I am happy to read that Christianity in Africa is not going to lay down and play dead to the Islamic Imperialists. Of course the Muslims will throw the term “Crusade” around forgetting that the Crusades were a counter attack directed against centuries of Islamic imperialism.
by Ralph Peters
The Islamists have it wrong: Islam isn’t the world’s fastest-growing religion. By birth numbers and convert tallies, it’s Christianity.
And Africa’s at the forefront — a fact that going to body-slam Muslim extremists sooner or later.
The bombings that recently butchered World Cup fans in Uganda were just the latest in a long line of crazed attacks on African Christians by Islamist fanatics. In the central states of Nigeria — Africa’s most-populous country — religious pogroms and counter-pogroms between Muslims and Christians have become routine.
In Kenya, al Shabaab terrorists from neighboring Somalia stir up trouble and make grotesque threats. And we all know what bestial acts Sudan’s Islamist government has perpetrated against black Christians over the decades.
Throughout the region, patience is wearing thin. Africa’s impassioned forms of charismatic and Pentecostal Christianity won’t turn the other cheek forever. The coming backlash could be ferocious (even dictatorships could exploit a vengeful popular mood).
The Islamist imperialists pushing to expand in Africa would do well to recall that Christianity has historical claims on such states as Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Yemen and Saudi Arabia. Are they ready for mass violence aimed at a rollback? Or state conflicts?
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As far as converts go, Muslims are being baptized (at great personal risk), but Christians aren’t converting to Islam. Wahhabi Islam’s rejection of joy just doesn’t speak to Africans — who even in misfortune seem incomparably alive.
Throughout sub-Saharan Africa, the old mysticism of folk religion glides easily into charismatic Christianity, but collides head-on with the intolerance of Wahhabism.
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