Saturday, May 06, 2006

The Missionary Position.

They are here. I have been telling people for years but no one would listen. It was like 'oh Jaseem you are exaggerating, can't you ever be serious?'
Or
'oh Jaseem, they can never do any real damage here, leave them alone.'
Or
'Look at their numbers and look our numbers, we are surely winning. No?'

Fine. Well my last friend is correct and yes we are winning, BUT that is not the issue here. The fact is that there is a secret war going on in the Middle East that not much people know about and I am sure secret casualties are being taken without anyone noticing. What am I speaking about? Missionaries.

This is a cross post with Secret Arabian I, where nomadic wrote about the 10/40 Window and their activities here in our part of the world. Him, Emirati and even Gulf News all beat me to this post that I was planning to write since a long time ago .. but ok, it doesn’t matter, this is now going to be an old school Local Hero rant.

I see you all, you damn diggly do Flanders type characters driving around Dubai with your fish symbol on your bumpers and your crucifixes hanging on your dash-boards. I have no problem with Christians, I used to work with a few back in Dubai… and I even encourage them to go to their Friday morning church thing because I am open minded like that.

I don’t have a problem with you, and you can have your churches and synaqouges because despite what you see in South East Asia, it is haram to decapitate people simply because they are Christians and burn their churches down. Back in the days of our Prophet (sws) he protected the Churches and the temples because they were part of our faith and today we should do the same and condemn those who do the same to day…

But when it comes to trying to take people away from our religion, then we are talking about a different subject.

Unlike Muslims who openly talk about Islam and inform non Muslims about our religion, Christians have to do it a subversive manner. Fine I get it. The Muslim world is not the safest place for Christians to openly talk about their religion…so what is you afraid of? Death? If that’s the case then you are hypocrites and your faith and conviction is nothing but words on your tongue.

So what are the means of taking someone out of their religion? How bout lies, propaganda divisiveness and more lies.

Let's get out the 10/40 map and look at how they operate.

Mis-direction , food and aggressive friendship:

First let's start of in LH favorite vacation spot. The Magrib and lets see what the missionaries are doing there. Poverty is a big problem all over Morocco, so what do you do…in the left hand you have some food, clothes and toys and in the right hand you have a bible.

Hey look at me…starving Moroccan dude. I have a choice of converting out of the religion and filling my stomach or starving to death and perhaps seeing my maker as someone who held strong to their believes.

Starving Moroccan Dude: Err Mr Evangelist Man…I think I'll choose door number 1. Food, clothes etc.. What's the pay of?.

Mr. Evangelist Man: Here is a bible translated into Arabic, all you have to is renounce your faith and I can become your best friend who might even throw in an American passport for you in the end.

Starving Moroccan Dude: *Thinks twice, and remembers that life is just temporary, patience is a virtue and circumstances can even change* : You can keep the bible, but I'll take the food:

Mr. Evangelist Man: Thinks to himself. Hmm plan A isn’t working…switch to plan B, divide and conquer.

Scene switches to Algeria:

Mr. Evangelist Man: You may look like an Arab. Talk like an Arab, and I'll say it darn it, even smell like an Arab, but you are not an Arab my brother. You are a Berber, subjugated, persecuted and denied.

Ignorant Algerian Dude: Yes I am oppressed.

Mr Evangelist Man: We can bring you what you need, just take this bible from us and learn how and remember that I am your best friend…

Ignorant Algerian Dude thinks… scene fades to black, while it gets repeated in Lebanon, Syria, Egypt and Sudan (wherever there is a big enough minority to a Muslim Arab majority)

Another approach: Look at my pamphlets that explain your religion.. Filled with half truths and lies. But hey! You don’t know religion anyway. And probably half the stuff you do is wrong anyway! So what do you have to loose?

King Abdullah meets with Bigger Richer Mr. Evangelist Guy. Morris Cerullo. King Abdulla sees the meeting as an opportunity to bridge the world between Christianity and Islam and create better understanding... Mr. Cerullo sees it as an opportunity to spin the meeting as Evangelical work making inroads to the heart of the Middle East with the potential off converting one of its leaders. Today he is photographed shaking hands with the Royalty, but yesterday he was talking about how the Prophet Mohamed (sws) was a violent monster, and how he (sws) his followers mercilessly killed 'Infidels' (popular American term for describing a Muslim, describing a Christian) and then day after of the photo-op he is talking about how the spirit is going to transform the middle east and people will convert from Islam…(see here is a picture I took with Prince Abdulla to prove its happening) Fcukin hypocrite.


Now back in the Gulf, what do we have. Churches springing up, in Bahrain, Dubai, Sharjah… but that’s ok. The guys need to pray somewhere…right? But is it just praying that they are doing…

Someone needs to keep an eye out on the activity going on here. Apostasy cannot be tolerated, especially by those who lie and cheat their way into other people's lives hearts and souls with semi-psychological bullshit designed to take people away from their faith.

Its like tag team effort. Take away societies morality (Islam) slowly over time…and replace it with your own morality. Unfortunately people have become to ignorant of their own faith and understanding of it…that’s whey he have terrorists' coming up on one side, and people so stupid and ignorant of their own faith that they feel conflicted on whether terrorism is right or wrong.

Poverty and ignorance of people of their own faith is a rife breeding ground for evangelists…cue the hot chick and his leaflet.