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Originally posted by simple-
Muslims are special the only ones allowed by the lord to spread his words
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simple- , that is not the issue. The issue is rich evangelists targetting those who are totally desperate and using their desperation to their own 'advantage'. Let me plagiarize from an article in the respected US publication Mother Jones:
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"The issue is the disproportional power relationship," says Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Washington, D.C.-based organization that works to promote a positive image of Muslims. "They use their resources to coerce people to do what they want them to do." Hooper remembers reviewing a proposal by a Christian agency to send veterinarians to help impoverished Fulani cattle herders in West Africa. But the plan had a caveat: "You don't get the veterinarian unless you take the missionary," he says. "When people are in desperate circumstances, they'll do things they otherwise wouldn't do."
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This not only targets Muslims but poor people everywhere. My Russian friend was telling me how TV evangelists come to Russia these days.. lecturing people who have a 1000 year old Christian tradition how to be 'real christians'. A number of times distributing sweets to little children in orphanges with a caveat of converting to the American evangelist following.
I have no problem with my Christian coworkers here in America trying to convert me. As there is no disparity in power. Actually I probably earn more than them :P!
And I just try to convert them right back!