In lots of Muslim countries you can’t live as a non-Muslim. In many, if you preach your faith to others you are killed or jailed. If you’re a Muslim and you convert, you are killed or jailed.
In many of these Muslim countries, there is no separation of mosque and state. Even in the new constitution of Iraq, it says right there in black and white that Iraq is a Muslim country and they openly give the non-Muslims a hard time. Over the past 100 years Muslims have done what many Christian countries did over the past 100 years. They pushed the others out or killed them.
We still let Turkey cover up what it did to the Armenians. They cover it up so we don’t hunt down their genocidal criminals. We help the Muslims cover up their genocide.
In Muslim countries, the call for prayer is sung loudly several times daily, even where non-Muslims live. Much as in Christian countries, the church bells ring several times daily, even where non-Christians live. This was accepted, tolerated, whatever, by everyone.
However, there are places in Europe where the Christians are buckling under pressure from the Muslims. When Muslims say they don’t want Christians spreading their message in Muslim areas, it appears the courts are backing them up.
Imagine in the United States if in Jewish areas the courts denied churches the right to ring their bells, and if in Jewish areas, like say, Manhattan, the courts denied those crazy Jesus people the right to should their message on the street corners, and imagine if in Skokie, Illinois, the courts denied the KKK from marching through neighborhoods where the neighbors were Holocaust survivors.
I’m enjoying imagining all this. I figure, what’s fair is fair…
And yet, others say:
FAITH UNDER FIRE
American Christians face ‘hate crime’ for preaching gospelPolice told pastors told they can’t spread Christian message in Muslim area
Two American-born pastors handing out gospel leaflets in a predominantly Muslim area of Birmingham, England, were threatened with arrest and warned of being beaten for committing what an officer called a “hate crime.”Arthur Cunningham, 48, and Joseph Abraham, 65, were handing out the leaflets and talking with local youths when they were approached and questioned by a police community support officer, or PCSO.
When the officer discovered the two Birmingham pastors were born in the U.S., he began a heated criticism of President Bush and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Cunningham explained that the gospel message was not linked to American foreign policy, but the officer reportedly became belligerent.
“He said we were in a Muslim area and were not allowed to spread our Christian message,” Cunningham told the London Telegraph. “He said we were committing a hate crime by telling the youths to leave Islam and said that he was going to take us to the police station.”
In England a PCSO is a full-time employee of the police charged with community peacekeeping, but the officers do not have the power of arrest without a constable. In this case, the pastors refused to accompany the PCSO into the presence of a constable or to divulge their home addresses as, they said, the officer grew “threatening and intimidating.”
The ministers also claim the PCSO bullied them, saying, “You have been warned. If you come back here and get beaten up, well, you have been warned.”
The local police station has since announced that the matter was fully investigated and that the PCSO would be given corrective training, but the incident fuels concerns that there are areas in Britain where the Christian message is increasingly unwelcome.
In April, Rev. Michael Nazir-Ali, bishop of Rochester and the Church of England’s only Pakistan-born bishop, wrote in the Telegraph that certain pockets of England were becoming “no-go” zones, places too dangerous for non-Muslims to enter.
Joseph Abraham, one of the threatened pastors agrees. He told the paper, “I couldn’t believe this was happening in Britain. The bishop of Rochester was criticized by the Church of England recently when he said there were no-go areas in Britain, but he was right; there are certainly no-go areas for Christians who want to share the gospel.”
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Not true. The police community support officer was actually in the wrong for stopping the preachers and telling them what he did, but he was a Muslim so….
He’s only a support officer anyway so has no real power, or it seems a good grasp of the law.
That said, there are lots of no go areas for white non Muslims, they were lucky not to get beaten up, or killed.
Jeremiah, I beg to differ. It’s all true: 1) What is fair is fair; 2) Two American pastors were where they were; 3) They were handing out what they were handing out; 4) Axhilliary police did what they did; 5) the PCSO threatened the pastors with arrest; 6) The courts weren’t intimidated and didn’t buckle under; 7) Some of the above really happened; 8) Then I imagined all kinds of things; 9) Then I shared all of the above; 10) You said “not true” when it’s all true.