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Magdi Allam was a prominent Egyptian Muslim writer living in Italy. He has made his dutiful Mohammedan journey to Mecca as is required once in a lifetime (I think) for all Mohammedans.
Here is the thing, Allam has been extremely critical of Islamism and the inherent nature of violence in Islam itself. Allam is even pro-Israel due to the brutality of homicidal suicide bombing Arabs that call themselves Palestinians.
O yes, did I mention this prominent writer living in Italy converted to Christianity this Easter season and was baptized by Pope Benedict XVI himself.
WOW! Apparently more and more Mohammedans are leaving the so-called religion of peace every year.
Here is a little side bar that really has nothing to do with Magdi Allam’s illumination of the true God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
I was listening to Fox News briefly last night (it may have been the day before; I am fuzzy on the exact time frame). While I was half listening all of sudden a statistic brought me to alertness. Twenty-thousand Mohammedans have converted to Christianity in the last year. Seventy-thousand Mohammedans have converted since the Iraq invasion.
What is different since the Iraq invasion and before?
Well duh! There is a bit more Freedom of Choice in Iraq (In my search for statistics; this is the closest I could find for verification. There are time constraints you know.).
Mohammedans are persecuting native born Iraqi Christians (for years actually). In this Eastern season about a week ago Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho was murdered. Just after performing a Mass, he was kidnapped from his Church and shortly there after was found dead in a shallow grave. The Archbishop is representative of 600,000 Chaldean Catholic Christians that are native born Iraqis that have a history in the area since before the forced conversions of Mohammed. (End of side bar)
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Woman sentenced for killing husband who refused to convert
Posted January 30, 2006
Kochi, Jan 29 2005
Haindava Keralam
A woman who had killed her husband for refusing to convert to Christianity in the Chattisgarh state was sentenced to life imprisonment and a fine of Rs 1,000 by a local court in Ambikapur in the state, according to a report today.
The Prosecution was quoted as saying that Sukhni Bai, who is a Christian, repeatedly forced her husband Manglu Ram Oraon to convert and on this issue the couple quarreled on Jul 03, 2005. The couple entered into an argument over the matter on July 3, 2005 when the wife hit her husband Manglu with a pestle killing him on the spot.
The Additional Sessions Judge T R Churendra delivered the verdict.
Many U.S. Catholics, Protestants leave their churches
Posted March 6, 2008
February 26, 2008
Chicago Tribune
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By Margaret Ramirez
TRIBUNE REPORTER
February 26, 2008
Many Roman Catholics and Protestants in America are leaving the churches of their childhood and either embracing other faiths or claiming no religion at all, according to an extensive national survey released Monday.
The findings from the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life illustrate the fluid dynamics of American religion. More than a quarter of adults, or 28 percent, said they had left the faith in which they were raised. If changes among types of Protestantism are included, 44 percent have switched affiliation.
Sixteen percent of adults said they are not members of any religious group, making that "unaffiliated" segment the fourth-largest religious tradition in the U.S., comparable in numbers to the mainline Protestant churches. The three largest religious groups, the study found, are Protestant evangelicals at 26 percent, Catholics at 24 percent and historic mainline Protestants at 18 percent.
"One can certainly make the case that America will be a less Protestant and a less Christian nation a century from now. But how much less Protestant and how much less Christian -- that's a little bit hard to gauge because of the dynamism," said John Green, a report author and a senior fellow at the Pew Forum.
The Catholic Church has lost more members than any other religious group, the survey found, making roughly 10 percent of all Americans former Catholics.
Those losses, however, have been largely offset by Catholic immigrants entering the country, most of them from Latin America, the report said. The result is that the total percentage of the population that identifies as Catholic has remained stable.
Pew Forum director Luis Lugo said the fact that Catholics are leaving for Protestant churches or reporting no religious affiliation reflects stiff competition in the nation's religious marketplace.
"Everybody in this country is losing members; everybody is gaining members," Lugo said. "It's a very competitive marketplace, and if you rest on your laurels you're going to be history."
Researchers also found such a sharp decline in American Protestantism that "the United States is on the verge of becoming a minority Protestant country."
