Missionaries Seek New Converts in Morocco and North Africa

The current Moroccan constitution guarantees freedom of religion for all, but it designates Islam as the state religion. Missionary work is not allowed, but there are foreign missionaries in other roles seeking to spread their faith. Conversion from Islam is not a criminal offense in Morocco but new converts face social ostracism.
Any criticism of Islam is banned under the Penal Code and is punishable with up to five years in prison. Publications that could "threaten the fundamental institutional policies or religion of the kingdom" can also be banned.

A team from IN Network, a missionary group based in Michigan, is currently working to expand a correspondence course. They are also concentrating more on church planting. Nationals are said to have joined this ministry to handle various task. IN Network also reports new center for evangelism in Casablanca, the biggest city in Morocco. Plans are said to be on track to open an evangelical center in 2009.

Radio Broadcast outreach into North Africa

Trans World Radio is a Christian radio network that broadcast in many languages is currently broadcasting in Arabic and four different Berber / Amazigh/ languages.
The importance of this project to christian missionaries was confirmed by a Moroccan man who was said to have converted through a radio broadcast. "For ten years, that man had no fellowship with other Christians, and it was only through radio that he had fellowship. Radio can go places missionaries often can't." said Mr. John summerville of Trans World Radio.
TWR delivered radio/CD players to Morocco and Algeria, along with a CD of TWR programming. If broadcast signals are weak, listeners can still hear the programs. In addition, several hundred pre-fixed radios are being readied for distribution throughout North Africa. TRW is also raising about $200,000 USD to fund this project. TRW producers focus their radio program content towards women, youth, oral-speakers, and the general public.

by MoroccoBoard News Service
Source: Mission Network

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Sh3aibia said:

Globalization at its best
They instructed us to throw our Jellaba away
And wear jeans instead
Their vodka has finally arrived, and it is here to stay
It's just globalization, don't be afraid
Or so they say...
The elderly in solitude, watching the youths gone astray
Dreaming of a Jesus to save them before they are dead

Satellite channels...Colorful fantasies...Self-hatred...Unwelcoming embassies...Poverty...Heat...Mirage...tberguig...Despair...Lotto...Fear...7ogra...Confusion...kebt...Humilation
...Boredom...

Turn towards the Vatican, and all of the above will vanish. By the grace of Saint-Luke.

09/13/09

moljbeer said:

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i think that the missionaries are somewhat ignorant to think that the average educated citizens of morocco do not know about christianity and judiasm. At the same time, I am surprised that these missionaries do not admit that they have failed to produce good practicing christians within their own communities. the resource spent on targeting other denomination religions is quite intriguing. does it really target the Muslim or is Islam the enemy?

like in soccer, the aggression is always the best way to be defensive. Therefore, these missionaries reveal the failure and the rejection of the institution of the church. Given the inability of the cultured average European and American to accept a flaw doctrine that worships a human being who is both the son of god and god incarnate, the church has realized that the best target category has to fulfill two main criteria. First, the average educational level of the individual and the illeteracy as a general standard. Second, the economic situation of the region. These two criteria combined are nowdays unavailable in the immediate envirnoment of the church. Therefore, the need to propagate and target the developping countries as there are ample conditions to froster this belief with the help of the material stimilus. Moreover, the church beliefs have come under tremendeous competition from Islam, for instance, which a lot of christians endorse with no incentives or a better life promises. Much of the missionaries are concentrated in the world's most troubled areas where famine, poverty and wars have led people to seek spiritual salvation in order to attain mundane needs. This is true with much of the African continent where missionaries have made available finacial assistance for their convert long as they kept cherishing the christian faith. A developing country like Morocco, however, is very difficult to be conquered by these missionaries and if they happen to convert anyone; it won't be more than a financial alternative to their impoverish conditions. In short,the Moroccans do not have a spiritual void as christian do, Islam satisfies this area and endorses Jesus (peace be upon him).

The target of the missionaries is Islam, not the Muslim and to prove my point is to ask you guys these questions. Do you think that the church is the role model of morality in europe and america? are these communities really christian? Why propagete elsewhere when you have more work to do in your own community?

09/08/09

Muslim said:

Islam can't be changed for another relighion
It is a big fallacy to think that a Moroccan would change his or her religion... They may pretend to do that to earn money or to be sent to Europe or America.... Poor people will decieve churches by showing that they have renounced Islam for whatever religion or sect.... but be sure that they remain Muslim at heart... They know fully that Islam is the last message to all humanity from God. NO wonder 20 000 Americans convert to Islam annually.

06/03/09

Mohammad Aly said:

