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JANUARY 2004 - PART TWO
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Mama Mwai with a Word for Kigocho
It was the last Kigocho (Praise and Worship in
Kikuyu and Swahili) of the year on 28th Dec.2003 in London at Holy Trinity Church, 185 Hermon
Hill, South Woodford. The Kigocho service which was hosted by Pastor Jacob
Mwathi The Glory of Jesus Christ International Ministry, London. Mama Mwai
preached about fishers of men. Reading from Mark 1:17 the preacher's theme was
"Come and I will make you fishers of men". Mama Mwai explained to the
congregation that she has travelled far and wide and what has surprised her is
that some people whom she knew well back in Kenya have changed - taking the
gospel lightly when they travel abroad. "God is the same God in Kenya, in USA,
in South African and in the UK" Mrs. Mwai explained.
Seated at the high table is Pastor Jacob the host, Rev. Gichiri, Rev.
Margaret Kingaru, Mama Mwai and her husband Mr. Manjau |
Mrs. Paula Kibira (left) and Pastor Ann Kabundi of Caring Hearts
International Ministry |
The humorous Mr. Manjau address the congregation before the preaching |
Mrs. Manjau well known as Mama Mwai preaching at the service |
From left is Pastor Jane Njiiri wife of Mr. Seed and Mr. Mwai son of Mrs.
Mwai the preacher |
Israel came from far....Pastor Jacob Mwathi the host pastor |
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Among those who attended was Mr. Thogo Mwai who gave a number at the
service. Recently, the man saw the light and became born again |
It was a service with a difference. Being the last service of the year, all
the pastors around prayed and anointed the congregation |
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Islam in Fast Demise
In Africa Alone Everyday, 16,000 Muslims Leave
Islam
By
Ali Sina
Hitler said if a lie
is repeated often enough and long enough, it would come to be perceived as
truth. One such lie often repeated is “Islam is the fastest growing religion”.
Despite the fact
that Muslims by virtue of being poor and uneducated are much more reproductive
than others, Islam as a religion is not growing but dying fast.
More and more
Muslims are discovering that the violence evinced by some of their
coreligionists is not an aberration but is inspired by the teachings of the
Quran and the examples set by its author. Muslims are becoming disillusioned
with Islam. They find out that the mechanistic ritual of praying five times per
day, reciting verses that they do not understand and indeed mean nothing,
getting up at taxing hours of the morning and abstaining from food and water
until the sunset are not means to becoming more spiritual but are instruments to
control their mind. These enlightened Muslims no more heed to the fear mongering
verses of the Quran that threaten to burn them and roast them in the fires of
hell if they dare to think and question the validity of that book.
Every day thousands
of Muslim intellectuals are leaving Islam. They find Islam inconsistent with
science, logics, human rights and ethics. Millions of Iranians already have left
Islam. The enlightened Muslims of other nationalities are not far behind. This
is the beginning of a mass exodus from Islam. It is a movement that is already
in motion and nothing can stop it.
However the exodus
from Islam is not reserved to the intellectuals but also the average Muslims are
finding that Islam is not the way to God but to ignorance, poverty and wars.
They are leaving Islam to embrace other religions especially the Christianity.
Perhaps it is best
to listen to the truth coming from the mouth of the horse. The Internet site
aljazeera.net published an interview with Ahmad Al Qataani
أحمد القطعاني An important
Islamic cleric who said: “In
every hour, 667 Muslims convert to Christianity. Everyday, 16,000 Muslims
convert to Christianity. Ever year, 6 million Muslims convert to Christianity."
What Muslims say
among each other, is not the same thing that they say for the consumption of the
Westerners.
These are huge
numbers. If this trend continues we can expect to see Islam become insignificant
in Africa in just a few decades. This is good news for those who are concerned
about the on going slavery in Africa and the prospects of war and genocide.
In fact with the
weakening of Islam, we can hope to see peace in many war-ridden parts of the
world including Palestine. By now it should be clear that any road map to peace
between Israel and Palestine will be blocked by the Islamists and the
terrorists. Peace in Middle East is not possible as long as Islam is the
ideology of the masses.
It is important
that we realize that this terrorism that is threatening the peace of the world
and these wars that bleed the Muslim nations are not economically motivated but
are they are hate motivated. They are religious wars. The weakening of Islam
means peace for mankind.
Al Qataani and al
Jazeera Network were alarmed by these huge numbers of Muslims leaving Islam, but
humanity must rejoice over these numbers. The weakening of Islam means the
triumph of mankind.
The following is
part of the transcript of Al
Jazeera's Interview with Al Qataani translated to English.
Here is the original transcript in Arabic
Maher Abdallah:
Dear viewers, peace of Allah be upon you, greetings and welcome to a new episode
of the program Islamic Law and Life.
Our topic this evening will be Christianization in the Dark Continent ...
Africa. For after Islam was the religion of the majority, the great majority of
that continent, the number of Muslims now is no greater than a third of the
population. This is taking into consideration, of course, that a large portion
of this group are Arab Muslims. No doubt that the missions of evangelization and
Christianization played a great role in this demographic shift of Muslims in the
continent.