The number of Americans who said they were members of Protestant denominations now stands at barely 51 percent. The Protestant population also is diverse and fragmented, encompassing hundreds of denominations. The largest groups of Protestants are evangelical churches, mainline churches and historically black churches.
Just 4 percent of Americans called themselves atheist or agnostic. The rest of the unaffiliated -- 12 percent of Americans -- are almost equally divided between the "secular unaffiliated," who say religion is not important in their lives, and the "religious unaffiliated," who say it is at least somewhat important.
Other major findings:
*The Midwest is a "microcosm of American religion" closely resembling the religious makeup of the nation. The South has the heaviest concentration of evangelical Protestants. The Northeast has the most Catholics, and the West has the most unaffiliated people.
*Mormons and Muslims are the groups with the largest families; more than one in five Mormon adults and 15 percent of Muslim adults in the U.S. have three or more children living at home.
*Of all the major racial and ethnic groups, black Americans are the most likely to report a formal religious affiliation. Even among unaffiliated black people, three in four are in the "religious unaffiliated" category.
*Hinduism exhibits the highest overall retention rate, with 84 percent of adults who were raised as Hindus saying they were still Hindu.
The findings came from a survey of 35,000 adults conducted last summer.
129 persons 'reconverted' to Hinduism
Posted October 3, 2006
Oct 2, 2006
NewKerala.com
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Baripada (Orissa), Oct 2: As many as 129 people belonging to 27 families were "reconverted" to Hinduism at a function organised by the Viswa Hindu Parishad (VHP) at Chengua Mangalpur in Orissa's Mayurbhanj district today, VHP sources said.
"All of them were Hindus, who had been forcibly converted to Christinity. Now they have returned to their own religion", Gouri Rath, state secretary of VHP claimed.
Those, who were "reconverted" today were all tribals including 40 women and 29 children and belonged to seven villages -- Bhandara, Serengisahi, Saradiha, Baghadhapa, Prasannachandrapur, Gokulachandrapur of Mayurbhanj district and Durgadevi under Balasore district.
The tribals were given new clothes and sprinkled with "holy water" amidst chanting of hymns and shrill sounds of conch shells.
Swamy Adwaitananda Brahmachari performed the rituals even as a large number of people including BJP Rajya Sabha MP Bhagirathi Majhi, BJP MLA Pratap Sarangi and Sachidananda Giri, VHP secretary in charge of Mayurbhanj and Balasore Districts were present.
Priest asked to prove in court that Jesus existed
Posted January 30, 2006
Rome, Jan. 22 2006
Deccan Herald
Lawyers for a small-town parish priest have been ordered to appear in court next week after the Roman Catholic cleric was accused of unlawfully asserting what many people take for granted: that Jesus Christ existed. The Rev. Enrico Righi was named in a 2002 complaint filed by Luigi Cascioli after Righi wrote in a parish bulletin that Jesus did indeed exist, and that he was born of a couple named Mary and Joseph in Bethlehem and lived in Nazareth.
Cascioli, a lifelong atheist, claims that Righi violated two Italian laws by making the assertion: so-called "abuse of popular belief" in which someone fraudulently deceives people; and "impersonation" in which someone gains by attributing a false name to someone. Cascioli says that for 2,000 years the Roman Catholic Church has been deceiving people by furthering the fable that Christ existed, and says the church has been gaining financially by "impersonating" as Christ someone by the name of John of Gamala, the son of Judas from Gamala.
He also asserts that the Gospels � the most frequently cited testimony of Jesus' existence � are inconsistent, full of errors and biased, and that other written evidence from the time is scant and doesn't hold up to scholarly analysis.
Prosecutors, who in Italy are obliged to investigate such complaints, initially tried to have the case dismissed, saying no crime could be verified. But Cascioli challenged them, and Judge Gaetano Mautone set a hearing for next Friday in Viterbo, north of Rome, to discuss preliminary motions in Cascioli's bid to have the court appoint technical experts to review the historical data and determine if Jesus really did exist. Cascioli, 72, said in a recent interview that he decided to pursue the case against Righi, a priest in the village of Bagnoregio, near Viterbo, because the cleric had written in the parish bulletin that Jesus existed.
