From the article:
"The man who led the prayer said he had converted to Christianity in Iran after getting hold of a smuggled Farsi-language Bible. 'Before it was just theoretical to me, but now I can see it and feel it by my pastor’s kindness,' he said. Another said he converted in Iran because of an old neighbor who had been born Christian. Christians, he said, 'were kind people. In Islam, the person who does the killing and the person who dies yells Allahu Akbar,' he said. 'In Iran,' he noted, referring to the Arab occupation of Persia that began in the seventh century, 'we became Muslim by force.'
To be fair, the
Atlantic story is a first-person account, which allows room for personal impressions. But Kasinof cannily interweaves them with concrete observations and quotes from her subjects:"
That's something I don't think crosses the mind very often in western Christians. That people in middle eastern countries, not those now being terrorized by ISIS of course, were converted often enough through force to Islam.
Great article!
Thank you so much for sharing that with us. Could you post this in the current news section of the forum too? I'm thinking some Christian members may not read it here thinking it is a section for our Catholic sisters and brothers only.
Again thank you. God Bless.
