruistic motives but with the sole aim of evangelization. To ensure

that these recipients do not play a deceptive role, some part of their

body is stamped with a kufr emblem which deprives them of their



lmaan and forebodes an evil end. This is evidenced in Bangladesh.

Further, the frantic struggle among the Muslim parents to admit their

children to Catholic schools for the sake of prestige and good

education has proved to be a great disaster. Children who come under

demoralizing and dehumanizing influences in these institutions of

atheism and immorality soon learn to question the accepted beliefs of Islam and throw overboard its time honored injunctions and practices.

Eventually, their lmaan and Aakirah are being jeopardized. The eyes

of the parents have turned blind that the road leading to Jannah is not

visible. The results of the missionary efforts of the kuffaar are

stunning and staggering. A considerable number of Muslims have

been converted to their deviant faith.

The bulk of the Muslim preachers should make concerted efforts tostem the tide of mass conversions taking place in the third world

Muslim countries. They have to put their heart and soul into the affair

with absolute sincerity and dedication to halt to the missionary

menace. Public platforms should be used for this purpose along with

the launching of an extensive literary propaganda to enlighten the

ignorant and weak Muslim masses depicting the splendor of Islam

and the perils of apostasization and the divine retribution awaiting

them in the Aakhirah But they are oblivious to this state of affairs The

Ulama are the vanguard of Islam. They should urge the apostates toreturn to the fold of Islam after due repentance. But why have they

adopted a lackadaisical attitude towards the spread of kufr which is

eating the very vitals of the society. Why are they conniving at this

burgeoning evil? Can they expect to receive Allah Ta'ala's blessing

and mercy by adopting such a nonchalant attitude? Definitely not!

They must instead be prepared to receive divine punishment.

No wonder these countries where apostasy is rife are degeneratingday by day. Their misery is multiplying. There are disasters like

drought, disease, famine, starvation, floods and cyclones that are

playing havoc on them. This is the dismal result of begging help from

the enemies of Allah Azza Wa Jal and bartering one's faith for the

transient pleasures of Dunya. It was an age old dream of missionanes

to cause the Muslim community to deviate and apostatize from Islam.



They employed various vile stratagems to achieve this end History

bears ample testimony to their oppressive, repressive and deceptive

methods of proselytization. Lets have a glimpse at the chronicles of

the ecclesiastical history for a wider understanding.

Since the advent of Islam, the kuffaar had been conspiring toextinguish the light of Islam but they miserably failed. Another

attempt to wipe out Islam was made when the savage Mongols swept

across the Muslim lands. The Church leaders found an ideal

opportunity here to avenge their previous defeats in the Crusades and

soon they struck an alliance with these blood-thirsty, barbarian horde

and instigated them to kill many Muslims. They tried to win them to

Christianity and pinned high hopes on them for the ultimate

eradication of Islam but they were disillusioned because theseMongols later voluntarily embraced Islam. T.W Arnold says in his

PREACHING OF ISLAM" that during the reign of Amir Tuqluq

Khan, 160,000 Mongols embraced Islam voluntarily in one day.

There is no coercion uncivilized, underhand or deceptive methods

employed for this mass conversion as was employed by crafty,

spiteful, intriguing and parochial missionaries down the centuries.

The advent of Crusade forms a watershed in history. It marks the

beginning of the war between lmaan and kufr. The fire of religioushostilities kindled by Church leaders smouldered for nearly two

centuries. It is manifestly clear that the role of popes, priests and

padres gained momentum with the onset of the First Crusade in 1063.

It was Pope Urban's II tirade that sparked off the first Crusade. In his

famous speech at Clermont in November 1095 he urged the

Christians to wage war against the "wicked race" (the Muslims)

According to G B Glubb "Christian Priests holding crosses aloft

accompanied Crusaders when they occupied Jerusalem in 1099 and put all the population to the sword, regardless of sex or age" (The

Course of Empire). The backbone of this fanatical movement was the

begotted ecclesiastical orders of the Christian hierarchy.