Asked why he went after Righi � a schoolmate when he and Cascioli were boys � and not any number of bishops, cardinals or even the Pope who have asserted the very same thing, Cascioli said it didn't really matter who he named in his complaint. Cascioli says he is merely going through the necessary legal steps in Italy so he can ultimately take the matter to the European Court of Human Rights, where he intends to pursue the case against the Church for "religious racism." "I was born against Christ and God," he said. "I'm doing it (the complaint) now because I should do it before I die."
136 Christian tribals reconverted to Hinduism in Orissa
Posted January 17, 2006
Rourkela, Orissa
newkerala.com
17 Jan 2006
Nearly 136 tribals who were converted to Christians were reconverted to Hinduism at a function organised by the local unit of the Viswha Hindu Parishad (VHP) and the Bajarang Dal.
The reconversion ceremony was held at a remote village in Tumbei under Gurundia police station, about 40 kms from here.
Those reconverted to Hinduism included 61 male and 75 female from as many as 25 tribal families belonging to Kodaligochha, Pankadihi and Tumbei villages.
Rourkela VHP unit Prsident Mitrabhanu Panda and several other Bajarang Dal and VHP leaders were present at the reconversion ceremony.
Catholic bishop says Pope Benedict is the "Antichrist"
Posted January 1, 2006
Tuesday, December 13, 2005
MAYAGUEZ, Puerto Rico (AP)
cnn.cm
A Roman Catholic bishop here has excommunicated members of a communal sect whose leader allegedly claims to be a manifestation of the late Pope John Paul II.
Sect leader Edwin Gonzalez Concepcion and his followers can no longer receive communion or participate in church activities, according to the order issued by Mayaguez Bishop Ulises Casiano Vargas.
Gonzalez, a former firefighter in the town of Aguada, has told his followers that he became a manifestation of John Paul when the pope died in April and that Pope Benedict XVI is the "antichrist," according to the order, which priests in the diocese read to their congregations Sunday.
Members of the group couldn't immediately be reached for comment.
The bishop also alleged that another sect leader, Gladys Miranda, claims she is the Virgin Mary, and that followers of the group make it hard for parishioners to receive communion by lying face-down in the aisle.
"After many public and private warnings ... these brothers refuse to abandon their practices and repeatedly continue their affirmations that are contrary to the Catholic faith," the bishop wrote.
The church said several women and children live in the group's home about two hours west of San Juan, the capital.
Magdi Allam is a big publicity stunt for christian zionist and that is all it is!!.Why did he not do this at his local parish?
For every Magdi there are thousands of Christian, Mary and Paul embracing Islam everyday. And they are not doing it for fame or money just for truth. The truth of Islam via the fake pagan Mithraism turned Christianity. They are not converting on Eid day at the Ayatolla's palace either..they are doing it far from sight for only Allah to see!!!
To Old Deluded Anynomous:
Your figures are Christianity are accurate in America. But I wonder if you read the whole article? The main point was that Protestantism is shrinking and that Roman Catholic immigrants primarily from Mexico and Latin America will offset the current Roman Catholic losses.
The implication being America might switch from a Protestant majority to a Catholic majority. Either way it is Christianity.
As for the force conversion statistics, particularly of Hinduism. I suspect that is Hindu propaganda for Voice of the Martyrs reports continuously that Hindus in India (Muslims as well) and Buddhists in Sri Lanka persecute Christians. The primary target of Hindu, Muslim and Buddhist (I still can't wrap my mind around Hindu and Buddhist, these are supposed to be into karma and do no harm) are Indians and Sri Lankans who have converted to Christianity. Their Church are burned their husbands are beaten or killed and of course the Muslims take particular joy of raping the women.
Give it up dude. I am not going to waste my time doing tit-for-tat with you. I guarantee you I can find more Muslim atrocities in the news (even if it only reported on the Internet and not page one of Western Media) about Muslims than I can any other religion.
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