Christianity in the Muslim world

[Timi_Celcer]

Christianity is still present today in the Muslim world, but in most countries their percentage is around 1% or even below that. In early medieval time Christianity was the biggest religion in the Muslim world(except for Arabia and perhaps Persia,and more on the East of Persia). The best scholars in the early middle ages were Christians from the muslim world. Why did the Christian religion fall in the Middle East and how will it return to its former “glory”?

 

[NextElement]

Well it fell for obvious reasons (the violent spread of Islam, forced conversions, etc).

I don’t think it will ever reemerge in the Middle East before the Second Coming.

 

[ServantPD]

As far as I’m concerned, the sultans after Saladin (including him) and the later Ottomans weren’t that friendly to Christianity as were the Ummayads, Abbasids and Almoravids.

People might have converted over the generations to being less robbed in taxes (and couldn’t retract or teach their kids anything else, or they’d be executed for apostasy), and to avoid to have their sons grow up as Janissaires…

Anyways, we can thank the Lord that the Muslim world hasn’t grown up over the centuries, but rather grew to be smaller and smaller. We have new threats in Nigeria, but we can all pray for the best, and hope it’s enough. The War on Terror, and Israel’s persistent annoyance towards them might be signs that we can hope for a better future in the Muslim world, where we can preach again to the lands that were preached by Sts. Augustine, Athanasius and lived by the great Desert Fathers. They were great times for the Kingdom of Christ in the past, they may just become so again!

 

[izzydizzydo]

I can’t see any favorable increase in Christianity in the Middle East until the second coming either.

Through military conquest Islam was as they say transmitted throughout the Middle East.
The development and implementation of Sharia law as was prescribed in the Quran initiated the subjugation or conversion of the Christians in the Middle East.

A few years ago I put away my beautiful Rosary beads and only pray with my Rosary .made of olive wood from Jerusalem and assembled by Palestinian Catholics in Bethlehem so that their 2% population will have enough work to remain there. Along with that I have a number of other religious articles that they made to support and remind me to pray for Middle Eastern Christians regularly.

I for one am looking forward and praying for Pope Francis visit to Jordan Bethlehem and Jerusalem that he will accomplish his mission and of course his safety too.

 

[NextElement]

I’ll also add that they wouldn’t revert back to Christianity because Islam is VERY hard to reason with. They don’t know why they do everything they do, they just know Muhammad said to, and they wouldn’t dare question Muhammad being the prophet. It’s a very fear-driven religion, in my opinion.

 

[livingwordunity]

It’s a very fear-driven religion, in my opinion.

According to Islamic Sharia law, Muslims who leave it can be charged as apostates and put to death. All we have to do is look at the latest example of it in the news with the pregnant Christian woman who was recently sentenced to death by an Islamic court in Sudan. Just being born into a Muslim family and deciding as an adult that it’s not for you is enough for this to happen. So I agree that there’s definitely a fear factor involved in what many Westerners mistake for religious piety.

 

[ServantPD]

I’ll also add that they wouldn’t revert back to Christianity because Islam is VERY hard to reason with. They don’t know why they do everything they do, they just know Muhammad said to, and they wouldn’t dare question Muhammad being the prophet. It’s a very fear-driven religion, in my opinion.

We know that pretty well, but I think we should try and do something about this, even if it goes against public opinion. People can’t and shouldn’t live like this, against their will and driven by pure fear. Not only it is unhealthy for quite a population to be under this imposition, but sould are getting constantly lost because of Islam’s fairy tale.

We can’t wait for the Second Coming for this religion to go away, we can still try and have hope for the salvation of those souls!