Table of contents:
Islamization of Christian missionary modus operandi for Islamic presence: 2
Introduction: 2
Christian missionary strategies: 3
People’s Movements 4
Contextualization: 5
Global rule making: 7
Intercultural understanding and communication: 8
Comity 8
“Foster parents” for the converted children. 9
Bibliography: 10
Islamization of Christian missionary modus operandi for Islamic presence:
Introduction:
Christian missionaries have been, since early days, striving ruthlessly towards achieving their fundamental belief of ‘the Kingdom of God.’ Hence, they leave behind no chances available, and no strategies relinquished. They have so far ventured through almost all nations of the world; so far found Muslims the most resilient and defiant towards conversion. In one report, The Boston Globe mentions: “…Over the past decade, Christian missionaries have converted millions of African animists, some Buddhists in Asia, even Hindus in India. But Muslim communities have proved notoriously resistant.”[1]
Evangelical Christians tout Muslims as the largest block of un-reached peoples in the world. Having scored remarkable successes among Catholics in Latin America, notably in Brazil, and spurred by the fall of the Soviet Union, missionaries in the 1990s regard Muslims as a “final frontier” for evangelism. Their strategies call for “creative access, cultural sensitivity, and church-planting in the 10/40 Window.” The 10/40 Window is evangelical-speak for the rectangle with boundaries of latitudes 10 and 40 degrees north of the equator; encompassing most of the Muslim World. Muslim countries especially targeted are the newly independent states in Central Asia - particularly Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, and the Southeast Asian tigers, Malaysia and Indonesia. Nevertheless, Frontiers and other Christian groups strive to place missionaries throughout the tough “10/40 Window.”[2]
Here, it would be pertinent to discuss...