To discuss this topic, it is my pleasure to introduce today a man who is an
expert on the issue of evangelization and Christianization in Africa, even
though he will concentrate on the issue of Christianization first and foremost….
Sheikh Ahmad Al Qataani; the president of The Companions Lighthouse for the
Science of Islamic Law in Libya, which is an institution specializing in
graduating imams and Islamic preachers.
Sheikh Ahmad, welcome to you on the program.
Ahmad Al Qataani:
Greeting to you.
Maher Abdallah:
If we start by inquiring about your strict stance against the Christian missions
in Africa, don’t the followers of every religion have the right to seek new
converts, exactly as you train and graduate young Muslims to propagate Islam?
Ahmad Al Qataani:
I seek refuge in Allah the Seer, the Knower, from the stoned devil. In the name
of Allah the Merciful the Beneficent. Thanks to Allah the One, the Only, the
Permanent One, who did not give birth nor was born, to whom no one was equal. I
bear witness that there is no God but Allah who has no partners, and I bear
witness that our master Muhammed – Allah’s prayers and peace be upon him - is
his messenger and seal of prophets; Allah prayers be upon him and his brothers
the prophets and messengers and their families.
The question that you pose is a result of not comprehending the difference
between the concept of Christianization and the concept of evangelism.
The concept of evangelism: is inviting the non-Christians to the Christian or
Nazarene religion, and this is the right of every Christian and the right of
every believer to call others to his faith. However, we are talking about a
different matter; which is Christianization. Christianization means the
following: preparing plans, and executing these plans and evolving these plans
to change Muslims into Christians by taking advantage of the ignorance and
poverty (of the people) and whatever necessitates from similar circumstances.
So, we are faced with the issue of taking advantage of circumstances, taking
advantage of humanitarian needs, taking advantage of the lack of education for
example, that these people (missionaries) use to take Muslims out of their
religion.
Maher Abdallah:
Fine. This is a big and dangerous phrase. Taking advantage of poverty, of
ignorance, of lack of education, of some need is something that a Muslim can
also be accused of. So if you don’t back up what you say with examples, with
references, your words remain in the air without much weight to them.
Ahmad Al Qataani:
The reality is that these words say a lot less than they should. As we said in
the beginning, everyone has the right to invite others to his religion; this is
what is known as evangelism (or proselytizing). As for Christianization, no one
has the right to take Muslims out of their religion, and you asked for
references and the references are too numerous.
Islam used to represent, as you previously mentioned, Africa’s main religion and
there were 30 African languages that used to be written in Arabic script. The
number of Muslims in Africa has diminished to 316 million, half of whom are
Arabs in North Africa. So in the section of Africa that we are talking about,
the non Arab section, the number of Muslims does not exceed 150 million people.
When we realize that the entire population of Africa is one billion people, we
see that the number of Muslims has diminished greatly from what it was in the
beginning of the last century. On the other hand, the number of Catholics has
increased from one million in 1902 to 329 million 882 thousand (329,882,000).
Let us round off that number to 330 million in the year 2000.
As to how that happened, well there are now 1.5 million churches whose
congregations account for 46 million people. In every
hour, 667 Muslims convert to Christianity. Everyday, 16,000 Muslims convert to
Christianity. Ever year, 6 million Muslims convert to Christianity
These numbers are very large indeed …..
Maher Abdallah (interrupting):
Hold on! Let me clarify. Do we have 6 million converting from Islam to
Christianity or converting from Islam and other religions?
Ahmad Al Qataani:
Great (question)! The other religions are not placed on the list of
Christianization; rather they are placed on the list of evangelization. The
other religion in Africa is paganism; so it’s Islam, Christianity or paganism.
There isn’t something similar to Asia for example where you have Buddhism or
Zoroastrianism. In Africa it is just these three, so if you talk about
Christianization then it targets the only other heavenly religion which is
Islam. As for paganism, those people worship animals and planets and the like.
Maher Abdallah:
So 6 million Muslims a year convert?
Ahmad Al Qataani:
Every year ….. In the African nations this century a tragedy happened. Take for
example what happened in Ethiopia. Ethiopia is an Arab nation and I am not
saying a muslim nation. If any student looks up the word Habasha (Ethiopia) in
the book Ocean Dictionary written by Al-Fairuz Abady, he will find that the word
Habashat means “people of different tribes” and this is what happened. Ethiopia
was a place where Arabs from different tribes would go to live for a while. We
all know that Islam entered Ethiopia before Islam entered the city of Medina. We
all know that AL-Najashy (the ruler of Ethiopia) was a Muslim. It is mentioned
by Al-Darkatny in his biography of the prophet – Allah’s prayer and peace be
upon him – that during the month of Rajab in the 9th year of the Hijra (Muslim
calendar) that the prophet said to his companions: “Rise up and pray on your
brother Al-Najashy.” From that year on the practice of praying on the absent was
established. Therefore from the time of the prophet – Allah’s prayer and peace
be upon him – Islam entered Ethiopia. So what has happened to Ethiopia?