Centuary Copy Past Files
Je me marre quand je me mets à lire des commentaires émanant de ces pseudo écrivains, politiciens, penseurs, essayistes et philosophes sortis comme par magie de leurs propres crayons et morceaux de papiers rassemblés en tant que fichiers plagiés puis déformés pour être collés sur ce qu'ils appellent leurs ouvrages, et dire que Bill Gates a fait croire que copier coller est la trouvaille de ses employés programmeurs !
Ils ont refait le monde, travesti l'histoire et remodelé la pensée à force de faire du copier coller de l'héritage des autres.
Ils se sont appropriés la mémoire et les œuvres des autres, ils sont malheureux que Adobe Photoshop soit arrivé trop tard, ils auraient pu fabriquer des scènes et des images pour appuyer leurs bluffs et camoufler leurs crimes.
Leurs ouvrages couleur arc en ciel occupent les universités squattées par la science du singe cochon, ils évoquent un Dieu d'une religion qu'ils se sont taillés sur mesure et œuvrent sans relâche pour déshériter le Dieu qui les a déshérités de la noble mission sur terre.
L'Islam, que vous le voulez ou non est la mise à jour de l'évangile Araméenne de Jésus et Les Tawrates de Moïse mais certainement pas les fichiers rassemblés par les alliés Romains Sionistes en guise de pseudo-saintes écritures et diffusées en diverses versions et dans toutes les langues sans subir la moindre déformation.
C'est clair que l'islam pose un problème insurmontable et définitivement insurmontable.
Mais ce que cette alliance satanique oublie est commet comme erreur gigantesque, c'est de croire que tout pour faire renier les musulmans leur religion et leur Fidélité à Dieu leur servirait à assoir leur trône au dessus de celui de Dieu, ou peut être espérer confisquer l'islam puis le travestir comme ils ont l'habitude de faire depuis plus de 2000 ans.
Ils ont l'habitude de se rebeller et de contester les décisions célestes, ils ont l'habitude de tuer les prophètes et les apôtres qui ne tiennent pas des discours allant dans le sens de leurs intérêts et leurs passions.
L'islam n'est pas une histoire arabe, c'est à la fois un rapport sur ce que fut les civilisations et leurs guides spirituels, c'est aussi une mise à jour définitive du système comportemental pour l'humanité, mais également un code pénal entre autres lois et structures politiques économiques et sociales, mises au point par le créateur des machines que nous sommes, ce n'est pas une histoire arabe, et ce ne sont pas ces éternels rebelles et ingrats qui vont vont soumettre Dieu à leurs desiderata.
Victimes de leurs propre arrogance et imbécilité mentale, prétentieux, opportunistes, susceptibles et défaillants, ils ont détruit de leurs propres mains l'honneur, et la chance que Dieu leur a accordé pour jouer le rôle de guides justes et équitables, comme exemples pour le reste de l'humanité.
Que constatons-nous depuis deux siècles ?
Nous constatons une renaissance de l'alliance Romano-Sioniste, cette même alliance qui a décapité Jean Baptiste et conduit Jésus au poteau.
Ils ont décimé des centaines de millions d'êtres humains sur les cinq continents et provoqué la disparition des espèces et la destruction de la nature.
Et ils osent se lamenter et parler d'un génocide improvisé et commenté par leurs fidèles collaborateurs ?
Ils ont constitué un arsenal militaire sans précédent, le plus démoniaque et le plus meurtrier jusqu'à tapisser l'orbite.
Ils ont fait main basse sur les ressources de la terre et les richesses des peuples.
Ils ont bâti des laboratoires pour fabriquer les poisons successifs et les propagent par intermittence, et mis au point les remèdes pour mettre à l'abri leur seule communauté.
Ils sont allé au delà de ce que Satan à promis d'accomplir sur terre.
Quelle drôle de façon d'interpréter les commandements de Dieu sur terre.
Quelle drôle de manière d'interpréter les saintes colonies promises.
Il faut croire que Dieu est le serviteur d'Israël et ses 400 millions de juifs de par le monde, quant au 4 milliards d'êtres humains ils ne sont que de simples déchets parasitaires juste bon pour asservir ou anéantir afin que règne la race des seigneurs sur la terre promise.

05/30/09

MOHAMMAD IBN MOHAMMAD said:

Last Upgrade of the holy operating system
Dear siters and brothers in Faith, salamo'llah alaykom.

The reason of my present topic is the pleasure to share my opinion about simlilarity between Man kind and Computer.

Here Comes the content:

A computer is a machine as every one knows , when all parts of a computer are perfectly assembled, it requires an operating system to function, as human beings that Allah S.W.T created in perfect design, it needs a code of conduct to live healthily and in harmony in their environment.

Allah S.W.T has always did the necessary, since the creation of Adam A.S to propose the appropriate OPERATING SYSTEM in order to ensure the success of human species and their existence on earth.

In Holy Qur'aan Allah S.W.T has fully informed us about its sacred operating system and spiritual guides he has chosen as teachers engineers for humanity.

ولو كره الكافرون......وحلفائهم المنافقون

Unfortunately, most human communities of all civilizations have always rejected, challenged the authenticity and validity of the sacred operating system yet whenever updated for the ease and the development of the human beings.

Because of human rebellion against their creator Allah S.W.T, the Holy Prophets and the sacred operating system he has constantly updated, only tiny minorities have integrated the system and enjoyed its benefits.

But once these minorities disappeared, their descendants have never been able to perpetuate the legacy , and maintenance, not maintenance of the holy operating system but the maintenance of their own mecanism against failures and bugs.

The human machine fonctions has always tended to pause the sacred operating system to allow attractive external vehicle to take control of their mecanism.

I don't mention the Hackers "missionaries" who love targeting the badly parameterized and unprotected machines.

Humans have always tended to love laziness and has always enjoyed entertainment, attractions, spectacles of miracles and passion for the virtual.

But when spectacle, entertainment, attractions and Virtual witchcraft is nothing else than Satanic imagination the issue is failure often general irrémédiable.

05/30/09

sofia said:

if it\'s illegal, don\'t do it!
When you go to a western country, you are asked to obey the laws.
If you come to Morocco, you must obey our laws.
If it's illegal to try to convert Muslims then don't do it. The question is not whether you think it's fair or not, the question is you are a guest in a country and hence must comply with the laws of that country.
For the ones that talk about Muslims trying to convert Christians to Islam in western countries, I say have you tried doing that since the horrible attacks of 9/11?

03/30/09

Aida said:

Enough is Enough
Preachers of any religion who stubbornly dedicate their lives to change people's views of the world and convince them that their own belief is THE ONLY way to "salvation" are dangerous, narrow-minded, divisive individuals who spread bigotery and division that result in terrible wars. That's exactly what has been happening in sub-saharan countries, in Africa. Right now people are savagely killing each others because for many years they have been under the negative and pernicious influence of such missionaries who "colonise" naive and innocent minds and turn them into brainwashed armies backed by powerful and rich western organisations. Missionaries and Muslim Brothers are exactly of the same kind: they are DANGEROUS organisations who are NOT here to spread love, peace, cohexistance, freedom of thinking and believing, democracy, cooperation, tolerance etc., as they pretend they are doing. They are in a deadly race to increase their armies of robots through spreading their backward, middle aged and totalitarian convictions that there is only one "TRUE" interpretation of THEIR religion, and they do not tolerate any contradiction to their beliefs.
I think a better way to fight against these destructive influences from any extremist side is to continously and massively inform people about the aggressive and sneaky tactics of such organisations and THEN let people decide for themselves.

