Aid,Conversion & Deception

[A.Rahman]

Kabul to deport Korean Christians
Afghanistan says it will deport hundreds of South Korean evangelical Christians amid fears for their safety.
They have been accused by Islamic clerics of preaching Christianity. Afghanistan bans attempts to convert people to non-Islamic faiths.

The group says that it is working to improve medicine and education

Around 1,500 South Koreans arrived this week for a "peace festival", and education and entertainment programme.
On Wednesday, hundreds of Afghans held a protest rally against them at a mosque in the city of Mazar-e-Sharif.
'Highly sensitive'
"They were given tourist visas and now it seems they are misusing their tourist visas," a government official told the AFP news agency.
"The risk of them becoming a target is very high," he said.
Correspondents say that the Seoul government has repeatedly urged the Christians - among them 600 children - to return home, warning of the dangers they face at the hands of the radical Taleban movement.
A spokesman for the South Korean-based Institute of Asian Culture and Development (IACD) told AFP that they are only in the country to provide war-ravaged Afghanistan with medical, education and cultural programmes.
He said they were in the capital and four other towns and cities.
"We are not against the policies of Afghanistan. We respect and we love Afghanistan," he said.
In February several thousand people protested against the release of a man who converted to Christianity, demanding he face the death penalty. He was spirited out of the country.

source: BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/5243448.stm

 

[A.Rahman]

The only place on this planet where missionary work other than that of Islam cannot go on is, to my knowledge, in the Land of the Two Holy Places on account of the Saheeh Hadith of the Prophet, pbuh, where he said that the only religion on the Arabian Penisnsual should be Islam.

However, it is, in my humble opinion (and I may be wrong on this), ok if South Koreans want to spread their message in Afhganistan or Pakistan. BUT they should do so openly and wihtout bribery or treachery.

Evangelical missionaries are WELL KNOWN for their use of lies and deceit to gain the trust of unsuspecting poor Muslims and slowly introduce them to Christianity. In fact, these represhensible people are instructed by their professors (at least those at Bob Jones University) that if the people don't covert after all their deceptive efforts, then offer them money and material goods in exchange for conversion. If anyone doubts this, there was a Mother Jones Magazine article about this four or five years ago (look for the subject online).

Basically, the vast majority of Christian missionaries in foregin lands do their work via deceptive and utterly evil methods.

I have no problem with them using the "power" of their faith ALONE to try and convert someone, but that is seldom the case. Exploiting the poverty and suffering of people is not a good or correct way to guide one to another faith. If a South Korean is a missionary, they should declare themselves as such and operate solely as misisonaries or not at all.
I believe that the punishment for people who are deceptively entering Muslim nations under the guise of aid workers, when they have religious motives, should be at the least expulsion and ideally a few lashings to make sure the message is sent to their brethren.
Anyways, Christian missionary work has been going on for decades in Muslim nations and they haven't done anything. The only people that convert to their faith are those in lands where no other faith is known (China). Islam is still the fasting growing religion in the world and I am confident that it will remain as such.

 

[A.Rahman]

Villagers furious with Christian Missionaries

Samanthapettai, Jan 16 (ANI): Rage and fury has gripped this tsunami-hit tiny Hindu village in India's southern Tamil Nadu after a group of Christian missionaries allegedly refused them aid for not agreeing to follow their religion.

Samanthapettai, near the temple town of Madurai, faced near devastation on the December 26 when massive tidal waves wiped it clean of homes and lives.

Most of the 200 people here are homeless or displaced , battling to rebuild lives and locating lost family members besides facing risks of epidemic,disease and trauma.

Jubilant at seeing the relief trucks loaded with food, clothes and the much-needed medicines the villagers, many of who have not had a square meal in days, were shocked when the nuns asked them to convert before distributing biscuits and water.:wall:

Heated arguments broke out as the locals forcibly tried to stop the relief trucks from leaving. The missionaries, who rushed into their cars on seeing television reporters and the cameras refusing to comment on the incident and managed to leave the village.
Disappointed and shocked into disbelief the hapless villagers still await aid.


