Spreading the gospel, or facilitating hatred?
by Lynda Rose, Christian Today:
You can imagine some of the discussion on boats carrying illegal migrants over the Channel, can’t you? “Look, my friend, things are tightening up over there, but if we go along to the nearest church once we’ve landed and ‘convert’ to Christianity, we’ll have a much better chance of getting asylum!” Certainly, with reports that 40 of the 300 residents currently aboard the Bibby Stockholm now apparently seeking baptism, one has an unwelcome suspicion that this is exactly the type of conversation that has been taking place
And yes, I know this may sound overly cynical, but we perhaps do well to remember that ‘taqiyya’ or dissimulation to advance the cause of Islam, and/or to achieve one’s own ends, is actively encouraged in Sharia law (see, for example, Surah 3:28, “Let believers not take for friends and allies infidels instead of believers. Whoever does this shall have no relationship left with Allah – unless you but guard yourselves against them, taking precautions.”).
At the same time, genuine conversion from Islam is condemned as apostasy and in some places carries the death penalty – as we see all too frequently still carried out in Muslim countries today. Which means that no Muslim will renounce his or her faith lightly. But illegal migrants know that conversion, carrying with it the threat of dire retribution, will immeasurably help with the asylum application and, if Allah approves, well then ….
To our shame, many human rights activists, desperate to preserve the fantasy that so-called Western liberal democracy is humanity’s supreme achievement, with which all must agree once they experience it for themselves, collude with this deceit. How could anyone not want to convert, they say! But this is not good enough, and as Christians we have a duty to uphold the truth. Yes, we are called to make disciples of all nations, but at the same time we are called to exercise discernment and caution, and we must defend our faith against covert attack. As exhorted in 1 John 4, we must not ‘believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God…’
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