02/15/09

Psalm said:

...
hmmm... wonders how you are planning to "kill" God. There is hope my friend!! Jesus loves you and you can know God personally through His Son Jesus. It's not about "religion", it's about a "relationship". :) God loves you!

02/11/09

Allal B. said:

...
Religions are all false, and prophets are all liars. It is time to kill God and finally break free from the shackles of religion.

-Moroccan Atheist

01/19/09

Peter said:

Who, what??
VICTIMS OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH
"WONDERFUL EVENTS THAT TESTIFY TO GOD'S DIVINE GLORY"

Listed are only events that solely occurred on command or participation of church authorities or were committed in the name of Christianity. (List incomplete)

Ancient Pagans

* As soon as Christianity became legal in the Roman Empire by imperial edict (315), more and more pagan temples were destroyed by Christian mob. Pagan priests were killed.
* Between 315 and 6th century thousands of pagan believers were slain.
* Examples of destroyed Temples: the Sanctuary of Aesculap in Aegaea, the Temple of Aphrodite in Golgatha, Aphaka in Lebanon, the Heliopolis.
* Christian priests such as Mark of Arethusa or Cyrill of Heliopolis were famous as "temple destroyer." [DA468]
* Pagan services became punishable by death in 356. [DA468]
* Christian Emperor Theodosius (408-450) even had children executed, because they had been playing with remains of pagan statues. [DA469]
According to Christian chroniclers he "followed meticulously all Christian teachings..."
* In 6th century pagans were declared void of all rights.
* In the early fourth century the philosopher Sopatros was executed on demand of Christian authorities. [DA466]
* The world famous female philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria was torn to pieces with glass fragments by a hysterical Christian mob led by a Christian minister named Peter, in a church, in 415.
[DO19-25]

Mission

* Emperor Karl (Charlemagne) in 782 had 4500 Saxons, unwilling to convert to Christianity, beheaded. [DO30]
* Peasants of Steding (Germany) unwilling to pay suffocating church taxes: between 5,000 and 11,000 men, women and children slain 5/27/1234 near Altenesch/Germany. [WW223]
* 15th century Poland: 1019 churches and 17987 villages plundered by Knights of the Order. Number of victims unknown. [DO30]
* 16th and 17th century Ireland. English troops "pacified and civilized" Ireland, where only Gaelic "wild Irish", "unreasonable beasts lived without any knowledge of God or good manners, in common of their goods, cattle, women, children and every other thing." One of the more successful soldiers, a certain Humphrey Gilbert, half-brother of Sir Walter Raleigh, ordered that "the heddes of all those (of what sort soever thei were) which were killed in the daie, should be cutte off from their bodies... and should bee laied on the ground by eche side of the waie", which effort to civilize the Irish indeed caused "greate terrour to the people when thei sawe the heddes of their dedde fathers, brothers, children, kinsfolke, and freinds on the grounde".
Tens of thousands of Gaelic Irish fell victim to the carnage. [SH99, 225]

Crusades (1095-1291)

* First Crusade: 1095 on command of pope Urban II. [WW11-41]
* Semlin/Hungary 6/24/96 thousands slain. Wieselburg/Hungary 6/12/96 thousands. [WW23]
* 9/9/96-9/26/96 Nikaia, Xerigordon (then Turkish), thousands respectively. [WW25-27]
* Until January 1098 a total of 40 capital cities and 200 castles conquered (number of slain unknown) [WW30]
* After 6/3/98 Antiochia (then Turkish) conquered, between 10,000 and 60,000 slain. 6/28/98 100,000 Turks (incl. women and children) killed.
[WW32-35]
Here the Christians "did no other harm to the women found in [the enemy's] tents - save that they ran their lances through their bellies," according to Christian chronicler Fulcher of Chartres. [EC60]
* Marra (Maraat an-numan) 12/11/98 thousands killed. Because of the subsequent famine "the already stinking corpses of the enemies were eaten by the Christians" said chronicler Albert Aquensis. [WW36]
* Jerusalem conquered 7/15/1099 more than 60,000 victims (Jewish, Muslim, men, women, children). [WW37-40]
In the words of one witness: "there [in front of Solomon's temple] was such a carnage that our people were wading ankle-deep in the blood of our foes", and after that "happily and crying for joy our people marched to our Saviour's tomb, to honour it and to pay off our debt of gratitude."
* The Archbishop of Tyre, eye-witness, wrote: "It was impossible to look upon the vast numbers of the slain without horror; everywhere lay fragments of human bodies, and the very ground was covered with the blood of the slain. It was not alone the spectacle of headless bodies and mutilated limbs strewn in all directions that roused the horror of all who looked upon them. Still more dreadful was it to gaze upon the victors themselves, dripping with blood from head to foot, an ominous sight which brought terror to all who met them. It is reported that within the Temple enclosure alone about ten thousand infidels perished." [TG79]
* Christian chronicler Eckehard of Aura noted that "even the following summer in all of Palestine the air was polluted by the stench of decomposition". [WW41]
* Battle of Askalon, 8/12/1099. Thousands of heathens slaughtered "in the name of Our Lord Jesus Christ". [WW45]
* Fourth crusade: 4/12/1204 Constantinople sacked, number of victims unknown, numerous thousands, many of them Christian. [WW141-148]
* Crusades (1095-1291)

o Estimated totals:

+ Wertham: 1,000,000

+ Charles Mackay, Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the
Madness of Crowds (1841): 2,000,000 Europeans killed. [http://www.bootlegbooks.com/NonFiction/Mackay/PopDelusions/chap09.html]

+ Aletheia, The Rationalist's Manual: 5,000,000

o Individual Events:

+ Davies: Crusaders killed up to 8,000 Jews in Rhineland

+ Paul Johnson A History of the Jews (1987): 1,000 Jewish women in
Rhineland comm. suicide to avoid the mob, 1096.

+ Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, v.5, 6

# 1st Crusade: 300,000 Eur. k at Battle of Nice [Nicea].

# Crusaders vs. Solimon of Roum: 4,000 Christians, 3,000 Moslems

# 1098, Fall of Antioch: 100,000 Moslems massacred.

# 50,000 Pilgrims died of disease.

# 1099, Fall of Jerusalem: 70,000 Moslems massacred.

# Siege of Tiberias: 30,000 Christians k.

# Siege of Tyre: 1,000 Turks

# Richard the Lionhearted executes 3,000 Moslem POWs.

# 1291: 100,000 Christians k after fall of Acre.

# Fall of Christian Antioch: 17,000 massacred.

# [TOTAL: 677,000 listed in these episodes here.]

+ Catholic Encyclopedia (1910) [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/]

# Jaffa: 20,000 Christians massacred, 1197

+ Sorokin estimates that French, English & Imperial German Crusaders lost
a total of 3,600 in battle.

# 1st C (1096-99): 400

# 2nd C (1147-49): 750

# 3rd C (1189-91): 930

# 4th C (1202-04): 120

# 5th C (1228-29): 600

# 7th C (1248-54): 700

+ James Trager, The People's Chronology (1992)

# 1099: Crusaders slaughter 40,000 inhabs of Jerusalem. Dis/starv reduced
Crusaders from 300,000 to 60,000.

# 1147: 2nd Crusades begins with 500,000. "Most" lost to
starv./disease/battle.

# 1190: 500 Jews massacred in York.

# 1192: 3rd Crusade reduced from 100,000 to 5,000 through famine, plagues and
desertions in campaign vs Antioch.

# 1212: Children's Crusade loses some 50,000.

# [TOTAL: Just in these incidents, it appears the Europeans lost around
650,000.]

o TOTAL: When I take all the individual death tolls listed here, weed out
the duplicates, fill in the blanks, apply Occam ("Pluralitas non est
ponenda sine necessitate"), etc. I get a very rough total of 1½ M
deaths in the Crusades.

Heretics and Atheists

* Already in 385 C.E. the first Christians, the Spanish Priscillianus and six followers, were beheaded for heresy in Trier/Germany [DO26]
* Manichaean heresy: a crypto-Christian sect decent enough to practice birth control (and thus not as irresponsible as faithful Catholics) was exterminated in huge campaigns all over the Roman empire between 372 C.E. and 444 C.E. Numerous thousands of victims. [NC]
* Albigensians: the first Crusade intended to slay other Christians. [DO29]
The Albigensians (Cathars) viewed themselves as good Christians, but would not accept Roman Catholic rule, and taxes, and prohibition of birth control. [NC]
Begin of violence: on command of pope Innocent III (the greatest single mass murderer prior to the Nazi era) in 1209. Beziérs (today France) 7/22/1209 destroyed, all the inhabitants were slaughtered. Number of victims (including Catholics refusing to turn over their heretic
neighbors and friends) estimated between 20,000-70,000. [WW179-181]
* Carcassonne 8/15/1209, thousands slain. Other cities followed. [WW181]
* Subsequent 20 years of war until nearly all Cathars (probably half the population of the Languedoc, today southern France) were exterminated. [WW183]

* After the war ended (1229) the Inquisition was founded 1232 to search and destroy surviving/hiding heretics. Last Cathars burned at the stake 1324.
[WW183]
* Estimated one million victims (Cathar heresy alone), [WW183]
* Other heresies: Waldensians, Paulikians, Runcarians, Josephites, and many others. Most of these sects exterminated, (I believe some Waldensians live today, yet they had to endure 600 years of persecution) I estimate at least hundred thousand victims (including the Spanish inquisition but excluding victims in the New World).
* Spanish Inquisitor Torquemada, a former Dominican friar, allegedly was responsible for 10,220 burnings. [DO28]
* John Huss, a critic of papal infallibility and indulgences, was burned at the stake in 1415.

* Michael Sattler, leader of a baptist community, was burned at the stake in Rottenburg, Germany, May 20, 1527. Several days later his wife and other follwers were also executed. [KM]
* University professor B.Hubmaier burned at the stake 1538 in Vienna. [DO59]

* Giordano Bruno, Dominican monk, after having been incarcerated for seven years, was burned at the stake for heresy on the Campo dei Fiori (Rome) on 2/17/1600.
* Thomas Aikenhead, a twenty-year-old scottish student of Edinburgh University, was hanged for atheism and blasphemy.

Witches

* From the beginning of Christianity to 1484 probably more than several thousand.
* In the era of witch hunting (1484-1750) according to modern scholars several hundred thousand (about 80% female) burned at the stake or hanged.
[WV]
* Incomplete list of documented cases:
The Burning of Witches - A Chronicle of the Burning Times

Religious Wars

* 15th century: Crusades against Hussites, thousands slain. [DO30]
* 1538 pope Paul III declared Crusade against apostate England and all English as slaves of Church (fortunately had not power to go into action). [DO31]
* 1568 Spanish Inquisition Tribunal ordered extermination of 3 million rebels in (then Spanish) Netherlands. [DO31]
Between 5000 and 6000 Protestants were drowned by Spanish Catholic Troops, "a disaster the burghers of Emden first realized when several thousand broad-brimmed Dutch hats floated by." [SH216]
* 1572 In France about 20,000 Huguenots were killed on command of pope Pius V. Until 17th century 200,000 flee. [DO31]
* 17th century: Catholics slay Gaspard de Coligny, a Protestant leader. After murdering him, the Catholic mob mutilated his body, "cutting off his head, his hands, and his genitals... and then dumped him into the river [...but] then, deciding that it was not worthy of being food for the fish, they hauled it out again [... and] dragged what was left ... to the gallows of Montfaulcon, 'to be meat and carrion for maggots and crows'." [SH191]
* 17th century: Catholics sack the city of Magdeburg/Germany: roughly 30,000 Protestants were slain. "In a single church fifty women were found beheaded," reported poet Friedrich Schiller, "and infants still sucking the breasts of their lifeless mothers." [SH191]
* 17th century 30 years' war (Catholic vs. Protestant): at least 40% of population decimated, mostly in Germany. [DO31-32]

