As if the religious cauldron wasn’t already simmering in Iraq, add Bible Belt Missionaries Set Out on a ‘War for Souls’
American Christian missionaries have declared a “war for souls” in Iraq, telling supporters that the formal end of the US-led occupation next June will close an historic “window of opportunity”… Organising in secrecy, and emphasising their humanitarian aid work, Christian groups are pouring into the country, which is 97 per cent Muslim, bearing Arabic Bibles, videos and religious tracts designed to “save” Muslims from their “false” religion …
The missionaries are mainly evangelicals who reject talk of Muslims and Christians worshipping the same God … Franklin Graham, son of Billy Graham and the head of Samaritan’s Purse, a big donor to Iraq, has described Islam as a “very evil and wicked religion”…
The missionaries pose a dilemma for President George W Bush. He has reached out to Muslims since September 11, shrugging off criticism from evangelicals to describe Islam as “peaceful”. But Christian conservatives are also a key Bush constituency: Franklin Graham delivered the invocation prayer at his presidential inauguration.
Jon Hanna, an evangelical from Ohio who has recently returned from Iraq, applied for a new passport to travel there, describing himself as a humanitarian worker. “I was worried the US authorities might try to stop us, might be worried we were going to start a riot with our Bibles. He describes Islam as “false” … In Baghdad last month Mr Hanna met two other American missionary teams. One, from Indiana, had shipped in 1.3 million Christian tracts. “A US passport is all you need to get in, until the new Iraqi government takes over. What we thought was a two-year window, originally, has narrowed down to a six month window,” said Mr Hanna …
like the Christians know that they're not in the false religion themselves. what a joke.
the christian's bible is only an amendment from the original Islam's kor'an. yea the Christians did, for their own convenience.
what's more is … how can a god give birth to a son? i mean , then it means that the god is humanely enough to have a 'wife' and in a way give birth to a 'son'. The real God does not have a son nor was the god given birth from somethin else! The god is a sole entity , totally totally separated from his creation fyi.