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Christian Mission to Muslims. Since September 11, the Muslim communities
have been under siege by the media and the entire world. ...
... an illustrated book in each box promoting the group’s Christian mission printed
in ... Islamic view of America as a nation out to convert Muslims to Christianity ...
... What Catholic is not moved to strive for greater Christian holiness when we ... once
said that she did not see her mission as one of making Muslims and Hindus ...
... The Crusaders mission was to regain Jerusalem from the holiest ground
of the Christian faith from the grasp of the Muslims. The ...
... At the request of the Venetians, the Crusaders first attacked the Christian city
of Zara ... Later Franciscans continued the concern for mission to the Muslims. ...
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Since September 11, the Muslim communities have been under siege by the media and the entire world. We have seen how the miss conceptions of Muslims have spread all over the media. As a Christian I begin to think that they should be treated as normal people. “When a radical fundamentalist, start a sect with ideas that differ from what the Muslim religion stands for, we begin to stereotype all the Muslims as the same. But when a Christian begins a killing spree a cross the nation, know one stereotypes all the Christians as one.”
As a Seventh Day Adventists Christian, I believe that we as a church body, we have to reach this people with compassion and understanding, because not all of them are evil like they are shown to be. I believe that ignorance is the root of hatred, an as Christians, we should be like Jesus, understand them, and cater to their needs.
To be able to understand the Muslim mind we have to learn their background and how their religion was develop. Is hard to learn when you already have preconceived prejudices about Muslims, but that’s when we have to pray to God for wisdom, understanding, and an open mind.
Islam originated in the seventh century A.D. During this time, Islamic scholars were very fluent in the areas of physics, mathematics, chemistry, astronomy, geography and medicine. Muhammed (570-632 A.D.) was the founder of Islam. He became an orphaned at the age of six, when he became a teenager he decided to join the merchants who traded goods from town to town along the caravan routes. He became a master trader for a businesswoman, then married the woman who was a widow.
Muhammed was a man with a lot of spiritual insight, but he became depressed by the commercial greed and the excess of polytheism around him, he spent most of the time in seclusion and meditation. Muslims believe that while Muhammed was meditating in a cave, the archangel Gabriel appeared to him. The vision came to him first in 610...
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