Pope Alexander II three decades ere the First Crusade sent a Papal

army to attack the Muslim of Saragossa. Barbastro, a rich Muslim



city of Spain surrendered. Six thousand civilians were killed in cold

blood and the women and children were divided between the

Christian soldiers "as concubines and slaves" In 1325 Pope John

XXII is reported to have written a letter to the King of Bosnia asking

him to exterminate the heretics (Muslims) in his dominion. Further, in

1703 Daniel Petrovich the then reigning bishop of Mortenegroinstigated the Christian tribes to eliminate the Muslims among them.

Accordingly, "on Christmas Eve, all the converted Monte Negroes

who would not foreswear Islam and embrace Christianity were

massacred in cold blood". By the order of Charles II of Anjou

between 14 and 15 August 1300(CE), the Arab colony of Lucera was

destroyed and the Muslims of Lucera were forcibly converted to

Christianity and thus Islamic presence in Sicily was brought to an end

by force.

Even in the 19th century the missionaries were playing an active role

in religious propagation using underhand methods. A Ezzati writes:

"The influx into the Ottoman Caliphate of Catholic and Protestant

missionaries, during the I 9th century' did much harm. These

missionaries, began to indoctrinate the Ottoman Christians by not

only teaching them their own history', language and literature but

also by inculcating in them so-called liberal and revolutionary' deas.

The Protestant missionaries were clandestinely trying to convert theMuslims as well as the other sects. In order to protect themselves and

their proteges, these missionaries, who posed as the champions of the

Christian minorities in the Ottoman Caliphate began to appeal to the

Great Powers for their intervention, and thus caused many

diplomatic incidents." (An Introduction To The Spread Of The

History Of Islam)

Most of the 150 million Africans exported during the slave trade fromWest Africa to the Caribbean and the Americas were said to be

Muslims. A Ezzati referring to the pitiable plight of these unfortunate

victims writes: "No slave was allowed to write or speak Arabic, or

any African language for that matter. Performance of Salaat was

punishable by flogging. Hajj was impossible. Pork was the main diet

(apart from vegetables). The only form of assembly permitted was



participating in Christian prayers with Christian preachers. The

result of this was that Islam died with the first African slaves. The

second generation grew up as Christians.

Let us now turn to Muslim Spain. Tariq ibn Ziyad with a contingent

of 12,000 Arab and Berber soldiers set foot on the Spanish soil in 712CE. That was the beginning of the resplendent Moorish rule in Spain

which lasted for over 800 years. During this period of splendor and

glory, the Jews and the Christians received benign treatment from

their Muslim rulers. They were allowed religious freedom and

permitted to live unmolested. On the converse, let us see the inhuman

and barbaric treatment meted out to Spanish Muslims when they were

subjugated by Christian monarchs aided and abetted by the Church

Leaders. These hoary facts are summarized from Ahmad Thomson's"BLOOD ON THE CROSS" in order to expose the dastardly role the

Christian missionaries played in the extermination of Islam and

Muslims from the Spanish soil.

ln 1248, Pope Innocent IV ordered the king of Aragon to permit no

Moors save as slaves. In 1250 it was decreed that no-one could buy or

sell anything from a Muslim unless he had first obtained a license to

do so. In 1337, the Bishop of Tarragona requested Pope Benedict in a

letter to empower the nobles to seize and sell the person and propertyof the Muslims, as they were public enemies and infidels. This

measure was approved of and subsequently enforced by the Church

until the eighteenth century, that is, until there were no more Muslims

or Jews left to be persecuted. In 1388 it was decreed that all Muslims

should kneel down when Church's sacraments were carried through

streets. In 1482 the Spanish Inquisition came into being. The

Inquisitors set about baptizing as many Muslims and Jews in as short

a time as possible. This was achieved by giving them the choice of baptism or death.

Pope Boniface VIII exempted from punishment for heresy all those

whose acceptance of Christianity was by force. Torture was used on

anyone who still maintained their belief in secret. Men and women of

all ages and children were tortured. They were always stripped before



being tortured. In 1499, Cardinal Ximenez, the Archbishop of Toledo

began a campaign to coerce the Muslims of Southern Andalusia into

the official religion. This resulted in baptizing 3000 Moors. It is

estimated that between 50,000 and 70,000 Muslin's were forcibly

baptized in the mass baptism of Granada by Ximenez. He is said to

have burnt 1,005,000 volumes in the public square of Vivarrambla in1500. The principal mosque at Andarax in which men and women

took refuge was blown up with gunpowder. In Belfique men were put

to the sword and children under 11 were separated from parents and

handed over to the Church to be brought up as Catholics. In 1507,

Cardinal Ximenez was appointed Inquisitor General of Spain. With

the tragic fall of Granada, , in 1502 Cardinal Yimenez de Csisneros,

who rode rough shod over the rights of Muslims, sold at an auction

2000 respectable matrons and maidens.