Jews

* Already in the 4th and 5th centuries synagogues were burned by Christians.Number of Jews slain unknown.
* In the middle of the fourth century the first synagogue was destroyed on command of bishop Innocentius of Dertona in Northern Italy. The first synagogue known to have been burned down was near the river Euphrat, on command of the bishop of Kallinikon in the year 388. [DA450]
* 694 17. Council of Toledo: Jews were enslaved, their property confiscated, and their children forcibly baptized. [DA454]
* 1010 The Bishop of Limoges (France) had the cities' Jews, who would not convert to Christianity, expelled or killed. [DA453]
* 1096 First Crusade: Thousands of Jews slaughtered, maybe 12.000 total. Places: Worms 5/18/1096, Mainz 5/27/1096 (1100 persons), Cologne, Neuss, Altenahr, Wevelinghoven, Xanten, Moers, Dortmund, Kerpen, Trier, Metz, Regensburg, Prag and others (All locations Germany except Metz/France, Prag/Czech) [EJ]
* 1147 Second Crusade: Several hundred Jews were slain in Ham, Sully, Carentan, and Rameru (all locations in France). [WW57]
* 1189/90 Third Crusade: English Jewish communities sacked. [DO40]
* 1235, Fulda/Germany: 34 Jewish men and women slain. [DO41]
* 1257, 1267: Jewish communities of London, Canterbury, Northampton, Lincoln, Cambridge, and others exterminated. [DO41]
* 1290 Bohemia (Poland) allegedly 10,000 Jews killed. [DO41]
* 1337 Starting in Deggendorf/Germany a Jew-killing craze reaches 51 towns in Bavaria, Austria, Poland. [DO41]
* 1348 All Jews of Basel/Switzerland and Strasbourg/France (two thousand) burned. [DO41]
* 1349 In more than 350 towns in Germany all Jews murdered, mostly burned alive (in this one year more Jews were killed than Christians in 200 years of ancient Roman persecution of Christians). [DO42]
* 1389 In Prag 3,000 Jews were slaughtered. [DO42]
* 1391 Seville's Jews killed (Archbishop Martinez leading). 4,000 were slain, 25,000 sold as slaves. [DA454] Their identification was made easy by the brightly colored "badges of shame" that all Jews above the age of ten had been forced to wear.
* 1492 In the year Columbus set sail to conquer a New World, more than 150,000 Jews were expelled from Spain, many died on their way: 6/30/1492.
[MM470-476]
* 1648 Chmielnitzki massacres: In Poland about 200,000 Jews were slain.
[DO43]

(I feel sick ...) this goes on and on, century after century, right into the kilns of Auschwitz.

Native Peoples

* Beginning with Columbus (a former slave trader and would-be Holy Crusader) the conquest of the New World began, as usual understood as a means to propagate Christianity.
* Within hours of landfall on the first inhabited island he encountered in the Caribbean, Columbus seized and carried off six native people who, he said, "ought to be good servants ... [and] would easily be made Christians, because it seemed to me that they belonged to no religion." [SH200]
While Columbus described the Indians as "idolators" and "slaves, as many as [the Crown] shall order," his pal Michele de Cuneo, Italian nobleman, referred to the natives as "beasts" because "they eat when they are hungry," and made love "openly whenever they feel like it." [SH204-205]
* On every island he set foot on, Columbus planted a cross, "making the declarations that are required" - the requerimiento - to claim the ownership for his Catholic patrons in Spain. And "nobody objected." If the Indians refused or delayed their acceptance (or understanding), the requerimiento continued:

"I certify to you that, with the help of God, we shall powerfully enter in your country and shall make war against you ... and shall subject you to the yoke and obedience of the Church ... and shall do you all mischief that we can, as to vassals who do not obey and refuse to receive their lord and resist and contradict him." [SH66]

