Posted on 01/18/2018 4:50:51 AM PST by RoosterRedux
From escaping Iran through the mountains as a Muslim refugee, to surviving domestic abuse and imprisonment in a Turkish prison, to carving out a life in Sweden, Annahita Parsan’s story is the stuff of a Hollywood movie.
Parsan, a convert from Islam to Christianity and mother of two, has emerged as one of the most prominent religious figures in Europe, both because of her unlikely geographic and spiritual pilgrimage and her decision to reach out to Muslims with the gospel -- at great personal risk.
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On the heels of bringing a daughter she named Roksana into the world and with the Iran-Iraq war raging around them, Parsan’s husband Ashgar compelled them to flee in 1984 across frozen mountains into Turkey in the dead of winter. Without identification papers or passports, Turkish authorities tossed Parsan and her husband into a terrifying prison in the country’s Agri district for illegal entry. However, after a harrowing month they were released and traveled to Istanbul. There they spent nine months scrounging for enough funds to make it to Denmark.
It was in this tiny Scandinavian country where the seeds of her eventual spiritual transformation were planted.
“In about the first or second month there, a woman came to the door to speak about God. But it was not in my interest,” Parsan recalled. “I was so angry, I was so unhappy. But she came back the next day with a small Bible, so this time I asked Jesus to help me.”
Parsan said that over the next year she started to read the Bible, which she had to keep secretly from her husband. Eventually she asked God for answers to her questions and immediately felt a sense of calm and peace of mind that she had never before experienced.
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Good news indeed, but I’m waiting for leftist Sweets to accuse the evangelist of being culturally insensitive, of pushing his outmoded views, etc.
Good for her, but I suspect her life is in danger. I will pray for her.
I’ll start holding my breath for the movie.
She must die.
Hussein Obama's HOLY KORAN is quite clear. ANY Muslim who converts (rejects Islam) must die.
If you read the list, you noticed that #2 deals with Muslim conversions. Most of the rest of this list has to do how the Koran directs Muslims to handle YOU and YOUR FAMILY.
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