Isabella, on 12th February 1502, issued a royal order giving all

remaking Moors in the realms of Castile the choice between baptism

and expulsion. Under her decree, all males under the age of 14 and all

females under the age of 12 were separated from their families and

handed over to The Church to be brought up as Christians. In 1504,

Pope Clement granted permission to Charles V to eliminate the

remaining Muslims of Andalusia by whatever means were necessary.

The Edicts of Faith which replaced the notorious Edicts of Gracestipulated any Muslim found worshipping God according to the

injunctions of Islam was to be put to death. It is recorded that in 1568

Juan de Ribera, Archbishop of Valencia, offered the priests more

money to make work among the Moriscos more congenial. Further,

he established a seminary for Morisco children who by this time had

no idea of how their forefathers had lived Islamically. Muslims were

compelled to denounce their friends and relations as secret heretics.

Torture was used to persuade children to accuse their parents, and parents to accuse their children. It is recorded that one person alone

gave evidence against 4000 secret Muslims. They were all killed.

Abstinence from pork and wine was amply sufficient to justify

prosecution. In 1526, the Inquisition of Jaen passed an edict

forbidding the Muslims of Granada to use the Arabic language and



even to use their Muslim names. No Morisco woman was allowed to

act as a midwife. A Christian midwife was posted in every Morisco

village. She supervised all the pregnant women and as soon as a baby

was born the priest was called and the baby was baptized. It was also

impossible to wash and bury the dead in accordance with the Islamic

rites. Anyone who wrapped a dead person in a clean cloth before burial was immediately regarded as a relapsed heretic and punished as

such. The parents could not even afford to say Allah in the presence

of their young children for fear that the child through indiscretion

might jeopardize the whole family. Any Morisco found not attending

mass was fined by the Catholic Church. The above facts were culled

from Ahmad Thomson's book, "BLOOD ON THE CROSS" which

vividly depicts the brutality and barbarity with which the Church

Leaders ganged up with the monarchs of the time, exiled, tortured andexterminated the Muslims of Spain. "It is recorded that after the

forcible conversion of the Muslims in one town, the image of the holy

sepulcher in the Christian Church wept for twenty-four hours and the

images of the Virgin Mary and associated angels wept for thirty-six

hours. The tears were so profuse that they were collected and

preserved in a sealed vase. In 1590 King Philip asked for, and was

given, a portion of these tears.

When the last of the Muslims were finally expelled from Spain in theearly seventeenth century, the tears in the vase and the tears in the

king's possession disappeared from their containers". (ibid) It is the

view of Arnold Toynbee that Christians have been worse than pagans

and atheists regarding the use of force and violence for religious

purposes. With the ascendancy of Spain and Portugal as colonial

powers religious bigotry got a shot in the arm. They came to the East

for the Cross and Commerce. They crusaded for their faith and

exploited ruthlessly the economic resources of the colonies The firstexploiters were ardent missionaries. Vasco da Gama's discovery of

India in 1498 enabled the colonialists to set foot on India, Malacca

and Phillippines. Missionary work in these countries in the East was

carried out by the religious orders such as Augustinians, Franciscans,

Jesuits and Dominicans; for an account of their fierce fanaticism one

has to look up the pages of history. In the present times, numerous



Christian missionary organizations and agencies have sprung up

globally preaching their faith by the lure of money, relief aid, health

and education in a clandestine and arbitrary manner.

The Muslims world over have to unite and prepare themselves to

meet these challenges which are fraught with danger to Islam andMuslims. Otherwise the responsibility of guiding the deflected folk

will not be lifted from their shoulders and the danger of falling under

the wrath of Allah Ta'ala cannot be ruled out. The Ulama particularly

cannot afford to ignore this problem and as guardians of Islam they

have to map out strategies to counter Christian missionary

propaganda and awaken the community from its deep slumber and

guide it to the straight path.

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