* Likewise in the words of John Winthrop, first governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony: "justifieinge the undertakeres of the intended Plantation in New England ... to carry the Gospell into those parts of the world, ... and to raise a Bulworke against the kingdome of the Ante-Christ." [SH235]
* In average two thirds of the native population were killed by colonist-imported smallpox before violence began. This was a great sign of "the marvelous goodness and providence of God" to the Christians of course, e.g. the Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony wrote in 1634, as "for the natives, they are near all dead of the smallpox, so as the Lord hath cleared our title to what we possess." [SH109,238]
* On Hispaniola alone, on Columbus visits, the native population (Arawak), a rather harmless and happy people living on an island of abundant natural resources, a literal paradise, soon mourned 50,000 dead. [SH204]
* The surviving Indians fell victim to rape, murder, enslavement and Spanish raids.
* As one of the culprits wrote: "So many Indians died that they could not be counted, all through the land the Indians lay dead everywhere. The stench was very great and pestiferous." [SH69]
* The Indian chief Hatuey fled with his people but was captured and burned alive. As "they were tying him to the stake a Franciscan friar urged him to take Jesus to his heart so that his soul might go to heaven, rather than descend into hell. Hatuey replied that if heaven was where the Christians went, he would rather go to hell." [SH70]
* What happened to his people was described by an eyewitness:
"The Spaniards found pleasure in inventing all kinds of odd cruelties ... They built a long gibbet, long enough for the toes to touch the ground to prevent strangling, and hanged thirteen [natives] at a time in honor of Christ Our Saviour and the twelve Apostles... then, straw was wrapped around their torn bodies and they were burned alive." [SH72]
Or, on another occasion:
"The Spaniards cut off the arm of one, the leg or hip of another, and from some their heads at one stroke, like butchers cutting up beef and mutton for market. Six hundred, including the cacique, were thus slain like brute beasts...Vasco [de Balboa] ordered forty of them to be torn to pieces by dogs." [SH83]
* The "island's population of about eight million people at the time of Columbus's arrival in 1492 already had declined by a third to a half before the year 1496 was out." Eventually all the island's natives were exterminated, so the Spaniards were "forced" to import slaves from other caribbean islands, who soon suffered the same fate. Thus "the Caribbean's millions of native people [were] thereby effectively liquidated in barely a quarter of a century". [SH72-73] "In less than the normal lifetime of a single human being, an entire culture of millions of people, thousands of years resident in their homeland, had been exterminated." [SH75]
* "And then the Spanish turned their attention to the mainland of Mexico and Central America. The slaughter had barely begun. The exquisite city of Tenochtitlán [Mexico city] was next." [SH75]
* Cortez, Pizarro, De Soto and hundreds of other Spanish conquistadors likewise sacked southern and mesoamerican civilizations in the name of Christ (De Soto also sacked Florida).
* "When the 16th century ended, some 200,000 Spaniards had moved to the Americas. By that time probably more than 60,000,000 natives were dead."
[SH95]

Of course no different were the founders of what today is the US of America.

* Although none of the settlers would have survived winter without native help, they soon set out to expel and exterminate the Indians. Warfare among (north American) Indians was rather harmless, in comparison to European standards, and was meant to avenge insults rather than conquer land. In the words of some of the pilgrim fathers: "Their Warres are farre less bloudy...", so that there usually was "no great slawter of nether side". Indeed, "they might fight seven yeares and not kill seven men." What is more, the Indians usually spared women and children. [SH111]
* In the spring of 1612 some English colonists found life among the (generally friendly and generous) natives attractive enough to leave Jamestown - "being idell ... did runne away unto the Indyans," - to live among them (that probably solved a sex problem).
"Governor Thomas Dale had them hunted down and executed: 'Some he apointed (sic) to be hanged Some burned Some to be broken upon wheles, others to be staked and some shott to deathe'." [SH105] Of course these elegant measures were restricted for fellow Englishmen: "This was the treatment for those who wished to act like Indians. For those who had no
choice in the matter, because they were the native people of Virginia" methods were different: "when an Indian was accused by an Englishman of stealing a cup and failing to return it, the English response was to attack the natives in force, burning the entire community" down. [SH105]
* On the territory that is now Massachusetts the founding fathers of the colonies were committing genocide, in what has become known as the "Peqout War." The killers were New England Puritan Christians, refugees from persecution in their own home country England.
* When however, a dead colonist was found, apparently killed by Narragansett Indians, the Puritan colonists wanted revenge. Despite the Indian chief's pledge they attacked.
Somehow they seem to have lost the idea of what they were after, because when they were greeted by Pequot Indians (long-time foes of the Narragansetts) the troops nevertheless made war on the Pequots and burned their villages.
The puritan commander-in-charge John Mason after one massacre wrote: "And indeed such a dreadful Terror did the Almighty let fall upon their Spirits, that they would fly from us and run into the very Flames, where many of them perished ... God was above them, who laughed his Enemies and the Enemies of his People to Scorn, making them as a fiery Oven ... Thus did the Lord judge among the Heathen, filling the Place with dead Bodies": men, women, children. [SH113-114]
* So "the Lord was pleased to smite our Enemies in the hinder Parts, and to give us their land for an inheritance". [SH111].
* Because of his readers' assumed knowledge of Deuteronomy, there was no need for Mason to quote the words that immediately follow:
"Thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth. But thou shalt utterly destroy them..." (Deut 20)
* Mason's comrade Underhill recalled how "great and doleful was the bloody sight to the view of the young soldiers" yet reassured his readers that "sometimes the Scripture declareth women and children must perish with their parents". [SH114]
* Other Indians were killed in successful plots of poisoning. The colonists even had dogs especially trained to kill Indians and to devour children from their mothers breasts, in the colonists' own words: "blood Hounds to draw after them, and Mastives to seaze them." (This was inspired by Spanish methods of the time)
In this way they continued until the extermination of the Pequots was near. [SH107-119]
* The surviving handful of Indians "were parceled out to live in servitude. John Endicott and his pastor wrote to the governor asking for 'a share' of the captives, specifically 'a young woman or girle and a boy if you thinke good'." [SH115]
* Other tribes were to follow the same path.
* Comment the Christian exterminators: "God's Will, which will at last give us cause to say: How Great is His Goodness! and How Great is his Beauty!"
"Thus doth the Lord Jesus make them to bow before him, and to lick the Dust!" [TA]
* Like today, lying was morally acceptable to Christians then. "Peace treaties were signed with every intention to violate them: when the Indians 'grow secure uppon (sic) the treatie', advised the Council of State in Virginia, 'we shall have the better Advantage both to surprise them, & cutt downe theire Corne'." [SH106]
* In 1624 sixty heavily armed Englishmen cut down 800 defenseless Indian men, women and children. [SH107]
* In a single massacre in "King Philip's War" of 1675 and 1676 some "600 Indians were destroyed. A delighted Cotton Mather, revered pastor of the Second Church in Boston, later referred to the slaughter as a 'barbeque'." [SH115]
* To summarize: Before the arrival of the English, the western Abenaki people in New Hampshire and Vermont had numbered 12,000. Less than half a century later about 250 remained alive - a destruction rate of 98%. The Pocumtuck people had numbered more than 18,000, fifty years later they were down to 920 - 95% destroyed. The Quiripi-Unquachog people had numbered about
30,000, fifty years later they were down to 1500 - 95% destroyed. The Massachusetts people had numbered at least 44,000, fifty years later barely 6000 were alive - 81% destroyed. [SH118] These are only a few examples of the multitude of tribes living before Christian colonists set their foot on the New World. All this was before the smallpox epidemics of 1677 and 1678 had occurred. And the carnage was not over then.
* All the above was only the beginning of the European colonization, it was before the frontier age actually had begun.
* A total of maybe more than 150 million Indians (of both Americas) were destroyed in the period of 1500 to 1900, as an average two thirds by smallpox and other epidemics, that leaves some 50 million killed directly by violence, bad treatment and slavery.
* In many countries, such as Brazil, and Guatemala, this continues even today.