"Many NGOs (volunteer groups) are extending help to us but there in our village the NGO, which was till now helping us is now asking us to follow the Christian religion. We are staunch followers of Hindu religion and refused their request. And after that these people with their aid materials are leaving the village without distributing that to us," Rajni Kumar, a villager said.

The incident is an exception to concerted charity in a catastrophe that has left no one untouched.(ANI)

Source: Yahoo news.
http://in.news.yahoo.com/050116/139/2j1rp.html

 

[A.Rahman]

Maybe this is why Muslim nations have harsh laws against missionary work. What else can they do when such disgusting and hypocrtical methods are used?

When Saudi Arabia gives money to a community overseas to build a masjid and community center, everyone jumps on them, but when these Evangelicals come running into Iraq and India, with money and toys, these same people call it "missionary work".

 

[Averroes]

South Korean soldiers convert to Islam before Iraq tour
Saturday, May 29, 2004

SEOUL: South Korea’s 35,000-strong Muslim community gained 37 new converts on Friday when officers and enlisted soldiers destined for a tour of duty in Iraq were admitted to the faith in a ceremony at Seoul’s main mosque.

South Korea, where Buddhism is the most common religion and Christianity has grown rapidly, has pledged to send 3,000 troops to help reconstruction in Iraq. About 650 South Korean army medics and engineers have served in the country for a year. “You are reborn as believers and believers are true human beings,” Imam Sulaiman Lee Haeng-lae told the new converts at the Seoul mosque, one of five in a country of 48 million people.

Sulaiman, a South Korean leading the congregation in Seoul, said the men’s decision to convert to Islam would go a long way towards helping their 3,000-strong contingent become accepted by Iraqis once it is deployed. “The Iraqis could become your friends for eternity,” Sulaiman told the new converts.

A public affairs officer attached to the unit, Captain Lee Yun-se, said many of the 37 new converts had some background in Arab culture, including Arabic language study in college and travel to the Middle East.

All 3,000 soldiers in the contingent took courses on Arabic culture and customs to help them fit in in Iraq. “The 37 soldiers then volunteered to learn more about Islam at the Seoul mosque and then converted out of faith,” Lee said.

The troops of the Zayitun unit, the Arabic word for “olive”, are awaiting orders to ship out to northern Iraq to help maintain peace and rebuild the country.

But seven months after a pledge by President Roh Moo-hyun and three months after parliamentary approval, the government has yet to officially announce where they will be deployed and when.

A team of liaison officers will leave soon for Iraq to coordinate logistics and operations with the Coalition Provisional Authority and local leaders, the Defence Ministry said.

The 37 new Muslims boosted to 41 the number of Muslims in the Iraq-bound contingent. The other four are military interpreters drawn from the country’s Muslim community. “There is no deity worthy of worship except Allah, and Mohammed is his messenger,” each of the 37 soldiers recited and in return received a copy of the Quran.

They were completing a crash course on the religion, a mosque official said, finishing in 10 days what can take up to six months.

The South Korean Defence Ministry barred the soldiers from speaking to the media covering the ceremony. South Korea is home to another 70,000 Muslims from outside the country, primarily from Southeast Asia. reuters.

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_29-5-2004_pg7_43

 

[Averroes]

here's an article regarding missionaries after the tsunami

http://www.inminds.co.uk/tsunami.html

 

[Tiki Tam Tam]

http://www.islamicacademy.org/html/Articles/English/Tableeghee%20Jma'at.htm

Now is this also correct?

Religion apparently means BIG money for the priestly class in all religions.

So could it be that they are doing it for their personal gain including power rather than for what some call God?!

 

[A.Rahman]

http://www.islamicacademy.org/html/Articles/English/Tableeghee%20Jma'at.htm

Now is this also correct?

Religion apparently means BIG money for the priestly class in all religions.

So could it be that they are doing it for their personal gain including power rather than for what some call God?!

but they dont hold people as hostage for food.