What happened is that in the days of Emperor Hela Silasi who used to force
Muslims to bow to the Christian, and if he refused then he was whipped 45 lashes
and jailed between 2 and 5 years. In the year 1948, a massacre occurred at the
hands of the Amharic tribes; the Amharic being Christians and collaborators, who
continued to slaughter Muslims for 7 months and perform the most horrific acts
imaginable. For example they deprived them from the most basic human rights, to
the point that they mutilated the male Muslim’s reproductive organs so that no
more Muslim children would be born. Ethiopia was rewarded after all these
horrific acts; rewarded by being made the head quarters of the African Unity
League.
Let us move to another location in Africa, let it be Nigeria. Nigeria is known
by Muslims by the name of the Land of Takror. Nigeria was founded at the
beginning of the last century by the British, and many Islamic sources mention
it’s name as the Land of Tekror. There is even a letter by the reciter Suyuti,
who died in the year 911 Hijri, where the title is: Opening the blessed request
and relating the hidden openly to the questions of the people of Takror. So
there was an established relationship, and they used to send questions to the
scholars of Islam, so this letter (of questions) was sent from one of the sheikh
scholars of Nigeria that was called Takror to the Muslim scholar AL Suyuti in
Egypt and he in turn responded and the contents of this letter are published and
printed and is found in the book “The collection Islamic decrees”.
Nigeria’s population is 120 million people, 70% of whom are Muslim. In the
1960’s a British missionary came and declared that he will Christianize North
Nigeria, the majority of whom are Muslim. As a result, Ahmad Banulo (from the
leaders of the Msulims) was forced at the time to move him to Lagos the capital.
As a result the butcher Arorese, that was present at the time, eliminated all
the Muslim rulers and killed Ahmad Banulo, why? Because he merely dared to move
this missionary who declared that he wishes to Christianize North Nigeria.
In another country, Zanzibar, is an Arabic African nation and I am not saying
Muslim. Zanzibar was always connected to the Sultanate of Oman (in the Persian
Gulf). Concerning Zanzibar, there was a priest by the name Julius Niriry,
president of Tanzania, who annihilated 20,000 Muslims (male and female) with a
military force lead by a chicken thief. This thief was imprisoned for being
accused of stealing chickens; he was released and asked to command the military
brigade that annihilated 20,000 Muslims.
Maher Abdallah:
My dear viewers welcome back to this episode where we are speaking about the
topic of Christianization in the African continent and we are speaking with the
Sheikh who is observing and following this issue, as each hour Islam loses just
under 700 Muslims who join the Christian religion which leads us to the number
of 6 million Muslims every year.
Our sir, you mentioned that there are advantages being taken of necessities:
poverty, ignorance; what you mentioned then are waves of elimination, waves of
religious eradication, and there is no need to call is racial eradication…..
However, let us go back to the topic necessity and exploitation. This may have
all been in the past; the military expeditions that you spoke of were all in the
beginning or middle of the last century, but what is happening today in regards
to exploiting necessities?
Ahmad Al Qataani:
What I wanted to say is that these military expeditions and wars paved the way
for what we are seeing today; converting 6 million Muslims every year did not
happen from nothing, but was a result of what I mentioned earlier.
As for the topic of necessity exploitation, then a nation like Somalia, whose
population is 9.5 million people, are all Muslim without exception. There are no
Christians or pagans. And if you did find any then they are an insignificant
number that are not even on official statistics. A Belgian missionary by the
name of Sabeh came to Somalia and purchased 30,000 Muslim youth, he took
advantage of their parents poverty, and we all know the terrible situation that
Somalia is going through now and what it went through a few years ago. This is
taking advantage of a humanitarian need that any human can go through.
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New Year celebrations in churches
New Year celebrations in
the UK churches was done everywhere in the country. Worshippers gathered their
churches as early as 7.00 p.m. in order to secure a sit. Kingsway International
Christian Centre (KICC) at Hackey, East London recorded the highest number of
attendance. The service at the church was live on TV and radio. There was a big
parking problem due to the heavy attendance. Rev. Mathew Ashimolowo, the head
pastor of the biggest church in Europe delivered the Word of the New Year.
The service started at 8.00
p.m. at Calvary Charismatic Baptist Church, Barking Road where there was a huge
number Kenyans attendance. Celebrations was marked with by several dancers and
musicians as the Kenyan team did it well with their traditional Kenyan attire.
There was a big tent outside the church to cater for the large number of
attendance. The head pastor Rev. Francis Sarpong the delivered the Word of the
new year. The service closed at 12.30 a.m.
The youth group displaying their modern talents at the service |
The Kenyan team wearing traditional attire presented a "muchungwa" (kikuyu
song) at the service |
Mr. Ndirangu (left) and large number of Kenyans behind him were spotted at
the tent |
Hands up to welcome the new year |
Head pastor Rev. Sarpong blessing the congregation |
The head pastor delivered the message that year 2004 is the year of
restoration |
"Twasema asante, twasema asantee......wewe Mungu wangu...." |
Jubilation as the new year arrived |
Karuri (left) and his wife at the service |
Isabella the 79-year-old lady joined the celebrations |
END FOR NOW!