More Glorious Events in U.S. History

* Reverend Solomon Stoddard, one of New England's most esteemed religious leaders, in "1703 formally proposed to the Massachusetts Governor that the colonists be given the financial wherewithal to purchase and train large packs of dogs 'to hunt Indians as they do bears'." [SH241]

* Massacre of Sand Creek, Colorado 11/29/1864. Colonel John Chivington, a former Methodist minister and still elder in the church ("I long to be wading in gore") had a Cheyenne village of about 600, mostly women and children, gunned down despite the chiefs' waving with a white flag: 400-500 killed.
From an eye-witness account: "There were some thirty or forty squaws collected in a hole for protection; they sent out a little girl about six years old with a white flag on a stick; she had not proceeded but a few steps when she was shot and killed. All the squaws in that hole were afterwards killed ..." [SH131]

* By the 1860s, "in Hawai'i the Reverend Rufus Anderson surveyed the carnage that by then had reduced those islands' native population by 90 percent or more, and he declined to see it as tragedy; the expected total die-off of the Hawaiian population was only natural, this missionary said, somewhat equivalent to 'the amputation of diseased members of the body'."
[SH244]

20th Century Church Atrocities

* Catholic extermination camps
Surprisingly few know that Nazi extermination camps in World War II were by no means the only ones in Europe at the time. In the years 1942-1943 also in Croatia existed numerous extermination camps, run by Catholic Ustasha under their dictator Ante Paveliç, a practicing Catholic and regular visitor to the then pope. There were even concentration camps exclusively for children!
In these camps - the most notorious was Jasenovac, headed by a Franciscan friar -
orthodox-Christian Serbians (and a substantial number of Jews) were murdered. Like the Nazis the Catholic Ustasha burned their victims in kilns, alive (the Nazis were decent enough to have their victims gassed first). But most of the victims were simply stabbed, slain or shot to death, the number of them being estimated between 300,000 and 600,000, in a rather tiny country. Many of the killers were Franciscan friars. The atrocities were appalling enough to induce bystanders of the Nazi "Sicherheitsdienst der SS", watching, to complain about them to Hitler (who did not listen). The pope knew about these events and did
nothing to prevent them. [MV]

* Catholic terror in Vietnam
In 1954 Vietnamese freedom fighters; the Viet Minh; - had finally defeated the French colonial government in North Vietnam, which by then had been supported by U.S. funds amounting to more than $2 billion. Although the victorious assured religious freedom to all (most non-Buddhist Vietnamese were Catholics), due to huge anticommunist propaganda campaigns many Catholics fled to the South. With the help of Catholic lobbies in Washington and Cardinal Spellman, the Vatican's spokesman in U.S. politics, who later on would call the U.S. forces in Vietnam "Soldiers of Christ", a scheme was concocted to prevent democratic elections which could have brought the communist Viet Minh to power in the South as well, and the fanatic Catholic Ngo Dinh Diem was made president of South Vietnam. [MW16ff]
Diem saw to it that U.S. aid, food, technical and general assistance was given to Catholics alone, Buddhist individuals and villages were ignored or had to pay for the food aids which were given to Catholics for free. The only religious denomination to be supported was Roman Catholicism.
The Vietnamese McCarthyism turned even more vicious than its American counterpart. By 1956 Diem promulgated a presidential order which read:

"Individuals considered dangerous to the national defense and common security may be confined by executive order, to a concentration camp."

Supposedly to fight communism, thousands of Buddhist protesters and monks were imprisoned in "detention camps." Out of protest dozens of Buddhist teachers - male and female - and monks poured gasoline over themselves and burned themselves. (Note that Buddhists burned themselves: in comparison Christians tend to burn others). Meanwhile some of the prison camps, which in the meantime were filled with Protestant and even Catholic protesters as well, had turned into no-nonsense death camps. It is estimated that during this period of terror (1955-1960) at least 24,000 were wounded - ; mostly in street riots ; - 80,000 people were executed, 275,000 had been detained or tortured, and about 500,000 were sent to concentration or detention camps. [MW76-89].
To support this kind of government in the next decade thousands of American GI's lost their life.

* Christianity kills the cat
On July 1, 1976, Anneliese Michel, a 23-year-old student of a teachers college in Germany, died: she starved herself to death. For months she had been haunted by demonic visions and apparitions, and for months two Catholic priests - with explicit approval of the Catholic bishop of Würzburg - additionally pestered and tormented the wretched girl with their exorcist rituals. After her death in Klingenberg hospital - her body was littered with wounds - her parents, both of them
fanatical Catholics, were sentenced to six months for not having called for medical help. None of the priests was punished: on the contrary, Miss Michel's grave today is a place of pilgrimage and worship for a number of similarly faithful Catholics (in the seventeenth century Würzburg was notorious for it's extensive witch burnings).
This case is only the tip of an iceberg of such evil superstition and has become known only because of its lethal outcome. [SP80]

