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Zanzibar Muslims, Officials Stop Church Building, Erect Mosque
ChristianNewsToday ^ | Thursday October 21, 2010 | By Simba Tian

Posted on 10/21/2010 8:17:26 AM PDT by fight_truth_decay

Islamists demolish foundation; police withhold crime report from court.

NAIROBI, Kenya – On an island off the coast of East Africa where the local government limits the ability of Christians to obtain land, officials in one town have colluded with area Muslims to erect a mosque in place of a planned church building.

On the Tanzanian island of Zanzibar, Pastor Paulo Kamole Masegi of the Evangelistic Assemblies of God had purchased land in April 2007 for a church building in Mwanyanya-Mtoni, and by November of that year he had built a house that served as a temporary worship center, he said.

Masegi intended for the house to serve eventually as his family’s home within the church compound, but on Nov. 11, 2007, his congregation began to worship there.

Soon area Muslim residents objected, saying they didn’t like seeing the church in the area, said Pastor Lucian Mgaywa of the Church of God in Tanzania.

“This was the beginning of the church’s tribulations,” Pastor Mgaywa said.

CUT

“Now the Christian faithful are feeling targeted even by the government officials,” said Pastor Masegi. “The region is predominantly Muslim, and attempts at evangelizing are always met with brutal resistance.”

Since the prohibition to conduct worship services in his home, both police and area Muslims monitor Pastor Masegi’s movements, he said, and the congregation has no place to worship.

In predominately Sunni Muslim Zanzibar, churches face other hurdles. There are restrictions on getting land to build churches, open preaching is outlawed and there is limited time on national television to air Christian programs. In government schools, religion classes are limited to Islam.

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On September 15, prominent Egyptian Muhammad Salim al-Awwa, ex-secretary general of the International Union for Muslim Scholars, appeared on Al Jazeera and, in a wild tirade, accused the Copts of "stocking arms and ammunitions in their churches and monasteries"— imported from Israel, no less, since "Israel is in the heart of the Coptic Cause" — and "preparing to wage war against Muslims."

He warned that if nothing is done, the "country will burn," urging Muslims to "counteract the strength of the [Coptic] Church." Al-Awwa further charged that Egypt's security forces cannot enter the monasteries to investigate for weapons — an amazing assertion, considering that Coptic monasteries are not only at the mercy of the state, but easy prey to Islamist/Bedouin attacks.

Needless to say, these remarks have inflamed Muslim passions (not to mention paranoia) against Egypt's Christians, who make approximately 12% of the population. To make matters worse, right on the heels of al-Awwa's "monastery-conspiracy-theory," Islamist leaders began to circulate baseless rumors that the Church and Pope Shenouda III "kidnap" Coptic women who willingly convert to Islam, and trap them in desert monasteries, "torturing" and "re-indoctrinating" them back to Christianity — even when the women in question publicly insist they never converted to Islam... in Egypt, Christian women are regularly kidnapped and compelled to embrace Islam.

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France 1997 prediction: "Migration trends are to intensify over the coming thirty years... . All developed countries will be affected, including East Asia and the former communist countries. There will be an overall mingling of cultures and civilisations that may lead, as far as France is concerned, to the emergence of a predominantly African population and to rapid Islamization."2


1 posted on 10/21/2010 8:17:34 AM PDT by fight_truth_decay
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To: fight_truth_decay

Mohammedanism is despicable.

There is nothing but repression, slavery, bloodshed, and misery, everywhere it emerges.


2 posted on 10/21/2010 8:19:10 AM PDT by Westbrook (Having children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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To: Westbrook
Coptic activists in Washington have been lobbying Congress to protest the Muslim backlash in Egypt and pressure Mubarak to protect the Christian community. Egypt receives $1.3 billion in annual U.S. military aid.

Egyptian state-financed clerics have joined the anti-Coptic campaign. On Sept. 26, the state-controlled Al Azhar seminary, the seat of Sunni Islam, threatened Egypt's Coptics with removal of their citizenship."

"The Copts find themselves again in a period of severe persecution," Ibrahim [lectures at the National Defense Intelligence College] said. "And there appears to be no one to stop it — not even those most accountable: America's friend and ally, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and his government."

3 posted on 10/21/2010 8:26:59 AM PDT by fight_truth_decay
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To: Westbrook

Islam needs to be exterminated from the face of the earth, starting in America.


4 posted on 10/21/2010 8:28:00 AM PDT by thethirddegree
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To: fight_truth_decay

Remember the false outrage over the indoctrination center in NY?


5 posted on 10/21/2010 8:29:09 AM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (Annoying liberals is my goal. I will not be silenced.)
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To: fight_truth_decay

Another 33 minute war is in order.


6 posted on 10/21/2010 8:29:25 AM PDT by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (REPEAL OR REBEL! -- Islam Delenda Est! -- I Want Constantinople Back. -- Rumble thee forth.)
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To: fight_truth_decay

Zanzibar
Artist: Billy Joel
Album: 52nd Street

Ali dances and the audience applauds
Though he’s bathed in sweat he hasn’t lost his style
Ali don’t you go downtown
You gave away another round for free

Me, I’m just another face at Zanzibar
But the waitress always serves a secret smile
She’s waiting out in Shantytown
She’s gonna pull the curtains down for me, for me

CHORUS
I’ve got the old man’s car,
I’ve got a jazz guitar
I’ve got a tab at Zanzibar
Tonight that’s where I’ll be

Rose, he knows he’s such a credit to the game
But the Yankees grab the headlines every time
Melodrama’s so much fun
In black and white for everyone to see
Me, I’m trying just to get to second base
And I’d steal it if she only gave the sign
She’s gonna give the go ahead
The inning isn’t over yet for me,for me

CHORUS

Tell the waitress I’ll come back to Zanzibar
I’ll be hiding in the darkness with my beer.
She’s waiting out in Shantytown
She’s gonna pull the curtains down for me, for me

CHORUS


7 posted on 10/21/2010 8:29:47 AM PDT by Red Badger (WOULD SOMEBODY PLEASE GIVE MEGHAN MCCAIN A BOX OF KRISPY KREMES SO SHE'LL SHUT THE HELL UP?!)
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To: thethirddegree

> Islam needs to be exterminated from the face of the
> earth, starting in America.

Bears repeating, and I agree completely.


8 posted on 10/21/2010 8:40:17 AM PDT by Westbrook (Having children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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To: thethirddegree
Islam, the second largest religion, is growing faster numerically than any other religion; this growth is attributed to a higher birth rate, and a higher rate of conversion than other religions. In the U.S., more people convert to Islam than any other faith, especially amongst African Americans.-
According to the 2003 CIA factbook, World Network of Religious Futurists, the U.S. Center for World Mission

9 posted on 10/21/2010 8:45:02 AM PDT by fight_truth_decay
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To: thethirddegree

Islam delenda est.


10 posted on 10/21/2010 8:53:44 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (No Representation without Taxation!)
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To: thethirddegree

I second that motion... all in favor?

LLS


11 posted on 10/21/2010 9:23:15 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!)
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To: fight_truth_decay

Send obama & Odinga to mediate between the sub-human Kafirs in Kenya, as he did before he became Pres__ent.


12 posted on 10/21/2010 10:22:46 AM PDT by bayouranger (The 1st victim of islam is the person who practices the lie.)
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To: thethirddegree

And Americans can’t figure out why the Serbs are pissed off at Americans for trying to keep the muslims from taking control.

Americans are finally awaking to the threat.


13 posted on 10/21/2010 10:26:43 AM PDT by montyspython
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