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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/202...-christianity/
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Forty asylum seekers on the Bibby Stockholm barge are converting to Christianity amid growing fears that migrants are claiming to have changed their religion in order to stay in the country.
Nearly one in seven of the 300 migrants on the barge in Portland, Dorset, are attending churches under the supervision of local faith leaders, according to a church elder.
The disclosure comes amid a growing row over the role of UK churches in supporting the conversion to Christianity of migrants including Abdul Shokoor Ezedi, the suspected Clapham chemical attacker.
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Characteristically, you are assuming the worst of converting Muslims.
Imagine that you had escaped a brutal Muslum regime where your life was in danger because you are a political opponent or you helped the west as a translator. You arrive in a European country to seek asylum. Whether you have been declared illegal, as in the UK, or you are awaiting a decision in a more civilised European country, you then get helped by local Christian groups. Against your expectations, you are treated like a human, given food and clothing and generally shown compassion. As a believer in the same god as the Christians, imagine the relief there must be when you realise the relative liberation of modern Christians as opposed to the brand of Islam you just escaped.
Muslims are converting to Christianity all over Europe. In most cases, given their plight back in their own country, they would have been granted asylum anyway, Christian or not. In the UK, where genuine refugees are being declared illegal even though they are not illegal in international law, their emotional response to the only compassion many are offered will be driving many to Christianity.
I would have thought, Sephi, that you would be relieved at the epiphany so many Muslims are experiencing and which is leading them away from Islam, a religion you regard as poisonous.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...g-christianity
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Originally Posted by Pierre
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What didn't age well? Are you assuming that all these conversions are opportunistic?
See my response to Sephi. There's a different interpretation.