* Rwanda Massacres
In 1994 in the small African country of Rwanda in just a few months several hundred thousand civilians were butchered, apparently a conflict of the Hutu and Tutsi ethnic groups.
For quite some time I heard only rumors about Catholic clergy actively involved in the 1994 Rwanda massacres. Odd denials of involvement were printed in Catholic church journals, before even anybody had openly accused members of the church.
Then, 10/10/96, in the newscast of S2 Aktuell, Germany - a station not at all critical to Christianity - the following was stated:

"Anglican as well as Catholic priests and nuns are suspect of having actively participated in murders. Especially the conduct of a certain Catholic priest has been occupying the public mind in Rwanda's capital Kigali for months. He was minister of the church of the Holy Family and allegedly murdered Tutsis in the most brutal manner. He is reported to have accompanied marauding Hutu militia with a gun in his cowl. In fact there has been a bloody slaughter of Tutsis seeking shelter in his parish. Even two years after the massacres many Catholics refuse to set foot on the threshold of their church, because to them the participation of a certain part of the clergy in the slaughter is well established. There is almost no church in Rwanda that has not seen refugees - women, children, old - being brutally butchered facing the crucifix.
According to eyewitnesses clergymen gave away hiding Tutsis and turned them over to the machetes of the Hutu militia.
In connection with these events again and again two Benedictine nuns are mentioned, both of whom have fled into a Belgian monastery in the meantime to avoid prosecution. According to survivors one of them called the
Hutu killers and led them to several thousand people who had sought shelter in her monastery. By force the doomed were driven out of the churchyard and were murdered in the presence of the nun right in front of the gate. The other one is also reported to have directly cooperated with the murderers of the Hutu militia. In her case again witnesses report that she watched the slaughtering of people in cold blood and without showing response. She is even accused of having procured some petrol used by the killers to set on
fire and burn their victims alive..."

More recently the BBC aired:

Priests get death sentence for Rwandan genocide
BBC NEWS April 19, 1998

A court in Rwanda has sentenced two Roman Catholic priests to death for their role in the genocide of 1994, in which up to a million Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed. Pope John Paul said the priests must be made to account for their actions. Different sections of the Rwandan church have been widely accused of playing an active role in the genocide of 1994...

* As can be seen from these events, to Christianity the Dark Ages never come to an end.

If today Christians talk to me about morality, this is why they make me sick.

01/11/09

nuagepassager said:

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In theory you can do all those things- in practice Muslims are prevented from living their religion. As far a the Missionaries they are dangerous because they take advantage of the social and economic woes of the youndg and ntellectually weak people in all religions- I'd welcome missionaries of knowledge and reason anytime-unfortunetely we do not see enough of those. keep all religion private and respectful of each other.

01/03/09

Mehdi B. said:

Let\'s not kid each other
Did it occur to anyone why no Muslim country allows missionaries to openly preach their religion?
why is it against the law in all Muslim countries.
If you are caught doing this in Morocco , you are supposed to go to jail. Pronto.
If any one is convinced by his own beliefs and religion then why should they be threatened by other religions.
If Morocco is such an open place where all religions can coexist, why the limitations?
You should be able to cease practicing any religion at any time without feeling threatened by the law and by society.

Let's not kid each other, in every Western "christian" country, you can preach, walk the streets, tell people about your religion, build mosques, convert people as it is being done here in the states, and in the case of Saudi Arabia, spend hundreds of millions of dollars spreading Wahhabi Islam, while it is against the LAW to PRACTICE,let alone, preach ANY OTHER Religion.
I personally, do not care for those christian missionaries. They are under the impression that their are bringing \\\"civilization\\\" to non christian societies. Missionary works was part and parcel of all colonial conquests....

One frequently hear that such and such actor or sports personality, has converted to Islam. This is usually related with pride as though a basketball player, or a professional Boxer, like Mike Tyson, converting to Islam is somehow confirming what we believe in. and at the same time we are outraged that christian missionaries are busy converting some poor souls in Morocco or elsewhere who have endured first hand the reality of what is "a compassionate religious Muslim Society", in real life, not in make-believe theories as Mr.Younes has proffered

12/30/08

Youness Tihm said:

Literally selling one\'s faith
The Christian groups/missionaries are trying to the best of their capacity to fulfill their "holly mission" of bringing "salvation' to the human race through some ways that have proven unsuccessful. In the past, they used to go directly to the countries they target and try to preach their message. This was unsuccessful because the peoples they went to were strongly attached to Islam, not necessarily because of strong faith in it, but also because of the interrelation between the religion and the culture.

Now the movement of Christianizing has adapted itself to the changing circumstances and conditions of both the countries targeted and the ways used to pass on a message. One of the ways used today is education. Students with theological interests are trained to integrate into Muslim societies and pass on their messages to the people of the country they go to.

One very important thing to be mentioned is that Jews, Muslims, Hindus also have such concepts of spreading their religions. However, there is a distinction between teaching those interested in knowing about a certain religion and imposing it on them through “sophisticated” ways. In Islam, for instance, there is no such thing called “a missionary”.

The concept of Da’wa- Call to Allah- is based on the idea of teaching those interested in Islam. It is also based on the idea of clarifying misconceptions about Islam because these misconceptions can turn down someone from even reading about Islam or talking to Muslims, and from my personal experience in the west, I have witnessed different situations where misconceptions shaped the attitude of people. This concept/strategy/way of preaching and teaching Islam is governed by a very explicit verse in the Quran: "There is no compulsion in Islam" (2:256). No one can, or has the right to impose religion –be it Islam, Christianity, or Judaism- on any one else for whatsoever reason. Unfortunately, not all people from all faiths understand this, and this allows space for unavoidable religious conflicts.

Some of the Christian missionaries use money to make people accept Christianity. This is done very well in the very poor countries of Africa, and Latin America and every region these devoted people can reach. They spend huge amounts of money Bringing food, medicine, clothes and other needs to the poor and underprivileged people. Doing this on the name of Jesus is a deception of these people who have no choice except being fascinated with the religion without any theological or even logical questioning and/or critical analysis.